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Numbers 35

    ²Command the Israelites that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and [suburb] pasturelands round about the cities' walls you shall give to the Levites also.

    ³They shall have the cities to dwell in and their [suburb] pasturelands shall be for their cattle, for their wealth [in flocks], and for all their beasts.

    ⁴And the pasturelands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward 1,000 cubits round about.

    ⁵You shall measure from the wall of the city outward on the east, south, west, and north sides 2,000 cubits, the city being in the center. This shall belong to [the Levites] as [suburb] pasturelands for their cities.

    ⁶Of the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee into; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

    ⁷So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight; you shall give them with their adjacent [suburb] pasturelands.

    ⁸As for the cities, you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many and from the smaller tribes few; each tribe shall give of its cities to the Levites in proportion to its inheritance.

    ⁹And the Lord said to Moses,

    ¹⁰Say to the Israelites, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

    ¹¹Then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the slayer who kills any person unintentionally and unawares may flee there.

    ¹²And the cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he has had a fair trial before the congregation.

    ¹³And of the cities which you give there shall be your six cities for refuge.

    ¹⁴You shall give three cities on this [east] side of the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.

    ¹⁵These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the temporary resident among them; that anyone who kills any person unintentionally and unawares may flee there.

    ¹⁶But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    ¹⁷And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    ¹⁸Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in his hand, by which one may die, and he died, the offender is a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.

    ¹⁹The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him.

    ²⁰But if he stabbed him through hatred or hurled at him by lying in wait so that he died

    ²¹Or in enmity struck him down with his hand so that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

    ²²But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity or threw anything at or upon him without lying in wait

    ²³Or with any stone with which a man may be killed, not seeing him, and threw it at him so that he died, and was not his enemy nor sought to harm him,

    ²⁴Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

    ²⁵And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood and restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall live in it until the high priest dies, who was anointed with the sacred oil.

    ²⁶But if the slayer shall at any time come outside the limits of his city of refuge to which he had fled

    ²⁷And the avenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge and kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood

    ²⁸Because the manslayer should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest's death the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.

    ²⁹And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    ³⁰Whoever kills any person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

    ³¹Moreover, you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

    ³²And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.

    ³³So you shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

    ³⁴And you shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.

Numbers 36

    ²They said, The Lord commanded [you] my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

    ³But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the Israelites, then their inheritance will be taken from that of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they are received and belong; so it will be taken out of the lot of our inheritance.

    ⁴And when the Jubilee of the Israelites comes, then their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe to which they are received and belong; so will their inheritance be taken away from that of the tribe of our fathers.

    ⁵And Moses commanded the Israelites according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right.

    ⁶This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry whom they think best; only they shall marry within the family of the tribe of their father.

    ⁷So shall no inheritance of the Israelites be transferred from tribe to tribe, for every one of the Israelites shall cling to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    ⁸And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the Israelites shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the Israelites may each one possess the inheritance of his fathers.

    ⁹So shall no inheritance be transferred from one tribe to another, but each of the tribes of the Israelites shall cling to its own inheritance.

    ¹⁰The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses.

    ¹¹For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father's brothers.

    ¹²They married into the families of the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

    ¹³These are the commandments and ordinances which the Lord commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [River] at Jericho.

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Mark 10

    ²And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to ^[a]dismiss and repudiate and divorce his wife?

    ³He answered them, What did Moses command you?

    ⁴They replied, Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.^(A)

    ⁵But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart [^[b]your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this ^[c]precept in your Law.

    ⁶But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.^(B)

    ⁷For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother ^[d]and be ^[e]joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently,

    ⁸And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.^(C)

    ⁹What therefore God has united (joined together), let not man separate or divide.

    ¹⁰And indoors the disciples questioned Him again about this subject.

    ¹¹And He said to them, Whoever ^[f]dismisses (repudiates and divorces) his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;

    ¹²And if a woman dismisses (repudiates and divorces) her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

    ¹³And they kept bringing young children to Him that He might touch them, and the disciples were reproving them [for it].

    ¹⁴But when Jesus saw [it], He was indignant and ^[g]pained and said to them, Allow the children to come to Me--do not forbid or prevent or hinder them--for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

    ¹⁵Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive and accept and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child [does] positively shall not enter it at all.

    ¹⁶And He took them [the children up ^[h]one by one] in His arms and [^[i]fervently invoked a] blessing, placing His hands upon them.

    ¹⁷And as He was setting out on His journey, a man ran up and knelt before Him and asked Him, Teacher, [You are ^[j]essentially and perfectly ^[k]morally] good, what must I do to inherit eternal life [that is, ^[l]to partake of eternal salvation in the Messiah's kingdom]?

    ¹⁸And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [^[m]essentially and perfectly ^[n]morally] good? There is no one [^[o]essentially and perfectly ^[p]morally] good--except God alone.

    ¹⁹You know the commandments: Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.^(D)

    ²⁰And he replied to Him, Teacher, I have carefully guarded and observed all these and taken care not to violate them from my boyhood.

    ²¹And Jesus, looking upon him, loved him, and He said to him, You lack one thing; go and sell all you have and give [the money] to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come [and] accompany Me [^[q]walking the same road that I walk].

    ²²At that saying the man's countenance fell and was gloomy, and he went away grieved and sorrowing, for he was holding great possessions.

    ²³And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, With what difficulty will those who possess wealth and ^[r]keep on holding it enter the kingdom of God!

    ²⁴And the disciples were amazed and bewildered and perplexed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is ^[s]for those who trust (place their confidence, their sense of safety) in riches to enter the kingdom of God!

    ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

    ²⁶And they were shocked and exceedingly astonished, and said to Him and ^[t]to one another, Then who can be saved?

    ²⁷Jesus glanced around at them and said, With men [it is] impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.

    ²⁸Peter started to say to Him, Behold, we have ^[u]yielded up and abandoned everything [once and for all and ^[v]joined You as Your disciples, siding with Your party] and accompanied You [^[w]walking the same road that You walk].

    ²⁹Jesus said, Truly I tell you, there is no one who has given up and left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for My sake and for the Gospel's

    ³⁰Who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.

    ³¹But many [who are now] first will be last [then], and many [who are now] last will be first [then].