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And Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

Beth-nim'rah and Beth-har'an, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Reph'idim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

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

"Command the people of Israel, 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 in its full extent),

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

for the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manas'seh;

"These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Elea'zar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan."

The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.

And you shall measure, outside 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 middle; this shall belong to them as pasture land for their cities.

And as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance which it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites."

then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.

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

These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that any one who kills any person without intent may flee there.

For the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

"And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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

And you shall accept 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 high priest.