Numbers 34-36
The Message
2"Command the People of Israel. Tell them： When you enter Canaan, these are the borders of the land you are getting as an inheritance：
3"Your southern border will take in some of the Wilderness of Zin where it touches Edom. It starts in the east at the Dead Sea,
4curves south of Scorpion Pass and on to Zin, continues south of Kadesh Barnea, then to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,
11The border goes south from Shepham to Riblah to the east of Ain, and continues along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.
12The border then follows the Jordan River and ends at the Dead Sea. "This is your land with its four borders."
13Moses then commanded the People of Israel： "This is the land： Divide up the inheritance by lot. GOD has ordered it to be given to the nine and a half tribes.
14The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance;
15the two tribes and the half-tribe got their inheritance east of Jordan-Jericho, facing the sunrise."
17"These are the men who will be in charge of distributing the inheritance of the land： Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
29These are the men GOD commanded to hand out the assignments of land-inheritance to the People of Israel in the country of Canaan.
2"Command the People of Israel to give the Levites as their part of the total inheritance towns to live in. Make sure there is plenty of pasture around the towns.
3Then they will be well taken care of with towns to live in and pastures for their cattle, flocks, and other livestock.
4"The pasture surrounding the Levites' towns is to extend 1,500 feet in each direction from the city wall.
5The outside borders of the pasture are to measure three thousand feet on each of the four sides—east, south, west, and north—with the town at the center. Each city will be supplied with pasture.
6"Six of these towns that you give the Levites will be asylum-cities to which anyone who accidentally kills another person may flee for asylum. In addition, you will give them forty-two other towns—
8The towns that you give the Levites from the common inheritance of the People of Israel are to be taken in proportion to the size of each tribe—many towns from a tribe that has many, few from a tribe that has few."
10"Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you cross the River Jordan into the country of Canaan,
11designate your asylum-cities, towns to which a person who accidentally kills someone can flee for asylum.
12They will be places of refuge from the avenger so that the alleged murderer won't be killed until he can appear before the community in court.
14Designate three of the towns to the east side of the Jordan, the other three in Canaan proper—asylum-cities
15for the People of Israel, for the foreigner, and for any occasional visitors or guests—six asylum-cities to run to for anyone who accidentally kills another.
16"But if the killer has used an iron object, that's just plain murder; he's obviously a murderer and must be put to death.
17"Or if he has a rock in his hand big enough to kill and the man dies, that's murder; he's a murderer and must be put to death.
18"Or if he's carrying a wooden club heavy enough to kill and the man dies, that's murder; he's a murderer and must be put to death.
19"In such cases the avenger has a right to kill the murderer when he meets him—he can kill him on the spot.
20"And if out of sheer hatred a man pushes another or from ambush throws something at him and he dies,
21or angrily hits him with his fist and kills him, that's murder—he must be put to death. The avenger has a right to kill him when he gets him.
22"If, however, he impulsively pushes someone and there is no history of hard feelings, or he impetuously picks up something and throws it,
23or he accidentally drops a stone tool—a maul or hammer, say—and it hits and kills someone he didn't even know was there, and there's no suspicion that there was bad blood between them,
25It's the task of the community to save the killer from the hand of the avenger—the community is to return him to his asylum-city to which he fled. He must stay there until the death of the High Priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
27and the avenger finds him outside the borders of his asylum-city, the avenger has a right to kill the murderer. And he's not considered guilty of murder.
28"So it's important that he stay in his asylum-city until the death of the High Priest. After the death of the High Priest he is free to return to his own place.
30"Anyone who kills another may be executed only on the testimony of eyewitnesses. But no one can be executed on the testimony of only one witness.
31"Don't accept bribe money in exchange for the life of a murderer. He's guilty and deserves the death penalty. Put him to death.
32"And don't accept bribe money for anyone who has fled to an asylum-city so as to permit him to go back and live in his own place before the death of the High Priest.
33"Don't pollute the land in which you live. Murder pollutes the land. The land can't be cleaned up of the blood of murder except through the blood of the murderer.
34"Don't desecrate the land in which you live. I live here too—I, GOD, live in the same neighborhood with the People of Israel."
36The heads of the ancestral clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh—they were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph—approached Moses and the leaders who were heads of the families in the People of Israel.
2They said, "When GOD commanded my master to hand over the inheritance-lands by lot to the People of Israel, my master was also commanded by GOD to hand over the inheritance-land of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
3But what happens if they marry into another tribe in the People of Israel? Their inheritance-land will be taken out of our ancestral tribe and get added into the tribe into which they married.
4And then when the Year of Jubilee comes for the People of Israel their inheritance will be lumped in with the inheritance of the tribe into which they married—their land will be removed from our ancestors' inheritance!"
5Moses, at GOD's command, issued this order to the People of Israel： "What the tribe of the sons of Joseph says is right.
6This is GOD's command to Zelophehad's daughters： They are free to marry anyone they choose as long as they marry within their ancestral clan.
7The inheritance-land of the People of Israel must not get passed around from tribe to tribe. No, keep the tribal inheritance-land in the family.
8Every daughter who inherits land, regardless of the tribe she is in, must marry a man from within her father's tribal clan. Every Israelite is responsible for making sure the inheritance stays within the ancestral tribe.
9No inheritance-land may be passed from tribe to tribe; each tribe of the People of Israel must hold tight to its own land."
11Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad's daughters, all married their cousins on their father's side.
12They married within the families of Manasseh son of Joseph and their inheritance-lands stayed in their father's family.
13These are the commands and regulations that GOD commanded through the authority of Moses to the People of Israel on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho.
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