Bamidbar, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {34:2} Command the children
of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you come into the land of Kana`an
(this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the
land of Kana`an according to the borders of it), {34:3} then your
south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Tzin 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 Tzin; and the goings out of it
shall be southward of Kadesh-Barnea; and it shall go forth to
Hatzar-Addar, and pass along to `Atzmon; {34:5} and the border shall
turn about from `Atzmon to the brook of Mitzrayim, 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 Hamat; and the goings out of the border shall
be at Tzedad; {34:9} and the border shall go forth to Zifron, and the
goings out of it shall be at Hatzar-`Enan: this shall be your north
border. {34:10} You shall mark out your east border from Hatzar-`Enan
to Shefam; {34:11} and the border shall go down from Shefam to Rivlah,
on the east side of `Ayin; and the border shall go down, and shall
reach to the side of the sea of Kinneret eastward; {34:12} and the
border shall go down to the Yarden, 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} Moshe commanded the children of Yisra'el,
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 Re'uven 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 Menashsheh
have received, their inheritance: {34:15} the two tribes and the
half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Yarden at
Yericho eastward, toward the sunrise. {34:16} The LORD spoke to Moshe,
saying, {34:17} These are the names of the men who shall divide the
land to you for inheritance: El`azar the [1>]Kohen[<1], and Yehoshua
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 Yehudah, Kalev the son of Yefunneh. {34:20} Of
the tribe of the children of Shim`on, Shemu'el the son of `Ammihud.
{34:21} Of the tribe of Binyamin, Elidad the son of Kislon. {34:22} Of
the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Yogli.
{34:23} Of the children of Yosef: of the tribe of the children of
Menashsheh a prince, Hanni'el the son of Efod. {34:24} Of the tribe of
the children of Efrayim a prince, Kemu'el the son of Shiftan. {34:25}
Of the tribe of the children of Zevulun a prince, Elitzafan the son of
Parnakh. {34:26} Of the tribe of the children of Yissakhar a prince,
Palti'el the son of `Azzan. {34:27} Of the tribe of the children of
Asher a prince, Achichud the son of Shelomi. {34:28} Of the tribe of
the children of Naftali a prince, Pedah'el the son of `Ammihud.
{34:29} These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the
inheritance to the children of Yisra'el in the land of Kana`an.
{35:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden
at Yericho, saying, {35:2} Command the children of Yisra'el 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 cattle, 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
Yisra'el, 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 Moshe, saying, {35:10} Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and
tell them, When you pass over the Yarden into the land of Kana`an,
{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
Yarden, and three cities shall you give in the land of Kana`an; they
shall be cities of refuge. {35:15} For the children of Yisra'el, and
for the stranger and for the sojourner 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,
whereby 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, whereby 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, whereby 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 [1>]Kohen Gadol[<1], 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 [2>]Kohen Gadol[<2]: but after
the death of the [3>]Kohen Gadol[<3] 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 [4>]Kohen[<4]. {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 Yisra'el.
{36:1} The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the
children of Gil`ad, the son of Makhir, the son of Menashsheh, of the
families of the sons of Yosef, came near, and spoke before Moshe, and
before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children
of Yisra'el: {36:2} and they said, the LORD commanded my lord to give
the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Yisra'el: and my
lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Tzelohchad
our brother to his daughters. {36:3} If they be married to any of the
sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el 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} Moshe
commanded the children of Yisra'el according to the word of the LORD,
saying, The tribe of the sons of Yosef speaks right. {36:6} This is
the thing which the LORD does command concerning the daughters of
Tzelohchad, 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 Yisra'el remove from
tribe to tribe; for the children of Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el,
shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that
the children of Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el shall cleave
everyone to his own inheritance. {36:10} Even as the LORD commanded
Moshe, so did the daughters of Tzelohchad: {36:11} for Machlah,
Tirtzah, and Hoglah, and Milkah, and Noach, the daughters of
Tzelohchad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. {36:12}
They were married into the families of the sons of Menashsheh the son
of Yosef; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of
their father. {36:13} These are the [1>]mitzvot[<1] and the ordinances
which the LORD commanded by Moshe to the children of Yisra'el in the
plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:17} priest
[1] {35:25} high priest
[2] {35:28} high priest
[3] {35:28} high priest
[4] {35:32} priest
[1] {36:13} commandments
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