Deuteronomy 21:5
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:
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Deuteronomy 21:5
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:
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Deuteronomy 21:1
If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:
Deuteronomy 21:2
Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;
Deuteronomy 21:3
And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;
Deuteronomy 21:6
And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,
Deuteronomy 21:7
Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.
Deuteronomy 21:8
Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.
Deuteronomy 21:9
So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
Numbers 35:33
So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
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Deuteronomy 17:12
And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:5
For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 19:17
Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;
Deuteronomy 31:9
Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.
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