Numbers, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The LORD 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 the LORD 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} The
LORD 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 the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to
the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
{35:1} The LORD 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} The LORD 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, the LORD, 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, the LORD commanded my lord to give
the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord
was commanded by the LORD 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 the LORD, saying, The
tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right. {36:6} This is the thing
which the LORD 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 the LORD 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 mitzvot and the ordinances which the LORD
commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
the Jordan at Jericho.
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