"'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

"But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.

One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."

The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

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, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.