The Reubeniter and Gaditer NUMBERS. 20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed Lefore the LORD to war, 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, 22 And the land be subdued before the LORD; then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. 24 Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which bath proceeded out of your mouth. 25 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; 97 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith. for their inheritance: took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it. 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh. went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. CHAP. XXXIII. THESE or the journeys of the chitdren of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies, under the band of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month: on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. 4 (For the Egyptians buried all their first-born which the LORD had smitten 29 So concerning them Moses com-among them: upon their gods also the manded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua LORD executed judgments.) the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto thein, If the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 31 And the children of Gad, and the children of keuhen, answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours. 33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon ring of the Amo rites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashin, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about. 34 And the children of Gad Fuilt Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehan, 36 And Beth-nimirah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim, 39 And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. 39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and 5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. 6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Eibam, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol. 8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. 9 And they reinoved from Marah, and came unto Elin: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they pitched there. 10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea. 11 And they removed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. 13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. 14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth hattaavah. 17 And they departed from Kibroth hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth 18 And they departed from Haze roth, and pitched in Ribinab The journeys of the Israelites, CHAP. XXXIV. The Canaanites to be destroyez 19 And they departed from Rithmah, Beth-Jesinoth, even unto Abel-shittim, and pitched at Rimmon-parez. 20 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah. 21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. 22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. 23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. 24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah. 25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheioth. 26 And they removed from MakheJoth, and encamped at Tahath. 27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. 28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. 29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. 30 And they departed from Hashmonab, and encamped at Moseroth. 31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. 32 And they removed from Benejaakan,and encamped at Hor-hagidgad. 33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah. 34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah. 35 And they departed from Ebronab, and encamped at Ezion-gaber. 36 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. in the plains of Moab. 50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan, into the land of Canaan; 52 Toen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the laud from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their nigh places. 53 And ye shall dispossess the inha bitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to pos sess it. 54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families; and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth, according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. 56 Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. CHAP. XXXIV. 37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge AND the LORD spake unto Moses, of the land of Edom. 3 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor, at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month. 39 And Aaron was an hundred and. twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. 40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. 41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. 42 And they departed from Zalmonab, and pitched in Punon. 43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. 44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab. 45 And they departed from lim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. 46 And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almon-dibTathaim. saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fail unto you for an inherit ance, even the land of Canaan, with the coasts thereof,) 3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin, along by the coast of Edom; and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward. 4 And your bo.der shall turn from 'the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon. 5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. 6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border; from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor. 47 And they removed from Almon- 8 From mount Hor ye shall point diblathaim, and pitched in the moun-out your border unto the entrance of Lains of Abarim, before Nebo. Hamath and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad. 48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in The plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho. 49 And they pitched by Jordan, from 9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shail be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border. 10 And ye shall point out your east order from Hazar-enan to Shepham. 11 And the coast shall go down from Stepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward. 12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land, with the coasts thereof round) about. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the balf tribe. 14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance: 15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho, eastward, to ward the sun-rising. 16 And the LORD spake unto Mo 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. 19 And the names of the men are these of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneb. The cities of refuge. 2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites, of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell m; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward, a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shail measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst. this shall be to them the suburbs of the city. 6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the man-slayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye sha!! add forty and two cities. 7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. 8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel from them that have many ye shall give many: but from them that have few ye shall give few every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites, according to his inheritance which he 20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammi-inheriteth. hud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. 23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan. AND 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be comé over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the slayer may tee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. 19 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the man-slayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge. 14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the rand of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 1 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. 16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he smite him with throw ing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer stall surely be put to death. The laws of murder. Of Zelophehad's daughters, CHAP. XXXVI. 19 Or if he smite him with an handweapon of wood, wherewith he may AND the chief fathers of the faml die, and be die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. 20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that be die; lies of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseb, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fa thers of the children of Israel: 2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children 21 Or in enmity smite him with his of Israel: and my lord was coinhand, that he die; be that smote himmanded by the LORD to give the skall surely be put to death; for he is a inheritance of Zclophehad our brother murderer: the revenger of blood shall unto his daughters. slay the murderer when he neeteth kim. 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the 22 But if he thrust him suddenly children of Israel, then shall their without enmity, or have cast upon inheritance be taken from the inhehim any thing without laying of wait, ritance of our fathers, and shall be 23 Or with any stone, wherewith a put to the inheritance of the tribe man may die, seeing him not, and cast whereunto they are received: so shall it upon him that he die, and was not it be taken from the lot of our inlars enemy, neither sought his harm; heritance. 24 Then the congregation shall judge 4 And when the jubilee of the chil between the slayer and the revenger of dren of Israel shall be, then shall their blood according to these judgments: inheritance be put unto the inheritance 25 And the congregation shall deliver of the tribe whereunto they are rethe slayer out of the hand of the received: so shall their inheritance be venger of blood, and the congregation taken away from the inheritance of shall restore him to the city of his the tribe of our fathers. refuge, whither he was fled and he shall abide in it unto the death of the bigh priest, which was anointed with the boly oil. 26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; 27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood; 29 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daugh ters of Zelopheliad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shail they marry. 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for every one of the children of Israel shali eep himself to the inheritance of the trine of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shail be wite unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings. 30 Whoso Killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness! 9 Neither shall the inheritance reshall not testify against any person to move from one tribe to another tribe; cause him to die. but every one of the tribes of the 31 Moreover, ye shall take no satis-children of Israel shall keep himself faction for the life of a murderer, to his own inheritance. which is guilty of death; but he shali Le surely put to death. 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dweil in the land, until the death of the priest. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of 28lophead: 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hogah, and Milcan, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophelad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land 19 And they were married into the wherein ye are; for blood it defileth families of the sons of Manasseh, the the land: and the land cannot be son of Joseph; and their inheritance cleansed of the blood that is shed remained in the tribe of the family of therein, but by the blood of him that their father. shed it. 13 These are the commandments 34 Defile not therefore the land and the judgments which the LORD which ye shall inhabit, wherein 1 commanded, by the hand of Moses, un dwell for the LORD dwell among to the children of Israel, in the plans the children of Israel. of Moab, by Jordan car Jericho.. THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY. CHAP. I. judgment; but ye shall hear the sma THESE THESE be the words which Moses as well as the great; ye shall not be spake unto all Israel on this side afraid of the face of man; for the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain judgment is God's: and the cause that over against the Red Sca, between Pa-is too hard for you, bring it unto me, ran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Ha- and I will hear it. zeroth, and Dizabab. 2 Tire are eleven days' journey trom Horeh, by the way of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-barnea.) 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 19 And when we departed from 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth Horeb, we went through all that great year, in the eleventh month, on the and terrible wilderness, which ve saw first day of the month, that Moses by the way of the mountain of the spake unto the children of Israel, ac- Amorites, as the LORD our God com cording unto all that the LORD had gi-manded us; and we came to Kadeshen him in commandment unto thein; barnea. 4 After he had slain Sihon the xing of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the rale, and in the south, and by the seaside, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send mea before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 8 Behold, I have set the land before 24 And they turned, and went up you go in and possess the land which into the mountain, and came unto the the LORD sware unto your fathers, valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give 25 And they took of the fruit of the unto them, and to their seed after land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word 9 And I spake unto you at that time, again, and said, It is a good land saying, I ani not able to bear you my-which the LORD our God doth give us. self alone. 26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go them. 10 The LORD your God hath multi-up, but rebelled against the commandphed you, and behold, ye are this dayment of the LORD your God: as the stars of heaven for multitude. 27 And ye murmured in your tents, 11 (The LORD God of your fathers and said, Because the LORD hated us, make you a thousand times so many he hath brought us forth out of the more as ye are, and bless you, as he land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hath promised you!) hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 19 How can I myself alone bear your i cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and tailer 13 Take ye wise men, and under-than we; the cities are great and standing, and known among your walled up to beaven; and moreover, tribes, and i will make them rulers we have seen the sons of the Anakimi over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. there. 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God, which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them bends over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, 31 And in the wilderness, where and captains over fifties, and captains thou hast seen how that the LORD over tens, and officers among your thy God bare thee, as a man doth tribes. 16 And 1 charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between vour brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in bear his son, in all the way that ye 33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew |