7. Therefore I am commanding you—set apart three cities for yourself.
8. “Suppose Adonai your God enlarges your territory, as He has sworn to your fathers, and He gives you all the land that He promised to give to your fathers—
9. when you take care to do all this mitzvah that I am commanding you today, to love Adonai your God and to always walk in His ways. Then you are to add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
10. Then innocent blood will not be shed within your land that Adonai your God is giving you as an inheritance, and there would be blood upon you.
11. “But suppose someone hates his neighbor, waits in hiding for him, rises up against him, strikes him dead, then flees to one of these cities.
12. Then the elders of his hometown should send and take him from there and hand him over to the avenger of blood, to die.
13. Your eye should not pity him, but you must purge the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
14. “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker that the first generations marked out, in the inheritance you will receive in the land Adonai your God is giving you to possess.
15. A single witness shall not rise up against a person for any offense or sin that he commits. By the word of two or three witnesses is a case to be established.
16. Suppose a hostile witness rises up against someone to accuse him of wrongdoing.
17. Then both people who have the dispute will stand before Adonai, before the kohanim and judges in charge at that time.
18. The judges are to investigate thoroughly, and if indeed the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,
19. then you are to do to him just as he had plotted to do to his brother. So you will purge the evil from your midst.
20. Those who remain will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do such an evil thing as this in your midst.