Deuteronomy 19
- 1When the Lord your God has cut off the nations, whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you succeed them, and live in their cities, and in their houses.
- 2You shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess it.
- 3You shall prepare you a way, and divide the regions of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
- 4And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor by accident, someone he did not hate in the past.
- 5As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, that he die. He shall flee to one of those cities, and live:
- 6Or else the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him. Whereas he was not worthy of death, since as he did not hate him in time past.
- 7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you.
- 8And if the Lord 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.
- 9If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in his ways. Then you shall add three cities more for you, beside these three:
- 10That innocent blood is not shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
- 11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally that he die, and flees into one of these cities:
- 12Then the elders of his city shall send and get him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
- 13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
- 14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess it.
- 15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any wrongdoing, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: on the word of two witnesses, or on the word of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
- 16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him who which is wrong.
- 17Then both the men in the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days.
- 18And the judges shall look into it carefully: and, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother.
- 19Then you shall do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so you shall put the evil away from among you.
- 20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among you.
- 21And your eye shall not pity. But life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Deuteronomy 19 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVWhen the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
GIGAKJVWhen the Lord your God has cut off the nations, whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you succeed them, and live in their cities, and in their houses.
KJVThou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
GIGAKJVYou shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess it.
KJVThou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
GIGAKJVYou shall prepare you a way, and divide the regions of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
KJVAnd this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
GIGAKJVAnd this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor by accident, someone he did not hate in the past.
KJVAs when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
GIGAKJVAs when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, that he die. He shall flee to one of those cities, and live:
KJVLest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
GIGAKJVOr else the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him. Whereas he was not worthy of death, since as he did not hate him in time past.
KJVWherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
GIGAKJVTherefore I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you.
KJVAnd if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
GIGAKJVAnd if the Lord 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.
KJVIf 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:
GIGAKJVIf you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in his ways. Then you shall add three cities more for you, beside these three:
KJVThat innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
GIGAKJVThat innocent blood is not shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
KJVBut 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:
GIGAKJVBut if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally that he die, and flees into one of these cities:
KJVThen the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
GIGAKJVThen the elders of his city shall send and get him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
KJVThine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
GIGAKJVYour eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
KJVThou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
GIGAKJVYou shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess it.
KJVOne witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
GIGAKJVOne witness shall not rise up against a man for any wrongdoing, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: on the word of two witnesses, or on the word of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
KJVIf a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
GIGAKJVIf a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him who which is wrong.
KJVThen both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
GIGAKJVThen both the men in the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days.
KJVAnd the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
GIGAKJVAnd the judges shall look into it carefully: and, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother.
KJVThen shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
GIGAKJVThen you shall do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so you shall put the evil away from among you.
KJVAnd those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
GIGAKJVAnd those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among you.
KJVAnd thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
GIGAKJVAnd your eye shall not pity. But life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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