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For these nations which you are to possess hearken to men with familiar spirits and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet like me from the midst of you, of your brethren; to him you shall hearken.

Just as you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear any more the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

WHEN the LORD your God has destroyed the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess them and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

You shall set apart for you three cities in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

You shall prepare for you a highway, and divide into three parts the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, that any slayer may flee thither.

And when the LORD your God shall enlarge your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in his ways always; then you shall add three cities more for you besides these three;

That innocent blood may not be shed in the land which the LORD your God gives you, and that the guilt of innocent blood not be upon you.

You shall not remove your neighbors landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

WHEN you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and it is he who shall fight for you with your enemies, and he shall save you.

And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall slay all its males with the edge of the sword;

But the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourselves; and you shall eat of the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God gives you.

But of the cities of these people which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you;

That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done in worshipping their gods; so you should sin in the sight of the LORD your God.

IF a person is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him;

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every lawsuit and every attack be tried;

When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands, and you take them captive,