Thesethingsshall be for a statutoryordinanceto you throughout your generationsin allyour dwellings.
"In the tentof meeting,outsidethe veilwhichis beforethe testimony,Aaronand his sonsshall keepit in orderfrom eveningto morningbeforethe LORD;[it shall be] a perpetualstatutethroughout their generationsfor the sonsof Israel.
"Only the Levitesshall performthe serviceof the tentof meeting,and they shall beartheir iniquity;it shall be a perpetualstatutethroughout your generations,and amongthe sonsof Israelthey shall havenoinheritance.
Then the daughtersof Zelophehad,the sonof Hepher,the sonof Gilead,the sonof Machir,the sonof Manasseh,of the familiesof Manassehthe sonof Joseph,camenear;and theseare the namesof his daughters:Mahlah,Noahand Hoglahand Milcahand Tirzah.
Ifhis fatherhasnobrothers,then you shall givehis inheritanceto his nearestrelativein his own family,and he shall possessit; and it shall be a statutoryordinanceto the sonsof Israel,justas the LORDcommandedMoses.'"
becausehe should have remainedin his cityof refugeuntilthe deathof the highpriest.But afterthe deathof the highpriestthe manslayershall returnto the landof his possession.