Verse 5
Deuteronomy 19:5
World English Bible, British Edition
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as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood and
his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbour
so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/אֲשֶׁר֩ יָבֹ֨א אֶת רֵעֵ֥/הוּ בַ/יַּעַר֮ לַ/חְטֹ֣ב עֵצִים֒ וְ/נִדְּחָ֨ה יָד֤/וֹ בַ/גַּרְזֶן֙ לִ/כְרֹ֣ת הָ/עֵ֔ץ וְ/נָשַׁ֤ל הַ/בַּרְזֶל֙ מִן הָ/עֵ֔ץ וּ/מָצָ֥א אֶת רֵעֵ֖/הוּ וָ/מֵ֑ת ה֗וּא יָנ֛וּס אֶל אַחַ֥ת הֶ/עָרִים הָ/אֵ֖לֶּה וָ/חָֽי
English Translation
And if he comes with his friend into the forest to cut wood and his hand brings down the iron to cut the tree, and the iron slips from the tree and finds his friend and he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
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Chapter 19 Context
1
When the LORD your God (Elohim) cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God (Elohim)
gives you...
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2
you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your
land, which the LORD your God...
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3
You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which
the LORD your God (Elohim) caus...
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4
This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever
kills his neighbour uninte...
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5
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood and
his hand swings the axe to cu...
6
Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot
anger is in his heart and over...
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7
Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
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8
If the LORD your God (Elohim) enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers,
and gives you a...
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9
and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today,
to love the LORD your God...
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10
This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your
land which the LORD your God (...
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11
But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up
against him, strikes him mortally...
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12
then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver
him into the hand of the ave...
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13
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood
from Israel that it may go well...
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14
You shall not remove your neighbour’s landmark, which they of
old time have set, in your inheritance...
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15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin that he sins. At the mo...
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16
If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against
him of wrongdoing,
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17
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before
the LORD, before the priests...
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18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the
witness is a false witness, and h...
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19
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So
you shall remove the evil from a...
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20
Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit
any such evil amongst you.
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21
Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,
hand for hand, foot for foot.
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