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The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father’s kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance.

When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.

If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.

And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his father’s brethren.

If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the Lord had commanded.

(30-3) If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

(30-4) If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father’s house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:

(30-12) If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.

(30-15) But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.

For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

And he swore in his anger, saying:

And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.

And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies:

And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:

Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.

And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.

Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.

For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.