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World English Bible

Deuteronomy 19 (WEBP)

[1] When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
[2] you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
[3] You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
[4] This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—
[5] as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
[6] Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
[7] Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
[8] If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
[9] and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
[10] This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
[11] But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
[12] then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
[13] Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
[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 Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
[15] One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
[16] If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
[17] then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
[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] then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
[20] Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
[21] Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Deuteronomy 19 (KJVS)

[1] When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
[2] thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
[3] Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
[4] And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
[5] as when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
[6] lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
[7] Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
[8] And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
[9] if thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
[10] that innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
[11] But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
[12] then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
[13] Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
[14] Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
[15] One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
[16] If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
[17] then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
[18] and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
[19] then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
[20] And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
[21] And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 19:1 Heb. inheritest, or possessest
Deuteronomy 19:4 Heb. from yesterday the third day
Deuteronomy 19:5a Heb. iron
Deuteronomy 19:5b Heb. wood
Deuteronomy 19:5c Heb. findeth
Deuteronomy 19:6a Heb. smite him in life
Deuteronomy 19:6b Heb. from yesterday, third day
Deuteronomy 19:11 Heb. in life
Deuteronomy 19:16 Or, falling away

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Deuteronomy 19 (BYZ)

[1] Ἐὰν () δὲ () ἀφανίσῃ () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου () τὰ () ἔθνη, () ἃ () ὁ () θεός () σου () δίδωσίν () σοι () τὴν () γῆν () αὐτῶν, () καὶ () κατακληρονομήσητε () αὐτοὺς () καὶ () κατοικήσητε () ἐν () ταῖς () πόλεσιν () αὐτῶν () καὶ () ἐν () τοῖς () οἴκοις () αὐτῶν, ()
[2] τρεῖς () πόλεις () διαστελεῖς () σεαυτῷ () ἐν () μέσῳ () τῆς () γῆς () σου, () ἧς () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου () δίδωσίν () σοι. ()
[3] Στόχασαί σοι () τὴν () ὁδὸν () καὶ () τριμεριεῖς τὰ () ὅρια () τῆς () γῆς () σου, () ἣν () καταμερίζει σοι () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου, () καὶ () ἔσται () καταφυγὴ ἐκεῖ () παντὶ () φονευτῇ.
[4] Τοῦτο () δὲ () ἔσται () τὸ () πρόσταγμα τοῦ () φονευτοῦ, ὃς () ἂν () φύγῃ () ἐκεῖ () καὶ () ζήσεται· () ὃς () ἂν () πατάξῃ () τὸν () πλησίον () αὐτοῦ () ἀκουσίως καὶ () οὗτος () οὐ () μισῶν () αὐτὸν () πρὸ () τῆς () ἐχθὲς () καὶ () πρὸ () τῆς () τρίτης, ()
[5] καὶ () ὃς () ἂν () εἰσέλθῃ () μετὰ () τοῦ () πλησίον () εἰς () τὸν () δρυμὸν συναγαγεῖν () ξύλα, () καὶ () ἐκκρουσθῇ ἡ () χεὶρ () αὐτοῦ () τῇ () ἀξίνῃ () κόπτοντος () τὸ () ξύλον, () καὶ () ἐκπεσὸν () τὸ () σιδήριον ἀπὸ () τοῦ () ξύλου () τύχῃ () τοῦ () πλησίον, () καὶ () ἀποθάνῃ, () οὗτος () καταφεύξεται () εἰς () μίαν () τῶν () πόλεων () τούτων () καὶ () ζήσεται, ()
[6] ἵνα () μὴ () διώξας () ὁ () ἀγχιστεύων τοῦ () αἵματος () ὀπίσω () τοῦ () φονεύσαντος, () ὅτι () παρατεθέρμανται τῇ () καρδίᾳ, () καὶ () καταλάβῃ () αὐτόν, () ἐὰν () μακροτέρα () ᾖ () ἡ () ὁδός, () καὶ () πατάξῃ () αὐτοῦ () τὴν () ψυχήν, () καὶ () ἀποθάνῃ, () καὶ () τούτῳ () οὐκ () ἔστιν () κρίσις () θανάτου, () ὅτι () οὐ () μισῶν () ἦν () αὐτὸν () πρὸ () τῆς () ἐχθὲς () καὶ () πρὸ () τῆς () τρίτης. ()
[7] Διὰ () τοῦτο () ἐγώ () σοι () ἐντέλλομαι () τὸ () ῥῆμα () τοῦτο () λέγων () Τρεῖς () πόλεις () διαστελεῖς () σεαυτῷ· ()
[8] ἐὰν () δὲ () ἐμπλατύνῃ κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου () τὰ () ὅριά () σου, () ὃν () τρόπον () ὤμοσεν () τοῖς () πατράσιν () σου, () καὶ () δῷ () σοι () κύριος () πᾶσαν () τὴν () γῆν, () ἣν () εἶπεν () δοῦναι () τοῖς () πατράσιν () σου, ()
[9] ἐὰν () ἀκούσῃς () ποιεῖν () πάσας () τὰς () ἐντολὰς () ταύτας, () ἃς () ἐγὼ () ἐντέλλομαί () σοι () σήμερον, () ἀγαπᾶν () κύριον () τὸν () θεόν () σου, () πορεύεσθαι () ἐν () πάσαις () ταῖς () ὁδοῖς () αὐτοῦ () πάσας () τὰς () ἡμέρας, () καὶ () προσθήσεις () σεαυτῷ () ἔτι () τρεῖς () πόλεις () πρὸς () τὰς () τρεῖς () ταύτας, ()
[10] καὶ () οὐκ () ἐκχυθήσεται () αἷμα () ἀναίτιον () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ () σου, () ᾗ () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου () δίδωσίν () σοι () ἐν () κλήρῳ, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἔσται () ἐν () σοὶ () αἵματι () ἔνοχος. ()—
[11] ἐὰν () δὲ () γένηται () ἄνθρωπος () μισῶν () τὸν () πλησίον () καὶ () ἐνεδρεύσῃ () αὐτὸν () καὶ () ἐπαναστῇ () ἐπ’ () αὐτὸν () καὶ () πατάξῃ () αὐτοῦ () ψυχήν, () καὶ () ἀπεθάνῃ, () καὶ () φύγῃ () εἰς () μίαν () τῶν () πόλεων () τούτων, ()
[12] καὶ () ἀποστελοῦσιν () ἡ () γερουσία () τῆς () πόλεως () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () λήμψονται () αὐτὸν () ἐκεῖθεν () καὶ () παραδώσουσιν () αὐτὸν () εἰς () χεῖρας () τῷ () ἀγχιστεύοντι τοῦ () αἵματος, () καὶ () ἀποθανεῖται· ()
[13] οὐ () φείσεται () ὁ () ὀφθαλμός () σου () ἐπ’ () αὐτῷ, () καὶ () καθαριεῖς () τὸ () αἷμα () τὸ () ἀναίτιον () ἐξ () Ισραηλ, () καὶ () εὖ () σοι () ἔσται. ()
[14] Οὐ () μετακινήσεις () ὅρια () τοῦ () πλησίον () σου, () ἃ () ἔστησαν () οἱ () πατέρες () σου () ἐν () τῇ () κληρονομίᾳ () σου, () ᾗ () κατεκληρονομήθης () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ, () ᾗ () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου () δίδωσίν () σοι () ἐν () κλήρῳ. ()
[15] Οὐκ () ἐμμενεῖ () μάρτυς () εἷς () μαρτυρῆσαι () κατὰ () ἀνθρώπου () κατὰ () πᾶσαν () ἀδικίαν () καὶ () κατὰ () πᾶν () ἁμάρτημα () καὶ () κατὰ () πᾶσαν () ἁμαρτίαν, () ἣν () ἂν () ἁμάρτῃ· () ἐπὶ () στόματος () δύο () μαρτύρων () καὶ () ἐπὶ () στόματος () τριῶν () μαρτύρων () σταθήσεται () πᾶν () ῥῆμα. ()
[16] Ἐὰν () δὲ () καταστῇ () μάρτυς () ἄδικος () κατὰ () ἀνθρώπου () καταλέγων () αὐτοῦ () ἀσέβειαν, ()
[17] καὶ () στήσονται () οἱ () δύο () ἄνθρωποι, () οἷς () ἐστιν () αὐτοῖς () ἡ () ἀντιλογία, () ἔναντι () κυρίου () καὶ () ἔναντι () τῶν () ἱερέων () καὶ () ἔναντι () τῶν () κριτῶν, () οἳ () ἐὰν () ὦσιν () ἐν () ταῖς () ἡμέραις () ἐκείναις, ()
[18] καὶ () ἐξετάσωσιν () οἱ () κριταὶ () ἀκριβῶς, () καὶ () ἰδοὺ () μάρτυς () ἄδικος () ἐμαρτύρησεν () ἄδικα, () ἀντέστη () κατὰ () τοῦ () ἀδελφοῦ () αὐτοῦ, ()
[19] καὶ () ποιήσετε () αὐτῷ () ὃν () τρόπον () ἐπονηρεύσατο ποιῆσαι () κατὰ () τοῦ () ἀδελφοῦ () αὐτοῦ, () καὶ () ἐξαρεῖς () τὸν () πονηρὸν () ἐξ () ὑμῶν () αὐτῶν. ()
[20] Καὶ () οἱ () ἐπίλοιποι () ἀκούσαντες () φοβηθήσονται () καὶ () οὐ () προσθήσουσιν () ἔτι () ποιῆσαι () κατὰ () τὸ () ῥῆμα () τὸ () πονηρὸν () τοῦτο () ἐν () ὑμῖν. ()
[21] Οὐ () φείσεται () ὁ () ὀφθαλμός () σου () ἐπ’ () αὐτῷ· () ψυχὴν () ἀντὶ () ψυχῆς, () ὀφθαλμὸν () ἀντὶ () ὀφθαλμοῦ, () ὀδόντα () ἀντὶ () ὀδόντος, () χεῖρα () ἀντὶ () χειρός, () πόδα () ἀντὶ () ποδός. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.