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

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to revolt so as to break faith with the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.

For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.'

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD; and know ye your sin which will find you.

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 children of Israel.

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto 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 thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him any thing, lying in wait, so that he died;

or 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;

So 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.

And if they be 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 whereunto they shall belong; so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong; so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.'

So 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.

So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'

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

The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you!--

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe.

So I spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.