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So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.

The cities will be a safe place for you from the one who wants to punish you. So the one who has killed a person may not die until the people decide if he is guilty or not.

If he knocked him down with a stone so that he died, he is guilty. For sure the killer will be put to death.

Or if he hit him with a piece of wood in his hand so that he died, he is guilty. For sure the killer will be put to death.

You must not take pay for him who has run to his city to be safe, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the religious leader.

But if they marry one of the sons of the other family groups of Israel, then their land would be taken away from what was given to our fathers and would be added to the land of the family group they marry into. So it would be taken from the land that had been given to us.

When the Year of Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, their land will be added to the land of the family group into which they marry. So their land will be taken from the land of the family group of our fathers."

Every daughter who comes to own the land of any family group of Israel, must be the wife of one of her father's family group. So every one of the people of Israel may own the land of his fathers.

So I took the leaders of your family groups, wise and able men. I made them leaders over you, leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and rulers of your family groups.

But even so, you did not trust the Lord your God,

"Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God told us.' So every man of you put on his sword and thought it an easy thing to go up into the hill country.

So I spoke to you but you would not listen. You went against what the Lord told you. In your pride you went up into the hill country.

So you stayed in Kadesh. Many days you stayed there.

Tell the people, "You will pass through the land of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so be very careful.

"So we moved on from our brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and Ezion-geber. We turned and went by the way of the desert of Moab.

‘Now get up and go over the river Zered.' So we went over the river Zered.

"So I sent men carrying news from the desert of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace. They said,

You will sell me food for money so I may eat, and give me water for money so I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through his land. For the Lord your God made his spirit and heart hard, so He might give him into your hand, as he is today.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take it for your own, so you may live in it.'