Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today we finished our fifth book of the Bible.

We are almost 20% of the way through and most of the toughest stuff is behind us.

You've come so far and I bet you've learned so much.

I know I have.

I'm excited to start due to Ronymy with you tomorrow, but let's wrap up numbers first.

As you know, the Levites don't get to inherit any land.

However, they do need to place a live in a place to keep their stuff.

So God's plan for this is to have each tribe donate a little bit of the perimeter of their

land for the Levites.

48 villages in total.

This land not only housed the Levites, but also had six portions devoted to being cities

of refuge.

Before we get into what those are, let's back up a little bit.

In today's reading, God sets out standards for what constitutes being a murderer versus

being a manslayer.

And that involves weighing the motives of the killer.

That's a tough thing to do since we can't see people's hearts like God can.

So God establishes a few things that tend to reveal motives.

Was this person known to hate the person they killed?

Did he use a tool that would be certain to cause death?

If so, then the Avenger of Blood was supposed to avenge the murder, provided there were two

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