Study Desk

But if they will not cross over with you ready for battle, their land must be among you in the land of Canaan."

We will cross over into the land of Canaan ready for battle before the Lord. And the land on this side of the Jordan will be ours."

Bethnimrah and Beth-haran, cities with walls around them. And they made safe places for their sheep.

Then they traveled from Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert. They traveled for three days in the desert of Etham, and stayed at Marah.

Take the land for your own and live in it. For I have given the land to you.

For the sons of Reuben have received their land by their fathers' houses. The sons of Gad have received theirs by their fathers' houses. And the half-family group of Manasseh has received their land.

The cities will be theirs to live in. Their fields will be for their cattle and flocks and for all their animals.

And you should number 1,000 long steps from the city on the east side, on the south side, on the west side, and on the north side, with the city in the center. These fields around the cities will belong to them for their animals.

The cities will be a safe place for you from the one who wants to punish you. So the one who has killed a person may not die until the people decide if he is guilty or not.

These six cities will be safe places for the people of Israel and for the stranger and for the one who visits them. Anyone who kills a person without meaning to may run there.

‘But if he killed him with an iron object, then he is guilty. For sure the killer will be put to death.

If he knocked him down with a stone so that he died, he is guilty. For sure the killer will be put to death.

Or if he hit him with a piece of wood in his hand so that he died, he is guilty. For sure the killer will be put to death.

The man who wants to punish him for the killing will put the killer to death. He will put him to death when he meets him.

If the killer has pushed him because he hated him, or has thrown something at him after waiting for him, and because of this he died,

or if he hit him down with his hand because he hated him and killed him, for sure the one who killed him must be put to death. He is guilty. The man who wants to punish him for the killing will put him to death when he meets him.

‘But if he pushed him without planning to and without hating him, or threw something at him without having waited for him,

You must not take pay for him who has run to his city to be safe, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the religious leader.

Do not make the land where you live unclean, in the place where I live. For I the Lord am living among the people of Israel.'"

No land will go from one family group to another. For the families of Israel will each hold to his own land."