1 W hen the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

¶ When the LORD thy God has cut off the Gentiles whose land the LORD thy God gives thee, and thou hast inherited them and dost dwell in their cities and in their houses,

2 Y ou shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.

thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.

3 Y ou shall prepare the road and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, so that any manslayer can flee to them.

Thou shalt prepare thee a way and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.

4 A nd this is the case of the slayer who shall flee there in order that he may live. Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, for whom he had no enmity in time past—

And this is the case of the manslayer who is to flee there, that he may live: whoever kills his neighbour by mistake, whom he hated not in time past;

5 A s when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand strikes with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips off the handle and lights on his neighbor and kills him—he may flee to one of those cities and live;

and he who went into the woods with his neighbour to cut firewood and his hand fetched a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slipped from the handle and lighted upon his neighbour so that he died, he shall flee unto one of those cities and live,

6 L est the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer while his heart are hot with anger and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him even though the slayer was not worthy of death, since he had not been at enmity with him previously.

lest the avenger of the blood pursue the manslayer, 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 T herefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.

Therefore, I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

8 A nd if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as He has sworn to your fathers to do, and gives you all the land which He promised to your fathers to give,

And if the LORD thy God enlarges thy borders, as he has sworn unto thy fathers, and gives thee all the land which he was to give unto thy fathers,

9 I f you keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three other cities to these three,

when thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day: to love the LORD thy God, and to walk all the days in his ways, then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three,

10 L est innocent blood be shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and so blood guilt be upon you.

that innocent blood not be shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and the blood shall not be upon thee.

11 B ut if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and attacks him and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the assailant flees into one of these cities,

But when any man hates his neighbour and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and smites him mortally that he dies and flees into one of these cities,

12 T hen the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall die.

13 Y our eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

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 Y ou shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, which the men of old set.

¶ Thou shalt not reduce thy neighbour’s border, which those of old time have marked in thine inheritance, which thou shalt possess in the land that the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.

15 O ne witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or any wrong in connection with any sin he commits; only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a charge be established.

One witness shall not be valid against a man for any iniquity or for any sin, in any sin which he should commit. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

16 I f a false witness rises up against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

When a false witness rises up against any man to testify rebellion against him,

17 T hen both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

18 T he judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and, behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,

19 T hen you shall do to him as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

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 A nd those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall henceforth commit no such evil among you.

And those who remain shall hear and fear and shall never again commit any such evil among you.

21 Y our eyes shall not pity: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

And thine eye shall not pity, but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.