H9023–הוּ–hu

The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

וְנַחֲלָת֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

אֶחָ֑יו (ו) v “his”נַחֲלָת֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

וּבָנָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;

נַפְשׁ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.

אֱלֹהָ֑יו (ו) v “his”אֶחָיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”

His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

מִמְכָּרָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

בְּנֽוֹ־ (וֹ) v- “his”וּבִתּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.

בְּפִ֔יו (ו) v “his”

This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ (הוּ֙) hu “his”

For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death;

רֵעֵ֥הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”יָד֤וֹ (וֹ) o “his”רֵעֵ֖הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not move

לְבָבוֹ֒ (וֹ֒) o “his”

If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

בִּדְרָכָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

לְרֵעֵ֔הוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

עִיר֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

בְאָחִֽיו׃ (ו) v “his”

Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

לְאָחִ֑יו (ו) v “his”

And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.

לְבֵית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

לְבֵית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

לְבֵית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.

לְבֵית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אֶחָ֖יו (ו) v “his”כִּלְבָבֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

שִׁבְיֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:

בָּנָ֔יו (ו) v “his”

But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.

אֹנ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

אָבִ֖יו (ו) v “his”אִמּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

אָבִ֣יו (ו) v “his”וְאִמּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”עִיר֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”מְקֹמֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”