Deuteronomy 19:1 - Prayer Tents

19When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and in their houses,H3068H430H3772H1471H776H3068H430H5414H3423H3427H5892H1004 2you shall set apart three cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.H914H7969H5892H8432H776H3068H430H5414H3423 3You shall calculate the distances and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any homicide can flee to one of them.H3559H1870H1366H776H3068H430H5157H8027H7523H5127 4Now this is the case of a homicide who might flee there and live, that is, someone who has killed another person unintentionally when the two had not been at enmity before:H1697H7523H5127H2425H5221H7453H1097H1847H8130H8543H8032 5Suppose someone goes into the forest with another to cut wood, and when one of them swings the ax to cut down a tree, the head slips from the handle and strikes the other person who then dies; the killer may flee to one of these cities and live.H935H3293H7453H2404H6086H3027H5080H1631H3772H6086H1270H5394H6086H4672H7453H4191H5127H259H5892H2425 6But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.H1350H1818H7291H310H7523H3588H3824H3179H5381H1870H7235H5221H5315H4941H4194H3588H8130H8543H8032 7Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.H6680H559H914H7969H5892 8If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors—and he will give you all the land that he promised your ancestors to give you,H3068H430H7337H1366H7650H1H5414H776H1696H5414H1 9provided you diligently observe this entire commandment that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and walking always in his ways—then you shall add three more cities to these three,H8104H4687H6213H6680H3117H157H3068H430H3212H3117H1870H3254H7969H5892H7969 10so that the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.H5355H1818H8210H7130H776H3068H430H5414H5159H1818 11But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person, and flees into one of these cities,H376H8130H7453H693H6965H5221H5315H4191H5127H259H411H5892 12then the elders of the killer's city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.H2205H5892H7971H3947H5414H3027H1350H1818H4191 13Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.H5869H2347H1197H5355H1818H3478H2895 14You must not move your neighbor's boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.H5253H7453H1366H7223H1379H5159H5157H776H3068H430H5414H3423 15A single witness shall not suffice to convict a person of any crime or wrongdoing in connection with any offense that may be committed. Only on the evidence of two or three witnesses shall a charge be sustained.H259H5707H6965H376H5771H2403H2399H2398H6310H8147H5707H6310H7969H5707H1697H6965 16If a malicious witness comes forward to accuse someone 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 18and the judges shall make a thorough inquiry. If the witness is a false witness, having testified falsely against another,H8199H3190H1875H5707H8267H5707H6030H8267H251 19then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.H6213H2161H6213H251H1197H7451H1197H7130 20The rest shall hear and be afraid, and a crime such as this shall never again be committed among you.H7604H8085H3372H3254H6213H1697H7451H7130 21Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.H5869H2347H5315H5315H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272