Canaanites to be destroyed.

CHAP. XXXIV. Coasts and borders of Canaan.

LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out

CHAP. XXXIV.

of the land of Egypt, in the first day of AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saya

ing,

the fifth month. 2 Command the children of Israel, and 39 And Aaron was a hundred and say unto them, When ye come into the twenty and three years old when he died land of Canaan; (this is the land that 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 Zalmonah, 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.

shall fall unto you for an inheritance, 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 border 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 45 And they departed from Iim, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. pitched in Dibon-gad.

46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.

47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

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 Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

50 T And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

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:

8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath: and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar enan: this shall be your north border.

10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham :

51 Speak unto the children of Israel, 11 And the coast shall go down from and say unto them, When ye are passed Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Ain; and the border shall descend, and 52 Then ye shall drive out all the shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chininhabitants of the land from before you, nereth eastward: and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

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 54 And ye shall divide the land by lot ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD for an inheritance among your families: commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the more ye shall give the more in- and to the half tribe:

heritance, and to the fewer ye shall give 14 For the tribe of the children of Reuthe less inheritance: every man's inherit- ben, according to the house of their fathers, ance shall be in the place where his lot and the tribe of the children of Gad ac falleth; according to the tribes of your cording to the house of their fathers, have fathers ye shall inherit. received their inheritance; and half the 55 But if ye will not drive out the in-tribe of Manasseh have received their inhabitants of the land from before you; heritance:

then it shall come to pass, that those which 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe ye let remain of them shall be pricks in have received their inheritance on this your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward shall vex you in the land wherein ye the sun-rising. dwell.

56 Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

16 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you:

Chires gwen to the Levites.

NUMBERS.

The laws of murder. Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of the Levites shall be forty and eight cities. Nun.

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 Jephunneh.

20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Aminibud. 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.

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 inheriteth.

9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come 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 flee thither, which killeth any person

24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of at unawares. Shiphtan.

12 And they shall be unto you cities for 25 And the prince of the tribe of the refuge from the avenger; that the manchildren of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of slayer die not, until he stand before the Parnach. congregation in judgment. 26 And the prince of the tribe of the 13 And of these cities which ye shall children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of give, six cities shall ye have for refuge. Azzan. 14 Ye shall give three cities on this side 27 And the prince of the tribe of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in children of Asher, Ahihud the son of She-the land of Canaan, which shall be cities lomi. of refuge.

28 And the prince of the tribe of the 15 These six cities shall be a refuge, children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of both for the children of Israel, and for the Ammihud. stranger, and for the sojourner among 29 These are they whom the LORD them: that every one that killeth any percommanded to divide the inheritance unto son unawares may flee thither. the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. 16 And if he smite him with an instru. CHAP. XXXV. ment of iron, so that he die, he is a mur

AND the LORD spake unto Moses in derer: the murderer shall surely be put to

the plains of Moab by Jordan near|death. Jericho, saying,

17 And if he smite him with throwing a 2 Command the children of Israel, that stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, they give unto the Levites of the inherit- he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely ance of their possession cities to dwell in; be put to death.

and ye shall give also unto the Levites 18 Or if he smite him with a handsuburbs for the cities round about them. weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, 3 And the cities shall they have to and be die, he is a murderer: the murderer dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be shall surely be put to death. for their cattle, and for their goods, and 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

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.

20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hur! at him by laying of wait, that he die; 21 Or in enmity smite him with his 5 And ye shall measure from without hand, that he die: he that smote hum shall the city on the east side two thousand cu-surely be put to death; for he is a murbits, and on the south side two thousand derer: the revenger of blood shall slay cubits, and on the west side two thousand the murderer, when he meeteth him. cubits, and on the north side two thousand 22 But if he thrust him suddenly with cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: out enmity, or have cast upon him any this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. thing without laying of wait,

6 And among the cities which ye shall 23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man give unto the Levites there shall be six may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint him, that he die, and was not his enemy, for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: neither sought his harm: and to them ye shall add forty and two 24 Then the congregation shall judge cities. between the slayer and the revenger of 7 So all the cities which ye shall give to blood according to these judgments: