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The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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

Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to 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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the 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 everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel: