Delphi Septuagint

by Lancelot C L Brenton (ed)

  [16] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [17] These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for an inheritance; Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Naue. [18] And ye shall take one ruler from each tribe to divide the land to you by lot.

  [19] And these are the names of the men; of the tribe of Juda Chaleb the son of Jephonne. [20] Of the tribe of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Semiud. [21] Of the tribe of Benjamin, Eldad the son of Chaslon. [22] Of the tribe of Dan the prince was Bacchir the son of Egli. [23] Of the sons of Joseph of the tribe of the sons of Manasse, the prince was Aniel the son of Suphi. [24] Of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince was Camuel the son of Sabathan. [25] Of the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Elisaphan the son of Pharnac. [26] Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Phaltiel the son of Oza. [27] Of the tribe of the children of Aser, the prince was Achior the son of Selemi. [28] Of the tribe of Nephthali, the prince was Phadael the son of Jamiud.

  [29] These did the Lord command to distribute the inheritances to the children of Israel in the land of Chanaan.

  Chapter 35

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses to the west of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, [2] Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about them. [3] And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts. [4] And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outwards two thousand cubits round about. [5] And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described. [6] And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities. [7] Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs. [8] And as for the cities which ye shall give out of the possession of the children of Israel, from those that have much ye shall give much, and from those that have less ye shall give less: they shall give of their cities to the Levites each one according to his inheritance which they shall inherit.

  [9] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [10] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to cross over Jordan into the land of Chanaan. [11] And ye shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, every one who has killed another unintentionally. [12] And the cities shall be to you places of refuge from the avenger of blood, and the slayer shall not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. [13] And the cities which ye shall assign, even the six cities, shall be places of refuge for you. [14] Ye shall assign three cities on the other side of Jordan, and ye shall assign three cities in the land of Chanaan.

  [15] It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee thither who has killed a man unintentionally.

  [16] And if he should smite him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death. [17] And if he should smite him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death. [18] And if he should smite him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

  [19] The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: whensoever he shall meet him he shall slay him. [20] And if he should thrust him through enmity, or cast any thing upon him from an ambuscade, and the man should die, [21] or if he have smitten him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that smote him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

  [22] But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast any thing upon him, not from an ambuscade, [23] or smite him with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him; [24] then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments. [25] And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.

  [26] But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge, [27] and the avenger of blood should find him without the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the slayer, he is not guilty. [28] For he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high-priest died; and after the death of the high-priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession.

  [29] And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings. [30] Whoever kills a man, thou shalt slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die. [31] And ye shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death. [32] Ye shall not accept a ransom to excuse his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest. [33] So shall ye not pollute with murder the land in which ye dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it. [34] And ye shall not defile the land whereon ye dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

  Chapter 36

  [1] And the heads of the tribe of the sons of Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasse, of the tribe of the sons of Joseph, drew near, and spoke before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the heads of the houses of the families of the children of Israel: [2] and they said, The Lord commanded our lord to render the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord appointed our lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad our brother to his daughters. [3] And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance. [4] And if there shall be a release of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women marry, and their inheritance, shall be taken away from the inheritance of our family’s tribe.

  [5] And Moses charged the children of Israel by the commandment of the Lord, saying, Thus says the tribe of the children of Joseph. [6] This is the thing which the Lord has appointed the daughters of Salpaad, saying, Let them marry where they please, only let them marry men of their father’s tribe. [7] So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel go about from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in the inheritance of his family’s tribe. [8] And whatever daughter is heiress to a property of the tribes of the children Israel, such women shall be married each to one of her father’s tribe, that the sons of Israel may each inherit the property of his father’s tribe. [9] And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.

  [10] As the Lord commanded Moses, so did they to the daughters of Salpaad. [11] So Thersa, and Egla, and Melcha, and Nua, and Malaa, the daughters of Salpaad, married their cousins; [12] they were married to men of the tribe of Manasse of the so
ns of Joseph; and their inheritance was attached to the tribe of their father’s family. [13] These are the commandments, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, at the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho.

  Deuteronomy

  Chapter 1

  [1] These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works. [2] It is a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne. [3] And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them: [4] after he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain; [5] beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying, [6] The Lord your God spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you to have dwelt so long in this mountain. [7] Turn ye and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. [8] Behold, God has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.

  [9] And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you. [10] The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude. [11] The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you. [12] How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings? [13] Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you. [14] And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast told us is good to do. [15] So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges. [16] And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. [17] Thou shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God’s; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it. [18] And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which ye shall perform.

  [19] And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne. [20] And I said to you, Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you: [21] behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid. [22] And ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter. [23] And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe. [24] And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it. [25] And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.

  [26] Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the words of the Lord our God. [27] And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us. [28] Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants. [29] And I said to you, Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them; [30] the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt; [31] and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.

  [32] And in this matter ye believed not the Lord our God, [33] who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, shewing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.

  [34] And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he sware, saying, [35] Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I sware to their fathers, [36] except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of the Lord. [37] And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shalt thou by any means enter therein. [38] Joshua the son of Naue, who stands by thee, he shall enter in there; do thou strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. [39] And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, — they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it. [40] And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.

  [41] And ye answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, ye went up to the mountain. [42] And the Lord said to me, Tell them, Ye shall not go up, neither shall ye fight, for I am not with you; thus shall ye not be destroyed before your enemies. [43] And I spoke to you, and ye did not hearken to me; and ye transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and ye forced your way and went up into the mountain. [44] And the Amorite who dwelt in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma. [45] And ye sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord hearkened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.

  [46] And ye dwelt in Cades many days, as many days as ye dwelt there.

  Chapter 2

  [1] And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed mount Seir many days. [2] And the Lord said to me, [3] Ye have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north. [4] And charge the people, saying, Ye are going through the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly. [5] Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance. [6] Buy food of them for money and eat, and ye shall receive water of them by measure for money, and drink. [7] For the Lord our God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been with thee forty years; thou didst not lack any thing.

  [8] And we passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of Araba from Ælon and from Gesion Gaber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab. [9] And the Lord said to me, Do not ye quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot to inherit. [10] Formerly the Ommin dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Enakim. [11] These also shall be accounted Raphain like the Enakim; and the Moabites call them Ommin. [12] And the Chorrhite dwelt in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them. [13] Now then, arise ye, said I, and depart, and cross the valley of Zaret.

  [14] And the days in wh
ich we traveled from Cades Barne till we crossed the valley of Zaret, were thirty and eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war failed, dying out of the camp, as the Lord God sware to them. [15] And the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them out of the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

  [16] And it came to pass when all the men of war dying out of the midst of the people had fallen, [17] that the Lord spoke to me, saying, [18] Thou shalt pass over this day the borders of Moab to Aroer; [19] and ye shall draw nigh to the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance. [20] It shall be accounted a land of Raphain, for the Raphain dwelt there before, and the Ammanites call them Zochommin. [21] A great nation and populous, and mightier than you, as also the Enakim: yet the Lord destroyed them from before them, and they inherited their land, and they dwelt there instead of them until this day. [22] As they did to the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, even as they destroyed the Chorrhite from before them, and inherited their country, and dwelt therein instead of them until this day. [23] And the Evites who dwell in Asedoth to Gaza, and the Cappadocians who came out of Cappadocia, destroyed them, and dwelt in their room.

  [24] Now then arise and depart, and pass over the valley of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into thy hands Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land: begin to inherit it: engage in war with him this day. [25] Begin to put thy terror and thy fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard thy name, and shall be in anguish before thee.