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Numbers 35

    ²Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

    ³Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts:

    ⁴Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:

    ⁵Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.

    ⁶And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities,

    ⁷That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

    ⁸And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.

    ⁹The Lord said to Moses:

    ¹⁰Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,

    ¹¹Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

    ¹²And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

    ¹³And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,

    ¹⁴Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,

    ¹⁵As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.

    ¹⁶If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

    ¹⁷If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner.

    ¹⁸If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the blood of him that struck him.

    ¹⁹The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.

    ²⁰If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing- at him with ill design:

    ²¹Or being his enemy, strike; him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.

    ²²But if by chance medley, and without hatred,

    ²³And enmity, he do any of these things,

    ²⁴And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:

    ²⁵The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

    ²⁶If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,

    ²⁷And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.

    ²⁸For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.

    ²⁹These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.

    ³⁰The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

    ³¹31You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

    ³²The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.

    ³³Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

    ³⁴And thus shall your possession he cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.

Numbers 36

    ²The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide the land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give to the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their father:

    ³Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession will follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a diminishing of our inheritance.

    ⁴And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee, that is, the fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the others.

    ⁵Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the command of the Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly.

    ⁶And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe.

    ⁷Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

    ⁸And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families,

    ⁹And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

    ¹⁰As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad did as was commanded:

    ¹¹And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father

    ¹²Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the possession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and family of their father.

    ¹³These are the commandments and judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.

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Mark 10

    ²And the Pharisees coming to him asked him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

    ³But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?

    ⁴Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away.

    ⁵To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept.

    ⁶But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

    ⁷For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife.

    ⁸And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

    ⁹What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    ¹⁰And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing.

    ¹¹And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

    ¹²And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

    ¹³And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.

    ¹⁴Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.

    ¹⁵Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it.

    ¹⁶And embracing them, and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them.

    ¹⁷And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man running up and kneeling before him, asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?

    ¹⁸And Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, that is God.

    ¹⁹Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy father and mother.

    ²⁰But he answering, said to him: Master, all these things I have observed from my youth.

    ²¹And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and said to him: One thing is wanting unto thee: go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

    ²²Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

    ²³And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the kingdom of God!

    ²⁴And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again answering, saith to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God?

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

    ²⁶Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be saved?

    ²⁷And Jesus looking on them, saith: With men it is impossible; but not with God: for all things are possible with God.

    ²⁸And Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.

    ²⁹Jesus answering, said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath left house or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

    ³⁰Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time; houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.

    ³¹But many that are first, shall be last: and the last, first.