and her husband hears about it, says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.

but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.

and 32,000 people, all the females who had not had sexual relations with a man.

and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

‘Because they did not follow Me completely, none of the men 20 years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance will be across the Jordan to the east.”

You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

or without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and wasn’t trying to harm him,

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.

“Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, Yahweh, reside among the Israelites.”

An inheritance belonging to the Israelites must not transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.