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Chapter 19
- 19:1
- When the LORD thy God hath cut off
the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou
succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
- 19:2
- Thou shalt separate three cities
for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
to possess it.
- 19:3
- Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and
divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
- 19:4
- And this is the case of the
slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his
neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
- 19:5
- As when a man 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 head slippeth from the helve,
and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one
of those cities, and live:
- 19:6
- Lest the avenger of the blood
pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because
the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death,
inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
- 19:7
- Wherefore I command thee, saying,
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
- 19:8
- And if the LORD thy God enlarge
thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the
land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
- 19:9
- If thou shalt keep all these
commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the
LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three
cities more for thee, beside these three:
- 19:10
- That innocent blood be not shed in
thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
so blood be upon thee.
- 19:11
- But if any man hate his neighbour,
and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him
mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
- 19:12
- 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.
- 19:13
- Thine eye shall not pity him, but
thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it
may go well with thee.
- 19:14
- Thou shalt not remove thy
neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine
inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy
God giveth thee to possess it.
- 19:15
- One witness shall not rise up
against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he
sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three
witnesses, shall the matter be established.
- 19:16
- If a false witness rise up against
any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- 19:17
- Then both the men, between whom
the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests
and the judges, which shall be in those days;
- 19:18
- And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath
testified falsely against his brother;
- 19:19
- Then shall ye do unto him, as he
had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil
away from among you.
- 19:20
- And those which remain shall hear,
and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
- 19:21
- And thine 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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