ascent of Acrabin, and shall pass on to Ennak, and run along south of Kades-barne and come to the sheepcot of Arad, and 5 pass along by Asemona: and from Asemona the boundary shall wind round along the brook of Egypt, and its termination 6 shall be the sea. Then you shall have the sea for a boundary. The great sea shall bound you: this shall be your western 7 boundary. And your boundary on the north shall be thisfrom the great sea you shall measure off for yourselves, along 8 the range of mountains-from mountain to mountain you shall measure off for yourselves: beginning at the bay of Emath, 9 and extending along the border of Saradak, the boundary shall come out along the borders of Dephrona, and its termination shall be Arsenain. This shall be your northern boundary. 10 Then you shall measure off for yourselves the eastern boun11 dary from Arsenain to Sepphamar; and from Sepphamar the

boundary shall run down to Bela, on the east of the fountains, then down along the borders of Bela, on the eastern side of the 12 sea of Chenerith; then down the Jordan; and its termination 13 shall be the salt sea. This shall be your land and these its bounda

ries round about. So Moses gave a charge to the Israelites saying, This is the land which you shall parcel out, by lot, in the manner the Lord hath commanded it to be given to the nine tribes, 14 and to the half of the tribe of Manasses; because the tribe of the Reubenites, and the tribe of the Gadites, according to the houses of their families, and the half of the tribe of the Manas15 sites, have received their allotments. Two tribes, and the half of a tribe, have received their lots on the south east side of the Jordan, in front of Jericho.

16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, These are the 17 names of the men who shall parcel out the land for you-Ele18 azar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nave. And you shall

take one chief of a tribe to divide the land among you by lot. 19 And these are the names of the men-Of the tribe of Judas, 20 Chaleb son of Jephonne; of the tribe of Symeon, Salamiel son 21 of Samiud; of the tribe of Benjamin, Eldad son of Chaslon; 22 of the tribe of Dan, chief Bakchir, son of Egli; of the children 23 of Joseph-of the tribe of the Manassites, chief Aniel, son of 24 Suphi; of the tribe of the Ephraimites, chief Kamuel, son of 25 Sabathan; of the tribe of Zabulon, chief Elisaphan, son of 26 Pharnach; of the tribe of Issachar, chief Phaltiel, son of Oza;

27 Of the tribe of Aser, chief Achior, son of Selemi; of the tribe 28 of Nephthaleim, chief Phadael, son of Jamiud. To these the 29 Lord gave it in charge to parcel out to the Israelites their allotments in the land of Chanaan.

XXXV. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, on the west of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho, saying, Command 2 the children of Israel; and let them give the Levites, out of the lots of their possession, cities to dwell in. They shall also give 3 the Levites the suburbs of these cities round about. The cities

shall be for them to dwell in; and the suburbs thereof shall be 4 for their cattle, even for all their beasts. Now the suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city, outwards, two thousand cubits all around. 5 Thou shalt therefore measure off, outwards from the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, and in the middle of this shall be your city; and you shall give these suburbs of the ci6 ties with the cities, to the Levites. Six of the cities which you

shall give shall be cities of refuge for the manslayer to flee to, 7 and besides these you shall give forty two cities. All the cities, 8 which you shall give to the Levites, shall be forty eight. These cities with their suburbs, even the cities which you shall give, shall be from the possessions of the children of Israel. They shall give the Levites, out of their cities, many from those who have many, and few from them who have few; from every one according to the inheritance which they possess.

9 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, You are about to cross the Jordan into the land of Chanaan, and you will set apart for yourselves cities, which shall be your places of refuge, 11 to which the manslayer may flee. When any person killeth ano12 ther unwittingly, those cities will be places of refuge from the

avenger of blood, that the manslayer may not die, until he stand 13 before the congregation for trial. Therefore, with regard to the

cities which you shall give, six shall be your places of refuge; 14 three of these cities you shall give on this side of the Jordan, and 15 three such cities you shall give in the land of Chanaan. They

shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the proselyte, and the sojourner among you. These cities are to be pla

ces of refuge, to which every one may flee who hath smitten a 16 person unawares. But if he hath smitten him with an instrument of iron, and he die, he is a murderer; let the murderer be 17 put to death. And if he hath smitten him with a stone out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a mur18 derer; let the murderer be put to death. And if he hath smitten him with any instrument of wood out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the mur19 derer be put to death. The avenger of blood himself shall kill 20 him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him. And if, through

hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from am21 bush, any instrument whatever, and he die; or if on account

of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the 22 murderer when he meeteth him. But if on a sudden, not

through malice aforethought, he hath pushed him down, or 23 thrown any instrument at him, not from ambush, nor with any

stone by which he might be killed, or not seeing him, and it 24 light upon him, and he die, and he was not his enemy, nor

seeking to do him any injury, the congregation shall judge between him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to 25 these rules of decision; and the congregation shall deliver the

slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he fled; and he shall dwell there, till the death of the high priest, whom they 26 have anointed with holy oil. And if the manslayer go out of

the bounds of the city of his refuge to which he fled, and 27 the avenger of blood find him out of the bounds of the city 28 of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the slayer, he is not guilty of death. For he should have remained in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land 29 of his possession. These shall be your rules of decision, 30 for your generations, in all your dwellings. When any one

hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person 31 to cause him to be put to death. And you shall take no ran

som for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he 32 must be put to death: nor shall you take any ransom from him

who hath fled to a city of refuge, that he may dwell again in 33 his land, until the death of the high priest. So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. 34 You must not defile the land in which you dwell-in which I dwell among you; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

XXXVI.

Then came the chiefs of the community of the children of Galaad, son of Machir, son of Manasses, of the tribe of the children of Joseph, and spoke before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the chiefs of the patriarchal 2 houses of the Israelites, and said, The Lord hath commanded our lord to give the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord hath commanded our lord to give the 3 inheritance of Salpaad, our brother, to his daughters. Now they may become wives to one of the communities of the Israelites, and their lot may be taken from the possession of our fathers, and added to the inheritance of that tribe among which they may be married; so their inheritance may be taken from 4 the lot of our inheritance; and though there may be a jubilee of the children of Israel, still their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe among whom they may have been married, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheri5 tance of our patriarchal tribe. Whereupon Moses gave a charge

to the children of Israel, by the command of the Lord, saying, 6 In regard to what the tribe of the children of Joseph say, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded the daughters of Salpaad, saying, Let them marry whom they please, but 7 they must marry men of the community of their father, so there shall be no transferring of inheritance among the children of Israel, from one tribe to another. Because the children of Israel must be kept together, every one in the inheritance of the 8 patriarchal family of his tribe, therefore every daughter, who by being next of kin, inheriteth a possession among the tribes of Israel, must marry one of the community of her father, that the children of Israel may inherit by nearness of kin, every one 9 the inheritance of his father's family: by which means the al

lotment will not be transferred from one tribe to another; but

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the Israelites will be kept together every one in his inheritance.

Accordingly they did, for the daughters of Salpaad, in the 11 manner the Lord commanded Moses, and Thersa, and Egla, and Melcha, and Nua, and Maala, the daughters of Salpaad, 12 were married to their cousins. They were married to men of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, and their inheritance was kept in the tribe, to which the community of their father belonged.

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These are the commands, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord gave in charge, by the ministry of Moses, on the west of Moab, on the Jordan, over against Jericho.

DEUTERONOMY.

These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel, on the bank of the Jordan, west of the wilderness which reacheth to the Red sea, between Pharantophal and Lobon, and Aulon, 2 and Katachrusea, eleven days' journey from Choreb, the way by mount Seir to Kades-Barne.

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In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, accord4 ing to all that the Lord had given him in charge to them. After he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ese5 bon; and Og, king of Basan, who dwelt at Astaroth and Edrain, Moses began, on the bank of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, to explain the law fully, saying.

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The Lord our God spoke to us at Choreb, saying, You 7 have tarried long enough by this mount. Turn; strike your tents, and march to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the inhabitants around Araba-to the mountain and to the plain, and to the south, and to the land of the Chananites, on the sea shore, and to Antilibanus, till you reach the river8 the great river Euphrates. Behold I have delivered up the land before you. Go in, and take possession of the land, which with an oath I promised to give to your fathers—to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob-to them and their seed after them.

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Then I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able 10 alone to bear you. The Lord your God hath multiplied you;