H9005–/ל–l

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,

לֵאמֹ֑ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לָכֶם֙ (לָ) la. “for <the>”

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.

לָנ֥וּס (לָ) la. “to”לָכֶם֙ (לָ) la. “for <the>”לְמִקְלָ֔ט (לְ) le. “<into>”

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.

ל֥וֹ (ל֥) l “to <the>”

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.

ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “<to> <the>”

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 h

לִפְנֵ֤י (לִ) li “<to>”לַמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט (לַ) la. “for <the>”

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.

לְיַרְדֵּ֤ן (לְ) le. “of”

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 p

לְכֹ֣ל׀ (לְ) le. “for”וְלַגֵּר֙ (לַ) la. “for the”לָנ֣וּס (לָ) la. “to”לִפְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “<to>”

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;

לִבְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “of”

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.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לָֽתֶת־ (לָֽ) la. “to”לָ֥נוּ (לָ֥) La. “to <the>”לָשָׁ֑בֶת (לָ) la. “to”לִבְהֶמְתֵּֽנוּ׃ (לִ) li “for”

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.

לַלְוִיִּ֛ם (לַ) la “to the”

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.

לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת (לְ) le. “of”לִבְנֵי֩ (לִ) li “to”

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.

וְלִבְנֵ֨י (לִ) li “[belonged] to”

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.

וְלִבְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “[belonged] to”

The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.

לִבְנֵ֨י (לִ) li “[and belonged] to”לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֗ם (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לַלְוִיִּ֔ם (לַ) la “to the”

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.

לִבְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “to”לָהֶ֛ם (לָ) la. “to <the>”

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.

לָהֶ֜ם (לָ) la. “to <the>”

But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

לְכָלֵ֥ב (לְ) le. “to”

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;

וְלִבְנֵ֣י׀ (לִ) li “to”

The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

וּלְמִשְׁפְּח֤וֹת (לְ) le. “to”

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;

לָהֶ֜ם (לָ) la. “to <the>”

All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

לְמִשְׁפְּח֥וֹת (לְ) le. “[belonged] to”

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.

וְלִבְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “to”

All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.

לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם (לְ) le. “to”

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;

וּלְמִשְׁפְּח֣וֹת (לְ) le. “to”