H0834A–אֲשֶׁר–a.sher

For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death;

וַאֲשֶׁר֩ (אֲשֶׁר֩) 'a.Sher “who”

And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “which”

So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”

Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “whom”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “who”

And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “who”

Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “that”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “that”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

אֲשֶׁר֩ 'a.Sher “which”

Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

אֲשֶׁ֖ר 'a.Sher “which”

And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

אֲשֶׁ֤ר 'a.Sher “which”אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “that”

Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “[that] which”

But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “that”

Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”