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people, that they, which offer sacrifice, whether shall die. 21 And if thou thinke in thine heart,
it be bullocke or sheepe, shall giue vnto the Priest Howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lord
the shoulder, and the two cheekes, and the mawe. hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in
4 The first fruites also of thy corne, of thy wine, the Name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor
and of thine oyle, and the first of the fleece of come to passe, that is the thing which the Lord
thy sheepe shalt thou giue him. 5 For the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken
thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, it presumptuously: thou shalt not therefore be
to stande and minister in the Name of the Lord, afraid of him.
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him, and his sonnes for euer. Also when a Leuite
shall come out of any of thy cities of all Israel, 19
where hee remained, and come with all the desire 1 When the Lord thy God shall roote out the
of his heart vnto the place, which the Lord shall nations, whose lande the Lord thy God giueth
chuse, 7 He shall then minister in the Name of thee, and thou shalt possesse them, and dwell
the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, in their cities, and in their houses, Thou shalt
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which remaine there before the Lord. 8 They separate three cities for thee in the middes of
shall haue like portions to eat beside that which thy lande which the Lord thy God giueth thee to
commeth of his sale of his patrimonie. 9 When possesse it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee the way,
thou shalt come into ye land which the Lord thy and deuide the coastes of the land, which the
God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after Lord thy God giueth thee to inherite, into three
ye abominations of those nations. 10 Let none parts, that euery manslayer may flee thither.
be founde among you that maketh his sonne or 4 This also is ye cause wherfore the manslayer
his daughter to goe thorough the fire, or that shall flee thither, and liue: who so killeth his
vseth witchcraft, or a regarder of times, or a neighbor ignorantly, and hated him not in time
marker of the flying of foules, or a sorcerer, 11 Or passed: 5 As hee that goeth vnto the wood with
a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand striketh
a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead. with the axe to cut downe the tree, if the head
12 For all that doe such things are abomination slip from the helue, and hit his neighbour that he
vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations dieth, the same shall flee vnto one of the cities,
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the Lord thy God doeth cast them out before thee. and liue, Least the auenger of the blood follow
13 Thou shalt be vpright therefore with the Lord after the manslayer, while his heart is chafed, and
thy God. 14 For these nations which thou shalt ouertake him, because the way is long, and slaie
possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the him, although he be not worthy of death, because
times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lord he hated him not in time passed. 7 Wherefore I
thy God hath not suffred thee so. 15 The Lord command thee, saying, Thou shalt appoint out
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thy God will raise vp vnto thee a Prophet like three cities for thee. And when the Lord thy God
vnto me, from among you, euen of thy brethren: enlargeth thy coastes (as he hath sworne vnto
vnto him ye shall hearken, 16 According to al that thy fathers) and giueth thee all the lande which
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thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in he promised to giue vnto thy fathers, (If thou
the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let keepe all these commandements to doe them,
me heare the voice of my Lord God no more, which I commaund thee this day: to wit, that
nor see this great fire any more, that I die not. thou loue the Lord thy God, and walke in his waies
17 And the Lord sayde vnto me, They haue well foreuer)thenshaltthouaddethreecitiesmoefor
spoken. 18 I will raise them vp a Prophet from thee besides those three, 10 That innocent bloude
among their brethren like vnto thee, and will put be not shed within thy land, which the Lord thy
my woordes in his mouth, and he shall speake God giueth thee to inherite, lest bloud be vpon
vnto them all that I shall commaund him. 19 And thee. 11 But if a man hate his neighbour, and lay
whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my wordes, waite for him, and rise against him, and smite any
which he shall speake in my Name, I will require man that he die, and flee vnto any of these cities,
it of him. 20 But the prophet that shall presume 12 Then the Elders of his citie shall send and set
to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not him thence, and deliuer him into the hands of the
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commanded him to speake, or that speaketh in auenger of the blood, that he may die. Thine
the name of other gods, euen the same prophet eye shall not spare him, but thou shalt put away
the crie of innocent blood from Israel, that it may