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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Towns for the Levites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.35.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The pasturelands around the towns that you give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1,500 feet or about 450 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the town wall. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3,000 feet or about 900 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west and two thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cities of Refuge</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses: </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.35.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.35.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.35.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is to have the force of law for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.35.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.35.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.35.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.35.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.35.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.35.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.35.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.35.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.35.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, dwell among the Israelites.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Inheritance of Zelophehad&#8217;s Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.36.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: &#8220;What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commands for Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father&#8217;s tribal clan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father&#8217;s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.36.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters&#8212;Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah&#8212;married their cousins on their father&#8217;s side. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father&#8217;s tribe and clan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These are the commands and regulations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">52</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 52</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 52:1-9 is numbered 52:3-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: &#8220;David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">Why do you boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You who practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">your tongue plots destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">it is like a sharpened razor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You love evil rather than good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">falsehood rather than speaking the truth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You love every harmful word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">you deceitful tongue!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">he will uproot you from the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteous will see and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">they will laugh at you, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here now is the man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">who did not make God his stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">but trusted in his great wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">and grew strong by destroying others!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But I am like an olive tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">flourishing in the house of God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">I trust in God&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For what you have done I will always praise you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">in the presence of your faithful people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">And I will hope in your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">for your name is good.</span></span></div>
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