Deuteronomy 19:12-21 ▼

12 then the elders of his city shall send men and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

13 You shall not pity him, but you shall eliminate the guilt for the bloodshed of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well for you.

14 “You shall not displace your neighbor’s boundary marker, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

15 “A single witness shall not rise up against a person regarding any wrongdoing or any sin that he commits; on the testimony of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

16 If a malicious witness rises up against a person to testify against him of wrongdoing,

17 then both people who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

18 And the judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has testified against his brother falsely,

19 then you shall do to him just as he had planned to do to his brother. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

20 And the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.

21 So you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.