Tree Of Life Version

Deuteronomy 19:11-18 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

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,