Deuteronomy 19 : 1 (LXXEN)
And when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives thee, even the land, and ye shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,
Deuteronomy 19 : 2 (LXXEN)
thou shalt separate for thyself three cities in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee.
Deuteronomy 19 : 3 (LXXEN)
Take a survey of thy way, and thou shalt divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God apportions to thee, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.
Deuteronomy 19 : 4 (LXXEN)
And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not *Gr. before yesterday and the third day in times past.
Deuteronomy 19 : 5 (LXXEN)
And whosoever shall enter with his neighbour into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.
Deuteronomy 19 : 6 (LXXEN)
Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and *Gr. smite his life slay him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy 19 : 7 (LXXEN)
Therefore I charge thee, saying, Thou shalt separate for thy self three cities.
Deuteronomy 19 : 8 (LXXEN)
And if the Lord shall enlarge thy borders, as he sware to thy fathers, and the Lord shall give to thee all the land which he said he would give to thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 19 : 9 (LXXEN)
if thou shalt hearken to do all these commands, which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways continually; thou shalt add for thyself yet three cities to these three.
Deuteronomy 19 : 10 (LXXEN)
So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, and there shall not be in thee one guilty of blood.
Deuteronomy 19 : 11 (LXXEN)
But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
Deuteronomy 19 : 12 (LXXEN)
then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.
Deuteronomy 19 : 13 (LXXEN)
Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.
Deuteronomy 19 : 14 (LXXEN)
Thou shalt not move the landmarks of thy neighbour, which thy fathers set in the inheritance, in which thou hast obtained a share in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
Deuteronomy 19 : 15 (LXXEN)
One witness shall not *Gr. remain stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; 2 Co 13:1 by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.
Deuteronomy 19 : 16 (LXXEN)
And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;
Deuteronomy 19 : 17 (LXXEN)
then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.
Deuteronomy 19 : 18 (LXXEN)
And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, if and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; and has stood up against his brother;
Deuteronomy 19 : 19 (LXXEN)
then shall ye do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and thou shalt remove the evil from yourselves.
Deuteronomy 19 : 20 (LXXEN)
And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.
Deuteronomy 19 : 21 (LXXEN)
Thine eye shall not spare him: thou shalt exact life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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