Deuteronomy 19

When God your God cuts off the nations, that God your God is giving their land to you, and you dispossess them and live in their cities and their houses,

you shall select three cities for yourself in the midst of your land that God your God is giving to you to possess it.

You shall prepare for yourself a road and make the borders of your land three, which God your God is causing you to inherit, and it will be, everyone who murders shall flee there. \*

And this {is} the matter of the killer who flees there and lives (who strikes his neighbor without knowledge, and he did not hate him from previous times,

and who goes into the forest {with} his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings with the ax to cut the wood, and the iron detaches from the wood and finds his neighbor, and he dies), he shall flee to one of these cities and live. \*

Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the killer when his heart is heated and overtake him, because the way is long, and he strike him {to} the life, and he did not have a judgment of death, for he had not hated him from previous times.

Therefore I command you, saying, ‘Select three cities for yourself.’ \*

And if God your God enlarges your borders, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives to you all the land that he spoke {about} to give to your fathers;

if you keep all these commandments to do them, which I am commanding you today—to love God your God and to walk in his ways all of the days—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, more than these three.

Then you shall not spill innocent blood in the midst of the land that God your God is giving to you {as} an inheritance, and bloodshed be upon you. \*

And if there is a man who hates his neighbor and ambushes him and rises up against him and strikes him {to} the life, and he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

then the elders of his city shall send out and take him from there and give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, then he shall die.

Your eye shall not pity him, and you shall remove the blood of the innocent from Israel, and it will go well for you. \*

You shall not displace the boundary of your neighbor of which he first set the bounds, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that God your God is giving to you to possess it. \*

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins; upon the mouth of two witnesses or upon the mouth of three witnesses a matter may be raised. \*

If a false witness rises up against a man to testify falsehood against him, \*

then the two men who have the controversy shall stand to the face of God, to the faces of the priests and the judges who will be in those days.

And the judges shall inquire thoroughly, and behold, {if the} witness {is} false (the false witness testified against his brother),

then you shall do to him as he had planned to do to his brother, and you shall remove the evil from among you. \*

Then the remnant will hear and fear and will not continue to do anymore as this evil thing among you.

And your eyes shall not have pity; a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot. \*