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So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord 's vengeance on Midian.

So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord .

So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation,

So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord , and be sure your sin will find you out.

So Moses gave command 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 people of Israel.

So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

"But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,

But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.'"

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.

So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.

So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.

and command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.

Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.