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¶ Then Moses seuered three cities on this side Iordan, toward the Sunne rising:

¶ At the end of three yeres thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same yeere, and shalt lay it vp within thy gates.

¶ Three times in a yeere shal all thy males appeare before the LORD thy God, in the place which hee shall chuse: in the feast of Unleauened bread, and in the feast of Weekes, and in the feast of Tabernacles: and they shal not appeare before the LORD emptie.

1611 marginal noteExod. 23.14. and 34.23.

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 35.4.

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, be put to death: but at the mouth of one witnesse he shall not bee put to death.

1611 marginal noteNum. 35.30. chap. 17.6. & 19.15. mat. 18.16. iohn 8.17. 2.cor. 13.1. Heb. 10.28.

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giueth thee to possesse it.

1611 marginal noteExod. 21.13. num. 35.10. iosh. 20.2.

Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and diuide the coasts of thy land (which the LORD thy God giueth thee to inherit) into three parts, that euery slayer may flee thither.

Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

(If thou shalt keepe all these commandements to doe them, which I command thee this day, to loue the LORD thy God, and to walke euer in his wayes) then shalt thou adde three cities moe for thee, beside these three:

1611 marginal noteChap. 12.20.

1611 marginal noteIosh. 20.7.

¶ One witnesse shall not rise vp against a man for any iniquitie, or for any sinne, in any sinne that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be stablished.

1611 marginal noteChap. 17.6. Hebr. 10.28. numb. 35.30. mat. 18.16. ioh. 8.17. 2.cor. 13.1. Hebr. 10.28.