Joshua 20Joshua 21Joshua 22Mark 2.23->Mark 3.1-12Joshua 20
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And the Lord said to Joshua,
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 he had gone in flight.
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So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
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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.
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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 punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.
Joshua 21
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.
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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.
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From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:
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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.
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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.
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But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.
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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
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And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands
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And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands
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And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands nine towns from those two tribes.
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And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands
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Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
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Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
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The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.
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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
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And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.
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And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands
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Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.
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And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.
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All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.
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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.
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And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands
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Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.
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And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:
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Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
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And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.
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All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.
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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
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Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.
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And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands
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Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.
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And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands
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Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.
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All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites and their heritage was twelve towns.
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All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.
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Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.
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So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers so it became their heritage and their living-place.
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And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands.
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The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
Joshua 22
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Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
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And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:
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You have now been with your brothers for a long time till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
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And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.
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Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.
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Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,
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And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.
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So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.
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Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.
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And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.
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Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.
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And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
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And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.
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And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,
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This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?
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Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
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That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.
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But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.
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Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
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Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,
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God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
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That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it
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And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?
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For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.
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So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:
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But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.
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For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
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Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.
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Then Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the meeting and the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, hearing what the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh said, were pleased.
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And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.
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Then Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs went back from the land of Gilead, from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and came to the children of Israel in Canaan and gave them the news.
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And the children of Israel were pleased about this and they gave praise to God, and had no more thought of going to war against the children of Reuben and the children of Gad for the destruction of their land.
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And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.
Mark 2
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And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.
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And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?
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And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?
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How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?
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And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath
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So that the Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.
Mark 3
1-12
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And he went again into the Synagogue and there was a man there whose hand was dead.
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And they were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath day, so that they might have something against him.
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And he said to the man, Get up and come forward.
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And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.
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And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
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And the Pharisees went out, and straight away made designs with the Herodians about how they might put him to death.
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And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great number from Galilee came after him: and from Judaea,
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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and the other side of Jordan, and the country about Tyre and Sidon, a great number, hearing what great things he did, came to him.
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And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people
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For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.
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And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, went down before him, crying out, and saying, You are the Son of God.
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And he gave them special orders not to say who he was.
