Deuteronomy 19:1 - Prayer Tents

19"When the LORD your God cuts off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,H3068H430H3772H1471H776H3068H430H5414H3423H3427H5892H1004 2you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.H914H7969H5892H8432H776H3068H430H5414H3423 3"You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land, which the LORD your God will give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there.H3559H1870H1366H776H3068H430H5157H8027H7523H5127 4"Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously—H1697H7523H5127H2425H5221H7453H1097H1847H8130H8543H8032 5as when [a man] goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron [head] slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies— he may flee to one of these cities and live;H935H3293H7453H2404H6086H3027H5080H1631H3772H6086H1270H5394H6086H4672H7453H4191H5127H259H5892H2425 6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.H1350H1818H7291H310H7523H3588H3824H3179H5381H1870H7235H5221H5315H4941H4194H3588H8130H8543H8032 7"Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'H6680H559H914H7969H5892 8"And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers—H3068H430H7337H1366H7650H1H5414H776H1696H5414H1 9if you carefully observe all this commandment, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always— then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.H8104H4687H6213H6680H3117H157H3068H430H3212H3117H1870H3254H7969H5892H7969 10"So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.H5355H1818H8210H7130H776H3068H430H5414H5159H1818 11"But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,H376H8130H7453H693H6965H5221H5315H4191H5127H259H411H5892 12then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.H2205H5892H7971H3947H5414H3027H1350H1818H4191 13"You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.H5869H2347H1197H5355H1818H3478H2895 14"You shall not move your neighbor's boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.H5253H7453H1366H7223H1379H5159H5157H776H3068H430H5414H3423 15"A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.H259H5707H6965H376H5771H2403H2399H2398H6310H8147H5707H6310H7969H5707H1697H6965 16"If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,H2555H5707H6965H376H6030H5627 17then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be [in office] in those days.H8147H582H7379H5975H6440H3068H6440H3548H8199H3117 18"And the judges shall investigate thoroughly; and if the witness is a false witness [and] he has accused his brother falsely,H8199H3190H1875H5707H8267H5707H6030H8267H251 19then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.H6213H2161H6213H251H1197H7451H1197H7130 20"And the rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.H7604H8085H3372H3254H6213H1697H7451H7130 21"Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.H5869H2347H5315H5315H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272