every one who killeth any person unawares may flee thither. 16 And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be 17 put to death. And if he have smitten him by throwing a stone, by means of which he may die, and he die, he is a 18 murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Or if he have smitten him with a hand-weapon of wood, by means of which he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: 19 the murderer shall surely be put to death. The avenger of blood himself may slay the murderer: when he meeteth 20 him, he may slay him. And if he hath thrust at him through hatred, or thrown any thing at him, lying in wait, 21 so that he die; or through enmity, have smitten him with his hand, so that he die; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood may 22 slay the murderer when he meeteth him. But if suddenly, without enmity, he have thrust at him, or have cast upon 23 him any weapon without lying in wait, or with any stone, by means of which a man may die, seeing him not, and have cast it upon him so that he die, not being his enemy, nor 24 seeking to injure him; then the assembly shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, according to 25 these ordinances; and the assembly shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the 26 high-priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil. But if the manslayer shall at any time come without the boun27 dary of the city of his refuge, whither he had fled, and the avenger of blood find him without the boundary of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; 28 he shall not be guilty of blood; because the manslayer should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high-priest; but after the death of the highpriest, the manslayer may return to the land of his posses29 sion. So these shall be statutes of law to you, throughout 30 your generations, in all your dwellings. Whoever killeth any person, on the testimony of witnesses the murderer shall be put to death; but one witness shall not testify 31 against any person, to cause him to die. Moreover, ye shall take no atonement for the life of a murderer, of one who is 32 guilty of death; but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no atonement for him who hath fled to the city of his refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest. So ye shall not 33 profane the land in which ye are; for blood profaneth the land: and no atonement can be made for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. Defile 34 not therefore the land in which ye abide, in which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell among the children of Israel.” ” CHAP. XXXVI.-And the chief fathers of the families of 1 the children of 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; and they said, " Jehovah commanded my 2 lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. Now, if they become wives to any of the sons 3 of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they shall be received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. Even when the jubilee of the children of Israel 4 shall come, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they shall be received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." And Moses commanded the chil- 5 dren of Israel, according to the word of Jehovah, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath rightly spoken. This is the thing which Jehovah commandeth concerning 6 the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, 'Let them become wives to whomsoever they please; only into a family of the tribe of their fathers they must marry: so shall not the 7 inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for every one of the children of Israel must keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. every daughter, who possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, must be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy, every man the inheritance of his fathers. For the 9 inheritance must not remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel must keep to their own inheritance." " And 8 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the daughters of 10 11 Zelophehad; for Mahla, and Tirza, and Hogla, and Milca, and Noa, the daughters of Zelophehad, became wives to the 12 sons of their uncles. 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. 13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded, by Moses, to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan opposite to Jericho. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. CHAP. I.-These are the words which Moses spake to 1 all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the desert, in the plain over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab; eleven days' journey from Horeb, 2 by the way of mount Seir, to Kadesh-barnea. Now it was 3 in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had charged him to speak to them; after he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, 4 who dwelt in Heshbon; and, at Edrei, Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth: beyond the Jordan, in the 5 land of Moab, it pleased Moses to declare this law, saying, "Jehovah our God spake to us in Horeb, saying, 'Ye have 6 dwelt long enough by this mountain. Turn you, and take your 7 journey, and go to the mountainous country of the Amorites, and to all the places near unto it, in the plain of Jordan, in the mountainous country, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the sea-shore, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. See, I place s the land before you: go and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them, and to their seed after them.' And I spake to you at 9 that time, saying, 'I am not able alone to bear the charge of you. Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, so that, lo, 10 ye are at this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. May Jehovah the God of your fathers make you a thousand 11 times so many more, and may he bless you, as he hath promised you! How can I alone bear the burdensome charge 12 of you and your contentions? contentions? Choose for yourselves men 13 wise, and intelligent, and known among your tribes, whom I may appoint rulers over you.' And ye answered me, and 14 said, "That which thou hast spoken is good to be done.' 15 So I took the chiefs of your tribes, men wise, and known, and made them chiefs over you, rulers over thousands, and rulers over hundreds, rulers over fifties, and rulers over tens, 16 and officers among your tribes. And I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear causes between your brethren, and judge justly between a man and his brother, and the stranger 17 that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small as ye hear the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. But the cause which is too hard for you, ye shall bring to 18 me, and I will hear it.' And I gave you in charge at that time all the things which ye should do. 19 Now when we had departed from Horeb, we went, as Jehovah our God commanded us, through all that great and terrible desert, which ye saw on the way to the mountainous country of the Amorites, and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 Then I said to you, 'Ye are come to the mountainous country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth to us. 21 See, Jehovah thy God hath placed the land before thee: go up, take possession of it, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers 22 hath said to thee; fear not, nor be discouraged.' But ye came near to me every one of you, and said, 'Let us send men before us, who may explore the land for us, and report to us by what way we must go up, and into what cities we 23 shall come.' And the saying pleased me well: and I took 24 twelve men of you, one out of each tribe; and they turned, and went up into the mountainous country, and came to the 25 valley of Eshcol. And they searched out the land, and took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and reported to us, and said, 'The land is good 26 which Jehovah our God giveth us.' Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your 27 God; and ye murmured in your tents, and said, 'Because. Jehovah hateth us, he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to de28 stroy us. Whither shall we go up? our own brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are large and walled up to the heavens; and the sons of the Anakites also we saw there.' 29 Then I said to you, 'Dread not, nor be afraid of them. 30 Jehovah your God, who goeth before you, will himself fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before 31 your eyes; and as he hath done in the desert, where |