19"When the LORD your God has cut 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 2"you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.H914H7969H5892H8432H776H3068H430H5414H3423 3"You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.H3559H1870H1366H776H3068H430H5157H8027H7523H5127 4"And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past—H1697H7523H5127H2425H5221H7453H1097H1847H8130H8543H8032 5"as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;H935H3293H7453H2404H6086H3027H5080H1631H3772H6086H1270H5394H6086H4672H7453H4191H5127H259H5892H2425 6"lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.H1350H1818H7291H310H7523H3588H3824H3179H5381H1870H7235H5221H5315H4941H4194H3588H8130H8543H8032 7"Therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall separate three cities for yourself.'H6680H559H914H7969H5892 8"Now if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers,H3068H430H7337H1366H7650H1H5414H776H1696H5414H1 9"and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,H8104H4687H6213H6680H3117H157H3068H430H3212H3117H1870H3254H7969H5892H7969 10"lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.H5355H1818H8210H7130H776H3068H430H5414H5159H1818 11"But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,H376H8130H7453H693H6965H5221H5315H4191H5127H259H411H5892 12"then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.H2205H5892H7971H3947H5414H3027H1350H1818H4191 13"Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.H5869H2347H1197H5355H1818H3478H2895 14"You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.H5253H7453H1366H7223H1379H5159H5157H776H3068H430H5414H3423 15"One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.H259H5707H6965H376H5771H2403H2399H2398H6310H8147H5707H6310H7969H5707H1697H6965 16"If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,H2555H5707H6965H376H6030H5627 17"then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.H8147H582H7379H5975H6440H3068H6440H3548H8199H3117 18"And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,H8199H3190H1875H5707H8267H5707H6030H8267H251 19"then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.H6213H2161H6213H251H1197H7451H1197H7130 20"And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.H7604H8085H3372H3254H6213H1697H7451H7130 21"Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.H5869H2347H5315H5315H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272
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