Devarim, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} When the LORD your God shall 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; {19:2} you shall set apart three cities
for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you
to possess it. {19:3} You shall prepare you the way, and divide the
borders of your land, which the LORD your God causes you to inherit,
into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there. {19:4} This is
the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever
kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; {19:5}
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and
his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the
head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he
dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live: {19:6} lest the
avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and
overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally;
whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in
time past. {19:7} Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart
three cities for you. {19:8} If the LORD your God enlarge your border,
as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he
promised to give to your fathers; {19:9} if you shall keep all this
[1>]mitzvah[<1] to do it, 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, besides these three: {19:10} that innocent blood
not be shed in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives
you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you. {19:11} But if any man
hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him,
and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these
cities; {19:12} then the Zakenim of his city shall send and bring him
there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he
may die. {19:13} Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away
the innocent blood from Yisra'el, that it may go well with you.
{19:14} You 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. {19:15} One
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 a matter be established. {19:16} If an
unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of
wrong-doing, {19:17} then both the men, between whom the controversy
is, shall stand before the LORD, before the [2>]Kohanim[<2] and the
judges who shall be in those days; {19:18} and the judges shall make
diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness,
and has testified falsely against his brother; {19:19} then shall you
do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you. {19:20} Those who remain shall
hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in
the midst of you. {19:21} Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go]
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
{20:1} When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see
horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be
afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up
out of the land of Mitzrayim. {20:2} It shall be, when you draw near
to the battle, that the [1>]Kohen[<1] shall approach and speak to the
people, {20:3} and shall tell them, Hear, Yisra'el, you draw near this
day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't
be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; {20:4} for the LORD
your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you. {20:5} The officers shall speak to the people,
saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not
dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it. {20:6} What man is there who has
planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use
the fruit of it. {20:7} What man is there who has pledged to be
married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his
house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. {20:8} The
officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What
man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return
to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart. {20:9} It
shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the
people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the
people. {20:10} When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then
proclaim shalom to it. {20:11} It shall be, if it make you answer of
shalom, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are
found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
{20:12} If it will make no shalom with you, but will make war against
you, then you shall besiege it: {20:13} and when the LORD your God
delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the
edge of the sword: {20:14} but the women, and the little ones, and the
cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall
you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your
enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. {20:15} Thus shall you
do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of
the cities of these nations. {20:16} But of the cities of these
peoples, that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you
shall save alive nothing that breathes; {20:17} but you shall utterly
destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amori, the Kana`ani, and the
Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi; as the LORD your God has commanded
you; {20:18} that they not teach you to do after all their
abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin
against the LORD your God. {20:19} When you shall besiege a city a
long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy
the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of
them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field
man, that it should be besieged of you? {20:20} Only the trees of
which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and
cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that
makes war with you, until it fall.
{21:1} If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God
gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who
has struck him; {21:2} then your Zakenim and your judges shall come
forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him
who is slain: {21:3} and it shall be, that the city which is nearest
to the slain man, even the Zakenim of that city shall take a heifer of
the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in
the yoke; {21:4} and the Zakenim of that city shall bring down the
heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor
sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. {21:5}
The [1>]Kohanim[<1] the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name
of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and
every stroke be. {21:6} All the Zakenim of that city, who are nearest
to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck
was broken in the valley; {21:7} and they shall answer and say, Our
hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. {21:8}
Forgive, the LORD, your people Yisra'el, whom you have redeemed, and
don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people
Yisra'el. The blood shall be forgiven them. {21:9} So shall you put
away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that
which is right in the eyes of the LORD. {21:10} When you go forth to
battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into
your hands, and you carry them away captive, {21:11} and see among the
captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would
take her to you as wife; {21:12} then you shall bring her home to your
house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; {21:13} and
she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall
remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full
month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and
she shall be your wife. {21:14} It shall be, if you have no delight in
her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell
her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because
you have humbled her. {21:15} If a man have two wives, the one
beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both
the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was
hated; {21:16} then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to
inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved
the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:
{21:17} but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. {21:18}
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they
chasten him, will not listen to them; {21:19} then shall his father
and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the Zakenim of
his city, and to the gate of his place; {21:20} and they shall tell
the Zakenim of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he
will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. {21:21} All
the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you
put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Yisra'el shall hear,
and fear. {21:22} If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and
he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; {21:23} his body shall
not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the
same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't
defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:9} commandment
[2] {19:17} priests
[1] {20:2} priest
[1] {21:5} priests
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