1. The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of MOAB by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

2. "Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. You shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.

3. They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.

4. "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

5. You shall measure outside of 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 middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.

6. "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

7. All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

8. 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 some of his cities to the Levites."

9. The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

10. "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

11. then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

12. The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

13. The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

14. You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.

15. 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.

16. "'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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

20. If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

21. or in hostility 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.

22. "'But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

23. 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;

24. then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

25. The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

26. "'But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

27. and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

28. 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 man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

29. "'These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

30. "'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.

31. "'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.

32. "'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.

33. "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

34. You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the middle of which I dwell; for I, The LORD, dwell in the middle of the children of Israel.'"

1. The heads of the fathers' households 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' households of the children of Israel.

2. They said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

3. If they are 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 to which they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

4. When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

5. Moses commanded the children of Israel according to The LORD's word, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.

6. This is the thing which the LORD does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, 'Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

7. So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

8. 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 each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

9. So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.'"

10. The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses:

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

12. They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

13. These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of MOAB by the Jordan at Jericho.

1. "'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.

2. You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to The LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

3. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

4. and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

5. and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

6. besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to The LORD.

7. "'On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

8. but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; all without defect;

9. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,

10. one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs:

11. one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

12. "'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.

13. You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to The LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;

14. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,

15. and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

16. and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

17. "'On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

18. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

19. and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.

20. "'On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

21. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

22. and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

23. "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

24. their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

25. and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

26. "'On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

27. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

28. and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

29. "'On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

30. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

31. and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.

32. "'On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

33. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

34. and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

35. "'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no regular work;

36. but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to The LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

37. their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:

38. and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.

39. "'You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.'"

40. Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

1. Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

2. When a man vows a vow to The LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

3. "Also when a woman vows a vow to The LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

4. and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

5. But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. the LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.

6. "If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

7. and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

8. But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. the LORD will forgive her.

9. "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

10. "If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

11. and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

12. But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. the LORD will forgive her.

13. Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

14. But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

15. But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity."

16. These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.

1. The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2. "Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

3. Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute The LORD's vengeance on Midian.

4. Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."

5. So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6. Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

7. They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male.

8. They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

9. The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

10. All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.

11. They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.

12. They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of MOAB, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

13. Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.

14. Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

15. Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

16. Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of The LORD.

17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

18. But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

19. "Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

20. As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

21. Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

22. however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23. everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

24. You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp."

25. The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

26. "Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation;

27. and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

28. Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

29. Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for The LORD's wave offering.

30. Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of The LORD's tabernacle."

31. Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

32. Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

33. and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

34. and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35. and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

36. The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

37. and The LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

38. The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which The LORD's tribute was seventy-two.

39. The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which The LORD's tribute was sixty-one.

40. The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom The LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons.

41. Moses gave the tribute, which was The LORD's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

42. Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought

43. (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

44. and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

45. and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

46. and sixteen thousand persons),

47. even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of The LORD's tabernacle; as the LORD commanded Moses.

48. The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

49. They said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

50. We have brought The LORD's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before The LORD."

51. Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.

52. All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to The LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

53. The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

54. Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before The LORD.

1. Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;

2. the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

3. "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

4. the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."

5. They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don't bring us over the Jordan."

6. Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

7. Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

8. Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

9. For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

10. The LORD's anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

11. 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

12. except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed the LORD completely.'

13. The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in The LORD's sight, was consumed.

14. "Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

15. For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people."

16. They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;

17. but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

18. We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance.

19. For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

20. Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

21. and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before The LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

22. and the land is subdued before The LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards The LORD, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before The LORD.

23. "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against The LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

24. Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."

25. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

26. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

27. but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says."

28. So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' households of the tribes of the children of Israel.

29. Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before The LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

30. but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

31. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.

32. We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan."

33. Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

34. The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

35. Atrothshophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

36. Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

37. The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

38. Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.

39. The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

40. Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

41. Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

42. Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.