Numbers, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {34:2} Command the children of
Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is
the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of
Canaan according to the borders of it), {34:3} then your south quarter
shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and
your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
{34:4} and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be
southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and
pass along to Azmon; {34:5} and the border shall turn about from Azmon
to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
{34:6} For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the
border [of it]: this shall be your west border. {34:7} This shall be
your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount
Hor; {34:8} from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of
Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; {34:9} and
the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall
be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border. {34:10} You shall
mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; {34:11} and the
border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain;
and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea
of Chinnereth eastward; {34:12} and the border shall go down to the
Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall
be your land according to the borders of it round about. {34:13} Moses
commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you
shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine
tribes, and to the half-tribe; {34:14} for the tribe of the children
of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the
children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and
the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance: {34:15}
the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance
beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise. {34:16}
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {34:17} These are the names of the men
who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun. {34:18} You shall take one prince of every
tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. {34:19} These are the names
of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {34:20}
Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
{34:21} Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. {34:22}
Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
{34:23} Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. {34:24} Of the tribe of
the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. {34:25}
Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of
Parnach. {34:26} Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince,
Paltiel the son of Azzan. {34:27} Of the tribe of the children of
Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. {34:28} Of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. {34:29}
These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the
children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
{35:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying, {35:2} Command the children of Israel that they give
to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell
in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the
Levites. {35:3} The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their
suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for
all their animals. {35:4} The suburbs of the cities, which you shall
give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward
one thousand cubits round about. {35:5} You shall measure outside of
the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side
two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and
for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst.
This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. {35:6} The cities
which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of
refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides
them you shall give forty-two cities. {35:7} All the cities which you
shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you
give] with their suburbs. {35:8} Concerning the cities which you shall
give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you
shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone
according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his
cities to the Levites. {35:9} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {35:10}
Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the
Jordan into the land of Canaan, {35:11} then you shall appoint you
cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills
any person unwittingly may flee there. {35:12} The cities shall be to
you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he
stands before the congregation for judgment. {35:13} The cities which
you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. {35:14} You
shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you
give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. {35:15}
For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner
living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone
who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. {35:16} But if he
struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a
murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. {35:17} If he
struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he
died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
{35:18} Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by
which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall
surely be put to death. {35:19} The avenger of blood shall himself put
the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
{35:20} If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait,
so that he died, {35:21} or in enmity struck him with his hand, so
that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a
murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when
he meets him. {35:22} But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or
hurled on him anything without lying in wait, {35:23} or with any
stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so
that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
{35:24} then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the
avenger of blood according to these ordinances; {35:25} and the
congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the
avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city
of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the
death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. {35:26}
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his
city of refuge, where he flees, {35:27} and the avenger of blood find
him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of
blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood, {35:28}
because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death
of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the
manslayer shall return into the land of his possession. {35:29} These
things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. {35:30} Whoever kills any person,
the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness
shall not testify against any person that he die. {35:31} Moreover you
shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of
death; but he shall surely be put to death. {35:32} You shall take no
ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come
again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. {35:33} So
you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it
pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the
blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
{35:34} You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst
of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of
Israel.
{36:1} The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the
children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and
before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children
of Israel: {36:2} and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the
land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was
commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
to his daughters. {36:3} If they be married to any of the sons of the
[other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance
be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added
to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will
it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. {36:4} When the
jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their
inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they
shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. {36:5} Moses commanded the
children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe
of the sons of Joseph speaks right. {36:6} This is the thing which
Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying,
Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of
the tribe of their father shall they be married. {36:7} So shall no
inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for
the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the
tribe of his fathers. {36:8} Every daughter, who possesses an
inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to
one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of
Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. {36:9} So
shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the
tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own
inheritance. {36:10} Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the
daughters of Zelophehad: {36:11} for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their
father's brothers' sons. {36:12} They were married into the families
of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their father. {36:13} These are
the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to
the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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