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but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says."

And Moses said to them: "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them. Also on their gods the LORD had executed judgments.

They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

"As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.

For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.

And you shall take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.

They shall have the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for their herds, and for all their animals.

And you shall measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. The city shall be in the middle. This shall belong to them as common-land for the cities.

then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills a person accidentally may flee there.

Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not sufficient testimony against a person for the death penalty.

Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel."'

So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one of the children of Israel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.