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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

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

Look, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to produce disloyalty against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

But if you will not do so, look, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your slaves, so we will do.

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

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

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

or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote 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.

or with any stone, whereby a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he wasn't his enemy, neither sought his harm;

So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood, it pollutes 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.

And if they are married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will 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 it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

And when it shall be the jubilee of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will 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.

So no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall remove from tribe to tribe; for the sons of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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

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

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you abode [there].