Deuteronomy 19:1 - Prayer Tents

19"When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,H3068H430H3772H1471H776H3068H430H5414H3423H3427H5892H1004 2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.H914H7969H5892H8432H776H3068H430H5414H3423 3You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.H3559H1870H1366H776H3068H430H5157H8027H7523H5127 4"This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—H1697H7523H5127H2425H5221H7453H1097H1847H8130H8543H8032 5as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,H935H3293H7453H2404H6086H3027H5080H1631H3772H6086H1270H5394H6086H4672H7453H4191H5127H259H5892H2425 6lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.H1350H1818H7291H310H7523H3588H3824H3179H5381H1870H7235H5221H5315H4941H4194H3588H8130H8543H8032 7Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.H6680H559H914H7969H5892 8And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers—H3068H430H7337H1366H7650H1H5414H776H1696H5414H1 9provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three,H8104H4687H6213H6680H3117H157H3068H430H3212H3117H1870H3254H7969H5892H7969 10lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.H5355H1818H8210H7130H776H3068H430H5414H5159H1818 11"But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,H376H8130H7453H693H6965H5221H5315H4191H5127H259H411H5892 12then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.H2205H5892H7971H3947H5414H3027H1350H1818H4191 13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.H5869H2347H1197H5355H1818H3478H2895 14"You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.H5253H7453H1366H7223H1379H5159H5157H776H3068H430H5414H3423 15"A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.H259H5707H6965H376H5771H2403H2399H2398H6310H8147H5707H6310H7969H5707H1697H6965 16If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,H2555H5707H6965H376H6030H5627 17then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.H8147H582H7379H5975H6440H3068H6440H3548H8199H3117 18The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,H8199H3190H1875H5707H8267H5707H6030H8267H251 19then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.H6213H2161H6213H251H1197H7451H1197H7130 20And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you.H7604H8085H3372H3254H6213H1697H7451H7130 21Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.H5869H2347H5315H5315H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272