“‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

“‘And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

“‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

your southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

Do this, Korah, you and all your company: Take censers,

And what I intended to do to them I will do to you.”

“‘For your eastern border you will draw a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.

So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

So Moses said to them, “Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations.

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.

On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering – they must be unblemished.

“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.