forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs.
035:008 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession
of the children of Israel, 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.
035:009 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
035:010 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass
over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
035:011 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge
for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly
may flee there.
035:012 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger,
that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the
congregation for judgment.
035:013 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six
cities of refuge.
035:014 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three
cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall
be cities of refuge.
035:015 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner
living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge;
that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
035:016 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.
035:017 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die,
and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely
be put to death.
035:018 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand,
by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer:
the murderer shall surely be put to death.
035:019 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death:
when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
035:020 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait,
so that he died,
035:021 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.
035:022 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him
anything without lying in wait,
035:023 or with any stone, by which 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;
035:024 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and
the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
035:025 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 high priest,
who was anointed with the holy oil.
035:026 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border
of his city of refuge, where he flees,
035:027 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,
035:028 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 into the land
of his possession.
035:029 These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
035:030 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.
035:031 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.
035:032 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 priest.
035:033 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.
035:034 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst
of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of
the children of Israel.
036:001 The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the
children 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'
[houses] of the children of Israel:
036:002 and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land
for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel:
and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance
of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
036:003 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 our inheritance.
036:004 When the jubilee of the children of Israel 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.
036:005 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word
of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
036:006 This is the thing which Yahweh does command 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.
036:007 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove
from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave
everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
036:008 Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe
of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family
of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may
possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
036:009 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe;
for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone
to his own inheritance.
036:010 Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
036:011 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters
of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.
036:012 They 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.
036:013 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh
commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.