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These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: El`azar the Kohen, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.

You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

Command the children of Yisra'el that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.

The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

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

The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

For the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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.

You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the Kohen.

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra'el.

and they said, the LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Yisra'el: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Tzelohchad our brother to his daughters.

So shall no inheritance of the children of Yisra'el remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Yisra'el shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Yisra'el shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.

for Machlah, Tirtzah, and Hoglah, and Milkah, and Noach, the daughters of Tzelohchad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.