And immediately in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole  ¹Sanhedrin, and having bound Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to  ²Pilate.

And Pilate questioned Him, Are You the King of the Jews? And answering him, He said, It is as you say.

And the chief priests accused Him of many things.

And Pilate again questioned Him, saying, Do You answer nothing? See how many things they are accusing You of.

But Jesus made  ¹no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

Now at the feasts he released to them one prisoner whom they requested.

And there was one named Barabbas, bound with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.

And the crowd  ¹came up and began to ask him to do even as he had been accustomed to do for them.

But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?

For he knew that it was because of envy that the chief priests had delivered Him up.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd that instead he should release Barabbas to them.

And Pilate again answered and said to them, What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?

And again they cried out,  ¹Crucify Him!

But Pilate said to them, Why, what evil has He done? But they cried out the more, Crucify Him!

And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released to them Barabbas and  ¹scourged Jesus and delivered Him up to be  ²crucified.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around their cities.

And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their animals.

And the pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be from the city wall and outward, a thousand cubits all around.

And you shall measure from the outside of 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, with the city in the center. This shall be their pasture lands for the cities.

And the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six  ¹cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be  ¹forty-eight cities, they and their pasture lands.

And concerning the  ¹cities which you shall give from the possession of the children of Israel, from the larger tribe you shall take a larger number, and from the smaller tribe you shall take a smaller number; each one, according to its inheritance which they will inherit, shall give some of its cities to the Levites.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Then you shall designate for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, so that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally may flee there.

And the cities shall be for you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer may not die unless he stands before the assembly for judgment.

And the cities which you shall give shall be your six cities of refuge.

You shall give three cities across the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

For the children of Israel and for the  ¹stranger and for the  ¹sojourner among them, these six cities shall be for refuge, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, and he died, he is a murderer; the  ¹murderer shall surely be put to death.

And if he struck him with a stone in hand, by which one could die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Or if he struck him with a wooden object in hand, by which one could die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

The avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death; when he encounters him, he shall put him to death.

And if he pushed him out of hatred or threw something upon him while lying in wait, and he died,

Or in enmity struck him with his hand, and he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he encounters him.

But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or threw upon him anything without lying in wait,

Or came upon him with any stone, by which someone could die, without seeing him and dropped it upon him, and he died, when he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,

Then the assembly shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

And the assembly shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly shall return him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the  ¹high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundary of his city of refuge to which he has fled,

And the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundary of his city of refuge and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not have guilt for blood,

Because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.

And these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be slain upon the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person so that he die.

Moreover you shall not take a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

And you shall not take a ransom for one who has fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Thus you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for blood pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

And you shall not defile the land in which you are dwelling, in the midst of which I tabernacle; for I Jehovah tabernacle in the midst of the children of Israel.

And the heads of the fathers' households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers' households of the children of Israel;

And they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

But if they  ¹are married to one of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

And when the jubilee of the children of Israel takes place, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.

This is what Jehovah commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be  ¹married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father they shall marry.

So an inheritance of the children of Israel shall not go around from tribe to tribe, for each one of the children of Israel shall  ¹cling to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall  ¹marry into one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each one of the children of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

So an inheritance shall not go around from one tribe to another tribe, for each one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall cling to his own inheritance.

Just as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did;

That is, Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their uncles' sons.

They married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded through Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the  ¹Jordan at Jericho.