that he died he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer: the avenger of blood shall put the manslayer to death, when 22 he meeteth him. But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing 23 without lying in wait, or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his 24 enemy, neither sought his harm: then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judge25 ments and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither 27 he fleeth; and the avenger of blood find him

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without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; 'he 'Or, there 28 shall not be guilty of blood: because he shall be no should have remained in his city of refuge until for him the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall 29 return into the land of his possession. And these things shall be for a statute of judgement unto you throughout your generations in all 30 your dwellings. Whoso killeth any person, the manslayer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against 31 any person that he die. Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to 32 death. And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death

of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land 33 wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land: and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. And thou shalt not defile 34 the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

And the heads of the fathers' houses of the 1 36 family 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 heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel: and they said, 2 The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. And if they be married to 3 any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so shall it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. And 4 when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. And Moses commanded the children of Israel 5 according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. This 6 is the thing which the LORD 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

7 they marry. So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for the children of Israel shall cleave every one 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 possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children. of Israel shall cleave every one to his own 10 inheritance. Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were 12 married unto their father's brothers' sons. They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

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These are the commandments and the judgements, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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the Dead Sea. versions have,

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the Red Sea.

THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES,

COMMONLY CALLED

DEUTERONOMY.

THESE be the words which Moses spake unto 1 1 all Israel beyond Jordan in the wilderness, in the 'Arabah over against 'Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. It is eleven days' journey from 2 Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea. And it came to pass in the fortieth 3 year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; after he had smitten Sihon the king of the 4 Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei: beyond Jordan, in the land of Moab, 5 began Moses to declare this law, saying, The 6 LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: turn you, and take your journey, and go to 7 the hill country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have 8 set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers,

to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give 9 unto them and to their seed after them. And

I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am 10 not able to bear you myself alone: the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and 12 bless you, as he hath promised you! How can

I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your 13 burden, and your strife? Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over 14 you. And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us 15 to do. So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and 17 the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall 18 bring unto me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

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And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our