Now after these things, the Lord appointed  ¹seventy others and sent them  ²two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to come.

And He said to them, The harvest is great, but the workers few; therefore,  ¹beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers  ²into His harvest.

Go; behold, I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Do  ¹not carry a purse, nor a bag, nor sandals; and greet no one on the way.

And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace to this house.

And if a  ¹son of peace is there, your peace shall rest upon  ²it; but if not, it shall return upon you.

And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things from them, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.

And into whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you;

And heal the sick who are in it and say to them, The  ¹kingdom of God has drawn near to you.

But into whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

Even the dust from your city which clings to our feet, we wipe off against you; yet know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn near.

I say to you that it will be  ¹more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the works of power which took place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Yet it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

And you, Capernaum, who have been exalted to heaven, to  ¹Hades you will be brought down.

He who hears you hears Me, and he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.

And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.

And He said to them, I was watching Satan  ¹fall like lightning out of heaven.

Behold, I have given you the  ¹authority to tread upon  ²serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

However do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in the heavens.

 ¹In that hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for thus it has been well pleasing in Your sight.

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and him to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

And turning to the disciples, He said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see.

For I tell you that many prophets and kings have wanted to perceive the things that you see, and have not perceived them, and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.

And the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon, according to their families. And their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah

And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem

And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah

And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah

And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen: thirteen cities with their villages.

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities with their villages.

And all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, that is, Ramah of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon because the portion of the children of Judah was too large for them; thus the children of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was as far as Sarid;

And their border went up to the west, even to Maralah, and reached Dabbesheth; and it reached the brook that is before Jokneam.

And it turned from Sarid eastward toward the rising of the sun to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and went to Daberath and up to Japhia;

And from there it passed eastward toward the rising of the sun to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went to Rimmon, where it turned to Neah;

And the border went around from the north to Hannathon; and its end was the valley of Iphtahel,

With Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

For Issachar the fourth lot came out, for the children of Issachar according to their families.

And their territory was Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem

And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath

And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez

And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;

And the border reached Tabor and Shahazumah and Beth-shemesh; and the end of their border was at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.

And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

And their territory was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph

And Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and it reached Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath;

And it turned toward the rising of the sun to Beth-dagon, and reached Zebulun and the valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel, and went to Cabul on the north

And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah as far as Great Sidon;

And the border turned to Ramah and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and its end was at the sea at the region of Achzib;

And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

For the children of Naphtali the sixth lot came out, for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel unto Lakkum; and its end was the Jordan;

And the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went from there to Hukkok, and reached Zebulun on the south, and reached Asher on the west and Judah at the Jordan toward the rising of the sun;

And the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth

And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor

And Kedesh and Edrei and En-hazor

And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh: nineteen cities with their villages.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah

And Elon and Timnah and Ekron

And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon

And Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the border opposite  ¹Japho.

When the territory of the children of Dan was lost to them, the children of Dan went up and fought against  ¹Leshem; and they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword; and they took possession of it and inhabited it; and they called Leshem Dan, according to the name of Dan their father.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

So they finished distributing the land as inheritances according to its borders. And the children of Israel gave Joshua the son of Nun an inheritance in the midst of them;

According to the commandment of Jehovah they gave him the city that he asked for, that is, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the city and dwelt in it.

These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave as inheritances by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

Then Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Designate the  ¹cities of refuge, concerning which I spoke to you through Moses,

So that the manslayer who kills a person by mistake and unwittingly may flee there. And they will be to you as a refuge from the avenger of blood.

And he shall flee to one of these cities and stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and give him a place; and he shall dwell among them.

And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he struck his neighbor unwittingly and had not hated him previously.

And he shall dwell in that city until he can stand before the assembly for a judgment, until the death of the high priest who is at that time; then the manslayer shall return and enter into his own city and into his own house, into the city from which he fled.

And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and Kiriath-arba (this is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

And across the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain out of the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourned among them, so that anyone who killed a person by mistake might flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the assembly.