The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And King Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the South of the land of Canaan, heard of the comming of the children of Israel)

And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.

And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.

And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.

And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Iie-abarim, in the borders of Moab.

And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.

And they remooued from Dibon-gad, and lay in Almon-diblathaim.

And they remooued from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountaines of Abarim before Nebo.

And they departed from the mountaines of Abarim, and pitched in the plaine of Moab, by Iorden toward Iericho.

And they pitched by Iorden, from Bethieshimoth vnto Abel-shittim in the playne of Moab.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the playne of Moab, by Iorden towarde Iericho, saying,

Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye are come ouer Iorden to enter into the land of Canaan,

Ye shall then driue out all the inhabitants of the land before you, and destroy all their pictures, and breake asunder all their images of metall, and plucke downe all their hie places.

And ye shall possesse the lande and dwell therein: for I haue giue you ye land to possesse it.

And ye shall inherite the land by lot according to your families: to the more yee shall giue more inheritance, and to the fewer the lesse inheritance. Where the lot shall fall to any man, that shall be his: according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherite.

But if ye will not driue out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those which yee let ramaine of them, shalbe prickes in your eyes, and thornes in your sides, and shall vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Moreouer, it shall come to passe, that I shall doe vnto you, as I thought to do vnto them.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Commande the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When yee come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall vnto your inheritance: that is, the land of Canaan with the coastes thereof.

And your Southquarter shalbe from the wildernesse of Zin to the borders of Edom: so that your Southquarter shall be from the salt Sea coast Eastwarde:

And the border shall compasse you from the South to Maaleh-akrabbim, and reach to Zin, and goe out from the South to Kadesh-barnea: thence it shall stretch to Hazar-addar, and go along to Azmon.

And the border shall compasse from Azmon vnto the riuer of Egypt, and shall goe out to the Sea.

And your Westquarter shall bee the great Sea: euen that border shalbe your Westcoast.

And this shall bee your Northquarter: yee shall marke out your border from the great Sea vnto mount Hor.

From mount Hor ye shall point out till it come vnto Hamath, and the end of the coast shall be at Zedad.

And the coast shall reach out to Ziphron, and goe out at Hazar-enan. this shalbe your Northquarter.

And ye shall marke out your Eastquarter from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

And the coast shall goe downe from Shepham to Riblah, and from the Eastside of Ain: and the same border shall descend and goe out at the side of the sea of Chinneereth Eastward.

Also that border shall goe downe to Iorden, and leaue at the salt Sea. this shalbe your land with the coastes thereof round about.

Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the lande which yee shall inherite by lot, which the Lord commanded to giue vnto nine tribes and halfe the tribe.

For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the housholdes of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad, according to their fathers housholdes, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, haue receiued their inheritance.

Two tribes and an halfe tribe haue receiued their inheritance on this side of Iorden toward Iericho full East.

Againe the Lord spake to Moses, saying,

These are the names of the men which shall deuide ye land vnto you: Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun.

And ye shall take also a prince of euerie tribe to deuide the land.

The names also of the men are these: Of the tribe of Iudah, Caleb ye sonne of Iephunneh.

And of the tribe of the sonnes of Simeon, Shemuel the sonne of Ammihud.

Of the tribe of Beniamin, Elidad the sonne of Chislon.

Also of the tribe of the sonnes of Dan, the prince Bukki, the sonne of Iogli.

Of the sonnes of Ioseph: of the tribe of the sonnes of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel the sonne of Ephod.

And of the tribe of the sonnes of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel, the sonne of Shiphtan.

Of the tribe also of the sonnes of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan, the sonne of Parnach.

So of the tribe of the sonnes of Issachar, the prince Paltiel the sonne of Azzan.

Of the tribe also of the sonnes of Asher, the prince Ahihud, the sonne of Shelomi.

And of the tribe of the sonnes of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel, the sonne of Ammihud.

These are they, whome the Lord commanded to deuide the inheritance vnto the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaine of Moab by Iorden, toward Iericho, saying,

Commande ye children of Israel, that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritace of their possession, cities to dwell in: yee shall giue also vnto the Leuites the suburbes of the cities round about them.

So they shall haue the cities to dwell in, and their suburbes shall be for their cattell, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

And the suburbes of the cities, which ye shall giue vnto the Leuites, from the wall of the citie outward, shalbe a thousand cubites round about.

And yee shall measure without the citie of the Eastside, two thousand cubites: and of the Southside, two thousand cubites: and of the Westside, two thousand cubites: and of ye Northside, two thousand cubites: and the citie shalbe in ye middes. this shalbe the measure of the suburbes of their cities.

And of the cities which yee shall giue vnto the Leuites, there shalbe sixe cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint, that he which killeth, may flee thither: and to them yee shall adde two and fourtie cities more.

All the cities which yee shall giue to the Leuites, shalbe eight and fourtie cities: them shall ye giue with their suburbes.

And concerning the cities which yee shall giue, of the possession of the children of Israel: of many ye shall take more, and of few ye shall take lesse: euery one shall giue of his cities vnto the Leuites, according to his inheritance, which hee inheriteth.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come ouer Iorden into the land of Canaan,

Ye shall appoint you cities, to bee cities of refuge for you, that the slayer, which slayeth any person vnwares, may flee thither.

And these cities shalbe for you a refuge from the auenger, that he which killeth, die not, vntill he stand before the Congregation in iudgement.

And of the cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.

Ye shall appoint three on this side Iorden, and ye shall appoint three cities in the lande of Canaan which shalbe cities of refuge.

These six cities shalbe a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that dwelleth among you, that euery one which killeth any person vnwares, may flee thither.

And if one smite another with an instrument of yron that hee die, hee is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.

Also if hee smite him by casting a stone, wherewith hee may be slaine, and he die, hee is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.

Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may be slaine, if he die, he is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.

The reuenger of the blood himselfe shall slay the murtherer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

But if hee thrust him of hate, or hurle at him by laying of wait, that he die,

Or smite him through enimitie with his hand, that he die, he that smote him shall die ye death: for hee is a murtherer: the reuenger of the blood shall slay the murtherer when he meeteth him.

But if he pusshed him vnaduisedly, and not of hatred, or cast vpon him any thing, without laying of waite,

Or any stone (whereby he might be slaine) and sawe him not, or caused it to fall vpon him, and he die, and was not his enemie, neither sought him any harme,

Then the Congregation shall iudge betweene the slayer and the auenger of blood according to these lawes.

And the Congregation shall deliuer the slayer out of the hande of the auenger of blood, and the Congregation shall restore him vnto the citie of his refuge, whither hee was fled: and hee shall abide there vnto the death of the hie Priest, which is anointed with the holy oyle.

But if the slayer come without the borders of the citie of his refuge, whither he was fled,

And the reuenger of blood finde him without the borders of the citie of his refuge, and the reueger of blood slay ye murtherer, he shalbe giltles,

Because he should haue remained in the citie of his refuge, vntill the death of the hie Priest: and after the death of the hie Priest, the slayer shall returne vnto the land of his possession.

So these thinges shall be a lawe of iudgement vnto you, throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Whosoeuer killeth any person, the Iudge shall slay the murtherer, through witnesses: but one witnesse shall not testifie against a person to cause him to die.

Moreouer ye shall take no recompense for the life of the murtherer, which is worthy to die: but he shalbe put to death.

Also ye shall take no recompense for him that is fled to the citie of his refuge, that he should come againe, and dwell in the lande, before the death of the hie Priest.

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye shall dwell: for blood defileth the land: and the land cannot be clensed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Defile not therefore the lande which yee shall inhabite, For I dwell in the middes thereof: for I the Lord dwel among the children of Israel.

Then the chiefe fathers of the familie of the sonnes of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, of the families of the sones of Ioseph, came, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chiefe fathers of the children of Israel,

And saide, The Lord commanded my lord to giue the land to inherit by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the Lord, to giue the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother vnto his daughters.

If they bee married to any of the sonnes of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shalbe put vnto the inheritance of the tribe whereof they shalbe: so shall it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

Also when the Iubile of the children of Israel commeth, then shall their inheritance be put vnto the inheritance of the tribe whereof they shall be: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sonnes of Ioseph haue said well.

This is the thing that the Lord hath commanded, concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, They shall be wiues, to whome they thinke best, onely to the familie of the tribe of their father shall they marry:

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remoue from tribe to tribe, for euery one of the children of Israel shall ioyne himselfe to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

And euery daughter that possesseth any inheritance of the tribes of the children of Israel, shalbe wife vnto one of the familie of the tribe of her father: that the children of Israel may enioye euery man the inheritance of their fathers.

Neither shall the inheritance go about from tribe to tribe: but euery one of the tribes of the childre of Israel shall sticke to his own inheritace.

As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad were married vnto their fathers brothers sonnes,

They were wiues to certaine of the families of the sonnes of Manasseh the sonne of Ioseph: so their inheritance remained in the tribe of the familie of their father.

These are the commandements and lawes which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, vnto the children of Israel in the plaine of Moab, by Iorden toward Iericho.

These bee the wordes which Moses spake vnto all Israel, on this side Iorden in the wildernesse, in the plaine, ouer against the red Sea, betweene Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

There are eleuen dayes iourney from Horeb vnto Kadesh-barnea, by the way of mout Seir.

And it came to passe in the first day of the eleuenth moneth, in the fourtieth yeere that Moses spake vnto the children of Israel according vnto all that the Lord had giuen him in commandement vnto them,

After that he had slaine Sihon the king of the Amorites which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, which dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.

On this side Iorden in the lande of Moab began Moses to declare this lawe, saying,

The Lord our God spake vnto vs in Horeb, saying, Ye haue dwelt long ynough in this mount,

Turne you and depart, and goe vnto the mountaine of the Amorites, and vnto all places neere thereunto in the plaine, in the mountaine, or in the valley: both Southwarde, and to the Sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and vnto Lebanon: euen vnto the great riuer, the riuer Perath.