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Deuteronomy Chapter 19 (NRSVCE)

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¹ When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and in their houses,

² you shall set apart three cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

³ You shall calculate the distances [1] and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any homicide can flee to one of them.

⁴ Now this is the case of a homicide who might flee there and live, that is, someone who has killed another person unintentionally when the two had not been at enmity before:

⁵ Suppose someone goes into the forest with another to cut wood, and when one of them swings the ax to cut down a tree, the head slips from the handle and strikes the other person who then dies; the killer may flee to one of these cities and live.

⁶ But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.

⁷ Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.

⁸ If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors — and he will give you all the land that he promised your ancestors to give you,

⁹ provided you diligently observe this entire commandment that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and walking always in his ways — then you shall add three more cities to these three,

¹⁰ so that the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.

¹¹ But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person, and flees into one of these cities,

¹² then the elders of the killer’s city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

¹³ Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

¹⁴ You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

¹⁵ A single witness shall not suffice to convict a person of any crime or wrongdoing in connection with any offense that may be committed. Only on the evidence of two or three witnesses shall a charge be sustained.

¹⁶ If a malicious witness comes forward to accuse someone of wrongdoing,

¹⁷ then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days,

¹⁸ and the judges shall make a thorough inquiry. If the witness is a false witness, having testified falsely against another,

¹⁹ then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

²⁰ The rest shall hear and be afraid, and a crime such as this shall never again be committed among you.

²¹ Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

²² Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

²³ When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

²⁴ So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says, “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

²⁵ And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶ When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

²⁸ After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.”

²⁹ A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.

³⁰ When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

³¹ Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.

³² Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.

³³ But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

³⁴ Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

³⁵ (He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows [7] that he tells the truth.)

³⁶ These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, “None of his bones shall be broken.”

³⁷ And again another passage of scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

³⁸ After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body.

³⁹ Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.

⁴⁰ They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

⁴¹ Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

⁴² And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

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1	When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and in their houses,
2	you shall set apart three cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
3	You shall calculate the distances [1] and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any homicide can flee to one of them.
4	Now this is the case of a homicide who might flee there and live, that is, someone who has killed another person unintentionally when the two had not been at enmity before:
5	Suppose someone goes into the forest with another to cut wood, and when one of them swings the ax to cut down a tree, the head slips from the handle and strikes the other person who then dies; the killer may flee to one of these cities and live.
6	But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.
7	Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.
8	If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors — and he will give you all the land that he promised your ancestors to give you,
9	provided you diligently observe this entire commandment that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and walking always in his ways — then you shall add three more cities to these three,
10	so that the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.
11	But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person, and flees into one of these cities,
12	then the elders of the killer’s city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.
13	Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
14	You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
15	A single witness shall not suffice to convict a person of any crime or wrongdoing in connection with any offense that may be committed. Only on the evidence of two or three witnesses shall a charge be sustained.
16	If a malicious witness comes forward to accuse someone of wrongdoing,
17	then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days,
18	and the judges shall make a thorough inquiry. If the witness is a false witness, having testified falsely against another,
19	then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
20	The rest shall hear and be afraid, and a crime such as this shall never again be committed among you.
21	Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
22	Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
23	When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.
24	So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says, “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
25	And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26	When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
27	Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
28	After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.”
29	A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
30	When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31	Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.
32	Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.
33	But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34	Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.
35	(He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows [7] that he tells the truth.)
36	These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, “None of his bones shall be broken.”
37	And again another passage of scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”
38	After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body.
39	Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.
40	They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews.
41	Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.
42	And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

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