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Then he laid his hands on him and gave him the work he must do, just as the Lord had said through Moses.

If a man makes a promise to the Lord, or swears that he will keep his promise, he must not break his word. He must do all that he said he would do.

These are the Laws which the Lord told Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while she is young and in her father's house.

Moses sent them, 1,000 from each family group, to the war. Phinehas the son of Eleazar the religious leader went to the war with them. In his hand were the holy objects and the horns for blowing the sound of coming danger.

We will not return to our homes until every one of the people of Israel has received his land.

Nobah went and took Kenath and its towns, and called it Nobah after his own name.

Your families will receive land by drawing names. The larger families should be given more land. The smaller families should be given less land. When a man's name is drawn, that land will be his. You will receive land by the family groups of your fathers.

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.

or if he hit him down with his hand because he hated him and killed him, for sure the one who killed him must be put to death. He is guilty. The man who wants to punish him for the killing will put him to death when he meets him.

The people will save the killer from the man who wants to punish him. And they will return him to his city where he had gone to be safe. He will live in it until the death of the head religious leader who was set apart with the holy oil.

But if the man who killed another person at sometime goes outside his city where he went to be safe,

Because the man should have stayed in his city to be safe until the death of the head religious leader. But after the head religious leader dies, the man who killed another person may return to his own land.

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.

They said, "The Lord told my lord to give the land to the people of Israel by drawing names. And my lord was told by the Lord to give the land of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

This way no land of the people of Israel will go from one family group to another. The people of Israel will each hold to the land of the family group of his 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.

No land will go from one family group to another. For the families of Israel will each hold to his own land."

"Then I said to your judges at that time, ‘Listen to the problems between your brothers. And be right in what you decide between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.

and in the desert. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way you have walked until you came to this place.'

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it. I will give the land on which he has walked to him and his children because he has always followed the Lord.'