Numbers 33-36

Numbers 33

¹These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

²And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

³And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,

⁴while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

⁵And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.

⁶And they journeyed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

⁷And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.

⁸And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

⁹And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.

¹⁰And they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea.

¹¹And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin.

¹²And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and pitched in Dophkah.

¹³And they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush.

¹⁴And they journeyed from Alush, and pitched in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and pitched in Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and pitched in Hazeroth.

¹⁸And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.

¹⁹And they journeyed from Rithmah, and pitched in Rimmon-perez.

²⁰And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and pitched in Libnah.

²¹And they journeyed from Libnah, and pitched in Rissah.

²²And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

²³And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shepher.

²⁴And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and pitched in Haradah.

²⁵And they journeyed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.

²⁶And they journeyed from Makheloth, and pitched in Tahath.

²⁷And they journeyed from Tahath, and pitched in Terah.

²⁸And they journeyed from Terah, and pitched in Mithkah.

²⁹And they journeyed from Mithkah, and pitched in Hashmonah.

³⁰And they journeyed from Hashmonah, and pitched in Moseroth.

³¹And they journeyed from Moseroth, and pitch in Bene-jaakan.

³²And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and pitched in Hor-haggidgad.

³³And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.

³⁴And they journeyed from Jotbathah, and pitched in Abronah.

³⁵And they journeyed from Abronah, and pitched in Ezion-geber.

³⁶And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

³⁷And they journeyed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

³⁸And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

³⁹And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

⁴⁰And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, which dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

⁴¹And they journeyed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.

⁴²And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.

⁴³And they journeyed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.

⁴⁴And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.

⁴⁵And they journeyed from Iyim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶And they journeyed from Dibon-gad, and pitched in Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁴⁹And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

⁵¹Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵²then 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:

⁵³and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein: for unto you have I given the land to possess it.

⁵⁴And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: wheresoever the lot falleth to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit.

⁵⁵But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then shall those which ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

⁵⁶And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.

Numbers 34

¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

²Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof,)

³then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward:

⁴and your border shall turn about southward 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:

⁵and 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 and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

⁷And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor:

⁸from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entering in of 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 east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:

¹¹and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:

¹²and the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea: this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

¹³And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit 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 fathers’ houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, have received, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:

¹⁵the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

¹⁶And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

¹⁷These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁸And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

¹⁹And 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.

²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

²²And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

²³Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod:

²⁴and 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.

²⁶And of the tribe of the children of Issachar 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 Ammihud.

²⁹These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 35

¹And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

²Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

³And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

⁴And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

⁵And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand 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 suburbs of 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.

⁷All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

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: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

⁹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

¹¹then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the manslayer which killeth any person unwittingly 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 the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

¹⁴Ye shall give three cities beyond 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 sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge: that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

¹⁶But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁷And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁸Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁹The avenger of blood shall himself put the manslayer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

²⁰And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died;

²¹or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer: the avenger of blood shall put the manslayer to death, when he meeteth him.

²²But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,

²³or 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:

²⁴then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

²⁵and 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, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, which 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; he shall not be guilty of blood:

²⁸because 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.

²⁹And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

³⁰Whoso killeth any person, the manslayer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

³¹Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.

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.

³³So 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.

³⁴And 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.

Numbers 36

¹And 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 spake before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the children of Israel:

²and they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for 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.

³And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so shall it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

⁴And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the 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 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.

⁷So shall no inheritance of the children 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 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 possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

⁹So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.

¹⁰Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

¹¹for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons.

¹²They 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.

¹³These 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 the Jordan at Jericho.