sue for their inheritance. NUMBERS, XXXIII. him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward. 20 T And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, 22 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. 2 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure "your sin will find you out. 24. Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth. 25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead: 27 "But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith. The land assigned them. possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's. BEFORE CHRIST 1452. Deut. 3. 12 Josh. 12. 6. 13.8. & -17. & 29.8. 22.4. 33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihong ch. 21. 24, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about. 39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it. 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them " Havoth-jair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. CHAPTER XXXIII. The Canaanites are to be destroyed. 28 So concerning them Moses 1 Two and forty journeys of the Israelites. 50 commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and theiren of Israel, which went chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have HESE are the journeys of the forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And 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. 33, 35. 3 And they departed from Ra- Ex. 12.37. meses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on 1491. b Ex. 12. 2. & 13. 4. Two and forty journeys BEFORE CHRIST 1491. c Ex. 14. 8. d Ex. 12. 29. & 18. 11. f Ex. 12. 37. g Ex. 13. 20. b Ex.14.2,9. & 15. 22, 23. NUMBERS, XXXIII. 5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. 6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol. of the Israelites 30 And they departed from Hash-monah, and encamped at Moseroth. Deut.10.6. 31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. 32 And they removed from Bene-See jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagid- Deut. 10. 6. gad. 33 And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah. 34 And they removed from Jot 8 And they departed from before Ex. 14. 22. Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' jour-bathah, and encamped at Ebronah. ney in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. 9 And they removed from Marah, Ex. 15.27. and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. ! Ex. 16. 1. & 19. 2. 10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. 11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the 'wilderness of Sin. 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. 13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. m 14 And they removed from Alush m Ex. 17. 1. and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 15 And they departed from ReEx. 16. 1. phidim, and pitched in the "wilderness of Sinai. 1490. & 19. 1, 2. 16 And they removed from the och. 11. 34. desert of Sinai, and pitched at 2 Ki 2 That is, The graves of lust. broth-hattaavah. 17 And they departed from Kip ch. 11. 35. broth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. 18 And they departed from Haq ch. 12. 16. | zeroth, and pitched in a Rithmah. 19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez. 20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah. 21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. 22 And they journeyed from sah, and pitched in Kehelathah. Gen. S6. 27. 1 Chr. 1. 42. t Deut.10.7. 47 And they removed from Almon. Ris-diblathaim, and pitched in the ch. 21. 20. mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 48 And they departed from the mountains of Åbarim, and pitched ch. 22. 1. 23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. 51 Speak unto the children of IsDeut. 7.1, rael, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 2. & 9. 1. Josh. 8. 17. 52 'Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. 54 And mye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families and to the more ye shall 3 give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be "pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein dwell. ye 56 Moreover it shall come to pass, Ezek.23.24. that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. CHAPTER XXXIV. of the land. CHRIST 1452. 5 And the border shall fetch a BEFORE compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. 6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor: 8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance1 of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: g Gen. 15. 18. 47. Josh. 15. 4, 1 Kings 8. L. 27.12. 65. h ch. 33. 37. ch. 13. 21. 2 Kings 14. k Ezek. 47. 15. 9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall Ezek. 47. be your north border. 10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham: 11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham m to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea "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. 1 The borders of the land. 16 The names of the children of Gad according to the men which shall divide the land. house of their fathers, have received AND the LORD spake unto Moses, their inheritance; and half the tribe a ch. 32. 33. Josh.14.2,3. 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua Josh. 11. 1. the son of Nun. I 18 And shall take one prince ye of every tribe, to divide the land 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 chil & 19. 51. sch. 1. 4, 16. The cities of the Levites. BEFORE CHRIST 1452. 1451. ■ Josh. 14. 3, 4. & 21. 2. See Ezek. 45. 1, &c. & 48. 8, &c. NUMBERS, XXXV. dren 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. 23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children 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 tribe 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 Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel 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. 1 Eight and forty cities for the Levites with their suburbs, and measure thereof. 6 Six of them are to be cities of refuge. 9 The laws of murder. 31 No satisfaction for murder. The laws of murder. CHRIST 1451. b ver. 13. Deut. 4. 41. be six cities for refuge, which BEFORE ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and 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. с Josh.20.27, 13, 21, 27, 32, 2Heb.above 8. & 21. 3, 36, 38. them ye Josh.21.41. ⚫ ch. 26. 54. 8 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. Heb. they 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, f inherit. f Deut. 19.2. 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye Josh. 20.2. be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan ; h 11 Then 5 ye shall appoint you & Ex. 21.13. cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. 12 ↳ And they shall be unto you Deut. 19.6. 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 six cities shall ye have for refuge. 14 Ye shall give three cities on AND the LORD spake unto Mo- this side Jordan, and three cities ses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 2 a 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. 3 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. 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. shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 4 Heb. by error. Josh. 20. 8, 5, 6. 1 ver. 6. Deut.4.41. Josh. 20.8. 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. 20 But if he thrust him of hatred, 6 And among the cities which ye or hurl at him by laying of wait, I shall give unto the Levites there shall | that he die ; Deut. 19.11, 12. 5 Heb. with the hand. a stone of a ver. 21, 24, 27. 12. Deut. 19. 6, Josh.20.3.5. • Gen. 4. 8. 2 Sam. 8. 27. & 20. 10. 31, 32 1 Kings 2. P Ex. 21. 14. Deut. 19.11. No satisfaction for murder. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. Ex. 21. 13. rver. 12. Josh. 20. 6. Josh. 20.6. Lev. 4. 3. & 21. 10. 2 Heb. no blood shall be to him. Ex. 22. 2. ■ ch. 27.11. Deut. 17.6. Matt 18.16. Heb. 10. 23. & 19. 15. 2 Cor. 13. 1. 8 Heb. faulty to die. PB.106.88. Mia. 4. 11. NUMBERS, XXXVI. The inheritance of daughters. 21 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. 22 But if he thrust him suddenly a without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, 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 judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments: 25 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. t 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 revenger of blood kill the slayer; he 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. a 29 So these things shall be for statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 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. 31 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. 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 vit Heb. there defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that can be no expiation for the land. с 2 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. 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 they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the jubile of the Lev.25.10. 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. 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. 6 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. 7 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. 8 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 |