H0834A–אֲשֶׁר–a.sher

even he who cometh in with his neighbour into a forest to hew wood, and his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, and the iron hath slipped from the wood, and hath met his neighbour, and he hath died -- he doth flee unto one of these cities, and hath lived,

וַאֲשֶׁר֩ (אֲשֶׁר֩) 'a.Sher “who”

`And if Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy fathers --

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days -- then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three;

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “which”

and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

`Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

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

`One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”

then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

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

`And the authorities have spoken unto the people, saying, Who `is' the man that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man dedicate it.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “who”

`And who `is' the man that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not made it common? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

`And who `is' the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.

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

So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

`Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee `for' an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

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

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

Only, the tree, which thou knowest that it `is' not a fruit-tree, it thou dost destroy, and hast cut down, and hast built a bulwark against the city which is making with thee war till thou hast subdued it.

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

`When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it -- fallen in a field -- it is not known who hath smitten him,

אֲשֶׁר֩ 'a.Sher “which”

then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which `are' round about the slain one,

אֲשֶׁ֖ר 'a.Sher “which”

and it hath been, the city which `is' near unto the slain one, even the elders of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in the yoke,

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and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

`And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “that”

then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “[that] which”

But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he `is' the beginning of his strength; to him `is' the right of the first-born.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “that”

his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day -- for a thing lightly esteemed of God `is' the hanged one -- and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

and so thou dost to his ass, and so thou dost to his garment, and so thou dost to any lost thing of thy brother's, which is lost by him, and thou hast found it; thou art not able to hide thyself.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”