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   Bible Reading for February 26   
      
   Numbers Chapter 35   
      
   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near   
   Jericho, saying,   
      
   2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the   
   inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give   
   also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.   
      
   3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them   
   shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.   
      
   4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites,   
   shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits   
   round about.   
      
   5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two   
   thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the   
   west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand   
   cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the   
   suburbs of the cities.   
      
   6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall   
   be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that   
   he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.   
      
   7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty   
   and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.   
      
   8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the   
   children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but   
   from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his   
   cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.   
      
   9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
      
   10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come   
   over Jordan into the land of Canaan;   
      
   11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that   
   the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.   
      
   12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that   
   the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.   
      
   13 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for   
   refuge.   
      
   14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities   
   shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.   
      
   15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel,   
   and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one   
   that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.   
      
   16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is   
   a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.   
      
   17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and   
   he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.   
      
   18 Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die,   
   and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.   
      
   19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he   
   meeteth him, he shall slay him.   
      
   20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait,   
   that he die;   
      
   21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him   
   shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of   
   blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.   
      
   22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him   
   any thing without laying of wait,   
      
   23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast   
   it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:   
      
   24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger   
   of blood according to these judgments:   
      
   25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the   
   revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of   
   his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death   
   of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.   
      
   26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the   
   city of his refuge, whither he was fled;   
      
   27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of   
   his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be   
   guilty of blood:   
      
   28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the   
   death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the   
   slayer shall return into the land of his possession.   
      
   29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you   
   throughout your generations in all your dwellings.   
      
   30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the   
   mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person   
   to cause him to die.   
      
   31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer,   
   which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.   
      
   32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of   
   his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the   
   death of the priest.   
      
   33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it   
   defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is   
   shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.   
      
   34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I   
   dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.   
      
   Numbers Chapter 36   
      
   1 And the chief fathers 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 near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the   
   chief fathers of the children of Israel:   
      
   2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an   
   inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded   
   by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his   
   daughters.   
      
   3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the   
   children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the   
   inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the   
   tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of   
   our inheritance.   
      
   4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall   
   their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto   
   they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the   
   inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.   
      
   5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of   
   the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.   
      
   6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters   
   of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to   
   the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.   
      
   7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from   
   tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep   
   himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.   
      
      
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