1:1 And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in
 the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in
 the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,
1:2 Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their
 families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;
1:3 All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go
 to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.
1:4 And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the
 head of his father's house.
1:5 These are the names of those who are to be your helpers:
 from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;
1:6 From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;
1:7 From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;
1:8 From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;
1:9 From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;
1:10 Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son
 of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,
1:11 From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;
1:12 From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;
1:13 From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;
1:14 From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;
1:15 From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.
1:16 These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of
 their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.
1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;
1:18 And they got together all the people on the first day of
 the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his
 father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years
 old and over.
1:19 As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were
 numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai.
1:20 The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of
 Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers'
 houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able
 to go to war;
1:21 Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben
 were numbered.
1:22 The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over, who was able to go to war;
1:23 Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon
 were numbered.
1:24 The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their
 families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
 old and over who was able to go to war;
1:25 Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of
 Gad were numbered.
1:26 The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their
 families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
 old and over who was able to go to war;
1:27 Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah
 were numbered.
1:28 The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over who was able to go to war;
1:29 Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar
 were numbered.
1:30 The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over who was able to go to war;
1:31 Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun
 were numbered.
1:32 The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over who was able to go to war;
1:33 Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were
 numbered.
1:34 The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over who was able to go to war;
1:35 Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh
 were numbered.
1:36 The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over who was able to go to war;
1:37 Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin
 were numbered.
1:38 The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their
 families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
 and over who was able to go to war;
1:39 Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were
 numbered.
1:40 The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their
 families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
 old and over who was able to go to war;
1:41 Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were
 numbered.
1:42 The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by
 their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
 years old and over who was able to go to war;
1:43 Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali
 were numbered.
1:44 These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by
 the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe.
1:45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel,
 by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who
 were able to go to war,
1:46 Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and
 fifty.
1:47 But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not
 numbered among them.
1:48 For the Lord said to Moses,
1:49 Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the
 children of Israel,
1:50 But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting
 with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the
 Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put
 up their tents round it.
1:51 And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are
 to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do
 it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.
1:52 The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man
 in his tent-circle round his flag.
1:53 But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of
 meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel:
 the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.
1:54 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders
 to Moses.
2:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2:2 The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the
 order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses,
 facing the Tent of meeting on every side.
2:3 Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn,
 will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon,
 the son of Amminadab, as their chief.
2:4 The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six
 hundred.
2:5 And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with
 Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.
2:6 The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four
 hundred.
2:7 After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of
 Helon, as their chief.
2:8 The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four
 hundred.
2:9 The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and
 eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.
2:10 On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in
 the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as
 their chief.
2:11 The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five
 hundred.
2:12 And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel,
 the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.
2:13 The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three
 hundred.
2:14 Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as
 their chief.
2:15 The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred
 and fifty.
2:16 The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a
 hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go
 forward second.
2:17 Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents
 of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order
 as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man
 under his flag.
2:18 On the west side will be the flag of the children of
 Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.
2:19 The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred.
2:20 And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of
 Pedahzur, as their chief.
2:21 The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two
 hundred.
2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of
 Gideoni, as their chief.
2:23 The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four
 hundred.
2:24 The number of all the armies of Ephraim was a hundred and
 eight thousand, one hundred. They go forward third.
2:25 On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan,
 with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.
2:26 The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven
 hundred.
2:27 Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the
 son of Ochran, as their chief.
2:28 The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five
 hundred;
2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as
 their chief.
2:30 The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four
 hundred.
2:31 The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a
 hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go
 forward last, by their flags.
2:32 These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel,
 in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in
 their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand,
 five hundred and fifty.
2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of
 Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.
2:34 So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so
 they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward
 in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers'
 houses.
3:1 Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day
 when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.
3:2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest,
 and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on
 whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.
3:4 And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when
 they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the
 waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and
 Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.
3:5 And the Lord said to Moses,
3:6 Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron
 the priest, to be his helpers,
3:7 In order that they may be responsible to him and to all
 Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work
 of the House;
3:8 And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent
 of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the
 necessary work of the House.
3:9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be
 his without question from among the children of Israel.
3:10 And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their
 place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be
 put to death.
3:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
3:12 See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel
 to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of
 Israel;
3:13 For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to
 death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for
 myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine;
 I am the Lord.
3:14 And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,
3:15 Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families
 and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and
 over be numbered.
3:16 So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had
 been ordered.
3:17 These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and
 Merari.
3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their
 families: Libni and Shimei.
3:19 And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar
 and Hebron and Uzziel.
3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.
 These are the families of the Levites in the order of their
 fathers' houses.
3:21 From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are
 the families of the Gershonites.
3:22 Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month
 old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred.
3:23 The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back
 of the House, to the west.
3:24 The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael.
3:25 In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the
 care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil
 for the door of the Tent of meeting,
3:26 And the hangings for the open space round the House and the
 altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords
 needed for its use.
3:27 From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the
 Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the
 Kohathites.
3:28 Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month
 old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were
 responsible for the care of the holy place.
3:29 The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south
 side of the House.
3:30 Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel.
3:31 In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights,
 and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and
 the veil, and all they are used for.
3:32 Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all
 the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of
 the holy place.
3:33 From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are
 the families of Merari.
3:34 Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old
 and over, were six thousand, two hundred.
3:35 The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of
 Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the
 House.
3:36 And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent,
 with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments,
 and all they are used for,
3:37 And the pillars of the open space round it, with their
 bases and nails and cords.
3:38 And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of
 the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn,
 are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the
 holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person
 who comes near will be put to death.
3:39 All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of
 the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in
 the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.
3:40 And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children
 be numbered, and take the number of their names.
3:41 And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the
 first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the
 Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the
 children of Israel.
3:42 So Moses had all the first sons among the children of
 Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.
3:43 Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by
 name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred
 and seventy-three.
3:44 And the Lord said to Moses,
3:45 Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the
 children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of
 their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
3:46 And the price you have to give for the two hundred and
 seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in
 addition to the number of the Levites,
3:47 Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the
 holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
3:48 And this money, the price of those over the number of the
 Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons.
3:49 So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had
 not been taken by the Levites;
3:50 From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three
 hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;
3:51 And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord
 had said.
4:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
4:2 Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be
 numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers'
 houses;
4:3 All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do
 the work of the Tent of meeting.
4:4 And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in
 connection with the most holy things.
4:5 When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his
 sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark
 of witness with it;
4:6 And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue
 cloth; and putting its rods in place.
4:7 And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue
 cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and
 the cups; and the holy bread with them;
4:8 And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with
 a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.
4:9 And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the
 light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays
 and all the oil vessels which are used for it:
4:10 All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on
 the frame.
4:11 On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it
 with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their
 places.
4:12 All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are
 to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and
 put them on the frame.
4:13 And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar,
 and put a purple cloth on it;
4:14 Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the
 meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the
 altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put
 its rods in their places.
4:15 And after the holy place and all its vessels have been
 covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people
 go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but
 the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.
4:16 And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be
 responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes
 for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil;
 the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in
 his care.
4:17 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
4:18 Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from
 among the Levites;
4:19 But do this to them, so that life and not death may be
 theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and
 his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he
 is to take up;
4:20 But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place,
 even for a minute, for fear of death.
4:21 And the Lord said to Moses,
4:22 Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the
 order of their fathers' houses;
4:23 All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do
 the work of the Tent of meeting.
4:24 This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they
 are to do and take up.
4:25 They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent
 of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and
 the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting;
4:26 And the hangings for the open space round the House and the
 altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all
 the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they
 are to do.
4:27 From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will
 have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you
 are to give them their orders.
4:28 This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the
 Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of
 Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
4:29 The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the
 order of their fathers' houses;
4:30 Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do
 the work of the Tent of meeting.
4:31 And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting:
 the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the
 pillars and their bases;
4:32 And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their
 bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used,
 and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments
 for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.
4:33 This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in
 connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of
 Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in
 hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families,
 in the order of their fathers' houses;
4:35 Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were
 able to do the work in the Tent of meeting;
4:36 And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred
 and fifty.
4:37 This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the
 work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and
 Aaron at the order of the Lord.
4:38 And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by
 families,
4:39 All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to
 do the work in the Tent of meeting,
4:40 Who were numbered by families in the order of their
 fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.
4:41 This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work
 in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and
 Aaron at the order of the Lord.
4:42 And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by
 families, in the order of their fathers' houses,
4:43 All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work
 in the Tent of meeting,
4:44 Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two
 hundred.
4:45 This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses
 and Aaron at the order of the Lord.
4:46 And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron
 and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of
 their fathers' houses,
4:47 Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do
 the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport,
4:48 Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.
4:49 At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every
 one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport;
 so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.
5:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
5:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the
 tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow
 from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the
 dead;
5:3 Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle,
 so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.
5:4 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses,
 and put them outside the tent-circle.
5:5 And the Lord said to Moses,
5:6 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any
 of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is
 in the wrong;
5:7 Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment
 for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give
 it to him to whom the wrong was done.
5:8 But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be
 made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the
 priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his
 sin.
5:9 And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which
 the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.
5:10 And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man
 gives to the priest will be his.
5:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
5:12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does
 wrong, sinning against him
5:13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so
 that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no
 witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;
5:14 If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and
 he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts
 of her without cause:
5:15 Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the
 tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume;
 for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering
 keeping wrongdoing in mind.
5:16 And the priest will make her come near and put her before
 the Lord;
5:17 And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it
 dust from the floor of the House;
5:18 And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her
 hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a
 bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his
 hand the bitter water causing the curse;
5:19 And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no
 man has been your lover and you have not been with another in
 place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water
 causing the curse;
5:20 But if you have been with another in place of your husband
 and have made yourself unclean with a lover:
5:21 Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the
 woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an
 oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and
 disease of the stomach;
5:22 And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing
 disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman
 will say, So be it.
5:23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out
 the writing with the bitter water;
5:24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink;
 and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.
5:25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of
 doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the
 altar;
5:26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the
 altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter
 water.
5:27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean,
 sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter
 water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach
 and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her
 people.
5:28 But if she is clean she will be free and will have
 offspring.
5:29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in
 place of her husband and becomes unclean;
5:30 Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his
 heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will
 put in force this law.
5:31 Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's
 sin will be on her.
6:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
6:2 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an
 oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;
6:3 He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take
 no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or
 any grapes, green or dry.
6:4 All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from
 the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
6:5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his
 head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy
 and his hair may not be cut.
6:6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead
 body.
6:7 He may not make himself unclean for his father or his
 mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them;
 because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.
6:8 All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.
6:9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he
 becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is
 made clean, on the seventh day.
6:10 And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the
 door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;
6:11 And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the
 other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on
 him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that
 same day.
6:12 And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate,
 offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error:
 but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.
6:13 And this is the law for him who is separate, when the
 necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent
 of meeting,
6:14 And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first
 year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female
 lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and
 one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,
6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal
 mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil,
 with their meal offering and drink offerings.
6:16 And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his
 sin-offering and his burned offering;
6:17 Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of
 unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make
 his meal offering and his drink offering.
6:18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at
 the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire
 on which the peace-offerings are burning.
6:19 And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and
 one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and
 put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has
 been cut,
6:20 Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is
 holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg
 which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.
6:21 This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself
 separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in
 addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his
 oath, which he will have to keep.
6:22 And the Lord said to Moses,
6:23 Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing
 which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel;
 say to them,
6:24 May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you:
6:25 May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in
 grace:
6:26 May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give
 you peace.
6:27 So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I
 will give them my blessing.
7:1 And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put
 oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had
 made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil;
7:2 Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers'
 houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes,
 who were over those who were numbered.
7:3 And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six
 covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the
 chiefs, and for every one an ox.
7:4 And the Lord said to Moses,
7:5 Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the
 Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man
 what is needed for his work.
7:6 So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the
 Levites.
7:7 Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon for
 their work;
7:8 And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari
 for their work, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of
 Aaron the priest.
7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had
 the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.
7:10 And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the day
 when the holy oil was put on it; they made their offering
 before the altar.
7:11 And the Lord said to Moses, Let every chief on his day give
 his offering to make the altar holy.
7:12 And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon,
 the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
7:13 And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:14 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning;
7:15 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:16 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:17 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.
7:18 On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of
 Issachar, made his offering:
7:19 He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in
 weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of
 the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed
 with oil for a meal offering;
7:20 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:21 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:22 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:23 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Nethanel, the son of Zuar.
7:24 On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the
 children of Zebulun:
7:25 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:26 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:27 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:28 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:29 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Eliab, the son of Helon.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the
 children of Reuben:
7:31 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:32 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:33 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:34 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:35 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief
 of the children of Simeon:
7:37 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:38 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:39 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:40 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:41 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.
7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the
 children of Gad:
7:43 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:44 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:45 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:46 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:47 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Eliasaph, the son of Reuel
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of
 the children of Ephraim:
7:49 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:50 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:51 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:52 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:53 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Elishama, the son of Ammihud.
7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief of
 the children of Manasseh:
7:55 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:56 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:57 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:58 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:59 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of the
 children of Benjamin:
7:61 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:62 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:63 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year
 for a burned offering;
7:64 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:65 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Abidan, the son of Gideoni.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief of
 the children of Dan:
7:67 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:68 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:69 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:70 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:71 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the
 children of Asher:
7:73 His offering was one silver plate; a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:74 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:75 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:76 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:77 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Pagiel, the son of Ochran.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the
 children of Naphtali:
7:79 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
 shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
 scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal
 mixed with oil for a meal offering;
7:80 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:81 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
 year, for a burned offering;
7:82 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:83 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
 five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the
 offering of Ahira, the son of Enan.
7:84 These were the offerings given for the altar by the chiefs
 of Israel, when the holy oil was put on it: twelve silver
 plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold spoons;
7:85 The weight of every silver plate was a hundred and thirty
 shekels, and of every basin seventy; the weight of all the
 silver of the vessels was two thousand and four hundred
 shekels, by the scale of the holy place;
7:86 The weight of the twelve gold spoons of spice for burning
 was ten shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place;
 all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels;
7:87 All the oxen, for the burned offering were twelve, the male
 sheep twelve, the he-lambs of the first year twelve, with their
 meal offering; and the males of the goats for sin-offering
 twelve;
7:88 And all the oxen for the peace-offerings, twenty-four oxen,
 the male sheep sixty, and the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs of
 the first year sixty. This was given for the altar after the
 holy oil was put on it.
7:89 And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk
 with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover
 which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged
 ones. And he had talk with him.
8:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
8:2 Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the
 seven lights will give light in front of the support.
8:3 And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that
 they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave
 orders to Moses.
8:4 The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from
 its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the
 design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support
 for the lights.
8:5 And the Lord said to Moses,
8:6 Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and
 make them clean.
8:7 And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy
 water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all
 over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their
 clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.
8:8 Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering, crushed
 grain mixed with oil, and take another ox for a sin-offering.
8:9 And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of
 meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together:
8:10 And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the
 children of Israel are to put their hands on them:
8:11 And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave
 offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the
 Lord's work.
8:12 And the Levites are to put their hands on the heads of the
 oxen, and one of the oxen is to be offered for a sin-offering
 and the other for a burned offering to the Lord to take away
 the sin of the Levites.
8:13 Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons,
 to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord.
8:14 So you are to make the Levites separate from the children
 of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
8:15 After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be
 done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and
 give them as a wave offering.
8:16 For they have been given to me from among the children of
 Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come
 to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.
8:17 For every mother's first son among the children of Israel
 is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when
 I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made
 them mine.
8:18 And in place of the first sons among the children of
 Israel, I have taken the Levites.
8:19 And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among
 the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of
 the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of
 Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the
 holy place.
8:20 All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel
 did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the
 Levites, so the children of Israel did.
8:21 And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their
 clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering
 before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them
 clean.
8:22 And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent
 of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the
 Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.
8:23 And the Lord said to Moses,
8:24 This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five
 years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of
 meeting;
8:25 But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up
 their work and do no more;
8:26 But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking
 care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in
 connection with the Levites and their work.
9:1 And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in
 the first month of the second year after they had come out of
 the land of Egypt,
9:2 Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular
 time.
9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to
 keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.
9:4 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the
 Passover.
9:5 So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the
 fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of
 Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of
 Israel did.
9:6 And there were certain men who were unclean because of a
 dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on
 that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that
 day:
9:7 And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the
 dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the
 Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?
9:8 And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me
 directions about you.
9:9 And the Lord said to Moses,
9:10 Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your
 families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey
 far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:
9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening,
 they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and
 bitter-tasting plants;
9:12 Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone
 of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the
 Passover.
9:13 But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does
 not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because
 he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time,
 his sin will be on him.
9:14 And if a man from another country is among you and has a
 desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is
 ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same
 rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his
 birth in the land.
9:15 And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came
 down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there
 was a light like fire over the House till the morning.
9:16 And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud,
 and by a light as of fire by night.
9:17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House,
 then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the
 place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of
 Israel put up their tents.
9:18 At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went
 forward, and at the order of the Lord they put up their tents:
 as long as the cloud was resting on the House, they did not go
 away from that place.
9:19 When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the
 children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not
 go on.
9:20 Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or
 three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their
 tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went
 on.
9:21 And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to
 morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they
 went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day
 and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went
 forward.
9:22 Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a
 month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on
 waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up
 they went forward on their journey.
9:23 At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at the
 word of the Lord they went forward on their journey: they kept
 the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses.
10:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
10:2 Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for
 getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving
 of the tents.
10:3 When they are sounded, all the people are to come together
 to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.
10:4 If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads
 of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.
10:5 When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east
 side are to go forward.
10:6 At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south
 side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go
 forward.
10:7 But when all the people are to come together, the horn is
 to be sounded but not loudly.
10:8 The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the
 priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation
 to generation.
10:9 And if you go to war in your land against any who do you
 wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the
 Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from
 those who are against you.
10:10 And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the
 first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your
 burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put
 the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.
10:11 Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second
 month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.
10:12 And the children of Israel went on their journey out of
 the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the
 waste land of Paran.
10:13 They went forward for the first time on their journey as
 the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.
10:14 First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with
 their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son
 of Amminadab.
10:15 And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar
 was Nethanel, the son of Zuar.
10:16 And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was
 Eliab, the son of Helon.
10:17 Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and
 the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House,
 went forward.
10:18 Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with
 their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son
 of Shedeur.
10:19 And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was
 Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.
10:20 At the head of the army of the children of Gad was
 Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.
10:21 Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the
 others put up the House ready for their coming.
10:22 Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with
 their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son
 of Ammihud.
10:23 At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was
 Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.
10:24 At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was
 Abidan, the son of Gideoni.
10:25 And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were
 moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the
 head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.
10:26 At the head of the army of the children of Asher was
 Pagiel, the son of Ochran.
10:27 And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali
 was Ahira, the son of Enan.
10:28 This was the order in which the children of Israel were
 journeying by armies; so they went forward.
10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law
 Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which
 the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and
 it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in
 store for Israel.
10:30 But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the
 land of my birth and to my relations.
10:31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for
 us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up
 our tents.
10:32 And if you come with us, we will give you a part in
 whatever good the Lord does for us.
10:33 So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain
 of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three
 days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for
 them;
10:34 And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they
 went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.
10:35 And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord,
 and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and
 let your haters go in flight before you.
10:36 And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and
 give a blessing to the families of Israel.
11:1 Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the
 Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the
 outer parts of the tent-circle.
11:2 And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made
 prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.
11:3 So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the
 Lord which had been burning among them.
11:4 And the mixed band of people who went with them were
 overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again,
 said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
11:5 Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for
 nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp
 and pleasing to the taste:
11:6 But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all:
 we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.
11:7 Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear
 drops.
11:8 The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing
 it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in
 pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste
 of cakes cooked with oil.
11:9 When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna
 came down with it.
11:10 And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his
 tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very
 angry.
11:11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this
 evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put
 on me the care of all this people?
11:12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them
 birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child
 at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their
 fathers?
11:13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For
 they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
11:14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this
 people, for it is more than my strength.
11:15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to
 my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my
 shame.
11:16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the
 responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of
 weight and authority over the people; make them come to the
 Tent of meeting and be there with you.
11:17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I
 will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on
 them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off
 you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.
11:18 And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before
 tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears
 of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us
 flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord
 will give you flesh, and it will be your food;
11:19 Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty
 days;
11:20 But every day for a month, till you are tired of it,
 turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the
 Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying,
 Why did we come out of Egypt?
11:21 Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six
 hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give
 them flesh to be their food for a month.
11:22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are
 all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be
 full?
11:23 And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become
 short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.
11:24 And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the
 Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible men of the people,
 placing them round the Tent.
11:25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with
 him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on
 him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like
 prophets, but only at that time.
11:26 But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them
 named Eldad and the other Medad: and the spirit came to rest on
 them; they were among those who had been sent for, but they had
 not gone out to the Tent: and the prophet's power came on them
 in the tent-circle.
11:27 And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and
 Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.
11:28 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant
 from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let
 them be stopped.
11:29 And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my
 account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the
 Lord might put his spirit on them!
11:30 Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back
 to the tent-circle.
11:31 Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the
 sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the
 tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in
 masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.
11:32 And all that day and all night and the day after, the
 people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which
 anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the
 tents.
11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before
 it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the
 people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.
11:34 So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there
 they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given
 way to their desires.
11:35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth; and
 there they put up their tents.
12:1 Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of
 the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a
 Cushite woman as his wife.
12:2 And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to
 Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of
 it.
12:3 Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on
 earth.
12:4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam,
 Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of
 them went out.
12:5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his
 place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come
 before him.
12:6 And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a
 prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a
 vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.
12:7 My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my
 house:
12:8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in
 dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the
 Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my
 servant Moses?
12:9 And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.
12:10 And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight
 away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron,
 looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.
12:11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on
 our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.
12:12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted
 when he comes out from the body of his mother.
12:13 And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come
 before you, O God, and make her well.
12:14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark
 of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let
 her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and
 after that she may come in again.
12:15 So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven
 days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till
 Miriam had come in again.
12:16 After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up
 their tents in the waste land of Paran.
13:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
13:2 Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I
 am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their
 fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.
13:3 And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the
 Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the
 children of Israel.
13:4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben,
 Shammua, the son of Zaccur.
13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.
13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.
13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.
13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.
13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh,
 Gaddi, the son of Susi.
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael
13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.
13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get
 knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of
 Nun, the name of Joshua.
13:17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan,
 and said to them, Go up into the South and into the
 hill-country;
13:18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in
 it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;
13:19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or
 bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled
 towns;
13:20 And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood
 in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of
 the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first
 grapes were ready.
13:21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste
 land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.
13:22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman
 and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living
 there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years
 before that of Zoan in Egypt.)
13:23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a
 vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod
 between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.
13:24 That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the
 grapes which the children of Israel took from there.
13:25 At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the
 land.
13:26 And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children
 of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an
 account to them and to all the people and let them see the
 produce of the land.
13:27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and
 truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of
 the produce of it.
13:28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the
 towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children
 of Anak there.
13:29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and
 the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country;
 and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
13:30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and
 said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land;
 for we are well able to overcome it.
13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able
 to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
13:32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the
 land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we
 went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and
 all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
13:33 There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring
 of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than
 insects, and so we seemed to them.
14:1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that
 night they gave themselves up to weeping.
14:2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses
 and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land
 of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
14:3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our
 death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into
 strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to
 Egypt?
14:4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over
 us, and go back to Egypt.
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the
 meeting of the people.
14:6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of
 Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving
 signs of grief,
14:7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went
 through to see is a very good land.
14:8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into
 this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and
 honey.
14:9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the
 people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength
 has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear
 of them.
14:10 But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the
 glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the
 eyes of all the children of Israel.
14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have
 no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the
 face of all the signs I have done among them?
14:12 I will send disease on them for their destruction, and
 take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation
 greater and stronger than they.
14:13 And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears
 of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out
 from among them;
14:14 And they will give the news to the people of this land:
 they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this
 people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your
 cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a
 pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
14:15 Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then
 the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
14:16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the
 land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on
 them in the waste land.
14:17 So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power
 of the Lord be great, as you said:
14:18 The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking
 wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free;
 sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers,
 to the third and fourth generation.
14:19 May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the
 measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from
 Egypt up till now.
14:20 And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
14:21 But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be
 full of the glory of the Lord;
14:22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs
 which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have
 put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my
 voice;
14:23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to
 their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been
 honoured will see it.
14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in
 him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will
 take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have
 it for their heritage.
14:25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley;
 tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to
 the Red Sea.
14:26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
14:27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their
 outcries against me? The words which they say against me have
 come to my ears.
14:28 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as
 your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to
 you:
14:29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land;
 and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over
 who have been crying out against me,
14:30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you
 would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of
 Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
14:31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into
 strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which
 you would not have.
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this
 waste land.
14:33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for
 forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till
 your bodies become dust in the waste land.
14:34 And as you went through the land viewing it for forty
 days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will
 undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I
 am against you.
14:35 I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to
 all this evil people who have come together against me: in this
 waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be
 their fate.
14:36 And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by
 the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the
 outcry the people made against Moses,
14:37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their
 death by disease before the Lord.
14:38 But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of
 Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched
 by disease.
14:39 And when Moses put these words before the children of
 Israel, the people were full of grief.
14:40 And early in the morning they got up and went to the top
 of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the
 place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done
 wrong.
14:41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's
 order, seeing that no good will come of it?
14:42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be
 overcome by those who are fighting against you.
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before
 you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you
 have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be
 with you.
14:44 But they gave no attention to his words and went to the
 top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's
 agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.
14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were
 living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely,
 driving them back as far as Hormah.
15:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
15:2 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the
 land which I am giving to you for your resting-place,
15:3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a
 burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or
 an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an
 offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the
 flock:
15:4 Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a
 meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal
 mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil:
15:5 And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned
 offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine
 for every lamb.
15:6 Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth
 parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of
 a hin of oil:
15:7 And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin of
 wine, for a sweet smell to the Lord.
15:8 And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other
 offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for
 peace-offerings to the Lord:
15:9 Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts
 of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil.
15:10 And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for
 an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.
15:11 This is to be done for every young ox and for every male
 sheep or he-lamb or young goat.
15:12 Whatever number you make ready, so you are to do for every
 one.
15:13 All those who are Israelites by birth are to do these
 things in this way, when giving an offering made by fire of a
 sweet smell to the Lord.
15:14 And if a man from another country or any other person
 living among you, through all your generations, has the desire
 to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord,
 let him do as you do.
15:15 There is to be one law for you and for the man of another
 country living with you, one law for ever from generation to
 generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.
15:16 The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for
 those from other lands living with you.
15:17 And the Lord said to Moses,
15:18 Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land
 where I am guiding you,
15:19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land,
 you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.
15:20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for
 a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the
 offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.
15:21 From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord
 a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.
15:22 And if in error you go against any of these laws which the
 Lord has given to Moses,
15:23 All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of
 Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after
 from generation to generation;
15:24 Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the knowledge
 of the meeting of the people, let all the meeting give a young
 ox as a burned offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its
 meal offering and its drink offering, as is ordered in the law,
 together with a he-goat for a sin-offering.
15:25 So the priest will make the people free from sin, and they
 will have forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given
 their offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering
 before the Lord, on account of their error:
15:26 And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well as
 those from other lands living among them, will have
 forgiveness; for it was an error on the part of the people.
15:27 And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of
 it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a
 sin-offering.
15:28 And the priest will take away the sin of the person who
 has done wrong, if the wrong was done unconsciously, and he
 will have forgiveness.
15:29 The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is to
 be the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the
 man from another country who is living among them.
15:30 But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart,
 if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting
 without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his
 people.
15:31 Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and
 did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy
 and his sin will be on him.
15:32 Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land,
 they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day.
15:33 And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses
 and Aaron and all the people.
15:34 And they had him shut up, because they had no directions
 about what was to be done with him.
15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be
 put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the
 tent-circle.
15:36 So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he
 was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
15:37 And the Lord said to Moses,
15:38 Say to the children of Israel that through all their
 generations they are to put on the edges of their robes an
 ornament of twisted threads, and in every ornament a blue cord;
15:39 So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind
 the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the
 desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been
 untrue to me:
15:40 And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them
 and be holy to your God.
15:41 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of
 Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.
16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
 Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
 son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,
16:2 And came before Moses, with certain of the children of
 Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good
 name who had a place in the meeting of the people.
16:3 They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and
 said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all
 the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among
 them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the
 people of the Lord?
16:4 And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face;
16:5 And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord
 will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come
 near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near
 him.
16:6 So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for
 burning perfumes;
16:7 And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord
 tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you
 take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.
16:8 And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:
16:9 Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of
 Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting
 you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord,
 and to take your place before the people to do what has to be
 done for them;
16:10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come
 near to him? and would you now be priests?
16:11 So you and all your band have come together against the
 Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against
 him?
16:12 Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab:
 and they said, We will not come up:
16:13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land
 flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste
 land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over
 us?
16:14 And more than this, you have not taken us into a land
 flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields
 and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We
 will not come up.
16:15 Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no
 attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I
 taken, or done wrong to any of them.
16:16 And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come
 before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:
16:17 And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and
 put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before
 the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and
 everyone with his vessel.
16:18 So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them,
 with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with
 Moses and Aaron.
16:19 And Korah made all the people come together against them
 to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord
 was seen by all the people.
16:20 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
16:21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden
 destruction on them.
16:22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God
 of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your
 wrath be moved against all the people?
16:23 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:24 Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah
 Dathan, and Abiram.
16:25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the
 responsible men of Israel went with him.
16:26 And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of
 these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may
 be taken in the punishment of their sins.
16:27 So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah
 Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door
 of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their
 little ones.
16:28 And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has sent me
 to do all these works, and I have not done them of myself.
16:29 If these men have the common death of men, or if the
 natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not
 sent me.
16:30 But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to
 take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down
 living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that
 the Lord has not been honoured by these men.
16:31 And while these words were on his lips, the earth under
 them was parted in two;
16:32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their
 families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their
 goods.
16:33 So they and all theirs went down living into the
 underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut
 off from among the meeting of the people.
16:34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their
 cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the
 earth.
16:35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two
 hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.
16:36 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:37 Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he is to
 take out of the flames the vessels with the perfumes in them,
 turning the fire out of them, for they are holy;
16:38 And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives
 have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as
 a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the
 Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children
 of Israel.
16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had
 been offered by those who were burned up, and they were
 hammered out to make a cover for the altar:
16:40 To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of
 Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the
 right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be
 like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth
 of Moses.
16:41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an
 outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to
 death the Lord's people.
16:42 Now when the people had come together against Moses and
 Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they
 saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came
 before their eyes.
16:43 Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of
 meeting.
16:44 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:45 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden
 destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.
16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it
 fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into
 the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for
 wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.
16:47 And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went
 running among the people; and even then the disease had made a
 start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away
 the sin of the people.
16:48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and
 the disease was stopped.
16:49 Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by
 that disease, in addition to those who came to their end
 because of what Korah had done.
16:50 Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of
 meeting: and the disease came to a stop.
17:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
17:2 Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you
 rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his
 father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be
 placed on his rod.
17:3 And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for
 there is to be one rod for the head of every family.
17:4 And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front
 of the ark of witness where I come to you.
17:5 And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself
 will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries
 which the children of Israel make to me against you.
17:6 So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel, and
 all their chiefs gave him rods, one for the head of every
 family, making twelve rods: and Aaron's rod was among them.
17:7 And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of
 witness.
17:8 Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness;
 and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had
 put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.
17:9 Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and
 gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them,
 and every man took his rod.
17:10 And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front
 of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this
 false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their
 outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.
17:11 This Moses did: as the Lord gave orders, so he did.
17:12 And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly,
 destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.
17:13 Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes
 near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?
18:1 And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your
 father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in
 relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be
 responsible for the errors which come about in your work as
 priests.
18:2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you,
 so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but
 you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of
 witness.
18:3 They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work
 of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy
 place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.
18:4 They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of
 meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of
 any other family may come near you.
18:5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar,
 so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.
18:6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among
 the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord,
 to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
18:7 And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as
 priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything
 inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have
 given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes
 near will be put to death.
18:8 And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your
 care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the
 children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your
 right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.
18:9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the
 fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering
 and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account
 of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.
18:10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every
 male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
18:11 And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and
 all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given
 to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for
 ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for
 food.
18:12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the
 first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I
 given them.
18:13 The earliest produce from their land which they take to
 the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean
 may have it for his food.
18:14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be
 yours.
18:15 The first birth of every living thing which is offered to
 the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first
 sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of
 unclean beasts.
18:16 Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old,
 at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale
 of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
18:17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an
 ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be
 dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made
 by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.
18:18 Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave
 offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.
18:19 All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the
 children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to
 your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an
 agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your
 seed for ever.
18:20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in
 their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your
 heritage among the children of Israel.
18:21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage
 all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they
 do, the work of the Tent of meeting.
18:22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the
 Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of
 sin.
18:23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting,
 and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a
 law for ever through all your generations; and among the
 children of Israel they will have no heritage.
18:24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a
 lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as
 their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children
 of Israel they will have no heritage.
18:25 And the Lord said to Moses,
18:26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of
 Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your
 heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an
 offering lifted up before the Lord.
18:27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if
 it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
18:28 So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from
 all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel,
 giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the
 priest.
18:29 From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy
 part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.
18:30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on
 high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the
 increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes
 are crushed.
18:31 It is to be your food, for you and your families in every
 place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.
18:32 And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best
 of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong
 use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death
 may not overtake you.
19:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
19:2 This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made,
 saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red
 cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never
 been put:
19:3 Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside
 the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.
19:4 Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his
 finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the
 front of the Tent of meeting:
19:5 And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her
 flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:
19:6 Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red
 thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.
19:7 And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his
 body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be
 unclean till evening.
19:8 And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed
 and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
19:9 Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow
 and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it
 is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the
 water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.
19:10 And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have
 his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening:
 this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as
 well as for the man from another country who is living among
 them.
19:11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven
 days:
19:12 On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make
 himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if
 he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he
 will not be clean.
19:13 Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making
 himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean;
 and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was
 not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is
 unchanged.
19:14 This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent:
 everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the
 tent, will be unclean for seven days.
19:15 And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be
 unclean.
19:16 And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the
 sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to
 his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the
 resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
19:17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the
 burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a
 vessel:
19:18 And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the
 water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the
 people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the
 body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the
 body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the
 resting-place was touched.
19:19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third
 day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to
 make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing
 himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.
19:20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself
 clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the
 people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean:
 the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.
19:21 This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the
 water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and
 anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.
19:22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean;
 and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.
20:1 In the first month all the children of Israel came into the
 waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there
 death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the
 earth.
20:2 And there was no water for the people: and they came
 together against Moses and against Aaron.
20:3 And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only
 death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death
 before the Lord!
20:4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for
 death to come to us and to our cattle there?
20:5 Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil
 place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other
 fruits, and there is no water for drinking.
20:6 Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door
 of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they
 saw the glory of the Lord.
20:7 And the Lord said to Moses,
20:8 Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the
 people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the
 rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the
 rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.
20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him
 orders.
20:10 Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in
 front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you
 people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get
 water for you out of the rock?
20:11 And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows
 with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and
 their cattle had drink enough.
20:12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not
 enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of
 Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I
 have given them.
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of
 Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy
 among them.
20:14 Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say
 to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the
 things we have been through;
20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living
 in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us
 and to our fathers:
20:16 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an
 angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a
 town on the edge of your land;
20:17 Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field
 or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by
 the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we
 have gone past the limits of your land.
20:18 And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if
 you do I will come out against you with the sword.
20:19 And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by
 the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we
 will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our
 feet, nothing more.
20:20 But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out
 against them in his strength, with a great army.
20:21 So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and
 Israel went in another direction.
20:22 And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their
 people, to Mount Hor.
20:23 And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the
 Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
20:24 Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go
 into the land which I have given to the children of Israel,
 because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.
20:25 So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor;
20:26 And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar,
 his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put
 to rest with his people.
20:27 So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of
 all the people they went up Mount Hor.
20:28 And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on Eleazar,
 his son; and there on the top of the mountain death came to
 Aaron: then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
20:29 And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the
 children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for
 thirty days.
21:1 And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad,
 living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of
 Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them
 prisoners.
21:2 Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will
 give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete
 destruction on all their towns.
21:3 And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the
 Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns
 completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.
21:4 Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea,
 going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was
 overcome with weariness on the way.
21:5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said,
 Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the
 waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor
 bread is disgusting to us.
21:6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and
 their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of
 Israel.
21:7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong
 in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to
 the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer
 for the people.
21:8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and
 put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes,
 looking on it will be made well.
21:9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and
 anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of
 brass, was made well.
21:10 Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents
 in Oboth.
21:11 And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their
 tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking
 east.
21:12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the
 valley of Zered.
21:13 From there they went on and put up their tents on the
 other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge
 of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of
 division between Moab and the Amorites:
21:14 As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in
 Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;
21:15 The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and
 touching the edge of Moab.
21:16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which
 the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I
 will give them water.
21:17 Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O
 water-spring, let us make a song to it:
21:18 The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great
 ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their
 sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:
21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to
 Bamoth:
21:20 And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab,
 and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.
21:21 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites,
 saying,
21:22 Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or
 vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by
 the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.
21:23 And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but
 got all his people together and went out against Israel into
 the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.
21:24 But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the
 Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of
 Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly
 armed.
21:25 And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all
 the towns and small places of the Amorites.
21:26 For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites,
 who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from
 him all his land as far as the Arnon.
21:27 So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon,
 building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:
21:28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town
 of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of
 the high places of the Arnon.
21:29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O
 people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his
 daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the
 Amorites.
21:30 They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on
 Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far
 as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.
21:31 So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.
21:32 And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its
 towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
21:33 Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og,
 king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to
 the fight at Edrei.
21:34 And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I
 have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his
 land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at
 Heshbon.
21:35 So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving
 them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.
22:1 Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their
 tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at
 Jericho.
22:2 Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to
 the Amorites.
22:3 And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because
 their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter
 against the children of Israel.
22:4 Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is
 clear that this great people will be the destruction of
 everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the
 grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was
 king of Moab.
22:5 So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the
 River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him,
 See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of
 the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:
22:6 Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this
 people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong
 enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it
 is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he
 on whom you put your curse is cursed.
22:7 So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking
 in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam
 and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.
22:8 And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I
 will give you an answer after hearing what the Lord says; so
 the chiefs of Moab kept there with Balaam that night.
22:9 And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with
 you?
22:10 And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of
 Moab, has sent them to me, saying,
22:11 See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering
 all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that
 I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the
 land.
22:12 And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or
 put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.
22:13 In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of
 Balak, Go back to your land, for the Lord will not let me go
 with you.
22:14 So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam
 will not come with us.
22:15 So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher
 position than the others.
22:16 And they came to Balaam and said, Balak, son of Zippor,
 says, Let nothing keep you from coming to me:
22:17 For I will give you a place of very great honour, and
 whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my
 prayer, and put a curse on this people.
22:18 But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even
 if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would
 not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the
 orders of the Lord my God.
22:19 So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge
 what more the Lord has to say to me.
22:20 And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If
 these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I
 say to you.
22:21 So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass ready,
 went with the chiefs of Moab.
22:22 But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel
 of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his
 purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants
 were with him.
22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the road
 with his sword in his hand; and turning from the road, the ass
 went into the field; and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her
 back on to the road.
22:24 Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a
 narrow road through the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side
 and on that.
22:25 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the
 wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her
 more blows.
22:26 Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a
 narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right
 or to the left.
22:27 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the
 earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard
 blows with his stick.
22:28 Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and
 opening her mouth she said to Balaam, What have I done to you
 that you have given me blows these three times?
22:29 And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish:
 if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death.
22:30 And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which
 you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done
 this to you before? And he said, No.
22:31 Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the
 angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he
 went down on his face to the earth.
22:32 And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given
 your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against
 you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to
 me.
22:33 And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three
 times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have
 put you to death and kept her safe.
22:34 And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done
 wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me:
 but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.
22:35 And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men;
 but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with
 the chiefs of Balak.
22:36 Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief
 town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of
 the land, for the purpose of meeting him.
22:37 And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you,
 requesting you with all my heart to come to me? why did you not
 come? am I not able to give you a place of honour?
22:38 Then Balaam said to Balak, Now I have come to you; but
 have I power to say anything? Only what God puts into my mouth
 may I say.
22:39 And Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath-huzoth.
22:40 And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to
 Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.
22:41 And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places
 of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of
 the people.
23:1 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get
 ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made
 an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.
23:3 Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned
 offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I
 will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an
 open place on a hill.
23:4 And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made
 ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every
 altar.
23:5 And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back
 to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
23:6 So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned
 offering with all the chiefs of Moab.
23:7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From
 Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains
 of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with
 Israel.
23:8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how
 may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?
23:9 From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him
 from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be
 numbered among the nations.
23:10 Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or
 the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the
 death of the upright and my last end like his!
23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I
 sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you
 have given them a blessing.
23:12 And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what
 the Lord puts into my mouth?
23:13 And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place
 from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the
 outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there.
23:14 So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of
 Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a
 male sheep on every altar.
23:15 Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned
 offering, while I go over there to the Lord.
23:16 And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth,
 and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
23:17 So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned
 offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to
 him, What has the Lord said?
23:18 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up!
 Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:
23:19 God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man,
 that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not
 do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
23:20 See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given
 a blessing which I have no power to take away.
23:21 He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the
 Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among
 them.
23:22 It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are
 like those of the mountain ox.
23:23 No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts
 against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and
 of Israel, See what God has done!
23:24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up
 like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of
 those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put
 to death.
23:25 Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on
 them, at all events do not give them a blessing.
23:26 But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you,
 I may only do what the Lord says?
23:27 Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to
 another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on
 them from there.
23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over
 the waste land.
23:29 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and
 get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.
23:30 And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male
 sheep on every altar.
24:1 Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give
 his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use
 of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,
24:2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their
 tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came
 on him.
24:3 And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of
 Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:
24:4 He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who has
 seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down, but having
 his eyes open:
24:5 How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel!
24:6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the
 riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like
 cedar-trees by the waters.
24:7 Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will
 be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his
 kingdom made great in honour.
24:8 It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are
 like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him
 will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be
 wounded with his arrows.
24:9 He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a
 she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on
 everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by
 whom you are cursed.
24:10 Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily
 waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that
 those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three
 times you have given them a blessing.
24:11 Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my
 purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has
 kept you back from honour.
24:12 Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you
 sent to me,
24:13 Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold,
 it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the
 Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever
 the Lord says I will say?
24:14 So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make
 clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to
 come.
24:15 Then he went on with his story and said, These are the
 words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes
 are open:
24:16 He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has
 knowledge of the Most High, who has seen the vision of the
 Ruler of all, falling down and having his eyes open:
24:17 I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a
 star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of
 Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and
 on the head of all the sons of Sheth.
24:18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the
 last of the people of Seir.
24:19 And Israel will go on in strength, and Jacob will have
 rule over his haters.
24:20 Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his
 story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his
 part will be destruction for ever.
24:21 And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and
 said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is
 safe in the rock.
24:22 But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes
 you away prisoner.
24:23 Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep
 his life when God does this?
24:24 But ships will come from the direction of Kittim,
 troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their
 fate will be destruction.
24:25 Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak
 went away.
25:1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became
 false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
25:2 For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings
 made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts
 and gave honour to their gods.
25:3 So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of
 the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against
 Israel.
25:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the
 people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the
 wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.
25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to
 death those of his men who have had relations with the women of
 Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.
25:6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers,
 taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and
 all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the
 door of the Tent of meeting.
25:7 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
 priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a
 spear in his hand,
25:8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the
 spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and
 through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped
 among the children of Israel.
25:9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by
 the disease.
25:10 And the Lord said to Moses,
25:11 Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my
 honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of
 Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my
 wrath.
25:12 So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of
 peace:
25:13 And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the
 right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the
 honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of
 Israel.
25:14 Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman
 of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the
 families of the Simeonites.
25:15 And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi,
 the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.
25:16 Then the Lord said to Moses,
25:17 Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;
25:18 For they are a danger to you with their false ways,
 causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because
 of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian,
 who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on
 you because of Peor.
26:1 Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and
 Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
26:2 Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of
 their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over
 who are able to go to war in Israel.
26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the
 lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,
26:4 Let all the people of twenty years old and over be
 numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the
 children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.
26:5 Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by
 their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of
 Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the
 family of the Carmites.
26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was
 forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.
26:8 And the sons of Pallu, Eliab
26:9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These
 are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting
 of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against
 Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:
26:10 And they went down into the open mouth of the earth,
 together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band;
 at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the
 fire, and they became a sign.
26:11 But death did not overtake the sons of Korah.
26:12 The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the
 family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the
 Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the
 family of the Shaulites.
26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two
 thousand, two hundred.
26:15 The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family
 of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of
 Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of
 the Erites:
26:17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family
 of the Arelites.
26:18 These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were
 numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.
26:19 The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come
 to their death in the land of Canaan.
26:20 And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah,
 the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the
 Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
26:21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the
 Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
26:22 These are the families of Judah as they were numbered,
 seventy-six thousand, five hundred.
26:23 The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the
 family of the Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites:
26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the
 family of the Shimronites.
26:25 These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered,
 sixty-four thousand, three hundred.
26:26 The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the
 family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites:
 of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were
 numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.
26:28 The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and
 Ephraim.
26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
 Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the
 family of the Gileadites.
26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the
 Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
26:31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of
 Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
26:32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of
 Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
26:33 And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only
 daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were
 Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
26:34 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were
 numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.
26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of
 Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the
 family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the
 Tahanites.
26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family
 of the Eranites:
26:37 These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered,
 thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph
 by their families.
26:38 The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the
 family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the
 Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
26:39 Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of
 Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the
 family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and
 those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six
 hundred.
26:42 These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham,
 the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by
 their families.
26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered,
 were sixty-four thousand, four hundred.
26:44 The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the family
 of the Imnites: of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of
 Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the
 Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites:
26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were
 numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.
26:48 The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the
 family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
26:49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the
 family of the Shillemites.
26:50 These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and
 those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four
 hundred.
26:51 Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six
 hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.
26:52 And the Lord said to Moses,
26:53 Let there be a division of the land among these, for their
 heritage, in relation to the number of names.
26:54 To those families who are more in number, give a greater
 heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to
 every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number
 in his family.
26:55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the
 decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their
 fathers let their heritage be given them.
26:56 As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let
 distribution be made between those who are more in number and
 those who are less.
26:57 These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their
 families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath,
 the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the
 Merarites.
26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the
 Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the
 Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
 Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.
26:59 Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he
 had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister
 Miriam.
26:60 Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
26:61 Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering
 of strange fire before the Lord.
26:62 Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old
 and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest
 of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the
 children of Israel.
26:63 All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest
 when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of
 Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
26:64 But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses
 and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered
 in the waste land of Sinai.
26:65 For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly
 overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb,
 the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still
 living.
27:1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the
 son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
 families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their
 names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
27:2 They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the
 chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting,
 and said,
27:3 Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not
 among those who were banded together with Korah against the
 Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.
27:4 Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among
 his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our
 father's brothers.
27:5 So Moses put their cause before the Lord.
27:6 And the Lord said to Moses,
27:7 What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly
 you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers:
 and let the property which would have been their father's go to
 them.
27:8 And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at
 the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.
27:9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his
 brothers.
27:10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his
 father's brothers.
27:11 And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his
 nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be
 a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord
 gave orders to Moses.
27:12 And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of
 Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the
 children of Israel.
27:13 And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with
 your people, as your brother Aaron was:
27:14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were
 angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name
 holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of
 Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)
27:15 Then Moses said to the Lord,
27:16 Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a
 man at the head of this people,
27:17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so
 that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a
 keeper.
27:18 And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a
 man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him;
27:19 And take him before Eleazar the priest and all the meeting
 of the people, and give him his orders before their eyes.
27:20 And put your honour on him, so that all the children of
 Israel may be under his authority.
27:21 He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that
 he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at
 his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in,
 he and all the children of Israel.
27:22 So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him
 before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people:
27:23 And he put his hands on him and gave him his orders, as
 the Lord had said by Moses.
28:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
28:2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let
 it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times,
 the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell.
28:3 Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you
 are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any
 mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.
28:4 Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at
 evening;
28:5 And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal
 offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.
28:6 It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount
 Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
28:7 And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin
 for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for
 a drink offering for the Lord.
28:8 Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal
 offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be
 offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the
 Lord.
28:9 And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year,
 without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a
 meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
28:10 This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in
 addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink
 offering.
28:11 And on the first day of every month you are to give a
 burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and
 seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;
28:12 And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering
 mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best
 meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep;
28:13 And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil
 for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a
 sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
28:14 And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for
 an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the
 fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering
 for every month through all the months of the year.
28:15 And one he-goat for a sin-offering to the Lord; it is to
 be offered in addition to the regular burned offering and its
 drink offering.
28:16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
 month, is the Lord's Passover.
28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast;
 for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes.
28:18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do
 no sort of field-work:
28:19 And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned
 offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven
 he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
28:20 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let
 three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two
 tenth parts for a male sheep;
28:21 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven
 lambs;
28:22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin.
28:23 These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned
 offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times.
28:24 In this way, every day for seven days, give the food of
 the offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord: it is to
 be offered in addition to the regular burned offering, and its
 drink offering.
28:25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you
 may do no field-work.
28:26 And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an
 offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there
 is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:
28:27 And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord;
 two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year;
28:28 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
 three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,
28:29 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven
 lambs;
28:30 And one he-goat to take away your sin.
28:31 These are in addition to the regular burned offering and
 its meal offering; take care that they are without any mark,
 and let them be offered with their drink offerings.
29:1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let
 there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let
 the day be marked by the blowing of horns;
29:2 And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell;
 one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year,
 without any mark on them:
29:3 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
 three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,
29:4 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;
29:5 And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin:
29:6 In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its
 meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal
 offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a
 sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
29:7 And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a
 holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of
 work;
29:8 And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell;
 one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only
 those without any mark on them may be used:
29:9 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
 three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,
29:10 A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;
29:11 One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned
 offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be
 a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord
 for seven days;
29:13 And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a
 sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep,
 fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on
 them;
29:14 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
 three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth
 parts for every male sheep,
29:15 And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen
 lambs;
29:16 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
 offering.
29:17 On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve
 oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year,
 without any mark on them;
29:18 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
 oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number,
 as it is ordered:
29:19 And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the
 regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink
 offerings.
29:20 And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen
 he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;
29:21 And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen,
 for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their
 number, as it is ordered:
29:22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
 offering.
29:23 And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen
 he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
29:24 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
 oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
 their number, as it is ordered.
29:25 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
 offering.
29:26 And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen
 he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
29:27 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
 oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
 their number, as it is ordered:
29:28 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
 offering.
29:29 And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen
 he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
29:30 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
 oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
 their number, as it is ordered:
29:31 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink
 offerings.
29:32 And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep,
 fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
29:33 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
 oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
 their number, as it is ordered:
29:34 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink
 offering.
29:35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do
 no field-work;
29:36 And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a
 sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs
 of the first year, without any mark:
29:37 With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox,
 the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as
 it is ordered:
29:38 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
 regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
 offering.
29:39 These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord
 at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an
 oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned
 offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.
29:40 So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions
 as the Lord had given him orders.
30:1 And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children
 of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.
30:2 When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an
 undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back
 from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.
30:3 If a woman, being young and under the authority of her
 father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;
30:4 If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she
 has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every
 undertaking she has given will have force.
30:5 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her
 word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will
 have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord,
 because her oath was broken by her father.
30:6 And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is
 under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;
30:7 If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the
 time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave
 will have force.
30:8 But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back,
 then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without
 thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the
 Lord's forgiveness.
30:9 But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married
 to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have
 force.
30:10 If she made an oath while she was under the authority of
 her husband,
30:11 And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and
 did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every
 undertaking she gave will have force.
30:12 But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without
 force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or
 her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without
 effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.
30:13 Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep
 herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her
 husband.
30:14 But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing
 whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority
 to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing
 them he said nothing to her.
30:15 But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them
 without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
30:16 These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation
 to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is
 under his authority.
31:1 Then the Lord said to Moses,
31:2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to
 the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with
 your people.
31:3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be
 armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's
 punishment on them.
31:4 From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
31:5 So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from
 every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.
31:6 And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every
 tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest,
 taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns
 for sounding the note of war.
31:7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to
 Moses; and they put to death every male.
31:8 They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi
 and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian:
 and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.
31:9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of
 Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all
 their goods they took for themselves;
31:10 And after burning all their towns and all their
 tent-circles,
31:11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and
 beast.
31:12 And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had
 taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people
 of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the
 Jordan at Jericho.
31:13 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the
 people went out to them before they had come into the
 tent-circle.
31:14 And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the
 captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come
 back from the war.
31:15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women
 safe?
31:16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of
 Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because
 of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
31:17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who
 has had sex relations with a man.
31:18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations
 with men, you may keep for yourselves.
31:19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle
 for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death
 or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the
 seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
31:20 And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or
 goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.
31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had
 been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord
 has given to Moses:
31:22 But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
31:23 And anything which may be heated, is to go through the
 fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the
 water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the
 fire is to be put in the water.
31:24 And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you
 will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.
31:25 And the Lord said to Moses,
31:26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the war,
 of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads
 of families of the people:
31:27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the
 men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the
 people:
31:28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered
 to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons,
 and from the oxen and asses and sheep:
31:29 Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the
 priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.
31:30 And from the part given to the children of Israel, take
 one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and
 asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care
 of the House of the Lord.
31:31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to
 Moses.
31:32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men
 took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand
 sheep,
31:33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,
31:34 And sixty-one thousand asses;
31:35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had
 never had sex relations with a man.
31:36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to
 the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five
 hundred sheep,
31:37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.
31:38 The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the
 Lord's part was seventy-two;
31:39 The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of
 which the Lord's part was sixty-one.
31:40 And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which
 the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
31:41 And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering,
 to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
31:42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which
 Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,
31:43 (Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven
 thousand, five hundred sheep,
31:44 And thirty-six thousand oxen,
31:45 And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,
31:46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
31:47 Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one
 out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the
 Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord
 gave orders to Moses.
31:48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army,
 the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to
 Moses,
31:49 And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the
 number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one
 is present;
31:50 And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every
 man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and
 arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make
 our souls free from sin before the Lord.
31:51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them,
 even all the worked ornaments.
31:52 And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains
 of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the
 Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty
 shekels.
31:53 (For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in
 the war.)
31:54 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by
 the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it
 into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the
 children of Israel before the Lord.
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a
 great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of
 Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;
32:2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and
 said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of
 the meeting,
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
 Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
32:4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children
 of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.
32:5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given
 to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.
32:6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of
 Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your
 rest here?
32:7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire
 to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?
32:8 So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to
 see the land.
32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
 land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go
 into the land which the Lord had given them.
32:10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an
 oath, saying,
32:11 Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who
 came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to
 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to
 me with all their heart;
32:12 But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and
 Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the
 Lord.
32:13 Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them
 wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that
 generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.
32:14 And now you have come to take the place of your fathers,
 another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord
 against Israel.
32:15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them
 wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of
 the destruction of all this people.
32:16 Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places
 for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;
32:17 But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the
 children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but
 our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the
 people of the land.
32:18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the
 children of Israel has come into his heritage.
32:19 For we will not have our heritage with them on the other
 side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us
 on this side of Jordan to the east.
32:20 Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming
 yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,
32:21 Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord
 till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against
 him,
32:22 And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after
 that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to
 Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before
 the Lord.
32:23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against
 the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its
 reward.
32:24 So get to work building your towns for your little ones,
 and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.
32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to
 Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our
 cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;
32:27 But your servants will go over, every man armed for war,
 before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.
32:28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and
 to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the
 tribes of the children of Israel.
32:29 And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the
 children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for
 the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your
 hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:
32:30 But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have
 to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.
32:31 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said,
 As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.
32:32 We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of
 Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of
 Jordan.
32:33 So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the
 children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son
 of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og,
 king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country
 round them.
32:34 And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and
 Ataroth and Aroer;
32:35 And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;
32:36 And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in
 places for sheep.
32:37 And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon
 and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;
32:38 And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and
 Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.
32:39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to
 Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living
 there.
32:40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and
 he made it his living-place.
32:41 And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of
 Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.
32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming
 it Nobah, after himself.
33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they
 went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the
 direction of Moses and Aaron.
33:2 And the stages of their journey on their way out were put
 down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are
 the stages of their journey and the way they went.
33:3 On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from
 Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel
 went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the
 Egyptians,
33:4 While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of
 their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their
 gods had been judged by him.
33:5 So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up
 their tents in Succoth.
33:6 And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in
 Etham on the edge of the waste land.
33:7 And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before
 Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol.
33:8 And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through
 the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey
 through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in
 Marah.
33:9 And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were
 twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up
 their tents there.
33:10 And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the
 Red Sea.
33:11 Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their tents
 in the waste land of Sin.
33:12 And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put up
 their tents in Dophkah.
33:13 And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in
 Alush.
33:14 And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in
 Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.
33:15 And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents in
 the waste land of Sinai.
33:16 And they went on from the waste land of Sinai and put up
 their tents in Kibroth-hattaavah.
33:17 And they went on from Kibroth-hattaavah, and put up their
 tents in Hazeroth.
33:18 And they went on from Hazeroth, and put up their tents in
 Rithmah.
33:19 And they went on from Rithmah, and put up their tents in
 Rimmon-perez.
33:20 And they went on from Rimmon-perez, and put up their tents
 in Libnah.
33:21 And they went on from Libnah, and put up their tents in
 Rissah.
33:22 And they went on from Rissah, and put up their tents in
 Kehelathah.
33:23 And they went on from Kehelathah, and put up their tents
 in Mount Shepher.
33:24 And they went on from Mount Shepher, and put up their
 tents in Haradah.
33:25 And they went on from Haradah, and put up their tents in
 Makheloth.
33:26 And they went on from Makheloth, and put up their tents in
 Tahath.
33:27 And they went on from Tahath, and put up their tents in
 Terah.
33:28 And they went on from Terah, and put up their tents in
 Mithkah.
33:29 And they went on from Mithkah, and put up their tents in
 Hashmonah.
33:30 And they went on from Hashmonah, and put up their tents in
 Moseroth.
33:31 And they went on from Moseroth, and put up their tents in
 Bene-jaakan.
33:32 And they went on from Bene-jaakan, and put up their tents
 in Hor-haggidgad.
33:33 And they went on from Hor-haggidgad, and put up their
 tents in Jotbathah.
33:34 And they went on from Jotbathah, and put up their tents in
 Abronah.
33:35 And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents in
 Ezion-geber.
33:36 And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their tents
 in the waste land of Zin (which is Kadesh).
33:37 And they went on from Kadesh, and put up their tents in
 Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the
 order of the Lord, and came to his death there, in the fortieth
 year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of
 Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
33:39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the time
 of his death in Mount Hor.
33:40 And news of the coming of the children of Israel came to
 the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who was living in the South in
 the land of Canaan.
33:41 And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their tents in
 Zalmonah.
33:42 And they went on from Zalmonah, and put up their tents in
 Punon.
33:43 And they went on from Punon, and put up their tents in
 Oboth.
33:44 And they went on from Oboth, and put up their tents in
 Iye-abarim at the edge of Moab.
33:45 And they went on from Iyim, and put up their tents in
 Dibon-gad.
33:46 And from Dibon-gad they went on, and put up their tents in
 Almon-diblathaim.
33:47 And from Almon-diblathaim they went on, and put up their
 tents in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
33:48 And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put up
 their tents in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;
33:49 Planting their tents by the side of Jordan from
 Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the lowlands of Moab.
33:50 And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord
 said to Moses,
33:51 Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan
 into the land of Canaan,
33:52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from
 before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones,
 and all their metal images, and all their high places:
33:53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place:
 for to you I have given the land as your heritage.
33:54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the
 decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the
 family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the
 smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord
 gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will
 be made to you by your fathers' tribes.
33:55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land,
 then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points
 in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in
 the land where you are living.
33:56 And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to
 them, so I will do to you.
34:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
34:2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When
 you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to
 be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)
34:3 Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin
 by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from
 the east end of the Salt Sea,
34:4 And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to
 Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it
 will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon:
34:5 And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as
 far as the sea.
34:6 And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea
 and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.
34:7 And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great
 Sea to Mount Hor:
34:8 And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of
 Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:
34:9 And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest
 point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.
34:10 And on the east, your limit will be marked out from
 Hazar-enan to Shepham,
34:11 Going down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain,
 and on as far as the east side of the sea of Chinnereth:
34:12 And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the
 land inside these limits will be yours.
34:13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying,
 This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision
 of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the
 nine tribes and the half-tribe:
34:14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers'
 families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their
 fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been
 given their heritage:
34:15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their
 heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east
 looking to the dawn.
34:16 And the Lord said to Moses,
34:17 These are the names of the men who are to make the
 distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and
 Joshua, the son of Nun.
34:18 And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the
 distribution of the land.
34:19 And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah,
 Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the
 son of Ammihud.
34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon.
34:22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki,
 the son of Jogli.
34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of
 Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel, the son of Ephod:
34:24 And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chief,
 Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan.
34:25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief,
 Elizaphan, the son of Parnach.
34:26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief,
 Paltiel, the son of Azzan.
34:27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief,
 Ahihud, the son of Shelomi.
34:28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief,
 Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.
34:29 These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the
 distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in
 the land of Canaan.
35:1 And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by
 Jordan at Jericho,
35:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the
 Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for
 themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.
35:3 These towns are to be their living-places, with land round
 them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,
35:4 Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a
 thousand cubits all round.
35:5 The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand
 cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on
 the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in
 the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.
35:6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six
 safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in
 addition you are to give them forty-two towns.
35:7 Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with
 land round them.
35:8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the
 children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who
 have much, and a smaller number from those who have little:
 everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his
 property to the Levites.
35:9 And the Lord said to Moses,
35:10 Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over
 Jordan into the land of Canaan;
35:11 Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to
 which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in
 flight.
35:12 In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right
 of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life
 till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.
35:13 Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;
35:14 Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of
 Canaan, to be safe places for flight.
35:15 For the children of Israel and for the man from another
 country who is living among them, these six towns are to be
 safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through
 error may go in flight.
35:16 But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron
 instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is
 certainly to be put to death.
35:17 Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand,
 causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be
 put to death.
35:18 Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his
 hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is
 certainly to be put to death.
35:19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may
 himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to
 face with him.
35:20 If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting
 secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his
 death;
35:21 Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he
 who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of
 life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put
 to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.
35:22 But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not
 in hate, or without design has sent something against him,
35:23 Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him,
 so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no
 desire to do him evil:
35:24 Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the
 man responsible for the death and him who has the right of
 punishment for blood, acting by these rules:
35:25 And let the people keep the man responsible for the death
 safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for
 blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in
 flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who
 was marked with the holy oil.
35:26 But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town
 where he had gone in flight,
35:27 And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls
 of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for
 his blood:
35:28 Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town
 till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the
 high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his
 heritage.
35:29 These rules are to be your guide in judging through all
 your generations wherever you may be living.
35:30 Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put
 to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness
 is not enough.
35:31 Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has
 taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to
 be put to death.
35:32 And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight
 to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his
 place before the death of the high priest.
35:33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for
 blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the
 land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the
 death of him who was the cause of it.
35:34 Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in
 which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children
 of Israel.
36:1 Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead,
 the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the
 sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of
 families of the children of Israel being present,
36:2 And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make
 distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of
 Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the
 heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.
36:3 Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes
 of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken
 away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the
 heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their
 heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe.
36:4 And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel,
 their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of
 which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of
 the tribe of our fathers.
36:5 So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the
 children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of
 Joseph have said is right.
36:6 This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of
 Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands
 whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of
 their father's tribe.
36:7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among
 the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel
 will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.
36:8 And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the
 children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her
 father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may
 keep the heritage of his fathers.
36:9 And no property will be handed from one tribe to another,
 but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its
 heritage.
36:10 So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord gave orders
 to Moses:
36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
 daughters of Zelophehad, took as their husbands the sons of
 their father's brothers:
36:12 And were married into the families of the sons of
 Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their property was kept in the
 tribe of their father's family
36:13 These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to
 the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by
 Jordan at Jericho.
