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NUMBERS: CHAPTER
34-36
NUMBERS: CHAPTER
34
Instruction
for Apportioning Canaan
1 Then the LORD spoke
to Moses, saying,
2 "Command the sons of Israel and say to them,
'When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall
to you as an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to
its borders.
3 'Your southern sector shall extend from the
wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern border shall
extend from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.
4 'Then your border shall turn direction
from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and continue to Zin, and its
termination shall be to the south of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall reach
Hazaraddar and continue to Azmon.
5 'The border shall turn direction from
Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.
6 'As for the western border, you shall
have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your
west border.
7 'And this shall be your north border:
you shall draw your border line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.
8 'You shall draw a line from Mount Hor to the
Lebo-hamath, and the termination of the border shall be at Zedad;
9 and the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and
its termination shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.
10 'For your eastern border you shall
also draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
11 and the border shall go down from Shepham
to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and
reach to the slope on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth.
12 'And the border shall go down to the Jordan
and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land
according to its borders all around.' "
13 So Moses commanded the sons of Israel,
saying, "This is the land that you are to apportion by lot among you
as a possession, which the LORD has commanded
to give to the nine and a half tribes.
14 "For the tribe of the sons of Reuben have
received theirs according to their fathers' households, and the
tribe of the sons of Gad according to their fathers' households, and
the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their possession.
15 "The two and a half tribes have received their
possession across the Jordan opposite Jericho, eastward toward the sunrising."
16 Then the LORD
spoke to Moses, saying,
17 "These are the names of the men who shall
apportion the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua
the son of Nun.
18 "You shall take one leader of every tribe
to apportion the land for inheritance.
19 "These are the names of the men: of the tribe
of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
20 "Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Samuel
the son of Ammihud.
21 "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son
of Chislon.
22 "Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader,
Bukki the son of Jogli.
23 "Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the
sons of Manasseh a leader, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
24 "Of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim a leader,
Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
25 "Of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun a leader,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
26 "Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a leader,
Paltiel the son of Azzan.
27 "Of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader,
Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
28 "Of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a leader,
Pedahel the son of Ammihud."
29 These are those whom the LORD
commanded to apportion the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the
land of Canaan.
NUMBERS: CHAPTER
35
Cities for
the Levites
1 Now the LORD spoke to
Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,
2 "Command the sons of Israel that they give
to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live
in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
3 "The cities shall be theirs to live in; and
their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and
for all their beasts.
4 "The pasture lands of the cities which
you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the
city outward a thousand cubits around.
5 "You shall also measure outside the city on
the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand
cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side
two thousand cubits, with the city in the center. This shall become
theirs as pasture lands for the cities.
Cities of
Refuge
6 "The cities which you shall give to the Levites
shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the
manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two
cities.
7 "All the cities which you shall give to the
Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture
lands.
8 "As for the cities which you shall give from
the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger
and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his
cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits."
9 Then the LORD
spoke to Moses, saying,
10 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them,
'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 then you shall select for yourselves cities
to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has killed any person
unintentionally may flee there.
12 'The cities shall be to you as a refuge from
the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before
the congregation for trial.
13 'The cities which you are to give shall be
your six cities of refuge.
14 'You shall give three cities across the Jordan
and three cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.
15 'These six cities shall be for refuge for
the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them;
that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
16 'But if he struck him down with an
iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely
be put to death.
17 'If he struck him down with a stone in the
hand, by which he will die, and as a result he died, he is a
murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
18 'Or if he struck him with a wooden object
in the hand, by which he might die, and as a result he died,
he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
19 'The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer
to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.
20 'If he pushed him of hatred, or threw something
at him lying in wait and as a result he died,
21 or if he struck him down with his hand in
enmity, and as a result he died, the one who struck him shall
surely be put to death, he is a murderer; the blood avenger shall put
the murderer to death when he meets him.
22 'But if he pushed him suddenly without
enmity, or threw something at him without lying in wait,
23 or with any deadly object of stone, and without
seeing it dropped on him so that he died, while he was not his enemy
nor seeking his injury,
24 then the congregation shall judge between
the slayer and the blood avenger according to these ordinances.
25 'The congregation shall deliver the manslayer
from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore
him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it
until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
26 'But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond
the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,
27 and the blood avenger finds him outside the
border of his city of refuge, and the blood avenger kills the manslayer,
he will not be guilty of blood
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 to the land of his possession.
29 'These things shall be for a statutory
ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30 'If anyone kills a person, the murderer
shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall
be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
31 'Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the
life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put
to death.
32 'You shall not take ransom for him who has
fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to live in the land before
the death of the priest.
33 'So you shall not pollute the land in which
you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for
the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him
who shed it.
34 'You shall not defile the land in which you
live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD
am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.' "
NUMBERS: CHAPTER
36
Inheritance
by Marriage
1 And the heads of the fathers' households
of the family of the sons 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 leaders, the heads of the fathers' households
of the sons of Israel,
2 and they said, "The LORD
commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an
inheritance, and my lord was commanded by the LORD
to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
3 "But if they marry one of the sons of the other
tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from
the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance
of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our
allotted inheritance.
4 "When the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes,
then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe
to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
5 Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel
according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The
tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in their statements.
6 "This is what the LORD
has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, 'Let them
marry whom they wish; only they must marry within the family of the
tribe of their father.'
7 "Thus no inheritance of the sons of Israel
shall be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall
each hold to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 "Every daughter who comes into possession of
an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one
of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel
each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 "Thus no inheritance shall be transferred from
one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall
each hold to his own inheritance."
10 Just as the LORD
had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:
11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles' sons.
12 They married those from the families
of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained
with the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These are the commandments and the
ordinances which the LORD commanded to the sons
of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite
Jericho. |
