CHAPTER XXXV. B. C. The borders of the land. 7 And this shall be your north 37. 8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border i unto the ich.13.21. entrance of Hamath: and the 2Ki.14.25 goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: 9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at 1 Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border. 10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham: k Ez. 47. 15. 1 Ez 47. 17. 11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on mqK1.23 the east side of Ain; and the 33. Je.39. border shall descend, and shall 5, 6. reach unto the t side of the seat Heb. of Chinnereth eastward: 12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea. This shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: B. C. 1451. The cities of the Levites. 23 The prince of the child ren of Joseph, for the tribe of the chil dren of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25 And the prince of the trihe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ashur, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, l'edahel the son of Ammihud. 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. CHAPTER XXXV. Eight and forty cities for the Levites with their suburbs, and measure thereof, 1. 6 Six of them are to be ci ties of refuge. 9 The laws of mur. der. 31 No satisfaction for murder. AND the LORD spake unto Mor ses in the plains of Moab by shoulder Jos. 14. Jordan near Jericho, saying, n De 3.17. 3.4.& 21. 2 Command the children of Is Jos. 11.2. 2.See Ezrael, that they give unto the Le& 19, 35, 45. 1, &c. vites of the inheritance of their Mt. 14.34. & 48. 8, possession cities to dwellin; and Lu. 5. L. &c. ye shall give also unto the Lever. 3. vites suburbs for the cities round about them. P ver. 1. Jos. 141, 2. 14 "For the tribe of the children ch. 32. of Reuben,according to the house 33.Jos.14 of their fathers, and the tribe of 2,3. the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance: 15 The two tribes and the halftribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the Fun-rising. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Jos.14.1 & 19. 51. 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land anto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And ye shall take one princes ch. 1. 4. of every tribe, to divide the land 16. by inheritance. 19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be fortheir cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shall measure from without 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; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. 6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be bsix cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and f to them ye shall add forty and two cities. 7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. 8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be dof the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: everyone 167 The laws of murder. shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which the inheriteth. 9 TAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be co ne over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither which killeth any person fat unawares. 12 bAnd they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which ye shall give, isix cities shall ye have for refuge. 14 kYe shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. NUMBERS. B. C. 1451. B. C tHeb. they inherit. 6. Jos. 20. Ex.29.7. Le.4.3.& De.19.2. 21. 10. Jos.20.2. Ex. 21. 13. by error. †Heb. De.19.6. †Heb. Jos. 20.3, 5, 6. No No satisfaction for murder. of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; 27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the re venger of blood kill the slayer: the shall not be guilty of blood: 28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. 29 So these things shall be for Jos.20. 8. ch. 27. "a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. iver. 6. kDe.4.41. Ich.15.16. blood shall be to him. Ex. 22. 2. Mat. 18. De. 17. 6.& 19.15. 16. 2 Co. 13. 1.He. 10. 29. die. Ex. 21. 16 And if he smite him with 12,14. Le. an instrument of iron, so that he 24.17.De. Heb. die, he is a murderer: the mur. 19. 11, 12. feuity derershall surely be put to death. †Heb. 17 And if he smite him with with a throwing a stone, where with he stone of may die, and he die, he is a mur-thehand. derer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he smite him with an hand-weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer to out laying of wait, Tver. 12. 23. b Ex. 29. 45, 46. 29. 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood Yit defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but "by the blood of him that shed it. 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. CHAPTER XXXVI. The inconvenience of the inheritance of daughters 1, 5 is remedied by mar rying in their own tribes, 7 lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe. 10 The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father's bro thers' sons. AND the chief fathers of the ach. 26. A families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and be fore the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel. 23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm: 24 Then the congregation shall Jos. 20.6. beh.26.55 judge between the slayer and 2 And they said, The LORD & 33. 54, commanded my lord to give the the revenger of blood according Jos.17.3. land for an inheritance by lot to to these judgments: Cch.27. 1, the children of Israel: and my 7.Jos. 17. lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of The story of what befell Israel Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. CHAPTER 1. B. C. 1451. 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto+ Heb. they are received: so shall it be unto taken from the lot of our inherit-whom ance. they 4 And when the jubilee of the shall be. children of Israel shall be, then a Le. 25. shall their inheritance be put un- 10. to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph "hath said well. B. C. 3. h1 Ch. 23. 22. on their way toward Canaan. of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inherit ance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And bevery daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Isra el, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; butevery one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. 10 Even as the LORD(ommanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: ich. 27.1. 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons: 60me 6 This is the thing which the ch. 27. 7. Heb. to to the families of the sons of LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them fmarry to whom they think best; fonly to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one tHeb, 12 And they were married finManasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel kin the plains of Moab & 33. 50. by Jordan near Jericho. families. keh.26.3. THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY. 2 (There are eleven days' jour- nea.) 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us fin Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto fall the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea-side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have fset the land 3 And it came to pass in the 23. before you: go in and possess the fortieth year, in the eleventh h Ge. 12. land which the LORD Sware unto month, on the first day of the N u. 33. 7.& 15.18. your fathers, hAbraham, Isaac, month, that Moses spake unto 33. &17.7,8, and Jacob, to give unto them the children of Israel, according &26.4. & and to their seed after them. unto all that the LORD had given 23 13 9 TAnd I spake unto you at him in commandment unto Ex. 18. that time, saying, I am not able them; 18.Nu.11. to bear you myself alone, 10 The LORD your God hath Ge.15.5. multiplied you, and behold, kye & 28. 62. ven for multitude. ch. 10.22. are this day as the stars of hea B. C. 1451. d Nu. 14. 1, 2, 3, 4. 24, 25. on their way toward Canaan. 26 dNotwithstanding, ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought "Ki.3.8, ch.9. 28. us forth out of the land of Egypt, 9. "See Ex. 18.21.Nu. 11. 16, 17. †Heb. give. 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, Pand made them heads over P Ex. you, captains over thousands, 25. and captains over hundreds, Heb. and captains over fifties, and gave. captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. †Heb. 28, 31, 32, 18. 1, 2. ch. 16. 8 Nu. 13. h Ex. 14. 16 And 1 charged your judges Ex.19.4. at that time, saying, Hear the ch.32. 11. causes between your brethren, 12. Is.46. and judge righteously between 18. John 3.4. & 63. 9. Ho.11. every man and his brother, and 7. 24. 3. See on the stranger that is with him. Le. 24. Ac. 13.18. 17 Ye shall not frespect per- 22. k Ps. 106, sons in judgment; but ye shall Le. 19. 24. Jude hear the small as well as the 15.ch. 16.5. great; ye shall not be afraid of 19. 1 Sa.1 Ex. 13. the face of man; for the judg-16. 7. Pr. 21. Ps.78. 24, 23.Ja. 14. ment is God's: and the cause 2.1. that is too hard for you, "bring m Nu. 10. it unto me, and I will hear it. tHeb. 33.Ez.20. 18 And I commanded you at acknoro-6. that time all the things which ege ye should do. faces. 19 T And when we departed 12 Ch. 19. from Horeb, we went through 6. all that greatand terrible wilder-Ex. 18. ness, which ye saw by the way of 22, 26. the mountain ofthe Amorites, as the LORDOur God commandedus; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 12. ch. 8. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the 6. Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said 1490. ch.2. 14, 15. 1491. Nu. 14. 95. 11. 14. 9. Nu. 10. 24. Nu. 14. fulfilled †Heb. to go af to deliver us into the hand of 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God ibare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 32 Yet in this thing kye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, "and sware, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36PSave Caleb the son of Je phunneh; he shall see it, and to hath trodden upon, and to his him will I give the land that he children, because he hath 39 Moreover, your little ones, which 'ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that u Na. 27. day had no knowledge between 18, 19.ch. good and evil, they shall go in 31. 7, 23. thither, and unto them will I Nu. 14. give it, and they shall possess it. 40 "But as for you, turn you, Nu.14.3. and take your journey into the 21s. 7. 15, wilderness by the way of the 16. Ro.9. Red sea. 31. 11. a Nu. 14. 25. It is a good land which the Nu, 13. b Nu. 14. LORD our God doth give us. 127. 140. 41 Then ye answered and said unto me, b We have sinned against the LORD. we will go up and fight, accoording to all that the LORD our God commanded The story of what befell Israel us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. CHAPTER II. B. C. B. C. 1451. 1451. h Nu. 21. 28. 42 And the LORD said unto me, 43 So I spake unto you; and ye † Heb. sumptu 44, 45 36, 37. Ge.14.5. 1 Nu. 13. 9.2. Heb. inherited them. d Or, room. Ps. 118. 12. before the LORD; but the LORD 12. 25. & 20. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh ma-Nu. 13. CHAPTER IL The story is continued, that they were not to meddle with the Edomites, 1. 9 nor with the Moabites, 17 nor with the Ammonites, 24 but Sihon the Amorite was subdued by them. THEN we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, "as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying, Nu 21. Or, valley. Nu.13.23. 1,22. Ju. Nu. 13. 11. 17. Nu. 14. 25. ch. 1. 40. 3 Ye have compassed this mountain blong enough: turn you hSee ver. northward. 7, 14. 4 And command thou the peo- Nu. 20. their way toward Canaan. ther contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given bAr unto ithe children of Lot for a possession. 10 (The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims also dwelt ir Seir before-time, but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.). you over "the brook Zered: and 13 Now rise up, said I, and get we went over the brook Zered. 15 For indeed the "hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. 16 TSo it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying, 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; beGe. 19. cause I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them "Zainzummims; 5 Meddle not with them; for I session. the of the sole of the foot. dGe.36.8. Jos.24. 4. ch.8.2,3, tGe.14. 5, ver. 10. Ge.36.8. Ge.14.6. & 36, 20, -30. ver. 12. 2Jos. 13. 3. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them 4. a Je. 25. 21 "A people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: 22 As he did to the children of Esau, whichdweltinSeir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 23 And "the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24 TRise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: 171 |