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Or if he hits him with a wood utensil in his hand capable of killing someone, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Likewise, if he shoves him out of hatred; or intentionally throws something at him, causing his death;

or out of hostility strikes him with his hand, so that he dies; then the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer; and the next-of-kin avenger is to put the murderer to death upon meeting him.

or, without seeing him, being his enemy or seeking to harm him, he throws a stone big enough to cause death; and the person dies.

and the next-of-kin avenger finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the avenger kills the killer, he will not be guilty of the man's blood;

because he must stay in his city of refuge until the death of the cohen hagadol. But after the death of the cohen hagadol the killer may return to the land he owns.

Likewise, you are not to accept for someone who has fled to his city of refuge a ransom that would allow him to return to his land before the death of the cohen.

They said, " Adonai ordered my lord to give by lot the land to be inherited by the people of Isra'el, and my lord was ordered by Adonai to give the inheritance of our kinsman Tz'lof'chad to his daughters.

In this way no inheritance of the people of Isra'el will move from one tribe to another; for each of the people of Isra'el is to hold on to the land for inheritance belonging to his father's tribe.

Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Isra'el is to become the wife of someone from the family of her father's tribe, so that every one of the people of Isra'el will stay in possession of his ancestors' inheritance.

At that time I commissioned your judges, ‘Hear the cases that arise between your brothers; and judge fairly between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is with him.

and likewise in the desert, where you saw how Adonai your God carried you, like a man carries his child, along the entire way you traveled until you arrived at this place.

except Kalev the son of Y'funeh — he will see it; I will give him and his descendants the land he walked on, because he has fully followed Adonai .'

"Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against Adonai . Now we will go up and fight, in accordance with everything Adonai our God ordered us.' And every man among you put on his arms, considering it an easy matter to go up into the hill-country.

and don't get into disputes with them; for I am not going to give you any of their land, no, not even enough for one foot to stand on; inasmuch as I have given Mount Se‘ir to ‘Esav as his possession.

"‘Get up, get moving, and cross the Arnon Valley! Here, I have put in your hands Sichon the Emori, king of Heshbon, and his land; commence the conquest, begin the battle!

"But Sichon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through his territory, because Adonai your God had hardened his spirit and made him stubborn, so that he could hand him over to you, as is the case today.

(vi) Adonai said to me, ‘See, I have begun handing over Sichon and his territory before you; start taking possession of his land.'

Then Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Yahatz;

and Adonai our God handed him over to us, so that we defeated him, his sons and all his people.