“Exact vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites – after that you will be gathered to your people.”

They fought against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

“But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.

Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys, by the commandment of the Lord; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.

“You have circled around this mountain long enough; now turn north.

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.