Deuteronomy 19:1-21
Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.
Because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the Lord your God and to walk always in obedience to him—then you are to set aside three more cities. Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities, the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.
Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Cities of refuge; boundaries; witness/ Three cities of refuge in Canaan are added to the three east of the Jodan. Joshua 20 lists them as Kedesh, Shechem, Kiriath-arba. Bezer, Ramoth and Golan.
Why?
Cities of Refuge protects innocent people who kill others in accidents.
Do not let innocent bloodshed in your land is the main purpose of God's people.
Even in cities pf refuge, the elder has to judge the people do they really innocent or assaulted and kill other people.
Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. This means the judge is righteousness.
Protect each one the boundaries of the inheritance land.
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故意殺人，通常與個人貪心有關。不可挪移地界，即貪戀別人的土地，如亞哈王貪戀土地，大衛貪戀別人的妻子。逃城保護無辜殺人的，也是保護想報仇的人免於殺人。這也是神的公義。對於一心一意想要報仇的人，其實也是惡人。你眼不可顧惜他，不容流無辜人的血。逃城也是預表耶穌基督。
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How?
Mercy and judgment is existing in God's people, so we should do the right things as the Lord commanded us.
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