H0834A–אֲשֶׁר–a.sher

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

וַאֲשֶׁר֩ (אֲשֶׁר֩) 'a.Sher “who”

If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “which”

if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “which”

that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

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

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר 'a.Sher “which”

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

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

The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר 'a.Sher “who”

What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “who”

but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

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

Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

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

Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

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

If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

אֲשֶׁר֩ 'a.Sher “which”

then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:

אֲשֶׁ֖ר 'a.Sher “which”

and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

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

and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

אֲשֶׁ֛ר 'a.Sher “which”

Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [ergänzt: to remain] in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”

It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

אֲשֶׁ֥ר 'a.Sher “that”

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “[that] which”

but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “that”

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

אֲשֶׁר֙ 'a.Sher “which”

So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

אֲשֶׁר־ 'a.Sher- “which”