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Deuteronomy
Chapter 19
1
When Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
has
cut off the nations,
whose
land Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead gives 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
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
gives
you to possess it.
3
You shall prepare you a way,
and
divide the coasts of your land,
which
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
gives
you to inherit,
into
three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
4
And this is the case of the slayer,
which
shall flee there, that he may live.
Who
ever 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
shall flee unto one of those cities, and live.
6
Lest the 'Avenger of the Blood' pursue the slayer,
while
his heart/'right lobe' 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.
{Note:
Under Jewish law, the closest relatives were to administer capital
punishment when their closest relative was murdered. The Avenger of
the Blood is that closest relative. Cities of Safe haven were set up
for all cases except 1st degree murder. If the murderer could get to
the city before he was killed, he was protected as long as he stayed
in that city.}
7
Wherefore I command you, saying,
you
shall separate three cities for you.
8
And if Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
enlarge
your coast, as he has sworn unto your fathers,
and
give you all the land
which
He promised to give unto your fathers; 9
if
you shall guard/keep all these commandments to do them,
which
I command you this day,
to
love Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead,
and
to Walk ever in His Ways;
then
shall you add three cities more for you,
beside
these three.
10
That innocent blood be not shed in your land,
which
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
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 shall send and fetch him there,
and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,
that
he may die.
13
Your eye shall not pity him,
but
you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from 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
Jehovah/God
your Elohiym/Godhead gives you to possess it.
{Rule
of Evidence in Court}
15~~A
single witness shall not rise up against a man
on
account of his iniquity,
or
any sin which he sins.
On
the evidence of two witnesses or three witnesses,
an
indictment shall be rendered.
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,
shall
stand before Jehovah/God,
before
the priests and the judges,
which
shall be in those days; 18
and
the judges shall make diligent inquisition.
And,
behold, if the witness be a false witness,
and
has testified falsely against his brother; 19
then
shall you do unto him,
as
he had thought to have done unto his brother.
So
shall you put the evil away from among you.
20
And those which remain shall hear, and fear,
and
shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
21
And 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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