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Deuteronomy Chapter 19

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Deuteronomy

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Moses reminds the people that they must show mercy to a neighbor, even a foreigner, and punish those who harm them. He also instructs that a man who kills a fellow Israelite shall be put to death, and that the community must uphold these laws. The chapter emphasizes the importance of justice and compassion in maintaining peace.

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(1) When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
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Deuteronomy 6:10Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 7:2Deuteronomy 12:1Deuteronomy 12:29Deuteronomy 17:14

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Jeremiah 19:13I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Exodus 10:6

(2) Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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Deuteronomy 4:41Deuteronomy 4:42Deuteronomy 4:43Exodus 21:13Numbers 35:10Numbers 35:11Numbers 35:12Numbers 35:13Numbers 35:14Numbers 35:15Joshua 20:2Joshua 20:3

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Judges 11:24Deuteronomy 11:31Joshua 1:11Obadiah 1:19

(3) Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
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Isaiah 35:8Isaiah 57:14Isaiah 62:10Hebrews 12:13

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Joshua 18:5Deuteronomy 12:10Numbers 35:11Deuteronomy 4:42Deuteronomy 19:4Joshua 20:3

(4) And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
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Deuteronomy 4:42Numbers 35:15Numbers 35:16Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Numbers 35:19Numbers 35:20Numbers 35:21Numbers 35:22Numbers 35:23Numbers 35:24Deuteronomy 19:6

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Deuteronomy 4:42Deuteronomy 19:5Numbers 35:11Joshua 20:3Genesis 19:20Ezekiel 47:9

(5) As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
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II Kings 6:5II Kings 6:6II Kings 6:7Numbers 35:25Proverbs 27:12Isaiah 32:2

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Romans 14:8I Kings 18:33Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 1:12Jeremiah 38:2

(6) Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
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Numbers 35:12Joshua 20:5II Samuel 14:7Deuteronomy 21:22Jeremiah 26:15Jeremiah 26:16

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Joshua 20:5I Samuel 30:8Deuteronomy 9:28Deuteronomy 4:42Deuteronomy 19:4Deuteronomy 21:15

(7) Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
(8) And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
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Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 11:25Deuteronomy 12:20Genesis 15:18Genesis 15:19Genesis 15:20Genesis 15:21Genesis 28:14Exodus 23:31Exodus 34:24I Kings 4:21Ezra 4:20

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Joshua 19:29Judges 1:18

(9) If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
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Deuteronomy 11:22Deuteronomy 11:23Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 11:25Deuteronomy 12:32Joshua 20:7Joshua 20:8

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Deuteronomy 11:22Deuteronomy 30:16Joshua 22:5I Kings 3:14I Kings 11:38II John 1:6

(10) That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
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Deuteronomy 19:13Deuteronomy 21:8I Kings 2:31II Kings 21:16II Kings 24:4Psalms 94:21Proverbs 6:17Isaiah 59:7Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 7:7Joel 3:19Jonah 1:14

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4II Kings 24:4Numbers 26:54Joshua 19:9

(11) But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
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Deuteronomy 27:24Genesis 9:6Exodus 21:12Exodus 21:13Exodus 21:14Numbers 35:16Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Numbers 35:19Numbers 35:20Numbers 35:21Numbers 35:24

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Deuteronomy 33:11Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Deuteronomy 19:5II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4

(12) Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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I Kings 2:5I Kings 2:6I Kings 2:28I Kings 2:29I Kings 2:30I Kings 2:31I Kings 2:32I Kings 2:33I Kings 2:34

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Genesis 27:45Deuteronomy 30:4I Samuel 20:31II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(13) Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
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Deuteronomy 7:16Deuteronomy 13:8Deuteronomy 25:12Ezekiel 16:5Deuteronomy 21:9Genesis 9:6Leviticus 24:17Leviticus 24:21Numbers 35:33Numbers 35:34II Samuel 21:1II Samuel 21:14

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II Kings 4:26Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 6:42Luke 11:34

(14) Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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Deuteronomy 27:17Job 24:2Proverbs 22:28Proverbs 23:10Hosea 5:10

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Numbers 33:54Judges 11:24Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Deuteronomy 12:10Deuteronomy 11:31

(15) One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
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Deuteronomy 17:6Numbers 35:30I Kings 21:10I Kings 21:13Matthew 18:16Matthew 26:60Matthew 26:61John 8:17II Corinthians 13:1I Timothy 5:19Hebrews 10:28Revelation 11:3

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Deuteronomy 17:6Joshua 24:22Matthew 26:60Matthew 18:16II Corinthians 13:1Ezekiel 18:20

(16) If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
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Exodus 23:1Exodus 23:2Exodus 23:3Exodus 23:4Exodus 23:5Exodus 23:6Exodus 23:7I Kings 21:10I Kings 21:11I Kings 21:12I Kings 21:13Psalms 27:12

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Mark 13:22Deuteronomy 19:18I Samuel 12:5Proverbs 14:5Mark 14:56I John 5:9

(17) Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
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Deuteronomy 17:9Deuteronomy 21:5Malachi 2:7Matthew 23:2Matthew 23:3

(18) And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
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Deuteronomy 13:14Deuteronomy 17:4II Chronicles 19:6II Chronicles 19:7Job 19:16

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I John 5:9I Samuel 12:5Proverbs 14:5Mark 14:56Genesis 31:52Joshua 24:27

(19) Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
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Proverbs 19:5Proverbs 19:9Jeremiah 14:15Daniel 6:24Deuteronomy 13:5Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 19:20Deuteronomy 21:20Deuteronomy 21:21Deuteronomy 22:21Deuteronomy 22:24Deuteronomy 24:7

(20) And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
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Deuteronomy 13:11Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 17:13Deuteronomy 21:21Proverbs 21:11Romans 13:3Romans 13:4I Timothy 5:20

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Romans 2:22

(21) And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Exodus 21:23Exodus 21:24Exodus 21:25Leviticus 24:17Leviticus 24:18Leviticus 24:19Leviticus 24:20Leviticus 24:21Matthew 5:38Matthew 5:39

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Exodus 21:24Luke 6:42Leviticus 24:20Matthew 5:38Luke 11:34Exodus 21:26

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