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Deuteronomy 19

 ¹When Jehovah thy God hath cut off the nations whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their cities and in their houses,

 ²thou shalt separate three cities for thyself in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.

 ³Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the territory of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, so that every slayer may flee thither.

 ⁴And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee thither that he may live: he that smiteth his neighbour unwittingly, whom he hated not previously;

 ⁵as when he 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 iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;

 ⁶lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, since he hated him not previously.

 ⁷Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself.

 ⁸And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers

 ⁹(if thou keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in his ways continually), then shalt thou add three cities more for thyself to these three,

 ¹⁰that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and blood come not upon thee.

 ¹¹But if a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and he flee into one of these cities,

 ¹²then 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.

 ¹³Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

 ¹⁴Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.

 ¹⁵One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

 ¹⁶If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence;

 ¹⁷then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;

 ¹⁸and the judges shall make thorough inquiry; and if the witness be a false witness, and he have testified falsely against his brother,

 ¹⁹then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

 ²⁰And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in thy midst.

 ²¹And thine eye shall not spare: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 20

 ¹When thou goest out to war against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more numerous than thou, thou shalt not fear them; for Jehovah thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

 ²And it shall be, when ye approach unto the battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak unto the people,

 ³and shall say unto them, Hear, Israel, ye are approaching this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be afraid of them;

 ⁴for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

 ⁵And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

 ⁶And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not eaten of it? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

 ⁷And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

 ⁸And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and shall say, What man is there that is timid and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as well as his heart.

 ⁹And it shall be, when the officers have ended speaking unto the people, that they shall place captains of the hosts at the head of the people.

 ¹⁰When thou approachest unto a city to fight against it, thou shalt proclaim peace unto it.

 ¹¹And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

 ¹²And if it will not make peace with thee, but will make war with thee, then thou shalt besiege it;

 ¹³and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

 ¹⁴only the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that shall be in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as booty for thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee

 ¹⁵Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

 ¹⁶But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,

 ¹⁷but shalt utterly devote them to destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

 ¹⁸that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.

 ¹⁹When thou shalt besiege a city many days, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by lifting up an axe against them; for thou canst eat of them; and thou shalt not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man that it should be besieged?

 ²⁰Only the trees which thou knowest are not trees for meat, thou mayest destroy and cut them down, and build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

Deuteronomy 21

 ¹If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath smitten him,

 ²then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain;

 ³and the city that is nearest unto him that is slain, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with, that hath not drawn in the yoke;

 ⁴and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto an ever-flowing watercourse, which is not tilled, nor is it sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the watercourse;

 ⁵and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to do service unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall be every controversy and every stroke.

 ⁶And all the elders of that city, that are nearest unto him that is slain, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck is broken in the watercourse,

 ⁷and shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

 ⁸Forgive thy people Israel, whom thou, Jehovah, hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel; and the blood shall be expiated for them.

 ⁹So shalt thou put away innocent blood from thy midst, when thou shalt do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

 ¹⁰When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou hast taken captives of them,

 ¹¹and thou seest among the captives a woman of beautiful form, and hast a desire unto her, and takest her as thy wife;

 ¹²then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

 ¹³and she shall put the clothes of her captivity from off her, and shall abide in thy house, and bewail her father and mother a full month, and afterwards thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

 ¹⁴And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go according to her desire; but thou shalt in no wise sell her for money; thou shalt not treat her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

 ¹⁵If a man have two wives, one beloved, and one hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and the firstborn son be hers that was hated;

 ¹⁶then it shall be, in the day that he maketh his sons to inherit what he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

 ¹⁷but he shall acknowledge as firstborn the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that is found with him; for he is the firstfruits of his vigour: the right of the firstborn is his.

 ¹⁸If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;

 ¹⁹then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

 ²⁰and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is unmanageable and rebellious, he hearkeneth not unto our voice; he is a profligate and a drunkard.

 ²¹And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. And thou shalt put evil away from thy midst; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

 ²²And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou have hanged him on a tree,

 ²³his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day (for he that is hanged is a curse of God); and thou shalt not defile thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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 ²¹And then if any one say to you, Lo, here [is] the Christ, or Lo, there, believe [it] not.

 ²²For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

 ²³But do *ye* take heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

 ²⁴But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light;

 ²⁵and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;

 ²⁶and then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory;

 ²⁷and then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from end of earth to end of heaven.

 ²⁸But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when its branch already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

 ²⁹Thus also *ye*, when ye see these things happening, know that it is near, at the doors.

 ³⁰Verily I say unto you, This generation shall in no wise pass away, till all these things take place.

 ³¹The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

 ³²But of that day or of that hour no one knows, neither the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

 ³³Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:

 ³⁴[it is] as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

 ³⁵Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;

 ³⁶lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

 ³⁷But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.