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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Today's reading is from Numbers chapter 35 and 36.

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Chapter 35

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And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho,

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saying, command the children of Israel, that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from

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the inheritance of their possession.

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And ye shall also give the Levites common land around the cities.

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They shall have the cities to dwell in, and their common land shall be for their cattle,

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for their herds, and for all their animals.

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The common land of the cities which ye will give the Levites shall extend from the wall

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of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.

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And ye shall measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south

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side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side

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two thousand cubits.

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The city shall be in the middle.

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This shall belong to them as common land for the cities.

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Now among the cities which ye will give to the Levites ye shall appoint six cities of

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refuge to which a manslayer may flee.

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And to these ye shall add forty-two cities.

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So all the cities ye will give to the Levites shall be forty-eight.

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These ye shall give with their common land.

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And the cities which ye will give shall be from the possession of the children of Israel.

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From the larger tribe ye shall give many, from the smaller ye shall give few.

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Each shall give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance that

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each receives.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them,

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When ye cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then ye shall appoint cities to be

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cities of refuge for you.

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The manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

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They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger.

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The manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

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And of the cities which ye give ye shall have six cities of refuge.

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Ye shall appoint three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities ye shall appoint

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in the land of Canaan which will be cities of refuge.

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These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger and for

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the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills a person accidentally may flee there.

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But if he strikes him with an iron implement so that he dies, he is a murderer, the murderer

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shall surely be put to death.

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And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand by which one could die, and he does die,

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he is a murderer, the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he

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is a murderer, the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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The avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death.

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When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

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If he pushes him out of hatred, or while lying in wait, hurls something at him so that he

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dies, or in enmity, he strikes him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck him

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shall surely be put to death.

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He is a murderer, the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

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However, if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws anything at him without

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lying in wait, or uses a stone by which a man could die, throwing it at him without

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seeing him, so that he dies, while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm, then the

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congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these

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judgments.

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So the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and

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the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and he shall

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remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

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But if the manslayer at any time goes outside the limits of the city of refuge where he

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fled and the avenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge and the avenger

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of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood, because he should have

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remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of

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the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

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And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all

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your dwellings.

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Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses,

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but one witness is not sufficient testimony against a person for the death penalty.

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Moreover, you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death,

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but he shall surely be put to death.

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And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge that he may return

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to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

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So you shall not pollute the land where you are, for blood defiles the land, and no atonement

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can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it except by the blood of him who

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shed it.

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Therefore, do not defile the land which you inhabit in the midst of which I dwell, for

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I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

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Chapter 36 Now the chief fathers of the families of the

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children of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons

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of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the chief fathers

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of the children of Israel.

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And they said, The LORD commanded my lord Moses to give the land as an inheritance by lot

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to the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance

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of our brother Zilophiad to his daughters.

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Now if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel,

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then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and it will

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be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry.

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So it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

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And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added

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to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry.

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So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

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Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying,

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What the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right.

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This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zilophiad, saying, Let them

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marry whom they think best, but they may marry only within the family of their fathers' tribe.

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So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe,

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for every one of the children of Israel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall

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be the wife of one of the family of her father's tribe, so that the children of Israel each

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may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

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Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the

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children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.

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Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zilophiad.

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Ammala, Dirza, Hogla, Melka, and Noah, the daughters of Zilophiad, were married to the

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sons of their fathers' brothers.

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They were married into the families of the children of Menasseh, the son of Joseph, and

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their inheritance remained in the tribe of their fathers' family.

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These are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded the children of Israel

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by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

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And this is the conclusion of the fourth book of the Old Testament, and tomorrow, by the

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grace of God, will begin the fifth and final book of the Pentateuch, the book of Deuteronomy.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.