Laws Concerning Cities of Refuge
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"When 1the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
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2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
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You shall measure the distancesa and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.
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"This is the provision for 3the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past--
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as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies--he may flee to one of these cities and live,
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lest 4the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
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Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.
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5And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, 6as he has sworn to your fathers, and 7gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers--
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provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways--8then you shall add three other cities to these three,
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lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
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"But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him 9and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,
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then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA
Deuteronômio 19:1
Quando o Senhor teu Deus desarraigar as nações cuja terra ele te dá, e tu as desapossares, e morares nas suas cidades e nas suas casas,
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Deuteronomy 19:1
"When the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
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Deuteronômio 19:1
“Quando o SENHOR, o seu Deus, tiver destruído as nações cuja terra dá a vocês, e quando vocês as expulsarem e ocuparem as cidades e as casas dessas nações,
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