fi°And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: 6lt Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ^then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. ^And ye shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have NUMBERS I given the land to possess it. 54And ye shall inherit the land by lot ac- cording to your families — to the more ye shaft give the more inher- itance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; whereso- ever the lot falleth to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit. ^But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your "sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell. ^And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you/ OA And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2C Command the chil- dren of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof. 3Thus your south side shall be from the wilderness of 2Jin close by the side of Edom, and your south border shall begin at the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 4and your border shall turn about south- ward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh- barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar- addar, and pass along to Azmon; aand the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea. 6And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a bor- der; this shall be your west border. 7And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor; ^rom mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto j the entrance to Hamath; and the!
goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; 9and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border. 10And ye shall mark out your line for the east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; 11and the border shall go down from She- pham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall strike upon the slope of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 12and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea; this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.7 13And Moses commanded the chil- dren of Israel, saying: 'This is the land wherein ye shall receive in- heritance by lot, which the LORD hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; 14for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers7 houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad ac- cording to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe or Ma- nasseh have received, their inherit- ance; 15the two tribes and the half- tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho east- ward, toward the sunrising.7 16And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17 ' These are the names of the men that shall take possession of the land for you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to take possession of the land. "And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 210f the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. ^And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki NUMBERS the son of Jogk. ^Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod; ^and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 2bAnd of the tribe of the children of Issaehar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 27And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Anumhud. 29These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan/ O £ And the LORD spoke unto Moses ^^ in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: ^Com- mand the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the in- heritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites. 3And the cities shall they have to dwell 'in; and their open land shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. 4Amd the open land about the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. fiAnd ye shall measure with- out the city for the east side two thou- sand 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 open land about the cities. 6And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the > six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee thither; and beside them ye shall give forty and two cities. 7AU the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them. 8And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many, and from the few ye shall take few; each tribe according to its inheritance which it inhenteth shall give of its cities unto the Levites.'
9And the LORD spoke 'unto Moses, saying: 10* Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, nthen ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the nianslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither 12And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment. 13And as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of refuge. 14Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. 15For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that every one that killeth any person through error may flee thither. 16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. "And if he smote 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. 180r if he smote 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 NUMBERS be put to death. 19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. 20And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him any thing, lying in wait, so that he died; ^or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meeteth him. ^But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait, ^or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; ^hen the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 25and the congrega- tion shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled; and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. 26But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth; 27and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him; 28be- cause he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return into bhe land of his possession. 29And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall 1 not testify against any person that he die. 31Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. t 32And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. ^So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. MAnd thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'
And the heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the chil- dren 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' nouses of the children of Israel; 2and they said: 'The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inherit- ance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 3And 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 pur inheritance. 4And when the lubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe where- unto they shall belong; so will their inheritance be taken away from the NUMBERS NUMBERS inheritance of the tribe of our fathers/ 5And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: 'The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. 6This is the thing which the LORD hath com- manded 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. 7So shall no inheritance of the chil- dren of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8And every daughter, that possesseth an inherit- ance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9So shall no inheritance re- move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own in- heritance.' 10 Even as the LORD com- manded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. uPor Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. l4They 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.
^These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the LORD com- manded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
DEUTEBONOMY I THESE are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab, 2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb unto Ka- desh-barnea by the way of mount Seir. 3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in c6mmandment unto them; 4after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei; 5beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying: ^he LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain; 7turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, andja the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaamtes, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'
9And I spoke unto you at that time, saying: 'I am not able to bear you myself alone; 10the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven f 01 multitude.— "The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you' — ^How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and un- derstanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads over you. ' 14And ye answered me, and said * 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do/ 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe. 16And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.7 18And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
19And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and DEUTERONOMY dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the LOED our God com- manded us; and we came to Kadesh- barnea. 20And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LOED our God giveth unto us. ^Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee; go up, take possession, as the LOED, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dis- mayed/ ^And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said: 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us back word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.7 ^And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe; ^and they turned and went up into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us/ 26Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God; 27and ye mur- mured in your tents, and said: 'Be- cause the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28Whith- er are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover ws have seen the sons of the Anakim there.' 29Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30The LORD your God who goeth before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes; ^and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. ^Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God, 33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day/ ^And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, ant} swore, saying: 35' Surely there shall not one of these men, even this evil generation, see the good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers, ^save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the LORD/ 37Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: 'Thou also shalt not go in thither; 38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage thou him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your chil- dren, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea/ ^Then ye answered and said unto me: ' We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, accord- ing to all that the LORD our God com- manded us/ And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the hill- country. ^And the LORD said unto me: 'Say unto them* Go not up.
DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your ene- mies/ ^So I spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. ^And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Honnah. 45And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. 46So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days tliat ye abode there. O Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.
*And the LORD spoke unto me, say- ing: 3f Ye have compassed this moun- tain long enough; turn you northward. *And command thou the people, say- ing: Ye are to pass through the bor- der of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore^ Con- tend not with them; for I will not give you of 'their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. Tor the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness; these Forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked noth- ing/ 8So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion- geber.
And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the chil- dren of Lot for a possession. — 10The Emim dwelt -therein aforetime, a peo- ple great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; uthese also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. ^And in Seir dwelt the Horites aforetime, but the children of Esau succeed- ed them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto tliem. — "Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered/ And we went over the brook Zered, 14And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the genera- tion, even the men of war, were con- sumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore unto them. 15Mpre- over the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17that the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 18'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar; 19and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, harass them not, nor con- tend with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession: because I have given it unto the children of Lot DEUTERONOMY 34 DEUTERONOMY 34 for a possession. — 20That also is ac- counted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Am- monites call them ZaxnmiTnmim ^a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; ^as He did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day; ^and the Awim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. — 24Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of Arnon; behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to pos- sess it, and contend with him in battle. 2SThis day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the report of thee, shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.'
^And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying: 27'Let me pass through thy land- 1 will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 28Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on my feet; 29as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.' | 80But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might de~ j liver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
^And the LORD said unto me: 'Be- hold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee; begin to possess his land.' ^Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. ^And the LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. MAnd we took all his cities at that time, and utterly de- stroyed every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones; we left none remaining; 35only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us: the LORD our God deliv- ered up all before us. 370nly to the land of the children of Ammon thou earnest not near; aH the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill- country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.
O Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the knag of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei. 2And the LORD said unto me: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand: and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon/ 3So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashaw, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom 34 DEUTERONOMY of Og in Bashan. 5A11 these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many. °And we utterly de- stroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones. 7But all the cat- tle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.