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1 These are the stages by which the Israelites went out of the land
of Egypt in military formation under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
2 Moses wrote down their starting points, stage by stage, by command
of the Lord; and these are their stages according to their starting
places.
3 They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day
of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out
boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the
Lord had struck down among them. The Lord executed judgments even against their
gods.
5 So the Israelites set out from Rameses, and camped at
Succoth.
6They set out from Succoth, and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of
the wilderness.
7 They set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which
faces Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol.
8 They set out from Pi-hahiroth, passed through the sea into the
wilderness, went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped
at Marah.
9 They set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were
twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
10 They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of
Sin.
12 They set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at
Dophkah.
13 They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
14 They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no
water for the people to drink.
15 They set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of
Sinai.
16 They set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at
Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
18 They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
19 They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
20 They set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
21 They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22 They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23 They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24 They set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25 They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26 They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.
28 They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29 They set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
30 They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
31They set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
32 They set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
33 They set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34 They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
35 They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
36 They set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin
(that is, Kadesh).
37 They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of
the land of Edom.
38 Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and
died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land
of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount
Hor.
40 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the
land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.
41 They set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42 They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43 They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
44 They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory
of Moab.
45 They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
46 They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
47 They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of
Abarim, before Nebo.
48 They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;
49 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as
Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
50 In the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying:
51 Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you cross over the
Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before
you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and
demolish all their high places.
53You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given
you the land to possess.
54 You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a
large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give
a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot
falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall inherit.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and
thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are
settling.
56 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.
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1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Command the Israelites, and say to them: When you enter the land
of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land
of Canaan, defined by its boundaries),
3 your south sector shall extend from the wilderness of Zin along
the side of Edom. Your southern boundary shall begin from the end of the Dead
Sea on the east;
4your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to
Zin, and its outer limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea; then it shall go on
to Hazar-addar, and cross to Azmon;
5 the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt, and its
termination shall be at the Sea.
6 For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its
coast; this shall be your western boundary.
7 This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall
mark out your line to Mount Hor;
8 from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to Lebo-hamath, and the outer
limit of the boundary shall be at Zedad;
9 then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron, and its end shall be at
Hazar-enan; this shall be your northern boundary.
10 You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to
Shepham;
11 and the boundary shall continue down from Shepham to Riblah on the
east side of Ain; and the boundary shall go down, and reach the eastern slope
of the sea of Chinnereth;
12 and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be
at the Dead Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.
13 Moses commanded the Israelites, saying: This is the land that you
shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes
and to the half-tribe;
14 for the tribe of the Reubenites by their ancestral houses and the
tribe of the Gadites by their ancestral houses have taken their inheritance,
and also the half-tribe of Manasseh;
15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have taken their inheritance
beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.
16 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
17 These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you
for inheritance: the priest Eleazar and Joshua 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 son
of Jephunneh.
20 Of the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud.
21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon.
22 Of the tribe of the Danites a leader, Bukki son of Jogli.
23 Of the Josephites: of the tribe of the Manassites a leader,
Hanniel son of Ephod,
24 and of the tribe of the Ephraimites a leader, Kemuel son of
Shiphtan.
25 Of the tribe of the Zebulunites a leader, Eli-zaphan son of
Parnach.
26 Of the tribe of the Issacharites a leader, Paltiel son of
Azzan.
27 And of the tribe of the Asherites a leader, Ahihud son of
Shelomi.
28 Of the tribe of the Naphtalites a leader, Pedahel son of
Ammihud.
29 These were the ones whom the Lord commanded to apportion the
inheritance for the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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1 In the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying:
2 Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance that they
possess, towns for the Levites to live in; you shall also give to the Levites
pasture lands surrounding the towns.
3 The towns shall be theirs to live in, and their pasture lands shall
be for their cattle, for their livestock, and for all their animals.
4 The pasture lands of the towns, which you shall give to the
Levites, shall reach from the wall of the town outward a thousand cubits all
around.
5You shall measure, outside the town, for the east side two thousand
cubits, for the south side two thousand cubits, for the west side two thousand
cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, with the town in the
middle; this shall belong to them as pasture land for their towns.
6 The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six
cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to
them you shall give forty-two towns.
7 The towns that you give to the Levites shall total forty-eight,
with their pasture lands.
8 And as for the towns that you shall give from the possession of
the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the
smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that
it obtains, shall give of its towns to the Levites.
9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
10 Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you cross the
Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so
that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there.
12 The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the
slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation.
13 The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for
you:
14 you shall designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and three
cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.
15 These six cities shall serve as refuge for the Israelites, for the
resident or transient alien among them, so that anyone who kills a person
without intent may flee there.
16 But anyone who strikes another with an iron object, and death
ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
17 Or anyone who strikes another with a stone in hand that could
cause death, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to
death.
18 Or anyone who strikes another with a weapon of wood in hand that
could cause death, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put
to death.
19 The avenger of blood is the one who shall put the murderer to
death; when they meet, the avenger of blood shall execute the sentence.
20 Likewise, if someone pushes another from hatred, or hurls
something at another, lying in wait, and death ensues,
21 or in enmity strikes another with the hand, and death ensues, then
the one who struck the blow shall be put to death; that person is a murderer;
the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when they meet.
22 But if someone pushes another suddenly without enmity, or hurls
any object without lying in wait,
23 or, while handling any stone that could cause death,
unintentionally drops it on another and death ensues, though they were not
enemies, and no harm was intended,
24 then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the
avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances;
25 and the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of
blood. Then the congregation shall send the slayer back to the original city of
refuge. The slayer shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was
anointed with the holy oil.
26 But if the slayer shall at any time go outside the bounds of the
original city of refuge,
27 and is found by the avenger of blood outside the bounds of the
city of refuge, and is killed by the avenger, no bloodguilt shall be
incurred.
28 For the slayer must remain in the city of refuge until the death
of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the slayer may
return home.
29 These things shall be a statute and ordinance for you throughout your
generations wherever you live.
30 If anyone kills another, the murderer shall be put to death on the
evidence of witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of a
single witness.
31 Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who
is subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death.
32 Nor shall you accept ransom for one who has fled to a city of
refuge, enabling the fugitive to return to live in the land before the death of
the high priest.
33 You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood
pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood
that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
34 You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell;
for I the Lord dwell among the Israelites.
NUMBERS 36
1 The heads of the ancestral houses of the clans of the descendants
of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, of the Josephite clans, came forward
and spoke in the presence of Moses and the leaders, the heads of the ancestral
houses of the Israelites;
2 they said, "The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for
inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to
give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
3But if they are married into another Israelite tribe, then their
inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our ancestors and added to
the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken away
from the allotted portion of our inheritance.
4 And when the jubilee of the Israelites comes, then their
inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they have
married; and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our
ancestral tribe."
5 Then Moses commanded the Israelites according to the word of the
Lord, saying, "The descendants of the tribe of Joseph are right in what
they are saying.
6 This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, "Let them marry whom they think best; only it must be into a
clan of their father's tribe that they are married,
7 so that no inheritance of the Israelites shall be transferred from
one tribe to another; for all Israelites shall retain the inheritance of their
ancestral tribes.
8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the
Israelites shall marry one from the clan of her father's tribe, so that all
Israelites may continue to possess their ancestral inheritance.
9 No inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for
each of the tribes of the Israelites shall retain its own inheritance.' "
10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord had commanded
Moses.
11Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
married sons of their father's brothers.
12 They were married into the clans of the descendants of Manasseh
son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's
clan.
13 These are the commandments and the ordinances that the Lord
commanded through Moses to the Israelites in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho.
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