Deuteronomy 19:8-21 ▼

8 And if Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy bound as he sware to thy fathers, and give to thee all the land which he spake to give to thy fathers;

9 If thou shalt watch all this command to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God and to go in his ways all the days; and thou shalt add to thee yet three cities upon these three.

10 And innocent blood shall not be poured out in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance, and bloods were upon thee.

11 And if there shall be a man hating his friend and lying in wait for him, and he rose up against him and smote him in soul, and he died, and he fled to one of these cities:

12 And the old men of his city sent and took him from there and gave him into the hand of the nearest relative of blood, and he died.

13 Thine eye shall not pity him and put away innocent blood from Israel, and it was well to thee.

14 Thou shalt not remove the boundary of thy neighbor which they at first set bounds in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee to inherit it.

15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he shall sin; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses the word shall be established.

16 If a witness of wrong shall rise up against a man to testify apostasy against him;

17 And the two men to whom is the contention stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

18 And the judges sought out diligently; and behold, a witness of falsehood, the witness of falsehood testified against his brother;

19 And ye did to him as he purposed to do to his brother: and put away evil from the midst of thee.

20 And they remaining shall hear, and fear, and shall no more add to do according to this evil word in the midst of thee.

21 And thine eye shall not pity; soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.