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So they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River."

When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the Lord had given them.

So the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he swore,

So the Lord 's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.

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

So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.

They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.

"So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

"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.

Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and 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,

So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe."

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father's tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words: