Numbers:35-36
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And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho ,
saying ,
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Command the children of Israel ,
that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in ;
and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them .
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And the cities shall they have to dwell in ;
and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle ,
and for their goods ,
and for all their beasts .
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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 .
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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 .
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And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge ,
which ye shall appoint for the manslayer ,
that he may flee thither :
and to them ye shall add forty and two cities .
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So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities :
them shall ye give with their suburbs .
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And the cities which ye shall give shall be of 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 :
every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the children of Israel ,
and say unto them ,
When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan ;
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Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you ;
that the slayer may flee thither ,
which killeth any person at unawares .
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And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger ;
that the manslayer die not ,
until he stand before the congregation in judgment .
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And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge .
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Ye 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 .
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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 .
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And if he smite him with an instrument of iron ,
so that he die ,
he is a murderer :
the murderer shall surely be put to death .
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And if he smite him with throwing a stone ,
wherewith he may die ,
and he die ,
he is a murderer :
the murderer shall surely be put to death .
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Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood ,
wherewith he may die ,
and he die ,
he is a murderer :
the murderer shall surely be put to death .
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The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer :
when he meeteth him ,
he shall slay him .
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But if he thrust him of hatred ,
or hurl at him by laying of wait ,
that he die ;
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Or in enmity smite him with his hand ,
that he die :
he that smote him shall surely be put to death ;
for he is a murderer :
the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer ,
when he meeteth him .
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But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity ,
or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait ,
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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 :
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Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments :
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And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand 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 .
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But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge ,
whither he was fled ;
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And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge ,
and the revenger of blood kill the slayer ;
he shall not be guilty of blood :
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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 .
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So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings .
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Whoso killeth any person ,
the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses :
but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die .
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Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer ,
which is guilty of death :
but he shall be surely put to death .
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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 .
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are :
for blood it 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 .
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Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit ,
wherein I dwell :
for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel .
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And the chief fathers of the 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 before the princes ,
the chief fathers of the children of Israel :
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And they said ,
The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance 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 .
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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 they are received :
so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance .
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And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be ,
then shall their inheritance be put unto 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 .
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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 .
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This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad ,
saying ,
Let them marry to whom they think best ;
only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry .
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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe :
for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers .
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And every daughter ,
that possesseth an inheritance 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 enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers .
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Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe ;
but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance .
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Even as the LORD commanded Moses ,
so did the daughters of Zelophehad :
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For Mahlah ,
Tirzah ,
and Hoglah ,
and Milcah ,
and Noah ,
the daughters of Zelophehad ,
were married unto their father '
s brothers '
sons :
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And 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 .
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These are the commandments and the judgments ,
which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho .