And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?

And why do you break the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them?

For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they broke the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.

Surely, none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed Me,

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed Jehovah.

And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation which had done evil in the sight of Jehovah was destroyed.

And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

For if you turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness. And you shall destroy all this people.

but we ourselves will go ready armed before the sons of Israel until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fenced cities because of those who live in the land.

We will not return to our houses until the sons of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of Jordan, eastward.

And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before Jehovah to war,

and all of you will go armed over Jordan before Jehovah until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Jehovah. And be sure your sin will find you out.

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

And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead.

So regarding them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will go with you over Jordan, each armed to battle before Jehovah, and the land shall be humbled before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.

But if they will not go over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to your servants, so we will do.

We will go over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.

And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities in the borders, the cities of the land all around.

And the sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjath-aim,

And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorite who was in it.

And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns of it, and called them Towns of Jair.

These are the journeys of the sons of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the command of Jehovah. And these are their journeys according to their starting-places.

And they pulled up stakes from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes from Rameses and pitched in Succoth.

And they pulled up stakes from Succoth and pitched in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

And they pulled up stakes from Etham and turned again to Pihahiroth which is in front of Baal-zephon. And they pitched in front of Migdol.

And they pulled up stakes from before Pihahiroth and passed through the middle of the Sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

And they pulled up stakes from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees. And they pitched there.

And they pulled up stakes from the Red Sea and pitched in the wilderness of Sin.

And they pulled up stakes from of the wilderness of Sin and pitched in Dophkah.

And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

And they pulled up stakes from the wilderness of Sinai and pitched at The Graves of Lust.

And they pulled up stakes from The Graves of Lust and pitched at Hazeroth.

And they pulled up stakes from Bene-jaakan and pitched at the Hole of the Cleft.

And they pulled up stakes from the Hole of the Cleft and pitched in Jotbathah.

And they pulled up stakes from Ezion-geber and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

And they pulled up stakes from Kadesh and pitched in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

And Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of Jehovah and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come up out of the land of Egypt, in the first of the fifth month.

And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.

And they pulled up stakes from Oboth and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.

And they pulled up stakes from Almon-diblathaim and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

And they pulled up stakes from the mountains of Abarim and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.

And they pitched by Jordan, from The House of Deserts to The Meadow of Acacias in the plains of Moab.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab beside Jordan, at Jericho, saying,

Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

And you shall divide the land by lot by your families. And you shall give the more inheritance to the many; to the few you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls out to him; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.

But if you will not drive out the people of the land from before you, then it will be, those of them whom you let remain shall be goads in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live.

Command the sons of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders.

And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your south border shall be the furthest coast of the Salt Sea eastward.

And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin. And its limit shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon.

And the border shall turn from Azmon to the torrent of Egypt, and the end of it shall be at the sea.

From Mount Hor you shall point your border to the entrance of Hamath. And the end of the border shall be at Zedad.

And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the end of it shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.

And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the Sea of Chinnereth eastward.

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the end of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with the borders of it all around.

And Moses commanded the sons of Israel saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Jehovah commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.

For the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to the house of their fathers. And half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.

And the names of the men are these. Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

And of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

And of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

And the ruler of the tribe of the sons of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.

The ruler of the sons of Joseph, for the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

And the ruler of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

And the ruler of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

And the ruler of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, Paltiel, the son of Azzan.

And the ruler of the tribe of the sons of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

And the ruler of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

These are the ones to whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab beside Jordan, at Jericho, saying,

Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites, from the land of their possessions cities to live in. And you shall give to the Levites suburbs for the cities all around them.

And the open lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around.

And you shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. And the city shall be in the middle. This shall be to them the open land of the cities.

And the cities which you shall give shall be of the possessions of the sons of Israel. You shall give many from those who have many. But from those who have few you shall give few. Everyone shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.

Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.

And of those cities which you shall give, you shall have six cities for refuge.

You shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan to be cities of refuge.

These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger, and for anyone who stays among them, so that everyone who kills any person through error may flee there.

And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

And if he strikes him by throwing a stone, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Or if he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

The revenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him.

And if he stabs him from hatred, or hurls at him by lying in wait, so that he dies,

or in hatred strikes him with his hand so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely he put to death. He is a murderer. The revenger of blood will kill the murderer when he meets him.

But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait,

or with any stone with which a man may die if he does not see, and throws it upon him so that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm,

then the congregation shall judge between the one who kills and the revenger of blood according to these judgments.

And the congregation shall deliver the one who kills out of the hand of the revenger of blood. And the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled. And he shall stay in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

But if the one who killed shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge to which he had fled,

and if the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and if the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,

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 one who killed shall return to the land of his possession.