Numbers 35:30

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Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

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Israel was camped in Moab, east of the Jordan opposite Jericho, awaiting entry into Canaan, the land God promised them. The homicide law in this passage was therefore given for the ordered life of the covenant community as it prepared to settle the land.

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Numbers 35:30 mentions Canaan, Jericho, Jordan and Moab.