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Deuteronomy 19:1 (show verse)
“When the Lord your God cuts off (destroys) the nations whose land He is giving you, and you dispossess them and live in their cities and in their houses,
Deuteronomy 19:2 (show verse)
you shall designate three cities for yourself in the central area of the land, which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:3 (show verse)
You shall prepare and maintain for yourself the roads [to these cities], and divide the territory of your land into three parts, so that anyone who kills another unintentionally may escape there [for asylum].
Deuteronomy 19:4 (show verse)
“Now this is the case of the offender (manslayer) who may escape there and live [protected from vengeance]: when he kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him previously—
Deuteronomy 19:5 (show verse)
as [for example] when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, but the iron head slips off the wooden handle and hits his companion and he dies—the offender may escape to one of these cities and live;
Deuteronomy 19:6 (show verse)
otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the offender in the heat of anger, and overtake him, because it is a long way, and take his life, even though he did not deserve to die, since he did not hate his neighbor beforehand.
Deuteronomy 19:7 (show verse)
Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities [of refuge] for yourself.’
Deuteronomy 19:8 (show verse)
“If the Lord your God enlarges your border, as He has sworn to your fathers to do, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers—
Deuteronomy 19:9 (show verse)
if you keep and carefully observe all these commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk [that is, to live each and every day] always in His ways—then you shall add three more cities [of refuge] for yourself, besides these three,
Deuteronomy 19:10 (show verse)
so that innocent blood will not be shed [by blood avengers] in your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and blood guilt will not be on you [for the death of an innocent man].
Deuteronomy 19:11 (show verse)
“But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait and ambush for him and attacks him and strikes him down so that he dies, and the assailant escapes to one of these cities,
Avenger of blood » Scriptures relating to
Homicide » Punishment of
Murder » Punishment of wilful
Murder » To be proved by two witnesses at least
Murder » Described as killing » By lying in wait
Murder » Persons guilty of » Not protected in refuge cities
Refuge » Cities of » From the avenger of blood
Homicide » Punishment of
Murder » Punishment of wilful
Murder » To be proved by two witnesses at least
Murder » Described as killing » By lying in wait
Murder » Persons guilty of » Not protected in refuge cities
Refuge » Cities of » From the avenger of blood
Deuteronomy 19:12 (show verse)
then the elders of his own city shall send for him and have him taken back from there and turn him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:13 (show verse)
You shall not pity him [the guilty one], but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
Deuteronomy 19:14 (show verse)
“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:15 (show verse)
“A single witness shall not appear in a trial against a man for any wrong or any sin which he has committed; [only] on the testimony or evidence of two or three witnesses shall a charge be confirmed.
Courts » Advocates » Witnesses, two or more needed to convict
Courts of justice » The accused » The evidence of two or more witnesses required in
Evidence » Laws concerning
Murder » To be proved by two witnesses at least
Punishment » Death penalty » Not done » Less than » Two witnesses
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
Witness » Two necessary to establish a fact
Witnesses » Two or more needed to convict
Courts of justice » The accused » The evidence of two or more witnesses required in
Evidence » Laws concerning
Murder » To be proved by two witnesses at least
Punishment » Death penalty » Not done » Less than » Two witnesses
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
Witness » Two necessary to establish a fact
Witnesses » Two or more needed to convict
Deuteronomy 19:16 (show verse)
If a malicious witness rises up against a man to [falsely] accuse him of wrongdoing,
Deuteronomy 19:17 (show verse)
then both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office at that time.
Deuteronomy 19:18 (show verse)
The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness, and he has accused his brother falsely,
Courts of justice » Judges of » To investigate every case
Diligence » Required by God in » Discharging official duties
Diligence » Discharging official duties
Evidence » Laws concerning
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Slander » Punishment for
Swearing falsely » False witnesses guilty of
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
Diligence » Required by God in » Discharging official duties
Diligence » Discharging official duties
Evidence » Laws concerning
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Slander » Punishment for
Swearing falsely » False witnesses guilty of
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
Deuteronomy 19:19 (show verse)
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 19:20 (show verse)
Those who remain will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.
Deuteronomy 19:21 (show verse)
You shall not show pity [to the guilty one]: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Evidence » Laws concerning
Pity » Not to be shown to offenders
Punishments » Were inflicted » Without pity
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Slander » Punishment for
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
Pity » Not to be shown to offenders
Punishments » Were inflicted » Without pity
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Slander » Punishment for
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established