Mattot-Massei

B'midbar 30:2(1)* - 36:13
B’midbar 30:1 (30:2) Then Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el. He said, "Here is what YHVH has ordered:
B’midbar 30:2 (30:3) when a man makes a vow to YHVH or formally obligates himself by swearing an oath, he is not to break his word but is to do everything he said he would do.
B’midbar 30:3 (30:4) "When a woman makes a vow to YHVH, formally obligating herself, while she is a minor living in her father's house;
B’midbar 30:4 (30:5) then, if her father has heard what she vowed or obligated herself to do and holds his peace, then all her vows remain binding — every obligation she has bound herself to will stand.
B’midbar 30:5 (30:6) But if on the day her father hears it, he expresses his disapproval, then none of her vows or obligations she has bound herself to will stand; and YHVH will forgive her, because her father expressed his disapproval.
B’midbar 30:6 (30:7) "If, having made vows or rashly committed herself to an obligation, she gets married;
B’midbar 30:7 (30:8) and her husband hears but holds his peace with her on the day he learns of it, then her vows and obligations she has bound herself to will stand.
B’midbar 30:8 (30:9) But if her husband expresses his disapproval on the day he hears it, he will void the vow which is on her and the obligation to which she has bound herself; and YHVH will forgive her.
B’midbar 30:9 (30:10) "The vow of a widow, however, or of a divorcee, including everything to which she has obligated herself, will stand against her.
B’midbar 30:10 (30:11) "If a woman vowed in her husband's house or obligated herself with an oath;
B’midbar 30:11 (30:12) and her husband heard it but held his peace with her and did not express disapproval, then all her vows and obligations will stand.
B’midbar 30:12 (30:13) But if her husband makes them null and void on the day he hears them, then whatever she said, vows or binding obligation, will not stand; her husband has voided them; and YHVH will forgive her.
B’midbar 30:13 (30:14) Her husband may let every vow and every binding obligation stand, or he may void it.
B’midbar 30:14 (30:15) But if her husband entirely holds his peace with her day after day, then he confirms all her vows and obligations; he must let them stand, because he held his peace with her on the day he heard them.
B’midbar 30:15 (30:16) If he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he will bear the consequent guilt."
B’midbar 30:16 (30:17) These are the laws which YHVH ordered Moshe between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, if she is a minor living in her father's house.
B’midbar 31:1 YHVH said to Moshe,
B’midbar 31:2 "On behalf of the people of Yisra’el, take vengeance on the Midyanim. After that, you will be gathered to your people."
B’midbar 31:3 Moshe said to the people, "Equip men from among yourselves for war. They are to go and fight Midyan, in order to carry out YHVH's vengeance on Midyan.
B’midbar 31:4 You are to send to the war a thousand men from every one of Yisra’el's tribes."
B’midbar 31:5 So out of the thousands of people in Yisra’el, a thousand armed men from each tribe, 12,000 altogether, were mustered for war.
B’midbar 31:6 Moshe sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war; he sent them and Pinchas the son of El`azar the kohen to the war, with the kadosh utensils and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his care.
B’midbar 31:7 They fought against Midyan, as YHVH had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.
B’midbar 31:8 They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain — Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil`am the son of B`or with the sword.
B’midbar 31:9 The people of Yisra’el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones, and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods.
B’midbar 31:10 They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps.
B’midbar 31:11 They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,
B’midbar 31:12 and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El`azar the kohen and the community of Yisra’el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.
B’midbar 31:13 Moshe, El`azar the kohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.
B’midbar 31:14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.
B’midbar 31:15 Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?
B’midbar 31:16 Why, these are the ones who — because of Bil`am's advice — caused the people of Yisra’el to rebel, breaking faith with YHVH in the P`or incident, so that the plague broke out among YHVH's community!
B’midbar 31:17 Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.
B’midbar 31:18 But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
B’midbar 31:19 Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third and seventh days, you and your captives.
B’midbar 31:20 Also purify every garment, whether of skin or goat's hair, and everything made of wood."
B’midbar 31:21 El`azar the kohen said to the soldiers who had gone to the front, "This is the regulation from the Torah which YHVH has ordered Moshe.
B’midbar 31:22 Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead
B’midbar 31:23 can all withstand fire, so that you are indeed to purify everything made of these materials by having them pass through fire; nevertheless they must also be purified with the water for purification. Everything that can't withstand fire you are to have go through the water.
B’midbar 31:24 On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after that you may enter the camp."
B’midbar 31:25 YHVH said to Moshe,
B’midbar 31:26 "Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El`azar the kohen and the leaders of clans in the community;
B’midbar 31:27 and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community.
B’midbar 31:28 From the portion of the soldiers who went out to battle, levy a tax for YHVH consisting of one-five-hundredth of the persons, cattle, donkeys and sheep;
B’midbar 31:29 take it from their half and give it to El`azar the kohen as a portion set apart for YHVH.
B’midbar 31:30 From the half that goes to the people of Yisra’el, you are to take one-fiftieth of the persons, and of the cattle, donkeys and sheep, that is, of all the livestock; and give them to the L'vi'im taking care of the tabernacle of YHVH."
B’midbar 31:31 Moshe and El`azar the kohen did as YHVH had ordered Moshe.
B’midbar 31:32 The booty, over and above the portion which the soldiers took, came to 675,000 sheep,
B’midbar 31:33 72,000 cattle,
B’midbar 31:34 61,000 donkeys,
B’midbar 31:35 and 32,000 persons in all, consisting of the women who had never slept with a man.
B’midbar 31:36 The half which was the portion of the soldiers who went out to fight, numbered 337,500 sheep,
B’midbar 31:37 of which YHVH's tribute was 675;
B’midbar 31:38 36,000 cattle, of which YHVH's tribute was seventy-two;
B’midbar 31:39 30,500 donkeys, of which YHVH's tribute was sixty-one;
B’midbar 31:40 and 16,000 persons, of whom YHVH's tribute was thirty-two persons.
B’midbar 31:41 Moshe gave the tribute set apart for YHVH to El`azar the kohen, as YHVH had ordered Moshe.
B’midbar 31:42 From the half that went to people of Yisra’el, which Moshe separated from that of the men who had gone to fight —
B’midbar 31:43 now the community's half consisted of 337,500 sheep,
B’midbar 31:44 36,000 cattle,
B’midbar 31:45 30,500 donkeys
B’midbar 31:46 and 16,000 persons —
B’midbar 31:47 from the people of Yisra’el's half, Moshe took one-fiftieth of the persons and animals and gave them to the L'vi'im taking care of the tabernacle of YHVH, as YHVH had ordered Moshe.
B’midbar 31:48 The officers in charge of the thousands who fought, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, approached Moshe
B’midbar 31:49 and said to him, "Your servants have counted all the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.
B’midbar 31:50 We have brought an offering for YHVH, what every man has obtained in the way of gold jewelry — armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and belts — to make atonement for ourselves before YHVH."
B’midbar 31:51 Moshe and El`azar the kohen accepted their gold, all the jewelry.
B’midbar 31:52 All the gold in this gift which the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds set apart for YHVH weighed 420 pounds.
B’midbar 31:53 For the soldiers had taken booty, every man for himself.
B’midbar 31:54 Moshe and El`azar the kohen took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a reminder for the people of Yisra’el before YHVH.
B’midbar 32:1 The descendants of Re'uven and the descendants of Gad had vast quantities of livestock. When they saw that the land of Ya`zer and the land of Gil`ad were good for livestock,
B’midbar 32:2 the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven came and spoke to Moshe, El`azar the kohen and the community leaders. They said,
B’midbar 32:3 " `Atarot, Divon, Ya`zer, Nimrah, Heshbon, El`aleh, S'vam, N'vo and Be`on,
B’midbar 32:4 the country that YHVH conquered before the community of Yisra’el, is livestock country; and your servants have livestock.
B’midbar 32:5 If you regard us favorably," they went on, "let this land be given to your servants as their possession; and don't have us cross the Yarden."
B’midbar 32:6 Moshe answered the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven: "Are your brothers to go to war while you stay here?
B’midbar 32:7 Besides, why are you trying to discourage the people of Yisra’el from crossing into the land YHVH gave them?
B’midbar 32:8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.
B’midbar 32:9 For when they went up to the Eshkol Valley and saw the land, they disheartened the people of Yisra’el, so that they wouldn't enter the land YHVH had given them.
B’midbar 32:10 YHVH's anger blazed up on that day; and he swore,
B’midbar 32:11 'None of the people aged twenty or more who came out of Mitsrayim will see the land I swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya`akov; because they haven't followed me unreservedly —
B’midbar 32:12 except Kalev the son of Y'funeh the K'nizi and Y'hoshua the son of Nun, because they have followed YHVH unreservedly.'
B’midbar 32:13 Thus YHVH's anger blazed against Yisra’el, so that he made them wander here and there in the desert forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of YHVH had died out.
B’midbar 32:14 Now you, another brood of sinners, have arisen in your fathers' place to increase still more the fierce anger of YHVH toward Yisra’el!
B’midbar 32:15 For if you turn away from him, he will leave them in the desert again, and thus you will cause the destruction of all these people!"
B’midbar 32:16 But they came up to him and said, "Here we will build enclosures for our livestock and cities for our little ones,
B’midbar 32:17 but we ourselves will be armed and ready for action to march at the head of the people of Yisra’el, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones will stay in the fortified cities here because of the people now living in the land.
B’midbar 32:18 However, we will not return to our own homes until every man in Yisra’el has taken possession of his land for inheritance.
B’midbar 32:19 We will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Yarden, westward; because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Yarden, eastward."
B’midbar 32:20 Moshe said to them, "If you will do this — if you will arm yourselves to go before YHVH to the war,
B’midbar 32:21 and if every one of your soldiers will cross the Yarden before YHVH, until he has driven out his enemies ahead of him,
B’midbar 32:22 and if the land has been conquered before YHVH, and only after that do you return — then you will be clear before YHVH and before Yisra’el, and this land here will be yours to possess before YHVH.
B’midbar 32:23 But if you will not do this, then you have sinned against YHVH, and you must understand that your sin will find you out.
B’midbar 32:24 Build cities for your little ones and enclosures for your sheep; then do what you said you would do."
B’midbar 32:25 The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Re'uven said to Moshe, "Your servants will do as my master orders.
B’midbar 32:26 Our little ones, wives, flocks and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gil`ad;
B’midbar 32:27 but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before YHVH to do battle, as my master says."
B’midbar 32:28 So Moshe gave orders concerning them to El`azar the kohen, Y'hoshua the son of Nun and the clan leaders of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el.
B’midbar 32:29 Moshe said to them, "If the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven cross over the Yarden with you, every man armed for battle, before YHVH; and if the land is conquered before you, then you are to give them the land of Gil`ad as theirs to possess.
B’midbar 32:30 But if they do not cross with you armed, they are to possess land along with you in Kena`an."
B’midbar 32:31 The descendants of Gad and of Re'uven answered, "We will do as YHVH has said to your servants.
B’midbar 32:32 We will cross over into the land of Kena`an armed before YHVH, and the land we will possess for inheritance will be on this side of the Yarden."
B’midbar 32:33 So Moshe gave the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven, and also to the half-tribe of M'nasheh the son of Yosef, the kingdom of Sichon king of the Emori and the kingdom of `Og king of Bashan — the country and its cities within its borders, along with their surrounding towns.
B’midbar 32:34 The descendants of Gad built Divon, `Atarot, `Aro`er,
B’midbar 32:35 `Atrot-Shofan, Ya`zer, Yogbehah,
B’midbar 32:36 Beit-Nimrah and Beit-Haran — fortified cities; and also enclosures for sheep.
B’midbar 32:37 The descendants of Re'uven built Heshbon, El`aleh, Kiryatayim,
B’midbar 32:38 N'vo, Ba`al-M`on (these names have been changed) and Sivmah; they renamed the cities they built.
B’midbar 32:39 The descendants of Machir the son of M'nasheh went to Gil`ad and conquered it, dispossessing the Emori who were there.
B’midbar 32:40 Moshe gave Gil`ad to Machir the son of M'nasheh, and he lived in it.
B’midbar 32:41 Ya'ir the son of M'nasheh went and captured its villages and called them Havot-Ya'ir [villages of Ya'ir].
B’midbar 32:42 Novach went and captured K'nat with its villages and named it Novach after himself.
B’midbar 33:1 These are the stages in the journey of the people of Yisra’el as they left the land of Mitsrayim divided into groups under the leadership of Moshe and Aharon.
B’midbar 33:2 Moshe recorded each of the stages of their journey by order of YHVH ; here are the starting-points of each stage:
B’midbar 33:3 They began their journey from Ram'ses in the first month. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the morning after the Pesach, the people of Yisra’el left proudly in view of all the Mitsrites;
B’midbar 33:4 while the Mitsrites were burying those among them whom YHVH had killed, all their firstborn; YHVH had also executed judgment on their gods.
B’midbar 33:5 The people of Yisra’el moved on from Ram'ses and camped at Sukkot.
B’midbar 33:6 They moved on from Sukkot and camped at Etam, by the edge of the desert.
B’midbar 33:7 They moved on from Etam and turned back to Pi-Hachirot, in front of Ba`al-Tz'fon, and camped before Migdol.
B’midbar 33:8 They moved on from P'nei-Hachirot, passed through the sea to the desert, continued three days' journey into the Etam Desert and camped at Marah.
B’midbar 33:9 They moved on from Marah and came to Eilim; in Eilim were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.
B’midbar 33:10 They moved on from Eilim and camped by the Yam Suf.
B’midbar 33:11 They moved on from the Yam Suf and camped in the Seen Desert.
B’midbar 33:12 They moved on from the Seen Desert and camped at Dofkah.
B’midbar 33:13 They moved on from Dofkah and camped at Alush.
B’midbar 33:14 They moved on from Alush and camped at Refidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
B’midbar 33:15 They moved on from Refidim and camped in the Sinai Desert.
B’midbar 33:16 They moved on from the Sinai Desert and camped at Kivrot-HaTa'avah.
B’midbar 33:17 They moved on from Kivrot-HaTa'avah and camped in Hatzerot.
B’midbar 33:18 They moved on from Hatzerot and camped at Ritmah.
B’midbar 33:19 They moved on from Ritmah and camped at Rimmon-Peretz.
B’midbar 33:20 They moved on from Rimmon-Peretz and camped at Livnah.
B’midbar 33:21 They moved on from Livnah and camped at Rissah.
B’midbar 33:22 They moved on from Rissah and camped at K'helah.
B’midbar 33:23 They moved on from K'helah and camped at Har Shefer.
B’midbar 33:24 They moved on from Har Shefer and camped at Haradah.
B’midbar 33:25 They moved on from Haradah and camped at Mak'helot.
B’midbar 33:26 They moved on from Mak'helot and camped at Tachat.
B’midbar 33:27 They moved on from Tachat and camped at Terach.
B’midbar 33:28 They moved on from Terach and camped at Mitkah.
B’midbar 33:29 They moved on from Mitkah and camped at HaShmonah.
B’midbar 33:30 They moved on from HaShmonah and camped at Moserot.
B’midbar 33:31 They moved on from Moserot and camped at B'nei-Ya`akan.
B’midbar 33:32 They moved on from B'nei-Ya`akan and camped at Hor-HaGidgad.
B’midbar 33:33 They moved on from Hor-HaGidgad and camped at Yotvatah.
B’midbar 33:34 They moved on from Yotvatah and camped at Avronah.
B’midbar 33:35 They moved on from Avronah and camped at `Etzyon-Gever.
B’midbar 33:36 They moved on from `Etzyon-Gever and camped in the Tzin Desert, that is, Kadesh.
B’midbar 33:37 They moved on from Kadesh and camped at Har Hor, at the border of the land of Edom.
B’midbar 33:38 At YHVH's order Aharon the kohen went up on Har Hor, and he died there on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the people of Yisra’el had left the land of Mitsrayim.
B’midbar 33:39 Aharon was 123 years old when he died on Har Hor.
B’midbar 33:40 The Kena`ani king of `Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Kena`an, had heard that the people of Yisra’el were coming;
B’midbar 33:41 so they moved on from Har Hor and camped at Tzalmonah.
B’midbar 33:42 They moved on from Tzalmonah and camped at Punon.
B’midbar 33:43 They moved on from Punon and camped at Ovot.
B’midbar 33:44 They moved on from Ovot and camped at 'Iyei-Ha`Avarim, by the border of Mo'av.
B’midbar 33:45 They moved on from `Iyim and camped at Divon-Gad.
B’midbar 33:46 They moved on from Divon-Gad and camped at `Almon-Divlatayim.
B’midbar 33:47 They moved on from `Almon-Divlatayim and camped in the `Avarim Range, in front of N'vo.
B’midbar 33:48 They moved on from the `Avarim Range and camped in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho.
B’midbar 33:49 Their camp by the Yarden extended from Beit-HaYeshimot all the way to Avel-HaSheetim in the plains of Mo'av.
B’midbar 33:50 YHVH spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho. He said
B’midbar 33:51 to tell the people of Yisra’el, "When you cross the Yarden into the land of Kena`an,
B’midbar 33:52 you are to expel all the people living in the land from in front of you. Destroy all their stone figures, destroy all their metal statues and demolish all their high places.
B’midbar 33:53 Drive out the inhabitants of the land, and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess.
B’midbar 33:54 You will inherit the land by lot according to your families. You are to give more land to the larger families and less to the smaller ones. Wherever the lot falls to any particular person, that will be his property. You will inherit according to the tribes of your ancestors.
B’midbar 33:55 But if you don't drive out the inhabitants of the land from in front of you, then those you allow to remain will become like thorns in your eyes and stings in your sides — they will harass you in the land where you are living.
B’midbar 33:56 And in this event, I will do to you what I intended to do to them."
B’midbar 34:1 YHVH told Moshe
B’midbar 34:2 to give this order to the people of Yisra’el: "When you enter the land of Kena`an, it will become your land to pass on as an inheritance, the land of Kena`an as defined by these borders.
B’midbar 34:3 "Your southern portion will extend from the Tzin Desert close to the border of Edom. The eastern terminus of your southern border is at the end of the Dead Sea.
B’midbar 34:4 From there your border turns, goes south of the `Akrabbim Ascent and passes on to Tzin. From there it goes south of Kadesh-Barnea, on to Hatzar-Adar, and on to `Atzmon.
B’midbar 34:5 Then the border turns and goes from `Atzmon to the Vadi of Mitsrayim and along it to the Sea.
B’midbar 34:6 "Your western border will be the Great Sea.
B’midbar 34:7 "Your northern border will be as follows: from the Great Sea mark a line to Har Hor,
B’midbar 34:8 and from Har Hor mark a line to the entrance of Hamat. The border goes out to Tz'dad.
B’midbar 34:9 Then the border goes to Zifron and finally to Hatzar-`Einan; this is your northern border.
B’midbar 34:10 "For the eastern border mark your line from Hatzar-`Einan to Sh'fam.
B’midbar 34:11 Then the border goes down from Sh'fam to Rivlah, on the east side of `Ayin, then down until it hits the slope east of Lake Kinneret.
B’midbar 34:12 From there it goes down the Yarden River till it flows into the Dead Sea. These will be the borders of your land."
B’midbar 34:13 Moshe gave this order to the people of Yisra’el: "This is the land in which you will receive inheritances by lot, which YHVH has ordered to give to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
B’midbar 34:14 The tribe of the descendants of Re'uven have already received their land for inheritance according to their clans, and so have the descendants of Gad and the half-tribe of M'nasheh.
B’midbar 34:15 These two-and-a-half tribes have received their inheritance on this side of the Yarden, across from Yericho and eastward, toward the sunrise."
B’midbar 34:16 YHVH said to Moshe,
B’midbar 34:17 "These are the names of the men who will take possession of the land for you: El`azar the kohen and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.
B’midbar 34:18 Also appoint one leader from each tribe to take possession of the land.
B’midbar 34:19 The names of these men are: from the tribe of Y'hudah, Kalev the son of Y'funeh;
B’midbar 34:20 from the tribe of the descendants of Shim`on, Sh'mu'el the son of `Ammihud;
B’midbar 34:21 from the tribe of Binyamin, Elidad the son of Kislon;
B’midbar 34:22 from the tribe of the descendants of Dan, a leader, Buki the son of Yogli;
B’midbar 34:23 from the descendants of Yosef: from the tribe of the descendants of M'nasheh, a leader, Hani'el the son of Efod;
B’midbar 34:24 from the tribe of the descendants of Efrayim, a leader, K'mu'el the son of Shiftan;
B’midbar 34:25 from the tribe of the descendants of Z'vulun, a leader, Elitzafan the son of Parnakh;
B’midbar 34:26 from the tribe of the descendants of Yissakhar, a leader, Palti'el the son of `Azan;
B’midbar 34:27 from the tribe of the descendants of Asher, a leader, Achihud the son of Shlomi;
B’midbar 34:28 from the tribe of the descendants of Naftali, a leader, P'dah'el the son of `Ammihud."
B’midbar 34:29 These are the ones whom YHVH ordered to divide the inheritance among the people of Yisra’el in the land of Kena`an.
B’midbar 35:1 In the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho, YHVH said to Moshe,
B’midbar 35:2 "Order the people of Yisra’el to give to the L'vi'im cities to live in from the heritage they will possess, and you are also to give the L'vi'im some of the open land surrounding the cities.
B’midbar 35:3 They are to have the cities to live in, while their open land will be for their livestock, for growing crops and for all their animals.
B’midbar 35:4 The open land around the cities you give to the L'vi'im is to commence at a line drawn around the city wall 1,500 feet outside it and is to extend outward from there.
B’midbar 35:5 Measure 3,000 feet outward from the city wall to the east, south, west and north, with the city in the center. The space between the 1,500-foot line and the 3,000-foot line will be their open land around the cities.
B’midbar 35:6 The cities you give to the L'vi'im are to be the six cities of refuge to which you permit the person who kills someone to flee to; plus an additional forty-two cities.
B’midbar 35:7 Thus you will give the L'vi'im forty-eight cities, with their surrounding open land.
B’midbar 35:8 As to the cities you will give from those the people of Yisra’el possess, from the many you will take many, and from the few you will take few — each tribe will contribute from its cities to the L'vi'im in accordance with the size of its inheritance."
B’midbar 35:9 YHVH said to Moshe,
B’midbar 35:10 "Tell the people of Yisra’el, 'When you cross the Yarden into the land of Kena`an,
B’midbar 35:11 you are to designate for yourselves cities that will be cities of refuge for you, to which anyone who kills someone by mistake can flee.
B’midbar 35:12 These cities are to be a refuge for you from the dead person's next-of-kin, who might otherwise avenge his kinsman's death by slaying the killer prior to his standing trial before the community.
B’midbar 35:13 In regard to the cities you are to give, there are to be six cities of refuge for you.
B’midbar 35:14 You are to give three cities east of the Yarden and three cities in the land of Kena`an; they will be cities of refuge.
B’midbar 35:15 These six cities will serve as refuge for the people of Yisra’el, as well as for the foreigner and resident alien with them; so that anyone who kills someone by mistake may flee there.
B’midbar 35:16 " 'However, if he hits him with an iron implement and thus causes his death, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.
B’midbar 35:17 Or if he hits him with a stone in his hand big enough to kill someone, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.
B’midbar 35:18 Or if he hits him with a wood utensil in his hand capable of killing someone, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.
B’midbar 35:19 The next-of-kin avenger is to put the murderer to death himself — upon meeting him, he is to put him to death.
B’midbar 35:20 Likewise, if he shoves him out of hatred; or intentionally throws something at him, causing his death;
B’midbar 35:21 or out of hostility strikes him with his hand, so that he dies; then the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer; and the next-of-kin avenger is to put the murderer to death upon meeting him.
B’midbar 35:22 " 'But suppose he shoves him suddenly, but without hostility; or he throws something at him unintentionally;
B’midbar 35:23 or, without seeing him, being his enemy or seeking to harm him, he throws a stone big enough to cause death; and the person dies.
B’midbar 35:24 Then the community is to judge between the one who struck him and the next-of-kin avenger in accordance with these rules;
B’midbar 35:25 and the community is to save the killer from the next-of-kin avenger. The community is to return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he is to live there until the kohen hagadol, who was anointed with the kadosh oil, dies.
B’midbar 35:26 But if the killer ever goes beyond the limits of the city of refuge he fled to,
B’midbar 35:27 and the next-of-kin avenger finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the avenger kills the killer, he will not be guilty of the man's blood;
B’midbar 35:28 because he must stay in his city of refuge until the death of the kohen hagadol. But after the death of the kohen hagadol the killer may return to the land he owns.
B’midbar 35:29 These things shall constitute your standard for judgment through all your generations, wherever you live.
B’midbar 35:30 " 'If anyone kills someone, the murderer is to be put to death upon the testimony of witnesses; but the testimony of only one witness will not suffice to cause a person to be put to death.
B’midbar 35:31 Also, you are not to accept a ransom in lieu of the life of a murderer condemned to death; rather, he must be put to death.
B’midbar 35:32 Likewise, you are not to accept for someone who has fled to his city of refuge a ransom that would allow him to return to his land before the death of the kohen.
B’midbar 35:33 In this way you will not defile the land in which you are living. For blood defiles the land, and in this land no atonement can be made for the blood shed in it except the blood of him who shed it.
B’midbar 35:34 No, you are not to defile the land in which you live and in which I live; for I, YHVH, live among the people of Yisra’el.' "
B’midbar 36:1 The leaders of the clans of the family of the descendants of Gil`ad, the son of Machir, the son of M'nasheh, of the families of the descendants of Yosef, approached and addressed Moshe and the leaders, the heads of the clans of the people of Yisra’el.
B’midbar 36:2 They said, "YHVH ordered my master to give by lot the land to be inherited by the people of Yisra’el, and my master was ordered by YHVH to give the inheritance of our kinsman Tz'lof'chad to his daughters.
B’midbar 36:3 But if they get married to anyone belonging to another of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestors and be added to the inheritance of the tribe they will then belong to; thus it will be taken away from the sum total of our inheritance.
B’midbar 36:4 And when the yovel of the people of Yisra’el comes, their inheritance will be added to the land possessed by the tribe they will then belong to and be subtracted from the inheritance belonging to the tribe of our ancestors."
B’midbar 36:5 Moshe gave this order to the people of Yisra’el, in keeping with the word of YHVH : "The tribe of the descendants of Yosef is right in what it says.
B’midbar 36:6 Here is what YHVH has ordered concerning the daughters of Tz'lof'chad: 'Let them be married to whomever they think best, but they must marry only into a family from their father's tribe.
B’midbar 36:7 In this way no inheritance of the people of Yisra’el will move from one tribe to another; for each of the people of Yisra’el is to hold on to the land for inheritance belonging to his father's tribe.
B’midbar 36:8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Yisra’el is to become the wife of someone from the family of her father's tribe, so that every one of the people of Yisra’el will stay in possession of his ancestors' inheritance.
B’midbar 36:9 Thus no inheritance will move from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el will hold on to its own inheritance."
B’midbar 36:10 The daughters of Tz'lof'chad did as YHVH had ordered Moshe.
B’midbar 36:11 Machlah, Tirtzah, Hoglah, Milkah and No`ah all got married to sons of their father's brothers.
B’midbar 36:12 They were married into the families of the descendants of M'nasheh the son of Yosef, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's family.
B’midbar 36:13 These are the mitzvot and rulings which YHVH gave through Moshe to the people of Yisra’el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho.