&#8220;Bring trouble<n id="1" /> to the Midianites, and destroy them,

<p class="bodytext">Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed &#8211; the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman &#8211; was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan<n id="1" /> of the Simeonites.

or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.p>

I will strike them with the pestilence,<n id="1" /> and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!&#8221;p>

So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped<n id="1" /> down and attacked them<n id="2" /> as far as Hormah.<n id="3" />p>

the land that the <sc>Lordsc> subdued<n id="1" /> before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies,<n id="1" /> he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed<n id="1" /> all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it,<n id="1" /> the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> burned against the people, and the <sc>Lordsc> struck the people with a very great plague.p>

Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.p>

But the Israelites<n id="1" /> defeated him in battle<n id="2" /> and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strongly defended.

So they defeated Og,<n id="1" /> his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors,<n id="2" /> and they possessed his land.p>

And when the donkey saw the angel of the <sc>Lordsc>, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam&#8217;s foot against the wall. So he beat her again.<n id="1" />p>

When the donkey saw the angel of the <sc>Lordsc>, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, &#8220;What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?&#8221;

The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader<n id="1" /> over the people of a clan of Midian.<n id="2" />p>

Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the <sc>Lordsc> had killed among them; the <sc>Lordsc> also executed judgments on their gods.p>

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

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.p>