Joshua - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 242
The History of the People of Israel
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the EVERTLIYING the cxty that 1s called Thxmna.th·Serakh on Mount _ Ephraxm, and he bmlt the town and vale of jafthakh-al, and Abron and Rekhob, and Khamron, and Kanah, to Zidcm the Great. There the boundary turned to Ramah, and Adair, and Mibtzar-tzor, where the line turns to Khosah, and its western terminus is by the line of Akzibah, and Amah, and Afek, and Rekhob; twelve towns with their villages. This is the district of the tribe of the sons of Ashur, with their families, these towns and these villages. Then came the sixth lot for the
sons of Naphthali:—-·for the sons of
33 Naphthali with their families; and the boundaries from Khalaf,. and Alon, to Tzanarim, and Adim to Nekob, and Zabual, to Lakum, and
34 its terminus was the jordan. Then 35 37 39 43 45 the border turned westward to Aznoth—Thaber, and went from there to—Khukka with Faga of Zebulon on the south, but Ashur had Faga on the Lake, and with Judah and the jordan towards the sunrise. And the towns were Mibtzar, Tzadim, '1`zor, with Khamath, Rakath, and Kineroth; and Adma, and Romah and Khatzor, and Kadesh, and Ade- roi, and An-khatzer; and lraim, and Migdad-al, Kharem,. and Beth·anath, and Beth—shemsh’;-—nineteen towns with their villages. The seventh lot came to the tribe
of the sons of Dan; with their families, and the boundary of their district was, Tzarah, and Ashthaul, and Airv shemsh, and Shabalm, and Ailon, and Zathlali, and Ailan, and Thim- nathah, and Akron, and Athlakab, and Ghibethon, and Balath, and Yahd, and Beni—bekr, and Gath-
46 rimon, and Mi-Zerkon, and Rakan, ` to the bound of the cape of Yaf0. _ 48 This was the district of the tribe of the sons of Dan, for their families, these towns with their villages. But the sons of Dan extended beyond this boundary, for the sons ef Dan resided in it. These are the districts which Ali-
azer the priest and joshua the son of Nun assigned, with the chiefs of the tribes of the children of Israel, by 1ot,rat Shiloh, before the EvER·L1v— ING in the open Hall of Assembly, when they made the division of the country. (ac. 1428.) 49
The EVE R·1.Iv1NG afterwards spoke 20 to joshua, commanding; ‘ Speak to the children of Israel
to say, ‘ Fix for yourselves the Cities of Refuge, which I com- manded you by the medium of Moses, so that the man—slayer who has struck a life by accident unin- tentionally may Hy there, so that you may have a refuge for yourselves from the avenger of blood, by flying to one of those cities. He can then stand in the Open Court of the city, and state in the hearing of the magistrates of that town his case, when they shall admit him to the town to themselves, and appoint him a place and resi- dence with them. But if the avenger of bloodpursues after him, then they must protect the man-slayer from his hand, if he struck his neighbour unintentionally, and did not hate him before it. He shall, however, stay in that city until he can be placed before the Court to be judged, or until the death of the High Priest who may be in those days, when the man-slayer may return, and go to his own village, ascended and besieged Leshem, and cap- tured and conquered it at the point of the sword, and seized and dwelt in it, and called it Leshem-Dan, after the name of )—— is an ancient editor's note, not part of the original text. Probably Ezra added it to explain the extended limits of Dan. See judges, Ch. xvii., date about 1120 12.0., for the event.--F. F.
