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1 When the LORD [Yahweh] your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
2 You will separate three cities for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you to possess it.
3 You will prepare you a way, and divide the coasts of your land, which the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
4 And this [is] the case of the slayer, which will 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 axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights upon his neighbor, that he die; he will flee to one of those cities, and live:
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.
7 Why I command you, saying, You will separate three cities for you.
8 And if the LORD [Yahweh] your God enlarge your coast, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
9 If you will keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD [Yahweh] your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then will you add three cities more for you, beside these three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood be upon you.
11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and flees into one of these cities:
12 Then the elders of his city will send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 Your eye will not pity him, but you will put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
14 You will not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you will inherit in the land that the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you to possess it.
15 One witness will 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, will the matter be established.
16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong;
17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], will stand before the LORD [Yahweh], before the priests and the judges, which will be in those days;
18 And the judges will make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] has testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then will you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so will you put the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain will hear, and fear, and will henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
21 And your eye will not pity; [but] life [will go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.