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Deuteronomy 19 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Statutes About Cities of Refuge

(Num 35:9–28; Jos 20:1–9 )
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 -

“When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - you shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - “You shall prepare the [fn]roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which Yahweh your God will give you to inherit, [fn]so that any manslayer may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 -

“Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he strikes down his friend [fn]without premeditation, [fn]not hating him previously

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer when his heart is [fn]angry, and overtake him, because the way is long, and [fn]strike down his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - “Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall set apart three cities for yourself.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 -

“Now if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He [fn]promised to give to your fathers

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if you [fn]be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to walk in His ways all your days—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:10 - “So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 -

“But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes down [fn]his life so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and give him over into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:13 - [fn]You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Statutes About Boundaries and Witnesses

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 -

“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 -

“A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin [fn]which he has committed; at the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter shall be established.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:16 - “If a malicious witness rises up against a man to [fn]accuse him of [fn]wrongdoing,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:17 - then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - “And the judges shall inquire thoroughly, and behold, if the witness is a false witness and he has [fn]accused his brother falsely,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:19 - then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:20 - “And the rest will hear and be afraid and will never again do such an evil thing among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:21 - “Thus your eye shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
LSB Footnotes
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Lit and it shall be for every manslayer to flee there
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