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So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.

So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not letting any one escape, and they possessed his land.

He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.

God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his kingdom.

The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:

Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.

So shall you do every day of the seven days for the food of the fire, and for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the holocaust, and from the libations of each.

Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.

We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.

And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:

And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be divided by the tribes and the families.

Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.

And so it shall cone to pass, that when the jubilee, the is, the fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the others.

And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe.

And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.

Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.

The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,

So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying: