H9002–/וְ–v

For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַתָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”

In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.

וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר (וַ) va. “and”

And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?

וְכִ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

וּבְבָתֵּיהֶֽם׃ (וּ) u. “and”

This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

וְזֶה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֛וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

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 (וַ) va. “and”

For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not move

וְלוֹ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

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;

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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:

וְלָלֶ֥כֶת (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

וְכִֽי־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּלְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

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;

וְהַשֹּׁ֣פְטִ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”

And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

וְהִנֵּ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְיִרָ֑אוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

וָרֶ֙כֶב֙ (וָ) va. “and”

Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;

וְאַֽל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָשֹׁ֣ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִ֥ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּמִֽי־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָשֹׁ֣ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִ֥ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּמִֽי־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָשֹׁ֣ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִ֥ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.

וְרַ֣ךְ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָשֹׁ֣ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”