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<a href ="../deuteronomy/4.htm#41">Deuteronomy 4:41–43</a>; <a href ="../joshua/20.htm">Joshua 20:1–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You are to build roads for yourselves<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him: <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/18.htm#15">Matthew 18:15–20</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> hand for hand, and foot for foot.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>You are to survey the way</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/18.htm#16">Matthew 18:16</a> and <a href="../2_corinthians/13.htm">2 Corinthians 13:1</a><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Cited in <a href="../1_corinthians/5.htm#13">1 Corinthians 5:13</a><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/5.htm#38">Matthew 5:38</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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