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Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and constructed pens for their flocks.

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

You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone's inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.

"‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

"‘For your eastern border you will draw a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

"You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

"You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites."

This is what the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad's daughters: ‘Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father's tribe.

For the daughters of Zelophehad—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah—were married to the sons of their uncles.

Get up now, resume your journey, heading for the Amorite hill country, to all its areas including the arid country, the highlands, the Shephelah, the Negev, and the coastal plain—all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.