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Numbers 33–35
Recounting of Wandering; Borders of Israel; Rules for the Distribution of the Land; Laws Related to Homicide and Cities of Refuge
And these are stations of the sons of Israel, as they went out of the land of Egypt together
with their force by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And Moses wrote down their departures in their stations through the word the Lord, and
these are stations of their journey.
They set out from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month.
On the day after the Pasha, the sons of Israel went out, with a high hand before all the
stations.
And the Egyptians were burying all those of them who had died, whom the Lord struck
down, every first born in the land of Egypt, and among their gods the Lord executed vengeance.
And when the sons of Israel set out from Ramesses, they encamped at Sokath.
And they set out from Sokath an encamped at Boothon, which is some part of the wilderness.
And they set out from Boothon an encamped at Hyroth's mouth, which is opposite Baal Zafan.
And they encamped opposite Magdalos, and they set out from before Hyroth, and crossed
through the middle of the sea into the wilderness.
And they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and they encamped at Bitternesses.
And they set out from Bitternesses and came to Eileem, and in Eileem there were twelve
springs of water and seventy-date palm trunks, and they encamped there beside the water.
And they set out from Eileem and encamped by the Red Sea.
And they set out from the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and encamped at Rafaqah.
And they set out from Rafaqah and encamped in Iloos.
And they set out from Iloos and encamped at Rafidin.
And there was no water for the people to drink there.
And they set out from Rafidin and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and encamped in tombs of Craving.
And they set out from tombs of craving and encamped in Haasaroth.
And they set out from Haasaroth and encamped in Rathama.
And they set out from Rathama and encamped in Raman Faraz.
And they set out from Raman Faraz and encamped in Labona.
And they set out from Labona and encamped at Dasha.
And they set out from Dasha and encamped at Makaloth.
And they set out from Makaloth and encamped at Safar.
And they set out from Saffar and encamped at Karadath.
And they set out from Karadath and encamped at Makalath.
And they set out from Makalath and encamped at Kataath.
And they set out from Kataath and encamped at Tarath.
And they set out from Tarath and encamped at Matakar.
And they set out from Matakar and encamped at Hasselmonah.
And they set out from Hasselmonah and encamped at Masaruth.
They set out from Masa-Ruth and encamped it by Nakan.
And they set out from by Nakan and encamped it the mountain of God-God.
And they set out from the mountain of God-God and encamped it at a Batha.
And they set out from Etabatha and encamped it to Brona.
And they set out from Ebrona and encamped it Ghezeon-Geber.
And they set out from Ghezeon-Geber and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they set out from the wilderness of sin, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan.
This is Kadesh.
And they set out from Kadesh and encamped at Hore.
The mountain near the land of Edom.
And Aaron the priest went up by the ordnance of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth
year of the departure of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt.
In the fifth month, on the first of the month, and Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years
old when he died on Hore the mountain.
And Kanani's king of Arad, and he was living in the land of Canaan, heard when the sons
of Israel were coming in.
And they set out from Hore the mountain and encamped at Selmona.
And they set out from Selmona and encamped at Fino.
And they set out from Fino and encamped at Obaf.
And they set out from Obaf and encamped in Guy, on the other side on the borders of Moab.
And they set out from Guy and encamped at Daibon Gad.
And they set out from Daibon Gad and encamped in Gelmond de Blathayim.
And they set out from Gelmond de Blathayim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, opposite
Nabau.
And they set out from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped to the west of Moab by the Jordan
opposite Jericho.
And they encamped by the Jordan between Hassimonth, as far as Belsatim to the west of Moab.
And the Lord spoke to Moses at the west of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho saying,
Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, As for you, you are crossing the
Jordan into the land of Canaan.
And you shall destroy all those who live in the land before you.
And you shall remove their lookouts.
And as for all their molten idols you shall destroy them.
And all their steelies you shall remove.
And you shall destroy the inhabitants of the land.
And you shall settle in it.
Or to you I have given their land as an allotment.
And you shall obtain their land as a possession by lot, according to your tribes.
To the more numerous ones you shall increase their possession.
And to the less numerous ones you shall decrease their possession.
To what his name goes out there, his shall it be, according to your paternal tribes you
shall inherit.
But if you do not destroy those living on the land from before you, then it shall be
that whomever of them you leave shall be thorns in your eyes and missiles in your sides.
And they shall act with hostility upon the land on which you will settle.
And it shall be, just as I had resolved to do to them, I will do to you.
And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Command the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them,
As for you, you are entering into the land of Canaan.
This shall be to you for inheritance, the land of Canaan together with its borders.
And the side that is to the southwest shall be for you from the wilderness of Sin, as far
as next to Eden.
And the borders to the southwest shall be for you from the part of the salt sea on the east.
And your brothers shall go around you from the southwest to the ascent of Akrabin.
And they shall pass along Sinah.
And its outlet shall be to the southwest of Kadesh of Barnia.
And it shall go out to the steady of Arad.
And it shall pass along Asimona.
And the border shall go around from Asimona to the Wadi of Egypt.
And the outlet shall be the sea.
And the boundaries of the sea shall be for you.
The great sea shall determine the border.
This shall be for you the boundaries of the sea.
And this shall be the borders for you to the north.
From the great sea you shall measure out for yourselves along the mountain.
The mountain and from the mountain, the mountain you shall measure for them as they enter into
Himoth.
And its outlet shall be the borders of Sarada.
And the borders shall go out to Defrona.
And its outlet shall be Haasarnaine.
This shall be for you the borders from the north.
And Moses commanded the sons of Israel saying,
this is the land that you shall obtain as a possession by Lot,
in the manner that the Lord instructed Moses to give it to the nine tribes into the half
tribe of Manasseh.
For Ruben's sons tribe and Gad's sons tribe received according to their paternal houses
and the half tribe of Manasseh accepted their allotments.
Two tribes and a half tribe received their allotments beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho
from the south towards the east.
And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, these are the names of the men who shall inherit the
land for you, the priest Eliasar and Jesus the son of Nauai.
And you shall take one ruler from a tribe to obtain for you the land is a possession.
And these are the names of the men of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, son of Jaffana, of the
tribe of Simon, Selameel, son of Emeud, of the tribe of Benjamin, Eldad, son of Kaizlán,
of the tribe of Dan, a ruler Bakir, son of Eglie, of the sons of Joseph, of Manasseh's
sons tribe, a ruler Haniel, son of Ufid, of the tribe of Ephraim, sons, a ruler Camuel,
son of Sabatha, of the tribe of Zabulán, a ruler Elizafan, son of Farnaq, of the tribe
of Isikar, sons, a ruler Faltiel, son of Oza, of the tribe of Asher's sons, a ruler
Akior, son of Selameel, of the tribe of Naftali, a ruler Fadiel, son of Banu Emeud.
These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to make the distribution for the sons of Israel
in the land of Canaan.
And the Lord spoke to Moses to the west of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho saying,
instruct the sons of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites from the allotments of their
possessions cities to live in, and the suburbs of the cities around them they shall give
to the Levites, and the cities shall be for them to live in, and their areas set apart
shall be for their cattle, and for all their quadrupeds, and the areas adjoining the cities
that you shall give to the Levites shall be from the city wall and outwards, two thousand
cubits all around, and you shall measure outside the city, the side towards the east, two
thousand cubits, and the side towards the southwest, two thousand cubits, and the side towards
the sea, two thousand cubits, and the side towards the north, two thousand cubits, and the
city in the midst of this shall be for you, and the contiguous areas of the cities.
Even the cities that you shall give to the Levites, the six cities of places of refuge,
that you shall give to the murderer to flee there, and in addition to these 42 cities,
all the cities that you shall give to the Levites are forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs,
even the cities that you shall give from the possession of Israel's sons, many from those
with many, and fewer from those with fewer.
They shall give of their cities to the Levites, each one according to his inheritance that
they shall inherit, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the sons of Israel,
and you shall say to them, as for you, you are crossing the Jordan into the land of
Canaan, and you shall set aside for yourselves cities, they shall be places of refuge for
you for the murderer to flee there, everyone who strikes a soul unintentionally, and the
cities shall be for you places of refuge from one doing the relative's blood duty, and
the one that commits murder will not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
And the cities that you give as the six cities shall be places of refuge for you, three cities
you shall give beyond the Jordan, and three cities you shall give in the land of Canaan,
they shall be an asylum for the sons of Israel, and for the guest and for the resident alien
among you, these cities shall be a place of refuge for everyone to flee there, when he strikes
a soul unintentionally.
But if he strikes him with an iron instrument and he dies, he is a murderer, let the murderer
be put to death by death.
Now if he strikes him with a stone out of hand by which he may die, and he dies, he is
a murderer, let the murderer be put to death by death.
Now if he strikes him with a wooden instrument out of hand, from which he may die, and he dies,
he is a murderer, let the murderer be put to death by death.
As for the one doing the relative's blood duty, he shall kill the one that committed murder,
when he meets up with him, he shall kill him.
Now out of enmity he pushes him, and hurls at him any object from an ambush and he dies,
or out of rage he struck him with the hand and he dies, let the one who struck be put to
death by death.
He is a murderer, let the murderer be put to death by death.
The one doing the relative's blood duty shall strike the one that committed murder when
he meets him.
But if he pushes him suddenly, not out of enmity, or throws at him any object not from an
ambush, or with any stone by which he may die unknowingly, and it falls upon him, and
he dies, but he was not his enemy, nor was he seeking to harm him.
Then the congregation shall judge between the striker, and between the one doing the
relative's blood duty, according to these judgments.
And the congregation shall rescue the one that committed murder from the one doing the
relative's blood duty.
And the congregation shall restore him to the city of his place of refuge, where he fled
for refuge, and he shall live there until the great priest dies, him whom they anointed
with the holy oil.
But if he that commits murder by an exit leaves the bounds of the city, there where he fled
for refuge, and the one doing the relative's blood duty finds him outside the bounds of
the city of his refuge.
And the one doing the relative's blood duty kills the one that committed murder, he is
not liable, for let him live in the city of refuge until the great priest dies, and after
the great priest dies, he that committed murder shall return to the land of his possession.
And these things shall be for you a requirement of judgment for your generations and all your
settlements.
Every one when he strikes a soul, through witnesses you shall kill the murderer, and one witness
shall not bear witness against a soul that he should die, and you shall not receive ransom
for a soul from the one that committed murder, liable to be killed, for he shall be put to
death by death.
And you shall not receive ransom to flee to a city of places of refuge, to live again
on the land until the great priest dies, and you shall not kill by murder the land on
which you live, for this blood kills the land by murder, and the land shall not be atone
for from the blood that was shed upon it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
And you shall not defile the land that you live upon, on which I will encamp among you,
for I am the Lord, encamping in the midst of the sons of Israel.

