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So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all of your dwellings.

Moreover you shall not accept a bribe for the life of a slayer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be surely put to death.

So you shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood defiles the land; and the land in which blood is shed cannot be cleansed except by the shedding of the blood of him who shed it.

Defile not therefore the land in which you dwell, and wherein I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

And they said, The LORD commanded our lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and our lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

So that no inheritance of the children of Israel shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe; for every one of the children of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his father.

For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hagla, Milcah, and Joah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their fathers brothers;

Choose for yourselves wise men, who have understanding and are renowned among your tribes, and I will make them chiefs over you.

And you answered and said to me, The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.

So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and renowned, and made them chieftains over you, commanders over thousands and captains over hundreds and officers over fifty and officers over ten and scribes for your tribes.

You shall not be partial to persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is Gods; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

Then all of you came near to me and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall spy out the land for us, and bring us word again and show us the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.

The LORD your God, who goes before you, shall fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

Who went in the way before you to prepare a place for you to encamp in it, in fire by night to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.

But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there; encourage him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

But as for you, turn you and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

And the LORD said to me, Say to them, You shall not go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.

THEN we turned, and journeyed into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me; and we circled mount Seir for many days.

Do not provoke them; for I will not give you a possession of their land, no, not so much as the breadth of a foot to tread on, because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

You may buy grain from them for money, that you may eat; and you may also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.