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but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land.

"But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the Lord . And know that your sin will find you out.

So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do."

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord 's presence, just as my lord says."

But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan."

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

"But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

"But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

"But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.

"Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance."

But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God.

But as for you, turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea."

But the Lord told me: "Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.'"

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.