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I will give them a man who speaks for God like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth. And he will make known to them all that I tell him.

But that man of God will die who is not careful and speaks in My name what I did not tell him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods.'

When a man who speaks for God speaks in the name of the Lord, and what he says does not come true, that word is not from the Lord. The man has spoken on his own. Do not be afraid of him.

"The Lord your God will destroy the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you. You will take their place and live in their cities and in their houses. At that time

you should set apart three cities for yourself in the land the Lord your God gives you for your own.

Make the roads good that lead to these cities. Divide into three parts the land the Lord your God gives you for your own. Any man who kills another may run to a city and be safe.

The Lord your God will give you even more land, as He has promised your fathers. He will give you all the land which He promised to give your fathers,

if you are careful to obey all the Laws I tell you today. Love the Lord your God. Walk in His ways always. Then you will add three other cities to these three.

So the person without guilt will not be put to death in the land the Lord your God gives you as a gift. And you will not be guilty of blood.

"Do not move your neighbor's land-mark which the fathers of long ago have set in the land the Lord your God gives you for your own.

"When you go to battle against those who hate you and see more horses and war-wagons and soldiers than you have, do not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God, Who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.

For the Lord your God is the One Who goes with you. He will fight for you against those who hate you. And He will save you.'

The leaders will speak to the people also, saying, ‘Is there anyone among you who has built a new house and has not given it to God? Let him go and return to his house or he might die in battle and another man will give it to God.

When the Lord your God gives the city to you, you must kill all the men in it with the sword.

Take for yourselves what is left, the women, the children, all the animals, and all that is in the city. Use what is left of those who fought against you, which the Lord your God has given you.

But in the cities of these nations that the Lord your God is giving you for your own, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Destroy everything and everyone in them, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has told you.

Then they will not teach you to do all the hated and sinful things they have done for their gods, and make you sin against the Lord your God.

"If a person has been killed and is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own and it is not known who killed him,

Then the religious leaders, the sons of Levi, will come near for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bring good in the name of the Lord. Every question about what is right and every fight will be decided upon by them.