[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19

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DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19

DAILY BIBLE READING

Numbers 34-36 New King James Version
The Appointed Boundaries of Canaan
34 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Command the children of Israel,
and say to them: 'When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land
that shall fall to you as an inheritance-the land of Canaan to its
boundaries. 3 Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along
the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the
end of the Salt Sea; 4 your border shall turn from the southern side of the
Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of Kadesh Barnea;
then it shall go on to Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon; 5 the border
shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.

6 'As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border;
this shall be your western border.

7 'And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark
out your border line to Mount Hor; 8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out your
border to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be
toward Zedad; 9 the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at
Hazar Enan. This shall be your northern border.

10 'You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; 11
the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the
border shall go down and reach to the eastern [a]side of the Sea of
Chinnereth; 12 the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end
at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.' "

13 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: "This is the land
which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the
nine tribes and to the half-tribe. 14 For the tribe of the children of
Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the
children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their
inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance. 15
The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this
side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

The Leaders Appointed to Divide the Land
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 "These are the names of the men
who shall divide the land among you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest
and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And you shall take one leader of every tribe
to divide the land for the inheritance. 19 These are the names of the men:
from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 20 from the tribe of
the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud; 21 from the tribe of
Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon; 22 a leader from the tribe of the
children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli; 23 from the sons of Joseph: a
leader from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod,
24 and a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of
Shiphtan; 25 a leader from the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan
the son of Parnach; 26 a leader from the tribe of the children of Issachar,
Paltiel the son of Azzan; 27 a leader from the tribe of the children of
Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi; 28 and a leader from the tribe of the
children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud."

29 These are the ones the Lord commanded to [b]divide the inheritance among
the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Cities for the Levites
35 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across
from Jericho, saying: 2 "Command the children of Israel that they give the
Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you
shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities. 3 They shall have
the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for
their herds, and for all their animals. 4 The common-land of the cities
which you will give the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city
outward a thousand cubits all around. 5 And you shall measure outside the
city on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand
cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two
thousand cubits. The city shall be in the middle. This shall belong to them
as common-land for the cities.

6 "Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint
six cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. And to these you shall
add forty-two cities. 7 So all the cities you will give to the Levites shall
be forty-eight; these you shall give with their common-land. 8 And the
cities which you will give shall be from the possession of the children of
Israel; from the larger tribe you shall give many, from the smaller you
shall give few. Each shall give some of its cities to the Levites, in
proportion to the inheritance that each receives."

Cities of Refuge
9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the children of Israel,
and say to them: 'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 then
you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer
who kills any person accidentally may flee there. 12 They shall be cities of
refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he
stands before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of the cities which you
give, you shall have six cities of refuge. 14 You shall appoint three cities
on this side of the Jordan, and three cities you shall appoint in the land
of Canaan, which will be cities of refuge. 15 These six cities shall be for
refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the sojourner
among them, that anyone who kills a person accidentally may flee there.

16 'But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is a
murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he strikes
him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he is
a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he strikes
him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he
is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The[c] avenger
of blood himself shall put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he
shall put him to death. 20 If he pushes him out of hatred or, while lying in
wait, hurls something at him so that he dies, 21 or in enmity he strikes him
with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck him shall surely be put to
death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to
death when he meets him.

22 'However, if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws anything at
him without lying in wait, 23 or uses a stone, by which a man could die,
throwing it at him without seeing him, so that he dies, while he was not his
enemy or seeking his harm, 24 then the congregation shall judge between the
manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments. 25 So the
congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of
blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he
had fled, and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who
was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the manslayer at any time goes
outside the limits of the city of refuge where he fled, 27 and the avenger
of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the avenger
of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of [d]blood, 28 because
he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high
priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to
the land of his possession.

29 'And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. 30 Whoever kills a person, the murderer
shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not
sufficient testimony against a person for the death penalty. 31 Moreover you
shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but
he shall surely be put to death. 32 And you shall take no ransom for him who
has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land
before the death of the priest. 33 So you shall not pollute the land where
you are; for blood defiles the land, and no [e]atonement can be made for the
land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed
it. 34 Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of
which I dwell; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.' "

Marriage of Female Heirs
36 Now 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 spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the chief fathers of the
children of Israel. 2 And they said: "The Lord commanded my lord Moses to
give the land as an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my
lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother
Zelophehad to his daughters. 3 Now if they are married to any of the sons of
the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be
taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and it will be added to the
inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the
lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel
comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe
into which they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

5 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the
Lord, saying: "What the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right. 6 This
is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying,
'Let them [f]marry whom they think best, but they may marry only within the
family of their father's tribe.' 7 So the inheritance of the children of
Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one of the
children of Israel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8
And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children
of Israel shall be the wife of one of the family of her father's tribe, so
that the children of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but
every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance."

10 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad; 11
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
were married to the sons of their father's brothers. 12 They were married
into the families of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their
inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's family.

13 These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord commanded the
children of Israel by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan,
across from Jericho.

Footnotes
Numbers 34:11 Lit. shoulder
Numbers 34:29 apportion
Numbers 35:19 A family member who is to avenge the victim
Numbers 35:27 Murder
Numbers 35:33 Lit. covering
Numbers 36:6 Lit. be wives to