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and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall
abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
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But if the slayer
shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
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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:
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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.
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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 shall not testify against any person
to
cause him
to die.
31
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which
is
guilty
of death: but he shall be 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 dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye
are:
for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot
be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
34
Defile not
therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the L
ORD
dwell among the children
of Israel.
CHAPTER 36
And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before
the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:
2
And they said, The L
ORD
commanded my
lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded
by the L
ORD
to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
3
And if they be
married to any of the sons of the
other
tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance
be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4
And when the jubile of the
children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe
whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the
tribe of our fathers.
5
And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the
L
ORD
, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
6
This is the thing which the L
ORD
doth
command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think
best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall 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 shall keep
himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8
And every daughter, that possesseth an
inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife 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.
9
Neither
shall the inheritance remove from
one
tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the
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