Numbers 35 Cross References - BBE

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, ² Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns. ³ These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts, ⁴ Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round. ⁵ The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns. ⁶ And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns. ⁷ Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them. ⁸ And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites. ⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰ Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan; ¹¹ Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight. ¹² In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people. ¹³ Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places; ¹⁴ Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight. ¹⁵ For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight. ¹⁶ But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁷ Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁹ He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him. ²⁰ If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death; ²¹ Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him. ²² But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him, ²³ Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil: ²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules: ²⁵ And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil. ²⁶ But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight, ²⁷ And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood: ²⁸ Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage. ²⁹ These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living. ³⁰ Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough. ³¹ Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death. ³² And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest. ³³ So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it. ³⁴ Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

¹ Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.

⁶³ All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

¹² And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁵⁰ And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,

¹³ These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.

³² But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time. ³³ And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel. ³⁴ But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

³ For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them. ⁴ Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

² And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle. ³ And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord. ⁴ And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ⁵ The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶ The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan. ⁷ The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun. ⁸ All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses. ⁹ From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name: ¹⁰ These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution. ¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands. ¹² But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property. ¹³ And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands; ¹⁴ And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands; ¹⁵ And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands; ¹⁶ And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes. ¹⁷ And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands; ¹⁸ Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns. ¹⁹ Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests. ²⁰ The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹ And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands; ²² And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns. ²³ And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands; ²⁴ Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns. ²⁵ And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns. ²⁶ All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands. ²⁷ And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns. ²⁸ And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands; ²⁹ Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁰ And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands: ³¹ Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns. ³² And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns. ³³ All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands. ³⁴ And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands; ³⁵ Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁶ And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands; ³⁷ Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns. ³⁸ And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands; ³⁹ Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns. ⁴⁰ All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns. ⁴¹ All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands. ⁴² Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

¹ And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy. ² Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it. ³ And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy. ⁴ This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle. ⁵ A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places. ⁶ And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel. ⁷ And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land. ⁸ And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.

⁸ And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it.

²² And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince.

¹⁰ Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it. ¹¹ If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? ¹² If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ. ¹³ Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? ¹⁴ Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.

¹⁴ For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

² Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.

¹³ Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places; ¹⁴ Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

⁴¹ Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east; ⁴² To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death: ⁴³ The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

² Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, ³ So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. ⁴ And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe. ⁵ And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. ⁶ And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; till the death of him who is high priest at that time: then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight. ⁷ So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah. ⁸ And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

³ And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

¹³ And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

²¹ And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

²⁷ And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

³² And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

³⁶ And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;

³⁸ And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;

⁹ The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

⁷ In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place. ⁸ Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. Selah.

⁴ Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul. ⁵ I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.

⁶ And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

⁵⁴ Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection, ⁵⁵ To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah; ⁵⁶ But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts, ⁵⁸ And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts, ⁵⁹ And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts; ⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns. ⁶¹ And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶² And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns. ⁶³ And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. ⁶⁴ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts. ⁶⁵ And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given. ⁶⁶ And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷ And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts, ⁶⁸ And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts, ⁶⁹ And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts; ⁷⁰ And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. ⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts; ⁷² And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts, ⁷³ And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts; ⁷⁴ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts, ⁷⁵ And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts; ⁷⁶ And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts. ⁷⁷ To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts; ⁷⁸ And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts, ⁷⁹ And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts; ⁸⁰ And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts, ⁸¹ And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

⁷ A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

¹⁸ And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.

²⁸ And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day. ²⁹ And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.

⁵⁴ To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.

⁵⁴ And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

⁸ And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah; ⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement. ¹⁰ They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar. ¹¹ Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.

¹ Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;

¹³ And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you: ¹⁴ But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.

³⁴ When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,

² Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

² Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,

⁹ For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹ When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; ² You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

² Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, ³ So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. ⁴ And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe. ⁵ And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. ⁶ And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; till the death of him who is high priest at that time: then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

¹³ But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

⁶ And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

²² But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him, ²³ Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil: ²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules: ²⁵ And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

⁴² To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

¹ When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; ² You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. ³ You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight. ⁴ This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate; ⁵ For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe: ⁶ For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate. ⁷ And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose. ⁸ And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers; ⁹ If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: ¹⁰ So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible. ¹¹ But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns; ¹² The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death. ¹³ Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

² Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

¹⁹ He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules: ²⁵ And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil. ²⁶ But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight, ²⁷ And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

⁶ For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

¹¹ But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns; ¹² The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

⁹ These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

⁷ And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

⁸ And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers; ⁹ If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: ¹⁰ So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

⁴⁹ The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.

²² You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.

¹⁶ The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.

²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

²⁸ There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

⁵ And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. ⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

¹² He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death. ¹³ But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight. ¹⁴ But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

¹⁷ And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

²² But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him, ²³ Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil: ²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

³⁰ Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough. ³¹ Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death. ³² And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest. ³³ So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

¹⁸ If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

¹² In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

²¹ Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

²⁷ And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

¹² The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

³ So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

⁵ And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

⁵ But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

⁸ And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

¹⁴ But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

¹¹ But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

¹⁰ Now on the day after, an evil spirit from God came on Saul with great force and he was acting like a prophet among the men of his house, while David was making music for him, as he did day by day: and Saul had his spear in his hand. ¹¹ And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.

²⁵ And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.

⁹ And an evil spirit from the Lord came on Saul, when he was seated in his house with his spear in his hand; and David made music for him. ¹⁰ And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away. ¹¹ Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning. ¹² So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.

¹ And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life?

⁷ And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in. ⁸ And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men. ⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

¹¹ And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

²⁷ And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

²² But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

²⁸ Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear. ²⁹ So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.

¹⁰ But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

⁵ Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause. ⁶ So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

³¹ And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause. ³² And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. ³³ So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts. ⁸ He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor. ⁹ He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net. ¹⁰ The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

² See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

⁷ For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul. ⁸ Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

⁴ My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword. ⁵ O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. ⁶ They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. Selah.

¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. ¹⁹ Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

²⁴ With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

¹⁷ One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

¹⁹ And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;

²⁴ And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. ²⁵ And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist. ²⁶ And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.

²⁹ And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

³ And when he had been there three months, because the Jews had made a secret design against him when he was about to take ship for Syria, he made a decision to go back through Macedonia.

²¹ But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order.

¹¹ Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

⁵ For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

⁶ And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; till the death of him who is high priest at that time: then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

⁷ Then take the oil and put it on his head.

³ If the chief priest by doing wrong becomes a cause of sin to the people, then let him give to the Lord for the sin which he has done, an ox, without any mark, for a sin-offering.

¹² And some of the oil he put on Aaron's head, to make him holy.

¹⁰ And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.

²⁸ Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

²⁴ And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; ²⁶ And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.

¹⁶ And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division. ¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near; ¹⁸ Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁴ Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith. ¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin. ¹⁶ Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them. ²⁶ It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens: ²⁷ Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself. ²⁸ The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: ¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God? ¹⁵ And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ²¹ And having a great priest over the house of God, ²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

² If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

¹⁰ So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. ⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

²³ Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

³¹ But Paul said to the captain and his men, If you do not keep these men in the ship, you will not be safe.

¹⁴ For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

⁴ As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, ⁶ And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him. ⁷ For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: ⁸ But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, ¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

¹⁵ And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage. ¹⁶ Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it. ¹⁷ For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, ²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. ²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: ²⁹ But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? ³⁰ For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

¹ Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

¹¹ And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹⁶ But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

⁶ On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness. ⁷ The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

¹⁵ One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

¹⁶ But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

⁵¹ Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

¹⁷ Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true. ¹⁸ I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

¹ This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.

¹⁹ Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

³ And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

²⁸ And news of this came to Joab; for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters, though he had not been on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of the Lord, and put his hands on the horns of the altar. ²⁹ And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him. ³⁰ And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given. ³¹ And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause. ³² And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. ³³ So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord. ³⁴ So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.

¹⁴ Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

¹² And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

²¹ I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

¹⁰ For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law. ¹¹ Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith. ¹² And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them. ¹³ Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

²² However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.

⁹ And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

²⁵ And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

¹ If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death: ² Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured; ³ And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke; ⁴ And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken: ⁵ Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged: ⁶ And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley, ⁷ Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it. ⁸ Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

²³ Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

²⁶ But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

⁴ And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

²⁸ And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

³⁸ And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

²⁴ Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath. ²⁵ Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. ²⁶ Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them. ²⁷ Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

² There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood. ³ Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

¹¹ And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

³¹ So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. ³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? ³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; ³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

⁵⁰ So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days; ⁵¹ From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

⁸ And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

⁴⁵ Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God. ⁴⁶ And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.

²⁴ Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: ²⁵ And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

²⁴ But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples. ²⁵ So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you. ²⁶ And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

³ Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

¹³ And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.

¹⁴ This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

²¹ Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.

¹² Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

³ They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

³ And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.

²⁷ And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.