1 GLT When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, that Yahweh your God is giving their land to you, and you dispossess them and live in their cities and their houses, BSB BSB: When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
2 GLT you shall select three cities for yourself in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to possess it. BSB BSB: then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
3 GLT You shall prepare for yourself a road and make the borders of your land three, which Yahweh your God is causing you to inherit, and it will be, everyone who murders shall flee there. BSB BSB: You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
4 GLT 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, BSB BSB: Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
5 GLT and who goes into the forest{ with} his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings 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. BSB BSB: If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
6 GLT Lest the avenger of blood pursues after the killer when his heart is heated and overtakes him, because the way is long, and he strikes him, a life, and he did not have a judgment of death, for he had not hated him from previous times. BSB BSB: Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.
7 GLT Therefore I command you, saying,‘Select three cities for yourself.’ BSB BSB: This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
8 GLT And if Yahweh 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; BSB BSB: And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
9 GLT if you keep all these commandments to do them, which I am commanding you today— to love Yahweh 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. BSB BSB: and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
10 GLT And you shall not spill innocent blood in the midst of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you{ as} an inheritance, and blood will be upon you. BSB BSB: Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
11 GLT And if there is a man who hates his neighbor and ambushes him and rises up against him and strikes him, a life, and he dies, and he flees into one of these cities— BSB BSB: If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
12 GLT then the elders of his city shall send out and take him from there and give him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, then he shall die. BSB BSB: the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
13 GLT Your eye shall not pity him; and you shall remove the blood of the innocent from Israel, and it will go well for you. BSB BSB: You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
14 GLT 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 Yahweh your God is giving to you to possess it. BSB BSB: You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
15 GLT 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. BSB BSB: A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
16 GLT If a false witness rises up against a man to testify falsehood against him, BSB BSB: If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
17 GLT then the two men that have the controversy shall stand before the face of Yahweh, before the faces of the priests and the judges who will be in those days. BSB BSB: both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
19 GLT then you shall do to him as he had planned to do to his brother, and you shall remove the evil from among you. BSB BSB: you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
20 GLT Then the remnant will hear and fear, and will not continue to do anymore as this evil thing among you. BSB BSB: Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
21 GLT 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. BSB BSB: You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.