Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 168

at the Fords of Moab by the }orda¤ opposite jeriko, saying ; Command the children of Israel,

that they must give to the Levites, as a. heritable portion, towns for resi- dence, with pastures around those towns, for the Levites. And the towns shall be for their residence, and the pastures for their cattle and their animals. The pastures which you are to give tothe Levites outside the walls of the towns shall be a space of two thousand cubits. You shall thus measure from the outside wall of the towns, on the eastern side, two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand eubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side, two thousand cubits; with the town in the centre. These shall be the pasture lands of those towns. ‘ You shall also assign to the

Levites these towns ;-six cities of refuge to be provided for man-slayers. And beside them provide forty-two cities—~—a. total of forty-eight. All these towns shall be assigned to the Levites, being for them, and their pasturage. But the towns that you assign from the children of Israel shall be accord- ing to their numbers, large, and ac- cording to their fewness, small,-each according to the extent of the district which they inherit shall give towns to the Levites, According to their shares, they shall assign equivalent towns to the Levitesf fhiiizs of linings srhzrzh. g The EVER-Lrvme also spoke to Moses, commanding; Speak to the children of Israel II IZ and say to them; Y bout t ou are now ao pass over the jordan to the land o Canan. Therefore appointi for yourselves Cities of Refuge, that man-slayers, who have cut off a life by accident, may ily to them. And they shall be your Cities of Refuge from theAvenger, so that the fugitive may not be killed, until he has stood in the presence of a jury for trial. Therefore shall you appoint six Cities of Refuge for your- selves. You shall appoint three of the Cities on this side the jordan, and three Cities in the land of Canan, to be Cities of Refuge, for the children of Israel and for foreigners residing among you. These three cities shall be Cities of Refuge for everyone who has cut off a life by accident. Thus if he strikes any with an instrument of iron, and he dies, he is a man- slayer; the. man-slayer would be killed; or if he throws a stone which wounds mortally, and the wounded dies, he is a man—slayer; the man- slayer would be killed; or strikes with an instrument of wood a deadly blow, and the wounded dies from it, he is a man—slayer; the man- slayer would be killed. The Avenger would kill the wounder; he would kill the wounder when found. would kill him. ‘ But if from hatred he stabs or

shoots at one from a hiding place, and kills, or from hatred strikes with his hand, and kills; he shall be killed who has struck the wound; The Avenger of Blood shall kill the wounder when he finds him. ‘ But if undesignedly, not from

enmity, one stabs or shoots another with any instrument, not treacher- ously, or kills with a stone, not having seen ;——or it falls upon a person who dies,--whom he did not hate, and did not seek to injure,·—-then the jury shall judge between the accused and the Avenger, according to these rules; and the jury shall deliver the accused from the hand of the Avenger. But the jury shall assign him to the City of Refuge to which he shall go, and stay there until the death of the High Priest who has been consecrated with the Oil of Consecration. ‘ But if the man—slayer goes beyond

the boundaries of the City of Refuge to which he has fled; and the Avenger of Blood meets him outside the bounds of the City of Refuge, then the Avenger of Blood may kill the slayer, without blood being upon himself; for he ought to have remained in the City of Refuge until the death ofthe High Priest. But after the death of the High Priest the man-slayer may reside in his own district. 16 18 zo 21 22 23 26 28 Ghz Emtztitnlimtul Quin nf marker ‘ These shall be Constitutional

Laws to your descendants, in all your residences 2-- ‘ Whoever cuts off a life, the slayer

shall be slain on the evidence of two witnesses; but upon the evidence of one you shall not condemn a person 168