When your God יהוה has cut down the nations whose land your God יהוה is assigning to you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and homes,
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כייכרית
670
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
אתהגוים
465
אשר
501
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
נתן
500
לך
50
אתארצם
732
וירשתם
956
וישבת
718
בעריהם
327
ובבתיהם
465
Deuteronomy 19:2
Gematria: 4269
שלושעריםתבדיללךבתוךארצךאשריהוהאלהיךנתןלךלרשתה
you shall set aside three cities in the land that your God יהוה is giving you to possess.
You shall survey the distances, and divide into three parts the territory of the country that your God יהוה has allotted to you, so that any [man] [man] See note at 4.42. who has killed someone who has killed someone See note at 4.42. may have a place to flee to.—
For instance, a man goes with another fellow into a grove to cut wood; as his hand swings the ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flies off the handle and strikes the other so that he dies. That man shall flee to one of these cities and live.—
Otherwise, when the distance is great, the blood-avenger, pursuing the killer in hot anger, may overtake him and strike him down; yet he did not incur the death penalty, since he had never been the other’s enemy.
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פןירדף
424
גאל
34
הדם
49
אחרי
219
הרצח
303
כייחם
88
לבבו
40
והשיגו
330
כיירבה
247
הדרך
229
והכהו
42
נפש
430
ולו
42
אין
61
משפטמות
875
כי
30
לא
31
שנא
351
הוא
12
לו
36
מתמול
516
שלשום
676
Deuteronomy 19:7
Gematria: 2124
עלכןאנכימצוךלאמרשלשעריםתבדיללך
That is why I command you: set aside three cities.
And when your God יהוה enlarges your territory, as was sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that was promised to be given to your fathers—
if you faithfully observe all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day, to love your God יהוה and to walk in God’s ways at all times—then you shall add three more towns to those three.
If, however, a man who is the enemy of another lies in wait and sets upon [the victim] and strikes a fatal blow and then flees to one of these towns,
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וכייהיה
66
איש
311
שנא
351
לרעהו
311
וארב
209
לו
36
וקם
146
עליו
116
והכהו
42
נפש
430
ומת
446
ונס
116
אלאחת
440
הערים
325
האל
36
Deuteronomy 19:12
Gematria: 3204
ושלחוזקניעירוולקחואתומשםונתנואתובידגאלהדםומת
the elders of his town shall have him brought back from there and shall hand him over to the blood-avenger to be put to death;
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ושלחו
350
זקני
167
עירו
286
ולקחו
150
אתו
407
משם
380
ונתנו
512
אתו
407
ביד
16
גאל
34
הדם
49
ומת
446
Deuteronomy 19:13
Gematria: 2372
לאתחוסעינךעליוובערתדםהנקימישראלוטובלךס
you must show him no pity. Thus you will purge Israel of the blood of the innocent, purge Israel of the blood of the innocent Cf. Num. 35.33–34. and it will go well with you.
You shall not move your neighbor’s landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that will be allotted to you in the land that your God יהוה is giving you to possess.
A single witness may not validate against an [accused] party any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of two witnesses or more. more See note at 17.6.
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לאיקום
187
עד
74
אחד
13
באיש
313
לכלעון
206
ולכלחטאת
504
בכלחטא
70
אשר
501
יחטא
28
עלפי
190
שני
360
עדים
124
או
7
עלפי
190
שלשהעדים
759
יקום
156
דבר
206
Deuteronomy 19:16
Gematria: 1510
כייקוםעדחמסבאישלענותבוסרה
If someone appears against another party to testify maliciously and gives incriminating yet false testimony,
the two parties to the dispute shall appear before יהוה, before the priests or magistrates in authority at the time,
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ועמדו
126
שניהאנשים
766
אשרלהם
576
הריב
217
לפני
170
יהוה
26
לפני
170
הכהנים
130
והשפטים
450
אשר
501
יהיו
31
בימים
102
ההם
50
Deuteronomy 19:18
Gematria: 2557
ודרשוהשפטיםהיטבוהנהעדשקרהעדשקרענהבאחיו
and the magistrates shall make a thorough investigation. If the one who testified is a false witness, having testified falsely against a fellow Israelite,
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ודרשו
516
השפטים
444
היטב
26
והנה
66
עדשקר
674
העד
79
שקר
600
ענה
125
באחיו
27
Deuteronomy 19:19
Gematria: 3646
ועשיתםלוכאשרזמםלעשותלאחיוובערתהרעמקרבך
you shall do to the one as the one schemed to do to the other. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst;
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ועשיתם
826
לו
36
כאשר
521
זמם
87
לעשות
806
לאחיו
55
ובערת
678
הרע
275
מקרבך
362
Deuteronomy 19:20
Gematria: 3182
והנשאריםישמעוויראוולאיספולעשותעודכדברהרעהזהבקרבך
others will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not again be done in your midst.
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והנשארים
612
ישמעו
426
ויראו
223
ולאיספו
193
לעשות
806
עוד
80
כדבר
226
הרע
275
הזה
17
בקרבך
324
Deuteronomy 19:21
Gematria: 3045
ולאתחוסעינךנפשבנפשעיןבעיןשןבשןידבידרגלברגלס
Nor must you show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.