1 |
When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God
giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in
their houses; |
2 | Thou
shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee to possess it. |
3 | Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every
slayer may flee thither. |
4 |
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may
live: Whoso killeth his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time
past; |
5 | As when a man
goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a
stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve,
and lighteth 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 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 | Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou
shalt separate three cities for thee. |
8 | And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto
thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy
fathers; |
9 | If thou shalt
keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love
the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three
cities more for thee, beside these three: |
10 | That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. |
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 fleeth into one of these cities: |
12 | Then the elders of his city shall send
and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,
that he may die. |
13 |
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent
blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. |
14 | Thou shalt not remove thy
neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance,
which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
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15 | One witness shall not rise up against
a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth:
at the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
established.
Mt 18:16
John 8:17
2 Cor 13:1
1 Tim 5:19
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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 the LORD, 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 hath testified
falsely against his brother; |
19
| Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
brother: so shalt thou 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 thine eye shall not pity; but
life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot. Mt 5:38 |