NET Bible
"However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities."
— Deuteronomy 19:11, NET Bible
“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 fleeth into one of these cities:”
“But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities; ”
“But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;”
“But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,”
“But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;”
“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 fleeth into one of these cities:”
If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today(namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.