
Numbers

   

   {1:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent
of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year
after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, {1:2} "Take a
census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, every male, one by one; {1:3} from twenty years old and upward,
all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number
them by their divisions. {1:4} With you there shall be a man of every
tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house. {1:5} These are the names
of the men who shall stand with you:
   Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
   {1:6} Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
   {1:7} Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
   {1:8} Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
   {1:9} Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
   {1:10} Of the children of Joseph:
   Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud.
   Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
   {1:11} Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
   {1:12} Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
   {1:13} Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
   {1:14} Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
   {1:15} Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."

   {1:16} These are those who were called of the congregation, the
princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the
thousands of Israel. {1:17} Moses and Aaron took these men who are
mentioned by name. {1:18} They assembled all the congregation together
on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry
by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one. {1:19} As
Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

   {1:20} The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to
the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war; {1:21} those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five
hundred.

   {1:22} Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it,
according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; {1:23}
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were
fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

   {1:24} Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; {1:25}
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five
thousand six hundred fifty.

   {1:26} Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war; {1:27} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah,
were sixty-four thousand six hundred.

   {1:28} Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war; {1:29} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar,
were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

   {1:30} Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war; {1:31} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun,
were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. {1:32} Of the children of
Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by thir
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war; {1:33} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim,
were forty thousand five hundred.

   {1:34} Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war; {1:35} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh,
were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

   {1:36} Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war; {1:37} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin,
were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

   {1:38} Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
{1:39} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

   {1:40} Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth
to war; {1:41} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher,
were forty-one thousand five hundred.

   {1:42} Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth
to war; {1:43} those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

   {1:44} These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each
one for his fathers' house. {1:45} So all those who were numbered of
the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel; {1:46} even
all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five
hundred fifty. {1:47} But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers
were not numbered among them. {1:48} For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{1:49} "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you
take a census of them among the children of Israel; {1:50} but appoint
the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its
furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the
tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it,
and shall encamp around it. {1:51} When the tabernacle is to move, the
Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up,
the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put
to death. {1:52} The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every
man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to
their divisions. {1:53} But the Levites shall encamp around the
Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the
congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be
responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."

   {1:54} Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses, so they did.

   {2:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {2:2} "The
children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the
banners of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the tent of
meeting shall they encamp around it."

   {2:3} Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be
of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and
the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of
Amminadab. {2:4} His division, and those who were numbered of them,
were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

   {2:5} Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar:
and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of
Zuar. {2:6} His division, and those who were numbered of it, were
fifty-four thousand four hundred.

   {2:7} The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of
Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon. {2:8} His division, and those
who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

   {2:9} All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred
eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They
shall set out first.

   {2:10} "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of
Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of
Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. {2:11} His division, and
those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

   {2:12} "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon.
The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai. {2:13} His division, and those who were numbered of them,
were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

   {2:14} "The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad
shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. {2:15} His division, and those who
were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

   {2:16} "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred
fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They
shall set out second.

   {2:17} "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the
Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set
out, every man in his place, by their standards.

   {2:18} "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of
Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of
Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. {2:19} His division, and
those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

   {2:20} "Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince
of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
{2:21} His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
thirty-two thousand two hundred.

   {2:22} "The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of
Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. {2:23} His army, and those
who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

   {2:24} "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one
hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They
shall set out third.

   {2:25} "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan
according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan
shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. {2:26} His division, and those
who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

   {2:27} "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher:
and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of
Ochran. {2:28} His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
forty-one thousand and five hundred.

   {2:29} "The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of
Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. {2:30} His division, and those
who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

   {2:31} "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred
fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their
standards."

   {2:32} These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel
by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according
to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
{2:33} But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel;
as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {2:34} Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set
out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.

   {3:1} Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses
in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. {3:2} These are
the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.

   {3:3} These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were
anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. {3:4}
Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire
before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children.
Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence
of Aaron their father.

   {3:5} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {3:6} "Bring the tribe of Levi
near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to
him. {3:7} They shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the
tabernacle. {3:8} They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of
Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the
service of the tabernacle. {3:9} You shall give the Levites to Aaron
and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the
children of Israel. {3:10} You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and
they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be
put to death."

   {3:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {3:12} "Behold, I have taken
the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the
firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the
Levites shall be mine: {3:13} for all the firstborn are mine. On the
day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made
holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall
be mine. I am Yahweh."

   {3:14} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
{3:15} "Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their
families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."

   {3:16} Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he
was commanded.

   {3:17} These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari.

   {3:18} These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families:
Libni and Shimei.

   {3:19} The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar,
Hebron, and Uzziel.

   {3:20} The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.

   These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers'
houses.

   {3:21} Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of
the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

   {3:22} Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of
all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were
numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

   {3:23} The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the
tabernacle westward.

   {3:24} The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be
Eliasaph the son of Lael. {3:25} The charge of the sons of Gershon in
the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its
covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, {3:26}
and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the
court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords
for all of its service.

   {3:27} Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of
the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the
Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. {3:28} According
to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were
eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

   {3:29} The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south
side of the tabernacle. {3:30} The prince of the fathers' house of the
families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. {3:31}
Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars,
the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen,
and all its service. {3:32} Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall
be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those
who keep the charge of the sanctuary.

   {3:33} Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of
the Mushites. These are the families of Merari. {3:34} Those who were
numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a
month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

   {3:35} The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari
was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of
the tabernacle. {3:36} The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall
be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its
instruments, all its service, {3:37} the pillars of the court around
it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. {3:38} Those who encamp
before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward
the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge
of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger
who comes near shall be put to death. {3:39} All who were numbered of
the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of
Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward,
were twenty-two thousand.

   {3:40} Yahweh said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the
children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of
their names. {3:41} You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh)
instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the
cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of
the children of Israel."

   {3:42} Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn
among the children of Israel. {3:43} All the firstborn males according
to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were
numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

   {3:44} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {3:45} "Take the Levites
instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the
cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be
mine. I am Yahweh. {3:46} For the redemption of the two hundred
seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed
the number of the Levites, {3:47} you shall take five shekels apiece
for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them
(the shekel is twenty gerahs): {3:48} and you shall give the money,
with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."

   {3:49} Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the
number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; {3:50} from the
firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand
three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
{3:51} and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons,
according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {4:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {4:2} "Take a
census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, {4:3} from thirty years old and
upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to
do the work in the Tent of Meeting. {4:4} This is the service of the
sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. {4:5} When
the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall
take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony
with it, {4:6} and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall
spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. {4:7}
On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on
it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour
out; and the continual bread shall be on it. {4:8} They shall spread on
them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin,
and shall put in its poles. {4:9} They shall take a blue cloth, and
cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and
its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to
it. {4:10} They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of
sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. {4:11} On the golden altar
they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of
sealskin, and shall put in its poles. {4:12} They shall take all the
vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put
them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and
shall put them on the frame. {4:13} They shall take away the ashes from
the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. {4:14} They shall put on it
all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the
flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar;
and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its
poles.

   {4:15} "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the
sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves
forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but
they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the
burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

   {4:16} "The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be
the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering,
and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all
that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."

   {4:17} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {4:18} "Don't cut
off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
{4:19} but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they
approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and
appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; {4:20} but they
shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."

   {4:21} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {4:22} "Take a census of the
sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;
{4:23} from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you
number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in
the Tent of Meeting. {4:24} This is the service of the families of the
Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: {4:25} they shall carry
the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering,
and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for
the door of the Tent of Meeting, {4:26} and the hangings of the court,
and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the
tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the
instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them.
Therein shall they serve. {4:27} At the commandment of Aaron and his
sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all
their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them
in charge all their burden. {4:28} This is the service of the families
of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their charge
shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

   {4:29} "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their
families, by their fathers' houses; {4:30} from thirty years old and
upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who
enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. {4:31}
This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in
the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars,
its sockets, {4:32} and the pillars of the court around it, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the
instruments of the charge of their burden. {4:33} This is the service
of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service,
in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest."

   {4:34} Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered
the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers'
houses, {4:35} from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years
old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of
Meeting. {4:36} Those who were numbered of them by their families were
two thousand seven hundred fifty. {4:37} These are those who were
numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent
of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment
of Yahweh by Moses.

   {4:38} Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their
families, and by their fathers' houses, {4:39} from thirty years old
and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the
service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, {4:40} even those who were
numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two
thousand six hundred thirty. {4:41} These are those who were numbered
of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of
Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of
Yahweh. {4:42} Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses, {4:43} from thirty
years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into
the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, {4:44} even those who
were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two
hundred. {4:45} These are those who were numbered of the families of
the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the
commandment of Yahweh by Moses. {4:46} All those who were numbered of
the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered,
by their families, and by their fathers' houses, {4:47} from thirty
years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in
to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent
of Meeting, {4:48} even those who were numbered of them, were eight
thousand five hundred eighty. {4:49} According to the commandment of
Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service,
and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

   {5:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:2} "Command the children of
Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has
an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead. {5:3} Both male and
female shall you put out, outside of the camp shall you put them; that
they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."

   {5:4} The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the
camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

   {5:5} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:6} "Speak to the children of
Israel: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to
trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty; {5:7} then he shall
confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for
his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to
him in respect of whom he has been guilty. {5:8} But if the man has no
kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution
for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the
ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. {5:9}
Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel,
which they present to the priest, shall be his. {5:10} Every man's holy
things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be
his."

   {5:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:12} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is
unfaithful to him, {5:13} and a man lies with her carnally, and it is
hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is
defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in
the act; {5:14} and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is
jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
{5:15} then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring
her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He
shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal
offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to
memory. {5:16} The priest shall bring her near, and set her before
Yahweh; {5:17} and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen
vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the
priest shall take, and put it into the water. {5:18} The priest shall
set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go
loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the
meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water
of bitterness that brings a curse. {5:19} The priest shall cause her to
swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has lain with you, and if
you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be
free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. {5:20} But if
you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled,
and some man has lain with you besides your husband:' {5:21} then the
priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the
priest shall tell the woman, 'Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among
your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body
to swell; {5:22} and this water that brings a curse will go into your
bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman
shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'

   {5:23} "The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot them out into the water of bitterness. {5:24} He shall make the
woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the
water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
{5:25} The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring
it to the altar. {5:26} The priest shall take a handful of the meal
offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and
afterward shall make the woman drink the water. {5:27} When he has made
her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has
committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes
the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will
swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse
among her people. {5:28} If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then
she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

   {5:29} "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her
husband, goes astray, and is defiled; {5:30} or when the spirit of
jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall
set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all
this law. {5:31} The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman
shall bear her iniquity."

   {6:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {6:2} "Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special
vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, {6:3} he
shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink
any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. {6:4} All the days
of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine,
from the seeds even to the skins.

   {6:5} "All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor
come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates
himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair
of his head grow long.

   {6:6} "All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not
go near a dead body. {6:7} He shall not make himself unclean for his
father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when
they die; because his separation to God is on his head. {6:8} All the
days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.

   {6:9} "If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the
head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his
cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. {6:10} On the eighth
day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest,
to the door of the Tent of Meeting. {6:11} The priest shall offer one
for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make
atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall
make his head holy that same day. {6:12} He shall separate to Yahweh
the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for
a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his
separation was defiled.

   {6:13} "This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his
separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent
of Meeting, {6:14} and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male
lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb
a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for peace offerings, {6:15} and a basket of unleavened bread,
cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with
oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings. {6:16} The
priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin
offering, and his burnt offering. {6:17} He shall offer the ram for a
sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened
bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink
offering. {6:18} The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at
the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of
his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of
peace offerings. {6:19} The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of
the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened
wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has
shaved the head of his separation; {6:20} and the priest shall wave
them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest,
together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered.
After that the Nazirite may drink wine.

   {6:21} "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his
offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to
get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of
his separation."

   {6:22} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {6:23} "Speak to Aaron and to
his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.'
You shall tell them,
{6:24} 'Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
   {6:25} Yahweh make his face to shine on you,
   And be gracious to you.
{6:26} Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
   And give you peace.'

   {6:27} "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I
will bless them."

   {7:1} It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the
tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its
furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and
sanctified them; {7:2} that the princes of Israel, the heads of their
fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These
are they who were over those who were numbered: {7:3} and they brought
their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a
wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they
presented them before the tabernacle. {7:4} Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, {7:5} "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing
the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the
Levites, to every man according to his service."

   {7:6} Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the
Levites. {7:7} He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon,
according to their service: {7:8} and he gave four wagons and eight
oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the
direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. {7:9} But to the sons
of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged
to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

   {7:10} The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in
the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings
before the altar.

   {7:11} Yahweh said to Moses, "They shall offer their offering, each
prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar."

   {7:12} He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son
of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, {7:13} and his offering was:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:14} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:15} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:16} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:17} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

   {7:18} On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of
Issachar, gave his offering. {7:19} He offered for his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:20} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:21} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:22} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:23} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

   {7:24} On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun {7:25} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:26} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:27} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:28} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:29} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

   {7:30} On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
children of Reuben {7:31} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:32} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:33} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:34} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:35} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

   {7:36} On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of
the children of Simeon {7:37} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:38} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:39} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:40} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:41} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the
offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

   {7:42} On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
children of Gad {7:43} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:44} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:45} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:46} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:47} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

   {7:48} On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
children of Ephraim {7:49} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:50} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:51} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:52} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:53} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

   {7:54} On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the
children of Manasseh {7:55} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:56} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:57} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:58} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:59} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

   {7:60} On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
children of Benjamin {7:61} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:62} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:63} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:64} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:65} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

   {7:66} On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of
the children of Dan {7:67} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:68} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:69} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:70} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:71} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

   {7:72} On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the
children of Asher {7:73} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:74} one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:75} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:76} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:77} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

   {7:78} On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the
children of Naphtali {7:79} gave his offering:
   one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty
shekels,
   one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering;
   {7:80} one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
   {7:81} one young bull,
   one ram,
   one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
   {7:82} one male goat for a sin offering;
   {7:83} and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the
offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

   {7:84} This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was
anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve
silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; {7:85} each silver platter weighing
one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of
the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; {7:86} the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing
ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of
the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; {7:87} all the oxen for
the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year
old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin
offering twelve; {7:88} and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace
offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the
male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar,
after it was anointed.

   {7:89} When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with
Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat
that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim:
and he spoke to him.

   {8:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {8:2} "Speak to Aaron, and tell
him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in
front of the lampstand.'"

   {8:3} Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of
the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses. {8:4} This was the
workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its
flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had
shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

   {8:5} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {8:6} "Take the Levites from
among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. {8:7} Thus shall you do
to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let
them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their
clothes, and cleanse themselves. {8:8} Then let them take a young bull,
and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young
bull you shall take for a sin offering. {8:9} You shall present the
Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole
congregation of the children of Israel. {8:10} You shall present the
Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on
the Levites, {8:11} and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for
a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may
be theirs to do the service of Yahweh. {8:12} The Levites shall lay
their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for
a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make
atonement for the Levites. {8:13} You shall set the Levites before
Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to
Yahweh. {8:14} Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the
children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

   {8:15} "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the
Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave
offering. {8:16} For they are wholly given to me from among the
children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the
firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
{8:17} For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine,
both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. {8:18} I have taken the
Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
{8:19} I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from
among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of
Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children
of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when
the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."

   {8:20} Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did
to them. {8:21} The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they
washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before
Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. {8:22} After
that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting
before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

   {8:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {8:24} "This is that which
belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they
shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
{8:25} and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the
work, and shall serve no more, {8:26} but shall minister with their
brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no
service. Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties."

   {9:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,
saying, {9:2} "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in
its appointed season. {9:3} On the fourteenth day of this month, at
evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all
its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

   {9:4} Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep
the Passover. {9:5} They kept the Passover in the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai.
According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel
did. {9:6} There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead
body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day,
and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. {9:7} Those
men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why
are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its
appointed season among the children of Israel?"

   {9:8} Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will
command concerning you."

   {9:9} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {9:10} "Say to the children of
Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason
of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the
Passover to Yahweh. {9:11} In the second month, on the fourteenth day
at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread
and bitter herbs. {9:12} They shall leave none of it until the morning,
nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover
they shall keep it. {9:13} But the man who is clean, and is not on a
journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off
from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its
appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. {9:14} If a foreigner
lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according
to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so
shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and
for him who is born in the land.'"

   {9:15} On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud
covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening
it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until
morning. {9:16} So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the
appearance of fire by night. {9:17} Whenever the cloud was taken up
from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled;
and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel
encamped. {9:18} At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel
traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as
the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. {9:19}
When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of
Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, and didn't travel. {9:20} Sometimes
the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the
commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the
commandment of Yahweh they traveled. {9:21} Sometimes the cloud was
from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the
morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was
taken up, they traveled. {9:22} Whether it was two days, or a month, or
a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the
children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it
was taken up, they traveled. {9:23} At the commandment of Yahweh they
encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the
charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

    {10:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {10:2} Make you two trumpets
of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall use them
for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the
camps. {10:3} When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall
gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting. {10:4} If
they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of
Israel, shall gather themselves to you. {10:5} When you blow an alarm,
the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. {10:6}
When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south
side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their
journeys. {10:7} But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you
shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. {10:8} The sons of Aaron,
the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a
statute forever throughout your generations. {10:9} When you go to war
in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall
sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before
Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. {10:10} Also
in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the
beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they
shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God.
{10:11} It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the
twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the
tent of the testimony. {10:12} The children of Israel set forward
according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the
cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. {10:13} They first took their
journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. {10:14} In the
first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set
forward according to their armies: and over his army was Nahshon the
son of Amminadab. {10:15} Over the army of the tribe of the children of
Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. {10:16} Over the army of the
tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. {10:17}
The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of
Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. {10:18} The standard of the
camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his army
was Elizur the son of Shedeur. {10:19} Over the army of the tribe of
the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. {10:20}
Over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son
of Deuel. {10:21} The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary:
and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming. {10:22} The
standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according
to their armies: and over his army was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
{10:23} Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. {10:24} Over the army of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. {10:25} The
standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of
all the camps, set forward according to their armies: and over his army
was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. {10:26} Over the army of the tribe
of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. {10:27} Over the
army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of
Enan. {10:28} Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according
to their armies; and they set forward. {10:29} Moses said to Hobab, the
son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to
the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it you: come you with us,
and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.
{10:30} He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own
land, and to my relatives. {10:31} He said, Don't leave us, please;
because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall
be to us instead of eyes. {10:32} It shall be, if you go with us, yes,
it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we
do to you. {10:33} They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three
days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them
three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them. {10:34} The
cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the
camp. {10:35} It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said,
Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who
hate you flee before you. {10:36} When it rested, he said, Return,
Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.

   {11:1} The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of
Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire
of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the
camp. {11:2} The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and
the fire abated. {11:3} The name of that place was called Taberah,
because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them. {11:4} The mixed multitude
that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also
wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? {11:5} We
remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: {11:6}
but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna
to look on. {11:7} The manna was like coriander seed, and the
appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. {11:8} The people went
about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars,
and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as
the taste of fresh oil. {11:9} When the dew fell on the camp in the
night, the manna fell on it. {11:10} Moses heard the people weeping
throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the
anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. {11:11}
Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why
haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all
this people on me? {11:12} Have I conceived all this people? have I
brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom,
as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you
swore to their fathers? {11:13} Whence should I have flesh to give to
all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we
may eat. {11:14} I am not able to bear all this people alone, because
it is too heavy for me. {11:15} If you deal thus with me, please kill
me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see
my wretchedness. {11:16} Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men
of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people,
and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that
they may stand there with you. {11:17} I will come down and talk with
you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put
it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that
you not bear it yourself alone. {11:18} Say you to the people, Sanctify
yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept
in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it
was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and
you shall eat. {11:19} You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor
five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, {11:20} but a whole
month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you;
because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept
before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? {11:21} Moses said,
The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you
have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
{11:22} Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or
shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice
them? {11:23} Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now
shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not. {11:24} Moses
went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered
seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the
Tent. {11:25} Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took
of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it
happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they
did so no more. {11:26} But there remained two men in the camp, the
name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the
Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had
not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. {11:27}
There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do
prophesy in the camp. {11:28} Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of
Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
{11:29} Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? would that all
Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on
them! {11:30} Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
{11:31} There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from
the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this
side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and
about two cubits above the surface of the earth. {11:32} The people
rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and
gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and
they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
{11:33} While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was
chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh
struck the people with a very great plague. {11:34} The name of that
place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people
who lusted. {11:35} From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to
Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.

   {12:1} Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. {12:2}
They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken
also with us? Yahweh heard it. {12:3} Now the man Moses was very
humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth. {12:4}
Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out
you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out. {12:5} Yahweh
came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and
called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. {12:6} He said, Hear
now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make
myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
{12:7} My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
{12:8} with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not
in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were
you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? {12:9} The
anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed. {12:10} The
cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as
[white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was
leprous. {12:11} Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin
on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
{12:12} Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half
consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. {12:13} Moses cried to
Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you. {12:14} Yahweh said to Moses,
If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven
days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that
she shall be brought in again. {12:15} Miriam was shut up outside of
the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miriam was
brought in again. {12:16} Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth,
and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

   {13:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {13:2} Send you men, that they
may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel:
of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince
among them. {13:3} Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran
according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads
of the children of Israel. {13:4} 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,
[namely], of the tribe 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, Geuel the son of
Machi. {13:16} These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out
the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. {13:17} Moses sent
them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by
the South, and go up into the hill-country: {13:18} and see the land,
what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong
or weak, whether they are few or many; {13:19} and what the land is
that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are
that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; {13:20} and
what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood
therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the
land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. {13:21} So
they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to
Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. {13:22} They went up by the South,
and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of
Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.) {13:23} They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from
there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff
between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
{13:24} That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the
cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. {13:25} They
returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. {13:26}
They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation
of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and
brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them
the fruit of the land. {13:27} They told him, and said, We came to the
land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and
this is the fruit of it. {13:28} However the people who dwell in the
land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and
moreover we saw the children of Anak there. {13:29} Amalek dwells in
the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the
Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwells by the
sea, and along by the side of the Jordan. {13:30} Caleb stilled the
people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it;
for we are well able to overcome it. {13:31} But the men who went up
with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are
stronger than we. {13:32} They brought up an evil report of the land
which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the
inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great
stature. {13:33} There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come
of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so
we were in their sight.

   {14:1} All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night. {14:2} All the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to
them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had
died in this wilderness! {14:3} Why does Yahweh bring us to this land,
to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey:
wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt? {14:4} They said one
to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. {14:5}
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel. {14:6} Joshua the son of Nun
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the
land, tore their clothes: {14:7} and they spoke to all the congregation
of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to
spy it out, is an exceeding good land. {14:8} If Yahweh delight in us,
then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which
flows with milk and honey. {14:9} Only don't rebel against Yahweh,
neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their
defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear
them. {14:10} But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The
glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of
Israel. {14:11} Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise
me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I
have worked among them? {14:12} I will strike them with the pestilence,
and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier
than they. {14:13} Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear
it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
{14:14} and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They
have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you
Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you
go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by
night. {14:15} Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the
nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, {14:16}
Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he
swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. {14:17}
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have
spoken, saying, {14:18} Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving
kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no
means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, on the third and on the fourth generation. {14:19} Pardon,
Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your
loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from
Egypt even until now. {14:20} Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to
your word: {14:21} but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth
shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh; {14:22} because all those men
who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in
the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not
listened to my voice; {14:23} surely they shall not see the land which
I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me
see it: {14:24} but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit
with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
into which he went; and his seed shall possess it. {14:25} Now the
Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and
get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. {14:26} Yahweh
spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {14:27} How long [shall I bear]
with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
{14:28} Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in
my ears, so will I do to you: {14:29} your dead bodies shall fall in
this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your
whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured
against me, {14:30} surely you shall not come into the land, concerning
which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son
of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. {14:31} But your little ones,
that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall
know the land which you have rejected. {14:32} But as for you, your
dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. {14:33} Your children shall
be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your
prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
{14:34} After the number of the days in which you spied out the land,
even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and you shall know my alienation. {14:35} I, Yahweh,
have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who
are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be
consumed, and there they shall die. {14:36} The men, whom Moses sent to
spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur
against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, {14:37}
even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the
plague before Yahweh. {14:38} But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the
land. {14:39} Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and
the people mourned greatly. {14:40} They rose up early in the morning,
and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are
here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we
have sinned. {14:41} Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment
of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper? {14:42} Don't go up, for Yahweh
isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.
{14:43} For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and
you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following
Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you. {14:44} But they
presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp.
{14:45} Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in
that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

   {15:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {15:2} Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, When you are come into the land of your
habitations, which I give to you, {15:3} and will make an offering by
fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow,
or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor
to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock; {15:4} then shall he who
offers his offering offer to Yahweh a meal-offering of a tenth part [of
an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
{15:5} and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall
you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each
lamb. {15:6} Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two
tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the third part of a
hin of oil: {15:7} and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third
part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. {15:8} When you
prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish
a vow, or for peace-offerings to Yahweh; {15:9} then shall he offer
with the bull a meal-offering of three tenth parts [of an ephah] of
fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: {15:10} and you shall offer
for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. {15:11} Thus shall it be done for
each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the
kids. {15:12} According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall
you do to everyone according to their number. {15:13} All who are
home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. {15:14} If a
stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you
throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savor to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do. {15:15} For the
assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who
lives as a foreigner [with you], a statute forever throughout your
generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
{15:16} One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the
stranger who lives as a foreigner with you. {15:17} Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, {15:18} Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them,
When you come into the land where I bring you, {15:19} then it shall be
that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a
heave-offering to Yahweh. {15:20} Of the first of your dough you shall
offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the
threshing floor, so shall you heave it. {15:21} Of the first of your
dough you shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout your
generations. {15:22} When you shall err, and not observe all these
commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses, {15:23} even all that
Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave
commandment, and onward throughout your generations; {15:24} then it
shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for
a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to Yahweh, with the meal-offering
of it, and the drink-offering of it, according to the ordinance, and
one male goat for a sin-offering. {15:25} The priest shall make
atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they
shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their
offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin-offering
before Yahweh, for their error: {15:26} and all the congregation of the
children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a
foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done
unwittingly. {15:27} If one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer
a female goat a year old for a sin-offering. {15:28} The priest shall
make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before
Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. {15:29}
You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him
who is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who
lives as a foreigner among them. {15:30} But the soul who does anything
with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a foreigner, the same
blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his
people. {15:31} Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has
broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his
iniquity shall be on him. {15:32} While the children of Israel were in
the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
{15:33} Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and
Aaron, and to all the congregation. {15:34} They put him in custody,
because it had not been declared what should be done to him. {15:35}
Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the
congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp. {15:36}
All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to
death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {15:37} Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, {15:38} Speak to the children of Israel, and bid those
who they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout
their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a
cord of blue: {15:39} and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may
look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them;
and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after
which you use to play the prostitute; {15:40} that you may remember and
do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. {15:41} I am Yahweh
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I
am Yahweh 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
Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]: {16:2} and they rose up before
Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty
princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
{16:3} and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the
congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why
then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh? {16:4} When Moses
heard it, he fell on his face: {16:5} and he spoke to Korah and to all
his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and
who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he
shall choose will he cause to come near to him. {16:6} This do: take
you censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7} and put fire in them,
and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that
the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much
on you, you sons of Levi. {16:8} Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you
sons of Levi: {16:9} [seems it but] a small thing to you, that the God
of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring
you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of Yahweh, and to
stand before the congregation to minister to them; {16:10} and that he
has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you?
and seek you the priesthood also? {16:11} Therefore you and all your
company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he who
you murmur against him? {16:12} Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram,
the sons of Eliab; and they said, We won't come up: {16:13} is it a
small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk
and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make
yourself also a prince over us? {16:14} Moreover you haven't brought us
into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of
fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we won't
come up. {16:15} Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't
respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither
have I hurt one of them." {16:16} Moses said to Korah, You and all your
company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: {16:17}
and take every man his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you
before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you
also, and Aaron, each his censer. {16:18} They took every man his
censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at
the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. {16:19} Korah
assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of
meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation.
{16:20} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {16:21} Separate
yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a
moment. {16:22} They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the
spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all
the congregation? {16:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:24} Speak
to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram. {16:25} Moses rose up and went to Dathan and
Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. {16:26} He spoke to the
congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these
wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all
their sins. {16:27} So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at
the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their
little ones. {16:28} Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has
sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own
mind. {16:29} If these men die the common death of all men, or if they
be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.
{16:30} But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth,
and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down
alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have
despised Yahweh. {16:31} It happened, as he made an end of speaking all
these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; {16:32}
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their
goods. {16:33} So they, and all that appertained to them, went down
alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from
among the assembly. {16:34} All Israel that were round about them fled
at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
{16:35} Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty
men who offered the incense. {16:36} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{16:37} Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up
the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for
they are holy, {16:38} even the censers of these sinners against their
own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the
altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy;
and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel. {16:39} Eleazar the
priest took the brazen censers, which those who were burnt had offered;
and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, {16:40} to be a
memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who
isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh;
that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by
Moses. {16:41} But on the next day all the congregation of the children
of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have
killed the people of Yahweh. {16:42} It happened, when the congregation
was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward
the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory
of Yahweh appeared. {16:43} Moses and Aaron came to the front of the
tent of meeting. {16:44} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:45} Get
away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
They fell on their faces. {16:46} Moses said to Aaron, Take your
censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense
thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement
for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
{16:47} Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the
assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he
put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. {16:48} He stood
between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. {16:49} Now
those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,
besides those who died about the matter of Korah. {16:50} Aaron
returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague
was stayed.

   {17:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {17:2} Speak to the children
of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all
their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write
you every man's name on his rod. {17:3} You shall write Aaron's name on
the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their
fathers' houses. {17:4} You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting
before the testimony, where I meet with you. {17:5} It shall happen,
that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make
to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against you. {17:6} Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and
all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to
their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among
their rods. {17:7} Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of
the testimony. {17:8} It happened on the next day, that Moses went into
the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house
of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore
ripe almonds. {17:9} Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh
to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his
rod. {17:10} Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the
testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion;
that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not
die. {17:11} Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
{17:12} The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we
perish, we are undone, we are all undone. {17:13} Everyone who comes
near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all
of us?

   {18:1} Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers'
house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and
your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. {18:2}
Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring
you near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you:
but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the
testimony. {18:3} They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all
the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary
and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you. {18:4} They
shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for
all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
{18:5} You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of
the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
{18:6} I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the
children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the
service of the tent of meeting. {18:7} You and your sons with you shall
keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within
the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service
of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. {18:8}
Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the charge of my
heave-offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to
you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as
a portion forever. {18:9} This shall be your of the most holy things,
[reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every
meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every
trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be
most holy for you and for your sons. {18:10} As the most holy things
shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to
you. {18:11} This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all
the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you,
and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever;
everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. {18:12} All the
best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the
first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given
them. {18:13} The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which
they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your
house shall eat of it. {18:14} Everything devoted in Israel shall be
yours. {18:15} Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they
offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless
the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of
unclean animals shall you redeem. {18:16} Those who are to be redeemed
of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your
estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs). {18:17} But the firstborn of a
cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall
not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar,
and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savor to Yahweh. {18:18} The flesh of them shall be your, as the
wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. {18:19} All the
heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer
to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you,
as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to
you and to your seed with you. {18:20} Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall
have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion
among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children
of Israel. {18:21} To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all
the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service
which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. {18:22}
Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of
meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. {18:23} But the Levites shall do
the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity:
it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among
the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. {18:24} For the
tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering
to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I
have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no
inheritance. {18:25} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {18:26} Moreover
you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When you take of the
children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your
inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Yahweh,
a tithe of the tithe. {18:27} Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to
you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the
fullness of the winepress. {18:28} Thus you also shall offer a
heave-offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the
children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's heave-offering to
Aaron the priest. {18:29} Out of all your gifts you shall offer every
heave-offering of Yahweh, of all the best of it, even the holy part of
it out of it. {18:30} Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the
best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the
increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.
{18:31} You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for
it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
{18:32} You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved
from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy things of
the children of Israel, that you not die.

   {19:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {19:2} This is
the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the
children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in
which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke. {19:3} You shall
give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of
the camp, and one shall kill her before his face: {19:4} and Eleazar
the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her
blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. {19:5} One
shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her
blood, with her dung, shall he burn: {19:6} and the priest shall take
cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the
burning of the heifer. {19:7} Then the priest shall wash his clothes,
and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. {19:8} He who
burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in
water, and shall be unclean until the even. {19:9} A man who is clean
shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the
camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the
children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
{19:10} He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of
Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a
statute forever. {19:11} He who touches the dead body of any man shall
be unclean seven days: {19:12} the same shall purify himself therewith
on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he
doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not
be clean. {19:13} Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who
has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and
that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity
was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet
on him. {19:14} This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who
comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean
seven days. {19:15} Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on
it, is unclean. {19:16} Whoever in the open field touches one who is
slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave,
shall be unclean seven days. {19:17} For the unclean they shall take of
the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall
be put thereto in a vessel: {19:18} and a clean person shall take
hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on
all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who
touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: {19:19} and
the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on
the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean
at even. {19:20} But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify
himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly,
because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity
has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. {19:21} It shall be a
perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity
shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall
be unclean until even. {19:22} Whatever the unclean person touches
shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until
even.

   {20:1} The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came
into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in
Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. {20:2} There was
no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron. {20:3} The people strove with Moses,
and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before
Yahweh! {20:4} Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this
wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? {20:5} Why
have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil
place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink. {20:6} Moses and
Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of
meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to
them. {20:7} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {20:8} Take the rod, and
assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you
to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you
shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the
congregation and their cattle drink. {20:9} Moses took the rod from
before Yahweh, as he commanded him. {20:10} Moses and Aaron gathered
the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now,
you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock? {20:11}
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and
water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their
cattle. {20:12} Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't
believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have
given them. {20:13} These are the waters of Meribah; because the
children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
{20:14} Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus
says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has happened to
us: {20:15} how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt
a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
{20:16} and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an
angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in
Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border. {20:17} Please let us
pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through
vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go
along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor
to the left, until we have passed your border. {20:18} Edom said to
him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword
against you. {20:19} The children of Israel said to him, We will go up
by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then
will I give the price of it: let me only, without [doing] anything
[else], pass through on my feet. {20:20} He said, You shall not pass
through. Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong
hand. {20:21} Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his
border: why Israel turned away from him. {20:22} They traveled from
Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came
to Mount Hor. {20:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by
the border of the land of Edom, saying, {20:24} Aaron shall be gathered
to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given
to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the
waters of Meribah. {20:25} Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring
them up to Mount Hor; {20:26} and strip Aaron of his garments, and put
them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people],
and shall die there. {20:27} Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they
went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. {20:28}
Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son;
and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar
came down from the mountain. {20:29} When all the congregation saw that
Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of
Israel.

   {21:1} The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South,
heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought
against Israel, and took some of them captive. {21:2} Israel vowed a
vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my
hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. {21:3} Yahweh listened
to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they
utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was
called Hormah. {21:4} They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the
Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was
much discouraged because of the way. {21:5} The people spoke against
God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die
in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and
our soul loathes this light bread. {21:6} Yahweh sent fiery serpents
among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel
died. {21:7} The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh,
that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people.
{21:8} Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a
standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he
sees it, shall live. {21:9} Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it
on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man,
when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. {21:10} The children
of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth. {21:11} They traveled from
Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before
Moab, toward the sunrise. {21:12} From there they traveled, and
encamped in the valley of Zered. {21:13} From there they traveled, and
encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness,
that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the
border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. {21:14} Therefore it is
said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh,
Vaheb in Suphah,
The valleys of the Arnon,
{21:15} The slope of the valleys
That inclines toward the dwelling of Ar,
Leans on the border of Moab.

   {21:16} From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which
Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them
water.

   {21:17} Then sang Israel this song:
Spring up, well; sing you to it:
{21:18} The well, which the princes dug,
Which the nobles of the people dug,
With the scepter, [and] with their poles.

   From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah; {21:19} and from
Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; {21:20} and from
Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of
Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. {21:21} Israel sent messengers
to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, {21:22} Let me pass through your
land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not
drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway,
until we have passed your border. {21:23} Sihon would not allow Israel
to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together,
and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and
he fought against Israel. {21:24} Israel struck him with the edge of
the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to
the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was
strong. {21:25} Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all
the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it.
{21:26} For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who
had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out
of his hand, even to the Arnon. {21:27} Therefore those who speak in
proverbs say,
Come you to Heshbon;
Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
{21:28} For a fire is gone out of Heshbon,
A flame from the city of Sihon:
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
{21:29} Woe to you, Moab!
You are undone, people of Chemosh:
He has given his sons as fugitives,
His daughters into captivity,
To Sihon king of the Amorites.
{21:30} We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon,
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which [reaches] to Medeba.

   {21:31} Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. {21:32} Moses
sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the
Amorites who were there. {21:33} They turned and went up by the way of
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei. {21:34} Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear
him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and
his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon. {21:35} So they struck him, and his
sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and
they possessed his land.

   {22:1} The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains
of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. {22:2} Balak the son of Zippor
saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. {22:3} Moab was sore
afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed
because of the children of Israel. {22:4} Moab said to the elders of
Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as
the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was
king of Moab at that time. {22:5} He sent messengers to Balaam the son
of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children
of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out
from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide
over against me. {22:6} Please come now therefore curse me this people;
for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we
may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know
that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
{22:7} The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke
to him the words of Balak. {22:8} He said to them, Lodge here this
night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me:
and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. {22:9} God came to Balaam,
and said, What men are these with you? {22:10} Balaam said to God,
Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],
{22:11} Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the
surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be
able to fight against them, and shall drive them out. {22:12} God said
to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people;
for they are blessed. {22:13} Balaam rose up in the morning, and said
to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to
give me leave to go with you. {22:14} The princes of Moab rose up, and
they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us. {22:15}
Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
{22:16} They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son
of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me: {22:17} for
I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I
will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me. {22:18}
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God,
to do less or more. {22:19} Now therefore, please wait also here this
night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more. {22:20} God
came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call
you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you,
that shall you do. {22:21} Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled
his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. {22:22} God's anger was
kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the
way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and
his two servants were with him. {22:23} The donkey saw the angel of
Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the
donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam
struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. {22:24} Then the angel of
Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on
this side, and a wall on that side. {22:25} The donkey saw the angel of
Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot
against the wall: and he struck her again. {22:26} The angel of Yahweh
went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn
either to the right hand or to the left. {22:27} The donkey saw the
angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was
kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff. {22:28} Yahweh opened
the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to
you, that you have struck me these three times? {22:29} Balaam said to
the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in
my hand, for now I had killed you. {22:30} The donkey said to Balaam,
Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to
this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No. {22:31}
Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his
head, and fell on his face. {22:32} The angel of Yahweh said to him,
Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come
forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me: {22:33}
and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times:
unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you,
and saved her alive. {22:34} Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have
sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now
therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again. {22:35} The
angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that
I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the
princes of Balak. {22:36} When Balak heard that Balaam was come, he
went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the
Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. {22:37} Balak said to
Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come
to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor? {22:38} Balaam
said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all
to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I
speak. {22:39} Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
{22:40} Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the
princes who were with him. {22:41} It happened in the morning, that
Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and
he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

   {23:1} Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
me here seven bulls and seven rams. {23:2} Balak did as Balaam had
spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
{23:3} Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will
go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I
will tell you. He went to a bare height. {23:4} God met Balaam: and he
said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a
bull and a ram on every altar. {23:5} Yahweh put a word in Balaam's
mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. {23:6} He
returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering,
he, and all the princes of Moab. {23:7} He took up his parable, and
said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the
mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel. {23:8}
How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom
Yahweh has not defied? {23:9} For from the top of the rocks I see him,
From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And
shall not be reckoned among the nations. {23:10} Who can count the dust
of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of
the righteous, Let my last end be like his! {23:11} Balak said to
Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and,
behold, you have blessed them altogether. {23:12} He answered and said,
Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?
{23:13} Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from
whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and
shall not see them all: and curse me them from there. {23:14} He took
him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven
altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. {23:15} He said
to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh]
yonder. {23:16} Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak. {23:17} He came to
him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the
princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken?
{23:18} He took up his parable, and said,
Rise up, Balak, and hear;
Listen to me, you son of Zippor:
{23:19} God is not a man, that he should lie,
Neither the son of man, that he should repent:
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
{23:20} Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless:
He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
{23:21} He has not saw iniquity in Jacob;
Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel:
Yahweh his God is with him,
The shout of a king is among them.
{23:22} God brings them forth out of Egypt;
He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
{23:23} Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
Neither is there any divination with Israel:
Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel,
What has God done!
{23:24} Behold, the people rises up as a lioness,
As a lion does he lift himself up:
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
Drink the blood of the slain.

   {23:25} Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all. {23:26} But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you,
saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do? {23:27} Balak said to
Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it
will please God that you may curse me them from there. {23:28} Balak
took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. {23:29}
Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here
seven bulls and seven rams. {23:30} Balak did as Balaam had said, and
offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

   {24:1} When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he
didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set
his face toward the wilderness. {24:2} Balaam lifted up his eyes, and
he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God
came on him. {24:3} He took up his parable, and said,
Balaam the son of Beor says,
The man whose eye was closed says;
{24:4} He says, who hears the words of God,
Who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Falling down, and having his eyes open:
{24:5} How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
Your tents, Israel!
{24:6} As valleys are they spread forth,
As gardens by the river-side,
As lign-aloes which Yahweh has planted,
As cedar trees beside the waters.
{24:7} Water shall flow from his buckets,
His seed shall be in many waters,
His king shall be higher than Agag,
His kingdom shall be exalted.
{24:8} God brings him forth out of Egypt;
He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox:
He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
Shall break their bones in pieces,
Smite [them] through with his arrows.
{24:9} He couched, he lay down as a lion,
As a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Blessed be everyone who blesses you,
Cursed be everyone who curses you.

   {24:10} Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his
hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my
enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three
times. {24:11} Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to
promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from
honor. {24:12} Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers
who you sent to me, saying, {24:13} If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do
either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I
speak? {24:14} Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will
advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter
days. {24:15} He took up his parable, and said,
Balaam the son of Beor says,
The man whose eye was closed says;
{24:16} He says, who hears the words of God,
Knows the knowledge of the Most High,
Who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Falling down, and having his eyes open:
{24:17} I see him, but not now;
I see him, but not near:
There shall come forth a star out of Jacob,
A scepter shall rise out of Israel,
Shall strike through the corners of Moab,
Break down all the sons of tumult.
{24:18} Edom shall be a possession,
Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies;
While Israel does valiantly.
{24:19} Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
Shall destroy the remnant from the city.

   {24:20} He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
Amalek was the first of the nations;
But his latter end shall come to destruction.

   {24:21} He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
Strong is your dwelling-place,
Your nest is set in the rock.
{24:22} Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
Until Asshur shall carry you away captive.

   {24:23} He took up his parable, and said,
Alas, who shall live when God does this?
{24:24} But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim,
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber;
He also shall come to destruction.

   {24:25} Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and
Balak also went his way.

   {25:1} Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the
prostitute with the daughters of Moab: {25:2} for they called the
people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed
down to their gods. {25:3} Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the
anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel. {25:4} Yahweh said to
Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh
before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from
Israel. {25:5} Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone
his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.

   {25:6} Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his
brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of
all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping
at the door of the tent of meeting. {25:7} When Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst
of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; {25:8} and he went
after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the
plague was stayed from the children of Israel. {25:9} Those who died by
the plague were twenty-four thousand. {25:10} Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, {25:11} Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that
he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume
the children of Israel in my jealousy. {25:12} Therefore say, Behold, I
give to him my covenant of peace: {25:13} and it shall be to him, and
to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood;
because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children
of Israel. {25:14} Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain,
who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a
prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. {25:15} The name of
the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he
was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian. {25:16} Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, {25:17} Vex the Midianites, and strike them;
{25:18} for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have
deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the
daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the
day of the plague in the matter of Peor.

   {26:1} It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and
to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, {26:2} Take the sum of
all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old
and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to
war in Israel. {26:3} Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, {26:4} [Take the
sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh
commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the
land of Egypt. {26:5} Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of
Reuben: [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; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three
thousand seven hundred thirty. {26:8} The sons of Pallu: Eliab. {26:9}
The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that
Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove
against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they
strove against Yahweh, {26:10} and the earth opened its mouth, and
swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what
time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
{26:11} Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die. {26:12} The sons
of Simeon after 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 after 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 according to those who were numbered of them, forty
thousand and five hundred. {26:19} The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and
Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. {26:20} The sons of Judah after
their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez,
the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
{26:21} 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 according to those who were numbered of them,
seventy-six thousand five hundred. {26:23} The sons of Issachar after
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 according to those who were numbered of them,
sixty-four thousand three hundred. {26:26} The sons of Zebulun after
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 according to those
who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred. {26:28} The
sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. {26:29} The
sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir
became 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}
Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but 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 after 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} These are the sons of
Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. {26:37} These are the
families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of
them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph
after their families. {26:38} The sons of Benjamin after 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; of Hupham, the family of the
Huphamites. {26:40} 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 after their families; and those who were
numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. {26:42} These
are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the
Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. {26:43}
All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were
numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. {26:44} The
sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the
Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of
the Berites. {26:45} Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the
Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. {26:46} The
name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. {26:47} These are the families
of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them,
fifty-three thousand and four hundred. {26:48} The sons of Naphtali
after 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 according to their families; and those who
were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. {26:51}
These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six
hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. {26:52} Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, {26:53} To these the land shall be divided for an
inheritance according to the number of names. {26:54} To the more you
shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the
less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of
him shall his inheritance be given. {26:55} Notwithstanding, the land
shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their
fathers they shall inherit. {26:56} According to the lot shall their
inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer. {26:57} These
are those who were numbered of the Levites after 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. Kohath became the father of Amram. {26:59} The
name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born
to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam
their sister. {26:60} To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar. {26:61} Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire
before Yahweh. {26:62} Those who were numbered of them were
twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they
were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no
inheritance given them among the children of Israel. {26:63} These are
those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered
the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
{26:64} But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered
by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in
the wilderness of Sinai. {26:65} For Yahweh had said of them, They
shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them,
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

   {27:1} Then drew near 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; and these are the names of
his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. {27:2}
They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the
princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting,
saying, {27:3} Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among
the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in
the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
{27:4} Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his
family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the
brothers of our father. {27:5} Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
{27:6} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {27:7} The daughters of
Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an
inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the
inheritance of their father to pass to them. {27:8} You shall speak to
the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you
shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. {27:9} If he have
no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
{27:10} If he have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to
his father's brothers. {27:11} If his father have no brothers, then you
shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his
family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of
Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses. {27:12}
Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the
land which I have given to the children of Israel. {27:13} When you
have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your
brother was gathered; {27:14} because you rebelled against my word in
the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify
me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) {27:15} Moses spoke to Yahweh,
saying, {27:16} Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
appoint a man over the congregation, {27:17} who may go out before
them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and
who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep
which have no shepherd. {27:18} Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the
son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
{27:19} and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. {27:20} You shall
put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of
Israel may obey. {27:21} He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who
shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his
word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he,
and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
{27:22} Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set
him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: {27:23}
and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by
Moses.

   {28:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {28:2} Command the children of
Israel, and tell them, My offering, my food for my offerings made by
fire, of a sweet savor to me, shall you observe to offer to me in their
due season. {28:3} You shall tell them, This is the offering made by
fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: he-lambs a year old without
blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. {28:4} The one
lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer
at even; {28:5} and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a
meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
{28:6} It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount
Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {28:7} The
drink-offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one
lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink-offering of strong
drink to Yahweh. {28:8} The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the
meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you
shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
{28:9} On the Sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and
two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed
with oil, and the drink-offering of it: {28:10} this is the burnt
offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt-offering, and
the drink-offering of it. {28:11} In the beginnings of your months you
shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram,
seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; {28:12} and three tenth
parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil,
for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal-offering,
mixed with oil, for the one ram; {28:13} and a tenth part of fine flour
mixed with oil for a meal-offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering
of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {28:14} Their
drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third
part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb:
this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the
year. {28:15} One male goat for a sin-offering to Yahweh; it shall be
offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink-offering of
it. {28:16} In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is
Yahweh's Passover. {28:17} On the fifteenth day of this month shall be
a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. {28:18} In the
first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work;
{28:19} but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering
to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old;
they shall be to you without blemish; {28:20} and their meal-offering,
fine flour mixed with oil: three tenth parts shall you offer for a
bull, and two tenth parts for the ram; {28:21} a tenth part shall you
offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; {28:22} and one male goat for
a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. {28:23} You shall offer
these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a
continual burnt offering. {28:24} After this manner you shall offer
daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt
offering, and the drink-offering of it. {28:25} On the seventh day you
shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work. {28:26}
Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal-offering
to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have a holy convocation;
you shall do no servile work; {28:27} but you shall offer a burnt
offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven
he-lambs a year old; {28:28} and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed
with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one
ram, {28:29} a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; {28:30}
one male goat, to make atonement for you. {28:31} Besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, you shall offer them (they
shall be to you without blemish), and their drink-offerings.

   {29:1} In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you
shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a
day of blowing of trumpets to you. {29:2} You shall offer a burnt
offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven
he-lambs a year old without blemish; {29:3} and their meal-offering,
fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth
parts for the ram, {29:4} and one tenth part for every lamb of the
seven lambs; {29:5} and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make
atonement for you; {29:6} besides the burnt offering of the new moon,
and the meal-offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the
meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings, according to their
ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
{29:7} On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner
of work; {29:8} but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a
sweet savor: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; they
shall be to you without blemish; {29:9} and their meal-offering, fine
flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts
for the one ram, {29:10} a tenth part for every lamb of the seven
lambs: {29:11} one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the
sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the
meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings. {29:12} On the
fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation;
you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh
seven days: {29:13} and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two
rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
{29:14} and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth
parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each
ram of the two rams, {29:15} and a tenth part for every lamb of the
fourteen lambs; {29:16} and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides
the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the
drink-offering of it. {29:17} On the second day [you shall offer]
twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without
blemish; {29:18} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance; {29:19} and one male goat for a sin-offering;
besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and
their drink-offerings. {29:20} On the third day eleven bulls, two rams,
fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; {29:21} and their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
{29:22} and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of
it. {29:23} On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a
year old without blemish; {29:24} their meal-offering and their
drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:25} and one male
goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the
meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. {29:26} On the fifth
day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
{29:27} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance; {29:28} and one male goat for a sin-offering,
besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and
the drink-offering of it. {29:29} On the sixth day eight bulls, two
rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; {29:30} and their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
{29:31} and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offerings of it.
{29:32} On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a
year old without blemish; {29:33} and their meal-offering and their
drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:34} and one male
goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the
meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. {29:35} On the
eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile
work; {29:36} but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a
year old without blemish; {29:37} their meal-offering and their
drink-offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the ordinance: {29:38} and one male
goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the
meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. {29:39} These you
shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your
freewill-offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your
meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your
peace-offerings. {29:40} Moses told the children of Israel according to
all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {30:1} Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of
Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. {30:2}
When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul
with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all
that proceeds out of his mouth. {30:3} Also when a woman vows a vow to
Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in
her youth, {30:4} and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which
she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all
her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul
shall stand. {30:5} But if her father disallow her in the day that he
hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her
soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father
disallowed her. {30:6} If she be [married] to a husband, while her vows
are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound
her soul, {30:7} and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in
the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with
which she has bound her soul shall stand. {30:8} But if her husband
disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her
vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she
has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her. {30:9} But the vow of
a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she
has bound her soul, shall stand against her. {30:10} If she vowed in
her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, {30:11}
and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't
disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which
she bound her soul shall stand. {30:12} But if her husband made them
null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded
out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her
soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will
forgive her. {30:13} Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the
soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
{30:14} But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to
day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on
her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in the
day that he heard them. {30:15} But if he shall make them null and void
after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. {30:16}
These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and
his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her
father's house.

   {31:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:2} Avenge the children of
Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your
people. {31:3} Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from
among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute
Yahweh's vengeance on Midian. {31:4} Of every tribe one thousand,
throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war. {31:5}
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of
every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. {31:6} Moses sent them, one
thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and
the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. {31:7} They warred against
Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male. {31:8}
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and
Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam
also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. {31:9} The children of
Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all
their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for
a prey. {31:10} All their cities in the places in which they lived, and
all their encampments, they burnt with fire. {31:11} They took all the
spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal. {31:12} They
brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to
Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel,
to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
{31:13} Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp. {31:14}
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of
thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of
the war. {31:15} Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women
alive? {31:16} Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of
Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. {31:17}
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every
woman who has known man by lying with him. {31:18} But all the girls,
who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
{31:19} Encamp you outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed
any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the
third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. {31:20} As to
every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats'
[hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.
{31:21} Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the
battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded
Moses: {31:22} however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron,
the tin, and the lead, {31:23} everything that may abide the fire, you
shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless
it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't
withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. {31:24} You
shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and
afterward you shall come into the camp. {31:25} Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, {31:26} Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man
and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the
fathers' [houses] of the congregation; {31:27} and divide the prey into
two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and
all the congregation. {31:28} Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of
war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the
persons, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:
{31:29} take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for
Yahweh's heave-offering. {31:30} Of the children of Israel's half, you
shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen,
of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give
them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh. {31:31}
Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses. {31:32} Now
the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six
hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, {31:33} and seventy-two thousand
oxen, {31:34} and seventy-one thousand donkeys, {31:35} and thirty-two
thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying
with him. {31:36} The half, which was the portion of those who went out
to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred
sheep: {31:37} and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred
seventy-five. {31:38} The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which
Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two. {31:39} The donkeys were thirty
thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one. {31:40}
The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was
thirty-two persons. {31:41} Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's
heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{31:42} Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from
the men who warred {31:43} (now the congregation's half was three
hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, {31:44} and
thirty-six thousand oxen, {31:45} and thirty thousand five hundred
donkeys, {31:46} and sixteen thousand persons), {31:47} even of the
children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty,
both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the
charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {31:48} The
officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of
thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; {31:49}
and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of
war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
{31:50} We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten,
of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings,
ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
{31:51} Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
worked jewels. {31:52} All the gold of the heave-offering that they
offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains
of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. {31:53}
([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) {31:54}
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a
memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

   {32:1} Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the
land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle; {32:2}
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses,
and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation,
saying, {32:3} Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon,
and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, {32:4} the land which
Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle;
and your servants have cattle. {32:5} They said, If we have found favor
in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a
possession; don't bring us over the Jordan. {32:6} Moses said to the
children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go
to the war, and shall you sit here? {32:7} Why discourage you the heart
of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh
has given them? {32:8} Thus 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 discouraged the heart of the
children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh
had given them. {32:10} Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he
swore, saying, {32:11} Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt,
from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed
me: {32:12} save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua
the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh. {32:13}
Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back
and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who
had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed. {32:14} Behold, you
are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to
augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel. {32:15} For if
you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the
wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. {32:16} They came
near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle,
and cities for our little ones: {32:17} but we ourselves will be ready
armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them
to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities
because of the inhabitants of the land. {32:18} We will not return to
our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his
inheritance. {32:19} For we will not inherit with them on the other
side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to
us on this side of the Jordan eastward. {32:20} Moses said to them, If
you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh
to the war, {32:21} and every armed man of you will pass over the
Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before
him, {32:22} and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you
shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and
this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh. {32:23} But
if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be
sure your sin will find you out. {32:24} Build you cities for your
little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded
out of your mouth. {32:25} The children of Gad and the children of
Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord
commands. {32:26} Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; {32:27} but your
servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh
to battle, as my lord says. {32:28} So Moses gave charge concerning
them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the
heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
{32:29} Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to
battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then
you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: {32:30} but if
they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions
among you in the land of Canaan. {32:31} The children of Gad and the
children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your
servants, so will we do. {32:32} We will pass over armed before Yahweh
into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall
remain] with us beyond the Jordan. {32:33} Moses gave to them, even to
the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of
the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according
to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land
round about. {32:34} The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and
Aroer, {32:35} and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, {32:36} and
Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
{32:37} The children of Reuben built 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 cities which
they built. {32:39} The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to
Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
{32:40} Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived
therein. {32:41} Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns of
it, and called them Havvoth Jair. {32:42} Nobah went and took Kenath,
and the villages of it, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

   {33:1} These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they
went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of
Moses and Aaron. {33:2} Moses wrote their goings out according to their
journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys
according to their goings out. {33:3} They traveled from Rameses in the
first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day
after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians, {33:4} while the Egyptians were burying
all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods
also Yahweh executed judgments. {33:5} The children of Israel traveled
from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth. {33:6} They traveled from
Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
{33:7} They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which
is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol. {33:8} They
traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea
into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the
wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. {33:9} They traveled from
Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and
seventy palm trees; and they encamped there. {33:10} They traveled from
Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea. {33:11} They traveled from the Red
Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. {33:12} They traveled from
the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. {33:13} They traveled
from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. {33:14} They traveled from Alush,
and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
{33:15} They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of
Sinai. {33:16} They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped
in Kibroth-hattaavah. {33:17} They traveled from Kibroth-hattaavah, and
encamped in Hazeroth. {33:18} They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped
in Rithmah. {33:19} They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon
Perez. {33:20} They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
{33:21} They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. {33:22} They
traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah. {33:23} They traveled
from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher. {33:24} They traveled
from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah. {33:25} They traveled from
Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth. {33:26} They traveled from
Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath. {33:27} They traveled from Tahath,
and encamped in Terah. {33:28} They traveled from Terah, and encamped
in Mithkah. {33:29} They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in
Hashmonah. {33:30} They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in
Moseroth. {33:31} They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene
Jaakan. {33:32} They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor
Haggidgad. {33:33} They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in
Jotbathah. {33:34} They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in
Abronah. {33:35} They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion
Geber. {33:36} They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the
wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh). {33:37} They traveled from
Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
{33:38} Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of
Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the
first day of the month. {33:39} Aaron was one hundred twenty-three
years old when he died in Mount Hor. {33:40} The Canaanite, the king of
Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming
of the children of Israel. {33:41} They traveled from Mount Hor, and
encamped in Zalmonah. {33:42} They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped
in Punon. {33:43} They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
{33:44} They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the
border of Moab. {33:45} They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in
Dibon-gad. {33:46} They traveled from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon
Diblathaim. {33:47} They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped
in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. {33:48} They traveled from the
mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho. {33:49} They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth
even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab. {33:50} Yahweh spoke to
Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, {33:51}
Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the
Jordan into the land of Canaan, {33:52} then you shall drive out all
the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their
figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all
their high places: {33:53} and you shall take possession of the land,
and dwell therein; for to you have I given the land to possess it.
{33:54} You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families;
to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you
shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man,
that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall you
inherit. {33:55} But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the
land from before you, then shall those who you let remain of them be as
pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex
you in the land in which you dwell. {33:56} It shall happen that as I
thought to do to them, so will I do to you.

   {34:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {34:2} Command the children of
Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is
the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of
Canaan according to the borders of it), {34:3} then your south quarter
shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your
south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; {34:4} and
your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and
pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of
Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and pass along to
Azmon; {34:5} and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook
of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. {34:6} For the
western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]:
this shall be your west border. {34:7} This shall be your north border:
from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor; {34:8} from
Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings
out of the border shall be at Zedad; {34:9} and the border shall go
forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this
shall be your north border. {34:10} You shall mark out your east border
from Hazar Enan to Shepham; {34:11} and the border shall go down from
Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go
down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
{34:12} and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out
of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to
the borders of it round about. {34:13} Moses commanded the children of
Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which
Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
{34:14} for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their
fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to
their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
have received, their inheritance: {34:15} the two tribes and the
half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho
eastward, toward the sunrise. {34:16} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{34:17} These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you
for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. {34:18}
You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for
inheritance. {34:19} These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of
Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {34:20} 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} Of the tribe of the
children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. {34:23} Of the
children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince,
Hanniel the son of Ephod. {34:24} Of the tribe of the children of
Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. {34:25} Of the tribe of
the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. {34:26}
Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of
Azzan. {34:27} Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud
the son of Shelomi. {34:28} Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a
prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. {34:29} These are they whom Yahweh
commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the
land of Canaan.

   {35:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying, {35:2} Command the children of Israel that they give
to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell
in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the
Levites. {35:3} The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their
suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all
their animals. {35:4} The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give
to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one
thousand cubits round about. {35:5} You shall measure outside of the
city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two
thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the
north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall
be to them the suburbs of the cities. {35:6} The cities which you shall
give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you
shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall
give forty-two cities. {35:7} All the cities which you shall give to
the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with
their suburbs. {35:8} Concerning the cities which you shall give of the
possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take
many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his
inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
{35:9} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {35:10} Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of
Canaan, {35:11} then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of
refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may
flee there. {35:12} The cities shall be to you for refuge from the
avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the
congregation for judgment. {35:13} The cities which you shall give
shall be for you six cities of refuge. {35:14} You shall give three
cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land
of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. {35:15} For the children of
Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them,
shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any
person unwittingly may flee there. {35:16} But if he struck him with an
instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death. {35:17} If he struck him with a stone in
the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death. {35:18} Or if he struck him with
a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he
is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. {35:19} The
avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets
him, he shall put him to death. {35:20} If he thrust him of hatred, or
hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, {35:21} or in enmity
struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall
surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall
put the murderer to death, when he meets him. {35:22} But if he thrust
him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in
wait, {35:23} or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing
him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy,
neither sought his harm; {35:24} then the congregation shall judge
between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these
ordinances; {35:25} and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer
out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall
restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall
dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with
the holy oil. {35:26} But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond
the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, {35:27} and the
avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge,
and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of
blood, {35:28} because he should have remained in his city of refuge
until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high
priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
{35:29} These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you
throughout your generations in all your dwellings. {35:30} Whoever
kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of
witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he
die. {35:31} Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a
murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
{35:32} You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of
refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of
the priest. {35:33} So you shall not pollute the land in which you are:
for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the
land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who
shed it. {35:34} You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in
the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel.

   {36:1} The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the
children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and
before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children
of Israel: {36:2} and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the
land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was
commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
to his daughters. {36:3} If they be married to any of the sons of the
[other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance
be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to
the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be
taken away from the lot of our inheritance. {36:4} When the jubilee of
the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added
to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will
their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of
our fathers. {36:5} Moses commanded the children of Israel according to
the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks
right. {36:6} This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning
the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they
think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall
they be married. {36:7} So shall no inheritance of the children of
Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall
cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. {36:8}
Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the
children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of
her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the
inheritance of his fathers. {36:9} So shall no inheritance remove from
one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel
shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance. {36:10} Even as Yahweh
commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: {36:11} for
Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of
Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. {36:12} They
were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of
Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of
their father. {36:13} These are the commandments and the ordinances
which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

   

   

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