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Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

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

You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Command the Israelites, and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan, defined by its boundaries),

For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

for the tribe of the Reubenites by their ancestral houses and the tribe of the Gadites by their ancestral houses have taken their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh;

These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you for inheritance: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun.

You shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

These were the ones whom the Lord commanded to apportion the inheritance for the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance that they possess, towns for the Levites to live in; you shall also give to the Levites pasture lands surrounding the towns.

The towns shall be theirs to live in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle, for their livestock, and for all their animals.

You shall measure, outside the town, for the east side two thousand cubits, for the south side two thousand cubits, for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, with the town in the middle; this shall belong to them as pasture land for their towns.

And as for the towns that you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it obtains, shall give of its towns to the Levites.

then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there.

The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation.

The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for you:

These six cities shall serve as refuge for the Israelites, for the resident or transient alien among them, so that anyone who kills a person without intent may flee there.

For the slayer must remain in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the slayer may return home.

These things shall be a statute and ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death.