Deuteronomy 19

1When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,Cross-references: Deut 6:10 · Deut 7:1 · Deut 12:1 · Deut 12:29 · Deut 17:14

2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.Cross-references: Ex 21:13 · Num 35:10 · Deut 4:41 · Josh 20:2 · Heb 6:18

3You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.Cross-references: Isa 35:8 · Isa 57:14 · Isa 62:10 · Heb 12:13

4This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—Cross-references: Gen 31:2 · Num 35:15 · Deut 4:42 · Deut 19:6 · Josh 3:4 · 1Chr 11:2 · +1 more

5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.Cross-references: Num 35:25 · 2Ki 6:5 · Prov 27:12 · Isa 32:2

6Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.Cross-references: Num 35:12 · Deut 21:22 · Josh 20:5 · 2Sam 14:7 · Jer 26:15

7Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

8If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 28:14 · Ex 23:31 · Ex 34:24 · Deut 11:24 · Deut 12:20 · +2 more

9and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.Cross-references: Deut 11:22 · Deut 12:32 · Josh 20:7

10This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.Cross-references: Num 35:33 · Deut 19:13 · Deut 21:1 · 1Ki 2:31 · 2Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 24:4 · +7 more

11But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Ex 21:12 · Num 35:16 · Num 35:24 · Deut 27:24 · Prov 28:17

12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:5 · 1Ki 2:28

13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Lev 24:17 · Lev 24:21 · Num 35:33 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 7:16 · +7 more

14You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.Cross-references: Deut 27:17 · Job 24:2 · Prov 22:28 · Prov 23:10 · Hos 5:10

15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.Cross-references: Num 35:30 · Deut 17:6 · 1Ki 21:10 · 1Ki 21:13 · Matt 18:16 · Matt 26:60 · +5 moreExamined: Mormonism →

16If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,Cross-references: Ex 23:1 · 1Ki 21:10 · Ps 27:12 · Ps 35:11 · Mark 14:55 · Acts 6:13

17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;Cross-references: Deut 17:9 · Deut 21:5 · Mal 2:7 · Matt 23:2

18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,Cross-references: Deut 13:14 · Deut 17:4 · 2Chr 19:6 · Job 19:16

19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.Cross-references: Deut 13:5 · Deut 17:7 · Deut 19:20 · Deut 21:20 · Deut 22:21 · Deut 22:24 · +5 more

20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.Cross-references: Deut 13:11 · Deut 17:7 · Deut 17:13 · Deut 21:21 · Prov 21:11 · Rom 13:3 · +1 more

21Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.Cross-references: Ex 21:23 · Lev 24:17 · Deut 19:13 · Matt 5:38