When Adonoy, your God, annihilates the nations whose land Adonoy, your God is giving you; and you inherit them and live in their cities and in their houses;

When the Lord thy God has cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou hast driven them out, and dost dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

When the L-rd your G-d cuts off the nations whose land the L-rd your G-d gives to you, and you inherit them and you dwell in their cities and in their houses,

Separate three cities for yourself, within your land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you to inherit.

thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to possess it.

Three cities shall you set aside for yourself in the midst of your land which the L-rd your G-d gives you to inherit.

Ready the route for yourself and divide the borders of your land into three sections that Adonoy, your God, will allot you; this will serve for any murderer to flee there.

Thou shalt prepare the way, and divide the border of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

Prepare for yourself the way [("Refuge" signs were posted on the crossroads)], and "third" the border of your land that the L-rd your G-d will cause you to inherit, [so that there be equal distances from the beginning of the border to the first city of refuge, from there to the second city, from there to the third city, and from there to the second border of Eretz Yisrael], that every slayer may flee there.

And this is the matter of the murderer who may flee there to survive: whoever smites his peer without intent, and he had not been his enemy yesterday [or] the day before;

And this is the case of the slayer, who shall flee there, that he may live: whoever unwittingly kills his neighbour, whom he hated not in time past;

And this is the matter of the slayer who shall flee there and live: one who smites his neighbor unwittingly, not having hated him in the past,

And whoever comes with his peer into the woods to chop trees, and as his hand swung the axe downward to cut the wood the iron flew off the wooden handle and encounters his peer and he dies; he is to flee to one of these cities to survive.

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and strikes his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:

And one who comes with his neighbor in the forest to chop wood, and his hand swing the axe to cut the tree, and the blade slip from the haft [or, "and the blade chip (aught) of the tree"], and it (the blade or the chip) find his neighbor and he die — he shall flee to one of these cities, and he shall live.

Lest the blood-redeemer pursue the murderer when his heart grows heated, and he catches up with him over the length of the road and he smite him dead when he has no death sentence because he had not been his enemy yesterday [or] the day before.

lest the avenger of blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; though he was not worthy of death, since he hated him not in time past.

[I tell you to prepare the way (3) and numerous cities of refuge] lest the avenger of blood pursue the slayer, his heart being hot, and he overtake him, the way being long, and he smite him mortally, and he (the slayer) not deserve to die, not having hated him (the victim) in the past.

Therefore am I commanding you the following: three cities shall you separate for yourself.

Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

Therefore, I command you, saying: Three cities shall you set aside for yourself.

And when Adonoy, your God, expands your boundary, in accordance with His oath to your forefathers, and He give you the entire land that He promised to give to your forefathers,

And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy border, as he has sworn to thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give to thy fathers;

And if the L-rd your G-d broaden your borders, as He swore to your forefathers [to give you the land of the Keini, the Kenizi, and the Kadmoni (Genesis 15:9)], and He give you all the land that He said to give to your forefathers,

When you will be guarding this entire mitzvah to fulfill it, that I am commanding you today, to love Adonoy, your God, and to go in His ways for all time; then you shall add three more cities to these three.

if thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways: then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

If you keep all of this mitzvah to do it, that I command you this day, to love the L-rd your G-d and to walk in His ways all of the days — then you shall add for yourself another three cities to these three [— nine in all: three across the Jordan, three in the land of Canaan, and three in time to come].

And let innocent blood not be shed within your land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you as territory, [otherwise] you will bear liability for the blood.

that innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

And innocent blood shall not be shed in the midst of your land that the L-rd your G-d gives to you as an inheritance, and there be blood upon you.

If there is a man who hates his neighbor, and will ambush him, arising against him and smiting him dead, and he will flee to one of these cities;

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and then flees into one of these cities:

And if a man hate his neighbor, [(transgressing Leviticus 19:17)], and he lie in wait for him [(transgression of a "light" commandment leading to transgression of a grave one)], and he rise up against him, and he smite him mortally, and he die, and he flees to one of these cities,

The elders of his city will send for and take him from there, and will hand him over to the blood-redeemer, and he will be executed.

then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Then the elders of his city shall send, and they shall take him from there, and they shall put him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall die.

Do not view him with compassion. You are to eliminate the [shedding of] innocent blood from Yisroel, and you will have it good.

Thy eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Yisra᾽el, that it may go well with thee.

Let your eye not pity him [(Do not say: One has already been killed — why kill two Jews?], and remove the innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be good for you.

Do not move back the boundary of your neighbor that the first [settlers] determine in your territory that you will inherit in the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you to inherit.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thy inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God gives thee to possess it.

You shall not move back [(into his land, thus broadening your own)], the boundary marker of your neighbor [(If you do so, you violate two negative commandments — this and (Leviticus 19:13): "You shall not rob")], which the first ones bounded, in your inheritance which you shall inherit in the land which the L-rd your G-d gives you to inherit. [(Outside of Eretz Yisrael one is in violation only of "You shall not rob")].

One witness may not arise against a man about any sin or for any transgression or transgression that he transgresses; by the word of two witnesses or by the word of three witnesses let a matter be established.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he may commit: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

One witness shall not arise against a man for every transgression and for every sin, in any sin that one commit. By the mouth of two witnesses, [and not by sending written testimony to beth-din, and not by interposing an interpreter between the witnesses and the judges], or by the mouth of three witnesses shall a thing be established.

If false witnesses arise against a man and bear fallacious testimony against him;

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

If there arise a false witness [i.e., a false set of witnesses] against a man to testify against him, removed, [i.e., when they were completely removed from having witnessed the incident (as when other witnesses challenge them: But were you not with us at this and this place at that time!)],

The two men shall stand, who are involved in the dispute, before Adonoy, before the kohanim and the judges who are in those days.

then both the men, between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

Then the two men [the witnesses] shall stand [(Witnesses must be men and they must testify standing)], (and those men) who have the contention (must stand) before the L-rd [(It should be in their eyes as if they are standing "before the L-rd")], before the Cohanim and the judges who shall be in those days [("Yiftach in his generation is like Samuel in his generation.")]

When the judges shall investigate thoroughly and behold, the witness testified falsely, they testified falsely against their brother;

and the judges shall make diligent inquiry: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

And the judges shall inquire well [by cross-examining those who come to discredit the witnesses], and, behold, a false witness is the witness [("witness" always connotes two)] — falsely did he testify against his brother,

You are to do to [each of] them as he conspired to do to his brother, and eliminate the evil from among you;

then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

Then you shall do to him as he schemed to do [(but not "as he did")] to his brother, [but not to his sister (in an instance of their testifying that the married daughter of a Cohein was adulterous, in which instance they receive not the adulteress's penalty (burning), but the adulterer's (strangulation)], and you shall remove the evil from your midst.

And the remainder will hear and be fearful, and they will not repeat this evil thing among you.

And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

And the rest shall hear and fear, and they shall not venture to do again as this evil thing in your midst. [Scheming witnesses require "proclamation," viz.: "These men were executed for having been found 'scheming witnesses' in beth-din."]

You are not to have compassion: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

And thy eye shall not pity; but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

And let your eyes not pity. A soul for a soul, an eye for an eye [i.e., monetary compensation (and so with what follows)], a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.