Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 19

Deut 19:1 “When יהוה your Elohim cuts off the nations whose land יהוה your
Elohim is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and
in their houses,
Deut 19:2 separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which
יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess.
Deut 19:3 “Prepare a way for yourself, and divide into three parts the
border of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to inherit, that
anyone who killed someone shall flee there.
Deut 19:4 “And this is the matter of the one who killed someone who flees
there and live: He who smites his neighbour unintentionally, not having hated
him in time past,
Deut 19:5 even he who goes to the forest with his neighbour to cut timber,
and his hand swings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head
slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies – let him flee
to one of these cities and live,
Deut 19:6 lest the revenger of blood, while his displeasure is hot, pursue the
one who killed someone and overtake him, because the way is long, and shall
smite him, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated him
before.
Deut 19:7 “Therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘Separate three cities
for yourself.’
Deut 19:8 “And if יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border, as He swore to
your fathers, and has given you the land which He promised to give to your
fathers –
Deut 19:9 when you guard all this command to do it, which I am
commanding you today, to love יהוה your Elohim and to walk in His ways all
the days – then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these
three,
Deut 19:10 so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land which
יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, or blood-guilt shall be upon
you.
Deut 19:11 “But when anyone hates his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for
him and rise against him and smite the life from him so that he dies, then he
shall flee to one of these cities,
Deut 19:12 and the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there,
and give him into the hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die.
Deut 19:13 “Your eye shall not pardon him, but you shall purge the blood of
innocent blood from Yisra’ĕl, so that it might be well with you.
Deut 19:14 “Do not remove your neighbour’s boundary, which those in the
past have set, in your inheritance which you inherit in the land that יהוה your
Elohim is giving you to possess.
Deut 19:15 “One witness does not rise up against a man concerning any
crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two witnesses or at
the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established.
Deut 19:16 “When a malicious witness rises up against any man to accuse
him of turning aside,
Deut 19:17 then both men who have the dispute shall stand before יהוה,
before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.
Deut 19:18 “And the judges shall diligently search and see if the witness is a
false witness, who has falsely accused his brother,
Deut 19:19 then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother.
Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 19:20 “And let the rest hear and fear, and never again do this evil
matter in your midst.
Deut 19:21 “And let your eye not pardon, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.