11. However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
12. The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
13. You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
14. You 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.
15. A 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.
16. If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,
17. then 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.
18. The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,
19. you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
20. The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.
21. You 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.