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Cities of Refuge
“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,
“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,
Cities of Refuge
When Jehovah thy God hath cut off the nations whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their cities and in their houses,
When Jehovah thy God hath cut off the nations whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their cities and in their houses,
you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.
thou shalt separate three cities for thyself in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.
“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.
Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the territory of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, so that every slayer may flee thither.
“Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously —
And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee thither that he may live: he that smiteth his neighbour unwittingly, whom he hated not previously;
as 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;
as when he goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;
otherwise the avenger of blood might 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.
lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, since he hated him not previously.
“Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities for yourself.’
Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself.
“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 —
And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers
if 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.
(if thou keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in his ways continually), then shalt thou add three cities more for thyself to these three,
“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.
that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and blood come not upon thee.
“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,
But if a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and he flee into one of these cities,
then 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.
then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
“You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.
Laws of Landmark and Testimony
“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.
“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.
The Testimony of Witnesses
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
“If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence;
then 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.
then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;
“The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely,
and the judges shall make thorough inquiry; and if the witness be a false witness, and he have testified falsely against his brother,
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.
“The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.
And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in thy midst.