Rotherham(i)
2 three cities, shalt thou set apart for thee,––in the midst of thy land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess.
3 Thou shalt prepare for thee a way, and shalt divide into three parts the boundary of thy land which Yahweh thy God shall cause thee to inherit,––and it shall be, that every manslayer, shall flee thither.
4 And, this, is the case of the manslayer, who shall flee thither and live,––Whoso shall smite his neighbour unwittingly, he, not having hated him aforetime;
5 as when one entereth with his neighbour into a forest, to fell trees, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe, to cut down the tree, and the head flieth off from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die, he, shall flee into one of these cities, and live;
6 lest the blood redeemer pursue the manslayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and he smite him so as to take away his life,––he not being worthy of death, seeing that he had not been hating him, aforetime.
7 For this cause, am I commanding thee, saying,––Three cities, shalt thou set apart for thee.
8 But, if Yahweh thy God should enlarge thy bounds, as he aware unto thy fathers,––and should give thee all the land, which he spake of giving unto thy fathers;
9 because thou dost observe all this commandment, to do it, which I am commanding thee today, to love Yahweh thy God, and to walk in his paths all the days, then shalt thou add unto thee yet three cities, unto these three;
10 that innocent blood may not be shed, in the midst of thy land, which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee, as an inheritance,––and so shed–blood be upon thee.
11 But, when any man shall be hating his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him so as to take away his life, that he dieth,––and shall then flee into one of these cities,
12 then shall the elders of his city send and fetch him from thence,––and deliver him into the hand of the blood redeemer, that he die;
13 thine eye shall not look with pity upon him,––so shall thou consume the shedding of innocent blood out of Israel and it shall go well with thee.