The laws of murder Before NUMBERS. Before CHRIST 1451. and manslaughter. few ye shall give few: every one | ly a without enmity, or have cast CHRIST shall give of his cities unto the upon him any thing without layLevites according to his inheritance which the inheriteth. 1451. † Heb. they inherit. f Deut. 19. 2. Josh. 20. 2. Ex. 21. 13. † Heb. by error. h Deut. 19. 6. Josh. 20. 3, 5,6, i ver. 6. k Deut. 4. 41. Joshi. 20. 8. 1ch. 15. 16. m Ex. 21. 12, 9 And the LORD spake unto 10 Speak unto the children 11 Then ye shall appoint you 12 h And they shall be unto you 14 Ye shall give three cities on ing of wait, 23 Or with any stone, where- Ex. 21. 13. with a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm: 24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments: 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and she shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; r ver. 12. Josh. 20. 6. Josh. 20. 6. Lev. 4. 3. & 27 And the revenger of blood 15 These six cities shall be a 16 m And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that Deut. 19. 11, he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The revenger of blood him-derer, which is † guilty of death: + Heb. faul 32 And ye shall take no satisfac- 21 Or in enmity smite him with Mic. 4. 11. † Heb. there can be no expiation for the land. Gen. 9. 6. Of the marriage of heiresses. 34 a Defile not therefore the land | The tribe of the sons of Joseph which ye shall inhabit, wherein I e hath said well. dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. CHAPTER XXXVI. 1 The inconvenience of the inheritance of daughters 5 is remedied by marrying in should be removed from the tribe. 10 The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father's brothers' sons. their own tribes, 7 lest the inheritance ND the chief fathers of the 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 LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an 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. 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 jubilee 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 LORD, saying, Before CHRIST 1451. e ch. 27. 7. 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom Heb. be they think best; fonly 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 ts keep himself to the inherit- 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: wives. f ver. 12. Heb. cleave to the,&c. 51 Kings 21.3. h1 Chr. 23. 22. 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and i ch. 27. 1. Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons: 12 And 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. † Heb. to some that were of the families." 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth 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; 4 d After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Num. 21. 33. Astaroth ein Edrei: Josh. 13. 12. 1491. f Ex. 3. 1. See Ex. 19. 1. Num. 10. 11. neighbours. 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us fin Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the + Heb. all his Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: Before CHRIST 1451. 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, kyek Gen. 15. 5. are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. ch. 10. 22. & 28. 62. 11 (The LORD God of your fa- 12Sam. 24. 3. thers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, mas he hath promised Gen. 15.5. you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? & 22. 17. & 26. 4. Ex. 32. 13. n1 Kings 3. 8, 9. 21. Num. 11. 16, 13 of Take you wise men, and See Ex. 18. understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 17. † Heb. Give. P Ex. 18. 25. 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, Pand made them heads over you, captains over thousands, Heb. gave. and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. 4 ch. 16. 18. John 7. 24. r Lev. 24. 22. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not trespect per- Lev. 19. 15. sons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judg-knowledge ment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, u bring "Ex. 13. 22, it unto me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 9 And I spake unto you at Kadesh-barnea. The story of what befell Israel Before CHRIST 1451. z Joshi. 1. 9. 1490. DEUTERONOMY. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me Num. 13. 3. Well; and a I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: b Num. 13. 22, 23, 24. 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, Num. 13. 27. It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. d Num. 14. 1, 2, 3, 4. Ps. 106. 24, 25. ch. 9. 28. c 26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have † discouraged our heart, saying, The people is f Num. 13. 28, greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the 5 Anakim there. ↑ Heb. melted, Josh. 2. 11. 31, 32, 33. ch. 9. 1, 2. 8 Num. 13 28. h Ex. 14. 14, 25. Neh. 4. 20. i Ex. 19. 4. 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 h The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the ch. 32. 11, 12. LORD thy God ibare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Is. 46, 3, 4. k Ps. 106. 24. Jude 5. 1 Ex. 13. 21. Ps. 78. 14. 32 Yet in this thing kye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way be Before on their way toward Canaan. fore you, mto search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in CHRIST fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the Voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 1451. m Num. 10. 33. Ez. 20. 6. n ch. 2. 14, 15. 23. 1491. Ps. 95. 11. 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil genera- Num. 14. 22, tion see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36 PSave Caleb the son of Je- P Num. 14. 24, phunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. r 30. Josh. 14. 9. 4 Num. 14. 24. † Heb. fulfilled to go after. & 27. 14. ch. 3. 26. & 4. 21. & 34.4. Ps. 106. 32. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Num. 20. 12. Thou also shalt not go in thither. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: "encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. sNum. 14. 30. Ex. 24. 13. & 33.11. See 1 Sam. 16, 22. u Num.27. 18, 39 Moreover your little ones, which y ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 40 a But as for you, turn you, Num. 14. 25. and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. 41 Then ye answered and said Num. 14. 40. unto me, "We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. 42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, eGo not up, nei- Num. 14. 42. ther fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and twent presumptu- Num. 14. 44, ously up into the hill. 12 m The Horim also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the chil- CHRIST dren of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto, the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them. 13 I, 1 The story is continued, that they were not to meddle with the Edomites, 9 nor with the Moabites, 17 nor with the Ammonites, 24 but Sihon the Amorite was subdued by them. HEN we turned, and took t Heb. inher ited them. Or, room. Tour journey into the wildekyb3 Now rise up, said and ect a Num. 21. 12. ness by the way of the Red sea, Num. 14. 25. as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. ch. 1. 40. b See ver. 7, 14. 2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying, 3 Ye have compassed this mountain blong enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the peoNum. 20. 14. ple, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: d Gen. 36. 8. Josh. 24. 4. ch. 8. 2, 3, 4. f Judg. 11. 18. 1 Kings 9. 25. 1Or, Use no hostility against Moab. h Num. 21. 28. i Gen. 19. 36, 37. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may cat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: e these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 10 The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and 1 Num. 13. 22, many, and tall, as the Anakim; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. k Gen. 14. 5. 33. ch. 9. 2. Num. 13. 23. And we went over the brook Or, valley, Zered. 14 And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, un- Num. 13. 26. til we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; Puntil all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD Sware unto them. PNum. 14.33. & 26, 64. Num. 14.35. ch. 1. 34, 35. Ez. 20. 15. 106. 26. 15 For indeed the rhand of the Ps. 78. 33. & LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying, 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a Gen. 19. 38. possession. 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them 't Zamzum-Gen. 14. 5, mim; 21 "A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: 22 As he did to the children of Esau, xwhich dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed ythe Horim from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 23 And the Avim which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto a Azzah, the Caphtorim, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Ar |