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But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.

The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.

And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part of thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hear him.

If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons.

(30-1) And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him:

(30-2) And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:

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

And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered:

And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho.

Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.

And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:

Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?

And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord gave them.

But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children:

And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the inhabitants.