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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.

And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, which dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof,)

And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:

And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod:

and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge: that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.