KJV Easy Read Bible Three Cities of Refuge1When the Lord your God has cut off the nations, whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; destroyed 2You shall separate three cities for you in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess it. 3You shall prepare you a way, and divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there. road; borders 4And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoso kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; unintentionally; had no malice 5As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand brought a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights upon his neighbor, that he die; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live: cut; handle; strikes 6Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. 7Wherefore I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you. 8And if the Lord your God enlarge your coast, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers; 9If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in His ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, beside these three: 10That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you. 11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and flees into one of these cities: strike 12Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. Property Boundaries14You 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 the Lord your God gives you to possess it. The Law Concerning Witnesses15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. JOHN 8:17; 2 COR 13:1 16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19Then shall youp do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among youp. 20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among youp. 21And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. MATT 5:38 The Trusted King James in an Easy Read Format® is a registered trademarks of Whitaker Corporation. KJVERTM, Word of GodTM, Red Letter OldTM, Old Testament Direct Words of God in RedTM, King James Version Sword BibleTM, and SwordKJVTM are trademarked slogans of Whitaker Corporation. |
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