Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
When the
LORD
your God has
cut off the nations whose land He
is
giving
you, and when
you have
driven
them out
and settled
in their cities and houses ,
When Yahweh
your God shall
cut off the nations ,
whose land Yahweh
your
God
gives
you, and you succeed
them ,
and dwell
in their cities ,
and in
their
houses ;
then
you are
to
set apart for
yourselves
three cities within
the land that
the
LORD
your God is
giving
you to possess.
you shall
set apart three cities for
you
in
the midst
of
your
land ,
which
Yahweh
your God gives
you to possess it
.
You are
to
build
roads
for
yourselves
and divide into
three
regions
the land that
the
LORD
your God is
giving
you as
an
inheritance
, so
that any
manslayer can
flee to
these
cities
.
You shall
prepare
you
the
way,
and divide the borders
of
your
land ,
which
Yahweh
your God causes
you to
inherit
, into
three
parts,
that every
manslayer may
flee there
.
Now
this is the situation
regarding
the manslayer who
flees
to
one
of
these
cities
to
save
his
life
, having
killed
his neighbor accidentally
, without
intending
to
harm
him :
This is the case
of
the manslayer, that
shall
flee
there
and
live:
whoever
kills
his neighbor unawares
, and
didn't
hate
him in
time
past;
If
he
goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut
timber
and swings
his axe to chop
down a
tree, but
the blade
flies
off
the handle and
strikes
and kills
his neighbor, he may
flee to one of these cities to
save
his
life.
as
when
a
man
goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew
wood,
and his hand
fetches
a
stroke
with
the
axe to cut
down the
tree, and
the head
slips
from
the handle ,
and lights
on
his neighbor, so
that
he dies;
he
shall
flee to one of these cities and
live:
Otherwise,
the avenger of blood might
pursue the manslayer in
a
rage
, overtake him if
the distance
is great
, and strike him dead
though
he did
not deserve
to
die
, since
he did
not
intend
any
harm
.
lest
the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while
his
heart
is
hot,
and
overtake him ,
because
the way
is long
, and strike him mortally;
whereas
he was
not worthy
of
death
, inasmuch
as
he didn't
hate
him
in
time
past
.
This
is
why
I am
commanding
you to
set apart for
yourselves
three cities.
Therefore
I command
you ,
saying,
You
shall
set apart three cities for
you
.
And
if the
LORD
your God enlarges
your territory
, as He swore
to your fathers, and gives
you all the land He promised them,
If Yahweh
your God enlarge
your border
, as he has
sworn
to your fathers, and give
you all the land which
he promised to
give
to
your
fathers;
and
if you carefully
keep all these
commandments
I am
giving
you today
, loving
the
LORD
your God and walking
in His ways at
all
times,
then you are
to
add three more
cities to
these three .
if you shall
keep all this
commandment
to
do
it,
which
I command
you this
day
, to
love
Yahweh
your God ,
and to
walk
ever
in his ways ;
then shall
you add three cities more
for
you,
besides
these three :
Thus
innocent blood will
not be shed in the land that
the
LORD
your God is
giving
you as
an inheritance, so that
you
will
not
be guilty
of
bloodshed
.
that
innocent blood not be shed in the midst
of
your
land ,
which
Yahweh
your God gives
you for
an inheritance, and
so blood
be on
you
.
If ,
however,
a
man hates
his neighbor and lies
in wait, attacks
him and kills
him, and then
flees
to
one of these cities ,
But
if any
man hate
his neighbor ,
and lie
in wait for
him
, and
rise
up
against
him ,
and strike
him mortally
so
that
he
dies
, and he
flee
into
one of these cities ;
the elders of his city must
send for
him,
bring him back
, and hand
him over
to
the avenger of blood to
die.
then
the elders of his city shall
send and
bring him there
, and deliver
him into
the hand
of
the
avenger of blood ,
that
he
may
die.
You
must
show
him
no
pity .
You are
to
purge
from
Israel
the guilt
of
shedding
innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
Your
eye
shall
not
pity him,
but
you shall
put
away
the innocent blood from
Israel
, that it may go well with you.
You must
not move
your neighbor’s
boundary
marker
, which was
set up
by
your ancestors
to
mark
the
inheritance you shall receive
in the land that the
LORD
your God is
giving
you to possess.
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 Yahweh
your God gives
you to possess it
.
A
lone
witness is
not sufficient
to
establish
any
wrongdoing
or
sin
against a man, regardless
of
what
offense
he may
have
committed.
A
matter
must
be
established
by
the testimony
of two or three witnesses.
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
a
matter
be
established
.
If a
false
witness testifies
against someone,
accusing
him of a
crime
,
If an
unrighteous
witness rise
up
against any
man
to
testify
against
him of wrong-doing
,
both parties
to
the dispute
must
stand
in
the
presence
of
the LORD
, before the priests and judges who are
in office
at
that
time.
then
both the men,
between
whom
the controversy
is
, shall
stand
before Yahweh,
before
the priests and the
judges who shall
be
in those
days;
The judges shall investigate
thoroughly,
and if the witness is proven
to
be
a liar
who
has falsely accused
his brother ,
and
the judges shall make
diligent
inquisition:
and ,
behold,
if the witness is a false
witness,
and
has testified
falsely against
his brother ;
you must
do to him as he intended
to do to his brother .
So you must
purge
the evil from among
you.
then
shall
you do to him ,
as he had
thought
to do to his brother :
so shall
you put
away
the evil from the
midst
of
you.
Then
the
rest
of
the
people
will
hear and be
afraid
, and they
will
never
again
do
anything
so
evil among
you.
Those
who
remain
shall
hear ,
and fear
, and shall
henceforth
commit
no
more
any
such
evil in
the
midst
of
you.
You
must
show
no
pity :
life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and
foot for foot.
Your
eyes
shall
not
pity ;
life [shall
go]
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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