Deuteronomy
Chapter 19
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God cuts off the nations whose land God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and live in their cities and in their houses,
2you shall set apart three cities for yourself inside your land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you to take possession of.
3You shall prepare the road for yourself, and you shall divide into three the territory of your land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you as an inheritance, and it shall be so that every killer may flee there.
4This is the case of the killer who flees there and lives: one who strikes his neighbor without knowing, and he had not been hating him since yesterday and the day before.
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Mitmol shilshom is since yesterday and the day before. It names the days before today. The line does not add a wider phrase.
5Or one who goes with his neighbor into the forest to chop trees, and his hand is shoved with the axe to cut the tree, and the iron slips off the wood and hits his neighbor, and he dies. He shall flee to one of these cities and live.
6Otherwise the A close relative who takes up the blood of a person who was killed. of the blood will chase the killer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him if the way is long, and strike him dead, though he had no judgment of death, because he had not been hating him since yesterday and the day before.
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Goel ha-dam is the redeemer of the blood, the relative who takes up the blood.
7Therefore I am commanding you, saying, Three cities you shall set apart for yourself.
8If God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God widens your territory, as he swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he spoke of giving to your fathers,
9when you keep this whole command to do it, which I am commanding you today, to love God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God and to walk in his ways all the days, then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three,
10so that innocent blood is not poured out inside your land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you as an inheritance, and blood be on you.
11But if a man is hating his neighbor, and he lies in wait for him and rises against him and strikes him dead, and he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,
12then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and give him into the hand of the A close relative who takes up the blood of a person who was killed. of the blood, and he shall die.
13Your eye shall not pity him. You shall burn out the innocent blood from Israel, and it will be good for you.
14You shall not push back your neighbor’s boundary, which the first ones marked, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you to take possession of.
15One witness shall not rise against a man for any A serious wrong. or for any offense, in any miss that he misses. On the mouth of two witnesses, or on the mouth of three witnesses, a matter shall stand.
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The line uses three words: avon, iniquity; chatat, an offense; and chet, a miss.
16If a witness of violence rises against a man, to answer against him with a turning aside,
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Ed chamas is a witness of violence. Sarah is a turning aside.
17then the two men who have the dispute shall stand before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., before the priests and the judges who will be in those days,
18and the judges shall inquire well, and Look, the witness is a false witness. He has answered his brother falsely.
19You shall do to him as he planned to do to his brother. You shall burn out the evil from your midst.
20Those who are left shall hear and fear, and they shall not do this bad thing anymore in your midst.
21Your eye shall not pity. A life in place of a life, an eye in place of an eye, a tooth in place of a tooth, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot.