Deuteronomy 19:3
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You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
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And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.