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And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel the fiftieth part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and brought the vessels into the tabernacle of witness, a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

And the children of Ruben and the children of Gad had a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Galaad; and the place was a place for cattle:

and the children of Ruben and the children of Gad came, and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and thy servants have cattle.

And why do ye pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them?

And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.

and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

We will not return to our houses till the children of Israel shall have been distributed, each to his own inheritance.

And these are the stages of the children of Israel, as they went out from the land of Egypt with their host by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

They departed from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians.

And the children of Israel departed from Ramesses, and encamped in Socchoth:

And Aaron the priest went up by the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

And Arad the Chananitish king (he too dwelt in the land of Chanaan) having heard when the children of Israel were entering the land—

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to pass over Jordan into the land of Chanaan.

Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are entering into the land of Chanaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Chanaan with its boundaries.

And Moses charged the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, even as the Lord commanded us to give it to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasse.

For the tribe of the children of Ruben, and the tribe of the children of Gad have received their inheritance according to their families; and the half-tribe of Manasse have received their inheritances.

Of the tribe of the children of Aser, the prince was Achior the son of Selemi.

These did the Lord command to distribute the inheritances to the children of Israel in the land of Chanaan.