Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 169

NUMBERS. 35--31 33 34 to death. And you shall not take any ransom fora. life ; the man-slayer who mortally injures, shall die a. death. You shall also not accept a ransom from the refugee to a City of Refuge, to return to rest inthe country, until the death of the priest, so that you may not corrupt the land you reside in; for blood pollutes the land, and the land will not cover the blood that is shed upon it; for the life is in the blood; consequently you shall not defxle the land you dwell in,-——amidst which I enoamp,·-for I, the EVER- L1v1NG, encamp in the midst of the children of Israel} El): Zulu nf ilyz Marriage nf ‘§cirzz¤z¤. 36 The ancestral chiefs of the family of the sons of Gilad, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh of the family of the son of joseph, came before Moses and the presence of the Princes, the ancestral chiefs of the 2 children of Israel, and said; ‘The EvER—L1v1NG commanded

Our Prince to apportion the land by lot to the children of Israel, and the Prince was commanded by the EVER- LIVING to give the share of Tzilafad, our brother, to his daughters. But they may take any one of the sons of the tribes of Israel for a husband, and carry away their shares from the shares of our families, and thus lessen the portions of the tribe to which they belong, and take away from our allotted share. And when the jubilee comes to the children of Israel, then that portion will be added to the portion of the tribe to which they have gone, and the share of the

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tribe of their fathers will lose their Consequently Moses commanded

the children of Israel by instruction from the EVER·L1VING, saying; i ‘The argument of the sons of the

tribe of joseph is fair. This is the order of the EVER—L1VING to the daughters of Tzilafad:··—-They may decide to be wives to anyone who is good in their eyes; but their husband shall be only from a family of their father’s tribe, so that the portions of the children of Israel may not be removed from tribe to tribe, for all the portions of the ancestral houses of the children of Israel shall be kept dauht toether. Theref gore any ger inheriting an estate in any 0 the tribes of the children of Israel, shall become the wife ot one from her father's tribe, so that the children of Israel may each inherit the share of his father; for no estate shall change from tribe to tribe. After each portion has been allotted, it shall be kept in the same tribe of the The daughters of Tzilafad accord-

ingly did as the EVE1g—I.1vING com- IO

manded to Moses. And the daughters rr of Tzilafad, Makhla, Thirza, Khagla, and Milka, and Noah, were given as wives to the sons of their uncles, of the family of the sons of Manasseh, the son of joseph, they were their wives. Thus their portions remained in the tribe of Manasseh their father. These were the commands, and the institutions which the Evan-uvmo ordained through the medium of Moses, to the children of Israel, at the Fords of Moab, by the jordan, beyond jeriko. Eno or rm: Boox or Nvmsnns. rz