1 When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) cut off the nations, whose land I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives to you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
2 You shall separate three cities for you in the midst of your land, which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives you to possess.
3 You shall prepare a way, and divide the borders of your land, which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
4 This is the case of the slayer, who shall flee there, that he may live: Whoso kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
5 As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights upon his neighbor, that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:
6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtakes him, because the way is long, and slays him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
7 Wherefore I command you, saying: You shall separate three cities for you.
8 If I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) enlarges your coast, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;
9 If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym), and to walk always in His ways; then you shall add three cities more for you, besides these three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives you for an inheritance, and so blood is upon you.
11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally that he dies, and flees into one of these cities:
12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from God Prevails (Israel), that it may go well with you.
14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives you to possess.
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
16 If a false witness rises up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.
20 Those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
21 Your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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