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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Deuteronomy 19 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Deuteronomy 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/18.htm" title="Deuteronomy 18">◄</a> Deuteronomy 19 <a href="../deuteronomy/20.htm" title="Deuteronomy 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/deuteronomy/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Laws Concerning Cities of Refuge</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“When the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God cuts off the nations whose land the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to possess. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You shall measure the distances<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew road">a</a></sup></span> and divide into three parts the area of the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And if the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the blood of the innocent">b</a></sup></span> from Israel, so that it may be well with you.</p> <p class="heading">Property Boundaries</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“You shall not move your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you to possess.</p> <p class="heading">Laws Concerning Witnesses</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or evil person">c</a></sup></span> from your midst. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Hebrew <i>road</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> blood of the innocent</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">evil</span> person</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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