05:019:004 And this is the case of the slayer, which
shall flee thither,
that
he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly,
whom
he
hated not in time past;
05:019:005 As when a man goeth into the wood with
his neighbour 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 neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one
of
those
cities, and live:
05:019:006 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.
05:019:007 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou
shalt separate three
cities
for thee.
05:019:008 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;
05:019:009 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:
05:019:010 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.
05:019:011 But if any man hate his neighbour, 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:
05:019:012 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.
05:019:013 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.
05:019:014 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’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.
05:019:015 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.
05:019:016 If a false witness rise up against any
man to testify against
him
that which is wrong;
05:019:017 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;


