Exodus 21 Cross References - MLV

¹ Now these are the ordinances which you will set before them.
² If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he will serve and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he will go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife will go out with him. ⁴ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons will be her master's and he will go out by himself. ⁵ But if the servant will plainly say, I love my master, my wife and my sons, I will not go out free, ⁶ then his master will bring him to God and will bring him to the door, or to the door-post and his master will bore his ear through with an awl and he will serve him everlasting.
⁷ And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she will not go out as the men-servants do. ⁸ If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he will let her be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹ And if he espouses her to his son, he will deal with her according to the manner of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes him another wife, her food, her garments and her duty of marriage, he will not diminish. ¹¹ And if he does not do these three things to her, then she will go out for nothing, without money.
¹² He who slays a man, so that he dies, will surely be put to death.
¹³ And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he will flee.
¹⁴ And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you will take him from my altar, that he may die.
¹⁵ And he who slays his father or his mother, will surely be put to death.
¹⁶ And he who steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he will surely be put to death.
¹⁷ And he who curses his father or his mother, will surely be put to death.
¹⁸ And if men contend and one slays the other with a stone, or with his fist and he does not die, but keeps his bed, ¹⁹ if he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who killed* him will be acquitted. Only he will pay for the loss of his time and will cause him to be thoroughly healed.
²⁰ And if a man slays his servant, or his maid, with a rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be punished. ²¹ Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he will not be punished, because he is his money.
²² And if men strive together and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart and yet no harm follow, he will be surely fined, just-as the woman's husband will lay upon him and he will pay as the judges determine. ²³ But if any harm follows, then you will give life for life, ²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
²⁶ And if a man slays the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid and destroys it, he will let him go free for his eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he will let him go free for his tooth's sake.
²⁸ And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox will surely be stoned and its flesh will not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.
²⁹ But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past and it has been testified to its owner and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned and its owner will also be put to death.
³⁰ If a ransom is laid on him, then he will give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him. ³¹ Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it will be done to him.
³² If the ox gores a man-servant or a maidservant, there will be given to their master thirty shekels of silver and the ox will be stoned.
³³ And if a man will open a pit, or if a man will dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls in it, ³⁴ the owner of the pit will make it good; he will give money to the owner of it and the dead beast will be his.
³⁵ And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide the price of it and the dead they will also divide. ³⁶ Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past and its owner has not kept it in, he will surely pay ox for ox and the dead beast will be his own.

⁷ And Moses came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Jehovah commanded him.

³ And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the ordinances. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken will we
do.
⁴ And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah and rose up early in the morning and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ You* will therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. I am Jehovah.

²⁶ You* therefore will keep my statutes and my ordinances and will not do any of these abominations, neither the home-born, nor the stranger that travels among you*,

³⁷ And you* will observe all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them. I am Jehovah.

²² You* will therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them, that the land, where I bring you* to dwell in it, does not vomit you* out.

²⁴ then the congregation will judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

¹³ These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded by Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you* statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that you* should do so in the midst of the land where you* go in to possess it.

⁸ And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you* this day?

¹⁴ And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you* statutes and ordinances, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it.

⁴⁵ These are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

¹ And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your* ears this day, that you* may learn them and observe to do them.

³¹ But as for you, stand here by me and I will speak to you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances, which you will teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

¹ Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah your* God commanded to teach you*, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it,

²⁰ When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you*?

¹² Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my ordinances and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

¹⁰ And whenever any controversy will come to you* from your* brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you* will warn them, that they not be guilty towards Jehovah and so wrath come upon you* and upon your* brothers. Do this and you* will not be guilty.

¹³ You also came down upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, ¹⁴ and made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law, by Moses your servant.

²⁹ they clung to their brothers, their ranking men and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

¹¹ And I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

²⁵ Moreover I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances in which they will not live.

⁴ You* remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many things as I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the earth.
Amen.

¹ Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you in the Lord Jesus, just-as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, in order that you might abound even more.

²⁸ And God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and new wine.

³⁶ And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

⁴⁴ but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he will eat of it.

³ If the sun has risen upon him, there will be blood-guilt for him. A thief will make restitution. If he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

³⁹ And if your brother becomes poor with you and sells himself to you, you will not impose upon him servile labor. ⁴⁰ He will be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He will serve with you to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he will go out from you, he and his sons with him and will return to his own family. And he will return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ You will not rule over him with rigor, but will fear your God.
⁴⁴ And as for your bondmen and your bondmaids, whom you will have, from the nations that are all around you*, you* will buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the sons of the strangers who journey among you*, you* will buy from them and from their families that are with you*, which they have fathered in your* land and they will be your* possession.

¹ At the end of every seven years you will make a release.

¹² If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. ¹³ And when you let him go free from you, you will not let him go empty. ¹⁴ You will furnish him liberally out of your flock and out of your threshing-floor and out of your winepress. As Jehovah your God has blessed you, you will give to him.
¹⁵ And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

¹⁸ It will not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.

¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

¹ Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead and you know that your servant feared Jehovah and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bondmen.

¹ Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. ² For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live.
³ There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields and our vineyards and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth.
⁴ There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations and would you* even sell your* brothers and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found not a word.

⁸ The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them, ⁹ that every man should let his man-servant and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free, that none should make bondmen of them, namely, of a Jew his brother.
¹⁰ And all the rulers and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondmen of them any more. They obeyed and let them go.
¹¹ But afterwards they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
¹² Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ¹³ Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your* fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, ¹⁴ At the end of seven years you* will let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you and has served you six years. You will let him go free from you. But your* fathers listened not to me, nor inclined their ear.
¹⁵ And you* were now turned and had done what is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor. And you* had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.
¹⁶ But you* turned and profaned my name and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you* had let go free at their pleasure, to return. And you* brought them into subjection, to be to you* for servants and for handmaids.
¹⁷ Therefore Jehovah says thus: You* have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you* a liberty, says Jehovah–to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine. And I will make you* to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁵ But he did not have anything to repay him with, so his lord commanded him and his wife and children and all things, as many things as he was holding, to be sold and the money to be repaid to him.

²⁰ for you were bought with a price. Glorify God in your body and in your spirit which is God’s!

¹² If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. ¹³ And when you let him go free from you, you will not let him go empty. ¹⁴ You will furnish him liberally out of your flock and out of your threshing-floor and out of your winepress. As Jehovah your God has blessed you, you will give to him.

¹⁶ And it will be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you, because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you, ¹⁷ then you will take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door and he will be your servant everlasting. And also to your maid-servant you will do likewise.

¹³ O Jehovah our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only we will make mention of your name.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ is holding us together with him, having judged this thing: if one died on behalf of all, consequently, all died; ¹⁵ and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and rose again on their behalf.

¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and will kill* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.

²¹ Moreover you will provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens, ²² and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge themselves. So it will be easier for yourself and they will bear the burden with you.
²³ If you will do this thing and God command you so, then you will be able to endure and all this people also will go to their place in peace.
²⁴ So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. ²⁵ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens, ²⁶ and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

²² And if men strive together and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart and yet no harm follow, he will be surely fined, just-as the woman's husband will lay upon him and he will pay as the judges determine.

⁸ If the thief is not found, then the master of the house will come near to God, to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
⁹ For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for garments, or for any manner of lost thing, of which a man says, This is it, the case of both parties will come before God. He whom God will condemn will pay double to his neighbor.

²⁸ You will not revile God, nor speak ill of a ruler of your people.

²³ And the land will not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you* are strangers and travelers with me.

⁴⁰ He will be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He will serve with you to the year of jubilee.

⁵ And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you* every one his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.
⁶ And behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
⁷ And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand. ⁸ And he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.

¹⁶ And I charged your* judges at that time, saying, Hear between your* brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother and the traveler who is with him.

¹⁷ then you will take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door and he will be your servant everlasting. And also to your maid-servant you will do likewise.

¹⁸ You will make judges and officers for you in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes and they will judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁷ then both the men, between whom the controversy is, will stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that will be in those days,
¹⁸ and the judges will make diligent inquiry. And behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,

²² But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, Not until the child be weaned and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Jehovah and abide there everlasting.

¹ And it happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. ² Now the name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beer-sheba.

¹² And Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant everlasting.

² And David said to Achish, Therefore you will know what your servant will do. And Achish said to David, Therefore I will make you my chief bodyguard forever.

⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this people this day and will serve them and answer them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. Whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. ⁷ Then I said, Behold, I have come as it is written of me in the scroll of a book.
⁸ I delight to do your will, O my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.

²⁶ And I will restore your judges as at the first and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.

³ Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

² If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he will serve and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he will go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife will go out with him.

⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

⁸ And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.

²⁹ And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people, tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah.

⁷ And what man is there who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.

¹¹ and see among the captives a beautiful woman and you have a desire for her and would take her to you as a wife, ¹² then you will bring her home to your house. And she will shave her head and pare her nails, ¹³ and she will put the garments of her captivity from her and will remain in your house and weep for her father and her mother a full month. And after that you will go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.
¹⁴ And it will be, if you have no delight in her, then you will let her go where she will, but you will not sell her at all for money. You will not deal with her harshly, because you have humbled her.

¹⁹ if you* then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech and let him also rejoice in you*.

³ Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me well.

⁶ But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah.

⁸ And Saul was very angry and this saying displeased him and he said, They have bestowed to David ten thousands and to me they have bestowed but thousands and what can he have more but the kingdom?

¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

¹¹ Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
¹² Jehovah will cut off out of the tents of Jacob, the man who does this: he who wakes and he who answers and he who offers an offering to Jehovah of hosts.
¹³ And this again you* do: You* cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your* hand. ¹⁴ Yet you* say, Why?
Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt with treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. ¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your* spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

¹ Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman sexually. \ulnone\nosupersub ² But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband give to the wife her owed benevolence and likewise also the wife give to the husband. ⁴ The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. ⁵ Do not deprive one another, except from agreement for some time, in order that you may occupy yourselves to fasting and to prayer, and you may come to the same again, in order that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your shortage of self-control. ⁶ But I am saying this according to concession, not according to commandment.

⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man. For in the image of God he made man.

¹³ You will not murder.

¹⁷ And he who slays any man mortally will surely be put to death.

¹⁶ But if he killed* him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he killed* him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he killed* him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death.
¹⁹ The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he will put him to death. ²⁰ And if he thrust him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹ or in enmity killed* him with his hand, so that he died, he who killed* him will surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
²² But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait, ²³ or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him and cast it upon him, so that he died and he was not his enemy, nor sought his harm, ²⁴ then the congregation will judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

³⁰ Whoever kills any person, the murderer will be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness will not testify against any person so that he dies. ³¹ Moreover you* will take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death.

¹¹ But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and slays him mortally so that he dies and he flees into one of these cities, ¹² then the elders of his city will send and fetch him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
¹³ Your eye will not pity him, but you will put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you will not die.

⁵² Then Jesus says to him, Return your sword into its place; for all those who take up the sword will be perishing with the sword.

¹⁰ Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ¹¹ then you* will appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you*, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. ¹² And the cities will be to you* for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
¹³ And the cities which you* will give will be for you* six cities of refuge. ¹⁴ You* will give three cities beyond the Jordan and three cities you* will give in the land of Canaan. They will be cities of refuge. ¹⁵ For the sons of Israel and for the stranger and for the traveler among them, these six cities will be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
¹⁶ But if he killed* him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he killed* him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he killed* him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will surely be put to death.
¹⁹ The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he will put him to death. ²⁰ And if he thrust him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹ or in enmity killed* him with his hand, so that he died, he who killed* him will surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
²² But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait, ²³ or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him and cast it upon him, so that he died and he was not his enemy, nor sought his harm, ²⁴ then the congregation will judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
²⁵ And the congregation will deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood and the congregation will restore him to his city of refuge where he fled. And he will dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
²⁶ But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees, ²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him outside the border of his city of refuge and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood, ²⁸ because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer will return into the land of his possession.
²⁹ And these things will be for a statute and ordinance to you* throughout your* genealogy in all your* dwellings.
³⁰ Whoever kills any person, the murderer will be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness will not testify against any person so that he dies. ³¹ Moreover you* will take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death. ³² And you* will take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
³³ So you* will not pollute the land in which you* are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴ And you will not defile the land which you* inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, ⁴² that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares and did not hate him in time past and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: ⁴³ namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

¹ When Jehovah your God will cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah your God gives you and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, ² you will set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it. ³ You will prepare for you the way and divide the borders of your land, which Jehovah your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.
⁴ And this is the case of the manslayer, who will flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unawares and did not hate him in time past, ⁵ as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slips from the helve and lands upon his neighbor, so that he dies, he will flee to one of these cities and live.
⁶ Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long and kill* him mortally, and he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he did not hate him in time past.
⁷ Therefore I command you, saying, You will set apart three cities for you. ⁸ And if Jehovah your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers, ⁹ if you will keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God and to walk ever in his ways, then will you add three more cities for you, besides these three, ¹⁰ that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance and so blood be upon you.

² Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Assign for you* the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you* by Moses, ³ that the manslayer who kills any soul unwittingly and unawares may flee there. And they will be to you* for a refuge from the avenger of blood. ⁴ And he will flee to one of those cities and will stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. And they will take him into the city to them and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
⁵ And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they will not deliver up the manslayer into his hand, because he killed* his neighbor unawares and did not hate him formerly. ⁶ And he will dwell in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest who will be in those days. Then the manslayer will return and come to his own city and to his own house, to the city from where he fled.
⁷ And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim and Kiriath-arba (what is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah. ⁸ And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
⁹ These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who travels among them, that whoever kills any soul unwittingly might flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.

⁴ And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Jehovah said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand and you will do to him as it will seem good to you. Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

¹⁰ Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Jehovah had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. And some commanded me kill you, but I spared you. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is Jehovah's anointed.

¹⁸ And you have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, inasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into your hand, you killed me not.

¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you*, you* sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses and because Jehovah has said to him, Curse David, who then will say, Why have you done so?

⁷ However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.

² The devout man has perished out of the earth and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

³⁰ But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a traveler, the same blasphemes Jehovah and that soul will be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he has despised the word of Jehovah and has broken his commandment, that soul will utterly be cut off; his iniquity will be upon him.

²⁰ And if he thrust him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹ or in enmity killed* him with his hand, so that he died, he who killed* him will surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

⁴³ So I spoke to you* and you* did not listen, but you* rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah and were presumptuous and went up into the hill-country.

¹² And the man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man will die and you will put away the evil from Israel. ¹³ And all the people will hear and fear and do no more presumptuously.

²² When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, if the thing does not follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You will not be afraid of him.

²⁴ Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret. And all the people will say, Truly.

²⁷ And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly and killed* him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
¹⁰ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he killed* him with it in the body and shed out his guts to the ground and struck him not again and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

⁵⁰ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon. And he arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar. ⁵¹ And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon, for behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.

²⁸ And the news came to Joab, for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he did not turn after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of Jehovah and caught hold on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And it was told king Solomon, Joab has fled to the tent of Jehovah, and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. ³⁰ And Benaiah came to the tent of Jehovah and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. And he said, No, but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab and thus he answered me.
³¹ And the king said to him, Do as he has said and fall upon him and bury him, that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. ³² And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword and my father David did not know it, namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
³³ So will their blood return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his seed everlasting. But to David and to his seed and to his house and to his throne, there will be peace everlasting from Jehovah.
³⁴ Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and killed him. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

¹⁵ And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks and kill with the sword the man who follows her. For the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of Jehovah.

¹³ Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Do not let them have dominion over me. Then I will be upright and I will acquit him from great transgression.

²⁶ For when we sin willfully after the receiving of the full knowledge of the truth, then a sacrifice is left no more for us concerning sins,

¹⁰ and especially those who are conducting-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and while despising lordship. Daring and self-willed, they are not trembling when blaspheming heavenly glories;

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they discipline him, will not listen to them, ¹⁹ then his father and his mother will lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. ²⁰ And they will say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city will stone him to death with stones. So you will put away the evil from the midst of you and all Israel will hear and fear.

¹¹ There is a generation who curses their father and does not praise their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out and the young eagles will eat it.

⁹ knowing this: that law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for killers of their fathers and killers of their mothers, for murderers,

²⁸ And there passed by Midianites, merchants and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

¹⁵ For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.

⁴ If the theft is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, or donkey, or sheep, he will pay double.

⁷ If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the sons of Israel and he deals with him harshly, or sells him, then that thief will die. So will you put away the evil from the midst of you.

¹⁰ for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers and if any other thing which lays in opposition to sound teaching;

¹² cargo of gold, silver, precious stone, pearl, fine-linen, purple, silk, scarlet, every citron wood thing, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made out of the most precious wood and from brass, iron and marble;

⁹ For he who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood will be upon him.
¹⁰ And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress will surely be put to death.

¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people will say, Truly.

²⁰ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in blackness of darkness.

³ But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘He who is speaking evil of their father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’ ⁵ But you say, Whoever says to his father or his mother, in whatever you might have been profited from me, it is a gift to God, ⁶ and then should never honor his father and mother, and thus you invalidated the commandment of God because of your tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’ ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever you might have been profited from me is Corban. (That is, a gift).

¹³ And he went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together. And he said to him who did the wrong, Why do you kill* your neighbor?

²⁰ And if a man slays his servant, or his maid, with a rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be punished.

¹¹ When men strive together, one with another and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who slays him and puts forth her hand and takes him by the genitals,

⁶ And your handmaid had two sons and they two strove together in the field and there was none to part them, but the one killed* the other and killed him.

²⁹ Let it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house. And let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.

⁴ Jehovah of hosts says thus: There will yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

¹⁵ And Jehovah said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill* him.

²⁴ If Cain will be avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.

²⁶ And if a man slays the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid and destroys it, he will let him go free for his eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he will let him go free for his tooth's sake.

¹⁹ The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he will put him to death.

³⁰ Whoever kills any person, the murderer will be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness will not testify against any person so that he dies. ³¹ Moreover you* will take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death. ³² And you* will take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
³³ So you* will not pollute the land in which you* are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

²¹ And your eyes will not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

¹⁹ A servant will not be disciplined by words, because though he understands, he will not give heed.

³ Why have we fasted, they say and you do not see? We have afflicted our soul and you take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your* fast you* find pleasure and exact from all your* laborers. ⁴ Behold, you* fast for strife and contention and to kill* with the fist of wickedness. You* do not fast this day so as to make your* voice to be heard on high.

⁴ for he is a servant of God to you for what is the good thing. But if you practice what is the evil thing, be afraid; for he is not wearing the sword vainly; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to the one who is practicing the evil thing.

⁴⁴ And as for your bondmen and your bondmaids, whom you will have, from the nations that are all around you*, you* will buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the sons of the strangers who journey among you*, you* will buy from them and from their families that are with you*, which they have fathered in your* land and they will be your* possession. ⁴⁶ And you* will make them an inheritance for your* sons after you*, to hold for a possession. You* will take your* everlasting bondmen from them, but over your* brothers the sons of Israel you* will not rule, one over another, with rigor.

³⁰ If a ransom is laid on him, then he will give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

¹⁸ And the elders of that city will take the man and discipline him, ¹⁹ and they will fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the maiden, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel and she will be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

¹⁹ And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so will it be done to him:

³¹ Moreover you* will take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death.

¹⁹ And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so will it be done to him: ²⁰ injury for injury, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, as he has caused a blemish in a man, so will it be rendered to him.

⁶ But Adoni-bezek fled and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

³³ And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

³⁸ You have heard that it was said, An eye in exchange-for an eye and a tooth in exchange-for a tooth. ³⁹ But I am saying to you, Not to stand against an evil man, but who ever slaps you upon your right jaw, turn also the other to him. ⁴⁰ And to him, who is willing to have a lawsuit against you and wants to take away your tunic, then also allow for him to take your^\'b0 outer garment.

² For in what judgment you judge, you will be judged and in what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

³⁸ Give and it will be given to you; they will be giving good measure into your bosom, what has been packed-down and shaken together and pouring over. For with the same measure you measure, it will be measured to you again.

⁶ because they poured out the blood of holy-ones and prophets and you gave blood to them to drink because they are worthy.

¹⁹ You will not distort justice. You will not respect persons, neither will you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹² Because he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

¹⁴ You have seen. Because you behold mischief and spite, to repay with your hand. The poor man commits himself to you. You have been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more terrify.

¹² Because he will deliver a needy man when he cries and a poor man, who has no helper. ¹³ He will have pity on a poor and needy man and he will save the souls of the needy.
¹⁴ He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. And their blood will be precious in his sight,

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ Because Jehovah will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

⁹ And the lords, do the same things toward them and be lax with the threatening; knowing that your own Lord is also in the heavens and there is no favoritism from him.

¹ The lords: provide the just and the equal thing s to your bondservants; knowing that you also have a Lord in the heavens.

⁵ And surely I will require your* blood, the blood of your* lives. I will require it at the hand of every beast. And I will require the life of man at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man. For in the image of God he made man.

³² If the ox gores a man-servant or a maidservant, there will be given to their master thirty shekels of silver and the ox will be stoned.

¹⁵ And if a man lies with a beast, he will surely be put to death and you* will kill the beast. ¹⁶ And if a woman approaches to any beast and lies down with it, you will kill the woman and the beast. They will surely be put to death; their blood will be upon them.

¹ If a man is found slain in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field and it not be known who has struck him, ² then your elders and your judges will come forth. And they will measure to the cities which are all around him who is slain, ³ and it will be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city will take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke, ⁴ and the elders of that city will bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown and will break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
⁵ And the priests the sons of Levi will come near, for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of Jehovah and according to their word will every controversy and every stroke be. ⁶ And all the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, ⁷ and they will answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. ⁸ Forgive, O Jehovah, your people Israel whom you have redeemed and allow no innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel. And the blood will be forgiven them.
⁹ So will you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you when you will do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹² When you take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they will give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when you number them, that there is no plague among them when you number them.

⁸ The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hears no threatening.

²⁸ And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox will surely be stoned and its flesh will not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.
²⁹ But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past and it has been testified to its owner and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned and its owner will also be put to death.

¹² And I said to them, If you* think good, give me my wage and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my wage thirty pieces of silver. ¹³ And Jehovah said to me, Cast it to the potter, the good price that I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of Jehovah.

¹⁵ and said, What are you willing to give me and I will be giving him to you? Now they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him.

³ Then Judas, (the one giving him up), when he saw that he was condemned, regretted and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the high-priests and the elders, ⁴ saying, I have sinned, giving up innocent blood.
But they said, What is that to us? You will see to it. ⁵ And tossing the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed. And having gone away, he hanged himself.
⁶ Now the high-priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not legal to put them into the depository, since it is the price of blood. ⁷ Now they took counsel and bought from them the potter’s field, for the burial of strangers. ⁸ Hence until today, the field was called, The Field of Blood. ⁹ Then what was spoken through the prophet was fulfilled, saying, ‘And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one who has been priced, whom some of the sons of Israel priced for themselves;

⁷ but emptied himself, having taken the form of a bondservant, having become in the likeness of men;

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to your law.

¹⁰ He who causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall himself into his own pit. But the perfect will inherit good.

⁸ He who digs a pit will fall into it and he who breaks through a wall, a serpent will bite him.

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when you will bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.

²⁹ But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past and it has been testified to its owner and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned and its owner will also be put to death.
³⁰ If a ransom is laid on him, then he will give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

⁶ If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed, he who kindled the fire will surely make restitution.

¹⁴ And if a man borrows anything of his neighbor and it is hurt, or die, the owner of it not being with it, he will surely make restitution.