Deuteronomy 19 (NET)

Deuteronomy 19:1¹When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:29Deut 6:10Deut 17:14Deut 7:1-2Deut 12:1

Deuteronomy 19:2²you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:13Deut 4:41-43Heb 6:18Josh 20:2-7Num 35:10-15

Deuteronomy 19:3³You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 57:14Heb 12:13Isa 35:8Isa 62:10

Deuteronomy 19:4⁴Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 35:15-24Deut 4:421 Chr 11:2Deut 19:6Gen 31:2Isa 30:33Josh 3:4

Deuteronomy 19:5⁵Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 6:5-7Isa 32:2Num 35:25Prov 27:12

Deuteronomy 19:6⁶Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 35:122 Sam 14:7Deut 21:22Jer 26:15-16Josh 20:5

Deuteronomy 19:7⁷Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Deuteronomy 19:8⁸If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:20Exod 23:31Exod 34:24Gen 15:18-211 Kgs 4:21Deut 11:24-25Ezra 4:20Gen 28:14

Deuteronomy 19:9⁹and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 20:7-8Deut 11:22-25Deut 12:32

Deuteronomy 19:10¹⁰You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:7Prov 6:17Matt 27:4-51 Kgs 2:312 Kgs 21:162 Kgs 24:4Deut 19:13Deut 21:1-9Jer 7:6-7Joel 3:19

Deuteronomy 19:11¹¹However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 27:24Num 35:16-21Exod 21:12-14Gen 9:6Num 35:24Prov 28:17

Deuteronomy 19:12¹²The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:28-341 Kgs 2:5-6

Deuteronomy 19:13¹³You must not pity him, but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:31Deut 21:9Deut 7:16Deut 7:22 Sam 21:1Num 35:33-342 Sam 21:14Deut 13:8Deut 25:12Ezek 16:5

Deuteronomy 19:14¹⁴You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 22:28Deut 27:17Hos 5:10Job 24:2Prov 23:10

Deuteronomy 19:15¹⁵A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 35:302 Cor 13:1Deut 17:6Heb 10:28Matt 18:161 Tim 5:19John 8:171 Kgs 21:101 Kgs 21:13Matt 26:60-61

Deuteronomy 19:16¹⁶If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 27:12Ps 35:11Exod 23:1-71 Kgs 21:10-13Acts 6:13Mark 14:55-59

Deuteronomy 19:17¹⁷then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 17:9Deut 21:5Mal 2:7

Deuteronomy 19:18¹⁸The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:14Deut 17:42 Chr 19:6-7Job 19:16

Deuteronomy 19:19¹⁹you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 19:5Prov 19:9Dan 6:24Deut 17:7Deut 22:24Deut 13:5Deut 19:20Deut 21:20-21Deut 22:21Deut 24:7

Deuteronomy 19:20²⁰The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 17:13Deut 21:21Deut 13:111 Tim 5:20Deut 17:7Prov 21:11Rom 13:3-4

Deuteronomy 19:21²¹You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:38-39Exod 21:23-25Deut 19:13Lev 24:17-21