H9002–/וְ–v

Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

וְהֶעָרִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”

Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלַגֵּ֤ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַתּוֹשָׁב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאִ֡ם (וְ) ve. “and”

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;

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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:

וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

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:

וּבֵ֖ין (וּ) u. “and”

But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְאַחֲרֵ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְעֵ֣ד (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלָאָ֣רֶץ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְלֹ֧א (וְ) ve. “and”

Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,

וְלִפְנֵ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”

And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.

וַֽאדֹנִי֙ (וַֽ) va. “and”

Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage wi

וּמִגֹּרַ֥ל (וּ) u. “and”

And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִֽנַּחֲלַת֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, took as their husbands the sons of their father's brothers:

וְחָגְלָ֧ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִלְכָּ֛ה (וּ) u. “and”וְנֹעָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים (וְ) ve. “and”