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Deuteronomy 19:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, "

Deuteronomy 19:18

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16 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

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Deuteronomy 19:1

"When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,"

Deuteronomy 19:2

"you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess."

Deuteronomy 19:3

"You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there."

Deuteronomy 19:4

"This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—"

Deuteronomy 19:5

"as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live."

Deuteronomy 19:6

"Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past."

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