Deuteronomy 19:1 - Prayer Tents

Cities of Refuge

19WHEN THE Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives 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 which the Lord your God gives you to possess.H914H7969H5892H8432H776H3068H430H5414H3423 3You shall prepare the road and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, so that any manslayer can flee to them.H3559H1870H1366H776H3068H430H5157H8027H7523H5127 4And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee there in order that he may live. Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, for whom he had no enmity in time past--H1697H7523H5127H2425H5221H7453H1097H1847H8130H8543H8032 5As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand strikes with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips off the handle and lights on his neighbor and kills him--he may flee to one of those cities and live;H935H3293H7453H2404H6086H3027H5080H1631H3772H6086H1270H5394H6086H4672H7453H4191H5127H259H5892H2425 6Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer while his [mind and] heart are hot with anger and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him even though the slayer was not worthy of death, since he had not been at enmity with him previously.H1350H1818H7291H310H7523H3588H3824H3179H5381H1870H7235H5221H5315H4941H4194H3588H8130H8543H8032 7Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three [refuge] cities.H6680H559H914H7969H5892 8And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as He has sworn to your fathers to do, and gives you all the land which He promised to your fathers to give,H3068H430H7337H1366H7650H1H5414H776H1696H5414H1 9If you keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three other cities to these three,H8104H4687H6213H6680H3117H157H3068H430H3212H3117H1870H3254H7969H5892H7969 10Lest innocent blood be shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and so blood guilt be upon you.H5355H1818H8210H7130H776H3068H430H5414H5159H1818 11But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and attacks him and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the assailant flees into one of these cities,H376H8130H7453H693H6965H5221H5315H4191H5127H259H411H5892 12Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.H2205H5892H7971H3947H5414H3027H1350H1818H4191 13Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may go well with you.H5869H2347H1197H5355H1818H3478H2895

Laws of Landmark and Testimony

14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, which the men of old [the first dividers of the land] set.H5253H7453H1366H7223H1379H5159H5157H776H3068H430H5414H3423 15One witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or any wrong in connection with any sin he commits; only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a charge be established.H259H5707H6965H376H5771H2403H2399H2398H6310H8147H5707H6310H7969H5707H1697H6965 16If a false witness rises up against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing,H2555H5707H6965H376H6030H5627 17Then both parties to the controversy shall stand 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 intended to do to his brother. So you shall put away the evil from among you.H6213H2161H6213H251H1197H7451H1197H7130 20And those who remain shall hear and [reverently] fear, and shall henceforth commit no such evil among you.H7604H8085H3372H3254H6213H1697H7451H7130 21Your eyes shall not pity: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.H5869H2347H5315H5315H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272