Deuteronomy 19:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Thou shalt [a]prepare thee the way, and divide the coasts of the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every [b]manslayer may flee thither.
4 ¶ This also is the cause wherefore the manslayer shall flee thither, and live: who so killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and hated him not in time passed:
5 As he that goeth unto the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand striketh with the axe to cut down the tree, if the head slip from the helve, and hit his neighbor that he dieth, the same [c]shall flee unto one of the cities, and live,
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- Deuteronomy 19:3 Make an open and ready way.
- Deuteronomy 19:3 Which killeth against his will, and bare no hatred in his heart.
- Deuteronomy 19:5 That murder be not committed upon murder.
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