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Lamsa OT - Numbers

"1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Take the census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; 3 From twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel; you and Aaron your brother shall number them by their armies. 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one the head of the house of his fathers. 5 And these are the names of the men who shall help you: of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6 Of Simeon, Shelmuiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 8 Of Issachar, Nethanael the son of Zuar. 9 Of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the sons of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Perzur. 11 Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 13 Of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran. 14 Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 15 Of Naphtali, Ahida the son of Enan. 16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands of the army of Israel."

"17 ¶ And Moses and Aaron took these men who were chosen by their names; 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they were numbered after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of their names from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 21 The number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand and five hundred. 22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 23 The number of the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand and three hundred. 24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 25 The number of the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty. 26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 27 The number of the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand and six hundred. 28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 29 The number of the tribe of Issachar was fifty-four thousand and four hundred. 30 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 31 The number of the tribe of Zebulun was fifty-seven thousand and four hundred. 32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 33 The number of the tribe of Ephraim was forty thousand and five hundred. 34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 35 The number of the tribe of Manasseh was thirty-two thousand and two hundred. 36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 37 The number of the tribe of Benjamin was thirty-five thousand and four hundred. 38 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 39 The number of the tribe of Dan was sixty-two thousand and seven hundred. 40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 41 The number of the tribe of Asher was forty-one thousand and five hundred. 42 Of the children of Naphtali, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 43 The number of the tribe of Naphtali was fifty-three thousand and four hundred."

"44 ¶ These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; each one was from the house of his fathers. 45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel; 46 The total number of the children of Israel was six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty."

"47 ¶ ¶But the Levites and the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 Because the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying, 49 You shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel; 50 But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony and over all its vessels and over all that belongs to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels; and they shall minister to it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. 51 And when the tabernacle shall set forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts. 53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath against the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. 54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they."

"2:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall encamp by his own standard, at the places of their father’s house; far off round about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they encamp."

"3 ¶ Those who encamp first toward the east shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah throughout their armies; and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be chief of the children of Judah. 4 And the number of his host was seventy-four thousand and six hundred. 5 And those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and Nethanael the son of Zuar shall be chief of the children of Issachar. 6 And the number of his host was fifty-four thousand and four hundred. 7 Then shall encamp the tribe of Zebulun; and Eliab the son of Helen shall be chief of the children of Zebulun. 8 And the number of his host was fifty-seven thousand and four hundred. 9 The total number of the camp of Judah was one hundred and eighty-six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. They shall march first. 10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies; and the chief of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. 11 And the number of his host was forty-six thousand and five hundred. 12 And those who encamp by him shall be the tribe of Simeon; and the chief of the children of Simeon shall be Shelmuiel the son of Zurishaddai. 13 And the number of his host was fifty-nine thousand and three hundred. 14 Then shall encamp the tribe of Gad; and the chief of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 15 And the number of his host was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. 16 The total number of the camp of Reuben was one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. They shall march in the second place. 17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall march with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamped so shall they march, every man by his standard throughout their armies. 18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies; and the chief of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19 And the number of his host was forty thousand and five hundred. 20 And those who encamp by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the chief of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Perzur. 21 And the number of his host was thirty-two thousand and two hundred. 22 Then shall encamp the tribe of Benjamin; and the chief of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. 23 And the number of his host was thirty-five thousand and four hundred. 24 The total number of the camp of Ephraim was an hundred and eight thousand and one hundred, throughout their armies. They shall march in the third place. 25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies; and the chief of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26 And the number of his host was sixty-two thousand and seven hundred. 27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the chief of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran. 28 And the number of his host was forty-one thousand and five hundred. 29 Then shall encamp the tribe of Naphtali; and the chief of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahida the son of Enan. 30 And the number of his host was fifty-three thousand and four hundred. 31 The total number of the camp of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred. They shall march last with their standards. 32 These are the numbers of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those who were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 33 But the Levites and the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses. 34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they marched by their standards, and so they encamped, every man in his camp, according to the house of his fathers."

"3:1 ¶ THESE are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses on mount Sinai. 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, his first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron the priest, who were anointed and consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. 4 But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office during the lifetime of Aaron their father. 5 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. 7 And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation in the presence of the LORD before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. 9 And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him as a gift out of the children of Israel. 10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. 11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12 Behold I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that open the womb among the children of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine; 13 Because all the first-born are mine; for on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; they shall be mine; I am the LORD."

"14 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward, you shall number them. 16 So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahali and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimites; these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 Their number, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand and five hundred. 23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward. 24 And the chief of the house of the fathers of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Eliab. 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle and the tent, its covering and the curtains for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 26 And the curtains of the court and the covering for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and the cords of it, and all the instruments thereof. 27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izeharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. 28 Their number according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, was eight thousand and six hundred, looking after the sanctuary. 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward. 30 And the chief of the house of the fathers of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizphan the son of Uzziel. 31 And their charge shall be the ark and the table and the candlestick and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister and the curtain of the door and all the service thereof. 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the chief over the chiefs of the Levites and have the oversight over those who have charge of the sanctuary. 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. 34 Their number according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, was six thousand and two hundred. 35 And the chief of the house of the fathers of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail; they shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward. 36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets and all the vessels thereof and all that pertains to it 37 And the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their pins and their cords. 38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary in addition to the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand."

"40 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And you shall present the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel, 43 And all the first-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, and their number was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. 44 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 45 Present the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine; I am the LORD. 46 And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are above the number of the Levites, 47 You shall take five shekels apiece by the poll, by the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs). 48 And you shall give the money wherewith the excess number of them is to be redeemed to Aaron and to his sons. 49 So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites; 50 From the first-born of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 51 And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses."

"4:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who can enter into the host to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation concerning the most holy things; 5 And when the camp marches forward, Aaron and his sons shall come in, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of testimony with it, 6 And shall put on it the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in the poles thereof. 7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put upon it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, the flagons for drink offering; and the continual shewbread shall be on it; 8 And they shall spread thereon a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the poles thereof. 9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light and its lamps and its tongs and its snuffdishes and all the oil vessels thereof with which they minister to it; 10 And they shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon its poles. 11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon its poles; 12 And they shall take all the vessels of the ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on poles; 13 And they shall take apart the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it; 14 And they shall put with it all the vessels thereof, with which they minister upon it, the censers, the meathooks and the shovels and the basins and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put in its poles. 15 And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to march after that, the sons of Kohath shall come in to bear it, that they may not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are to be borne by the sons of Kohath in the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertains the charge of the oil for the light and the sweet incense and the daily meal offering and the anointing oil and the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all the things that are in it and of the sanctuary and its vessels. 17 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 18 You shall not destroy the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 19 But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they enter into the most holy place; Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden; 20 But they shall not go in to observe when the holy things are covered, lest they die."

"21 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families: 23 From thirty years old and up until fifty years old you shall number them; all who are able-bodied to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and to bear burdens; 25 They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation itself, the veil of the door thereof, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that is upon it, and the hangings of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the entrance of the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and the cords thereof, and all the instruments of their service, and all that they do and serve. 27 At the command of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of Gershon, in all their burdens and in all their service; and you shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens. 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation; and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 29 As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; 30 From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall number them, every able man, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. 31 And this is the charge of their burden, and of all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, its bars and its pillars and its sockets 32 And the pillars of the court round about and their sockets, their pins and their cords, with all their instruments and with all their service; and by name you shall count the instruments included in their burden. 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, and all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."

"34 ¶ And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, by the house of their fathers, 35 From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, every able man, for the work of the tabernacle of the congregation; 36 And their number by their families was two thousand and seven hundred and fifty. 37 These were the numbers of the families of Kohath, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. 38 And the number of the sons of Gershon by their families, and by the house of their fathers, 39 From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, every able man, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, 40 And their number by their families and by the house of their fathers was two thousand and six hundred and thirty. 41 These were the numbers of the family of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD. 42 And the number of the families of the sons of Merari by their families, by the house of their fathers, 43 From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, every able man, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, 44 And their number by their families was three thousand and two hundred. 45 These are the numbers of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 46 All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel numbered, after their families and by the house of their fathers, 47 From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all able men, to do the service of the ministry and the work of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation, 48 Their number was eight thousand and five hundred and eighty. 49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service and according to his burden; thus they were numbered as the LORD commanded Moses."

"5:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one who has a discharge and whosoever has defiled himself; 3 Both male and female shall you put outside the camp, that they may not defile your camps, for I dwell among you. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD had said to Moses, so did the children of Israel. 5 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6 Say to the children of Israel, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do wrong in the sight of the LORD, and that person shall be guilty, 7 Then he shall confess his sins which he has committed; and his guilt shall return upon his own head; and he shall add a fifth part thereof, and give it to him whom he had wronged. 8 And if the person has no kinsman to whom to recompense the trespass, let the trespass offering which they bring on his behalf before the LORD be given to the priest in addition to the ram of the atonement with which an atonement is made for him. 9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel which they bring to the priest shall be his. 10 And every man’s hallowed things shall be his; and whatever any man gives to the priest, shall be his."

"11 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man’s wife does wrong, and commits a trespass against him, 13 And a man lies with her carnally and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and the act is kept secret and she is defiled and there is no witness against her, neither is she caught in the act, 14 And the temper of jealousy comes upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the temper of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife and she is not defiled, 15 Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring as his offering a tenth part of an ephah of barley flour; and he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense upon it; for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering for a memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and she shall stand before the LORD; 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and some of the dust that is in the base of the altar of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water; 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and shave the woman’s head and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water of testing; 19 And the priest shall charge the woman by an oath, and say to her, If no man has lain with you besides your husband, and if you have not done wrong and become unclean, be absolved from these charges by this bitter water of testing; 20 But if you have done wrong by having lain with another man besides your husband, and if you have defiled yourself, and some other man has lain with you besides your husband; 21 Then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oaths of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh to rot and your belly to swell; 22 And this water of testing shall go into your belly and make your belly to swell and your thighs to rot; and the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot out the writing in the water of testing; 24 And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water of testing; and the water of testing shall enter into her, to try her. 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy meal offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar; 26 And the priest shall take some of the meal offering as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 27 And when he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and has committed iniquity against her husband, the water of testing shall enter into her, and shall try her, and if her belly shall swell and her thighs shall rot, then that woman shall be a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, but is pure, then she shall be absolved, and shall bear a male child. 29 This is the law of jealousy when a woman does wrong by having lain with another man besides her husband and defiles herself, 30 Or when the temper of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law; 31 Then the man shall be blameless from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity."

"6:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate himself to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the LORD, 3 He shall abstain from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, or eat grapes or raisins; 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the skins even to the stones of raisins. 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD, he shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6 All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not come near a dead body. 7 He shall not defile himself for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister when they die; because the crown of consecration of his God is upon his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. 9 And if any man dies very suddenly by him, he has defiled the crown of his separation; then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; 11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for the sin that he sinned by the dead body; and shall sanctify his head that same day. 12 And he shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and he shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering; but the previous days of his separation shall be void, because his separation was defiled. 13 This is the law of the Nazarite when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 14 And he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one male lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe lamb without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for a peace offering 15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and wafers of unleavened bread mixed with oil and their meal offering and their drink offering. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering: 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also his meal offering and his drink offering. 18 And the Nazarite shall shave his head as a sign of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19 And the priest shall take the cooked shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake from the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them in the hands of the Nazarite after he has shaved his hair as a sign of his separation; 20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and the shoulder; and after that the Nazarite may drink wine. 21 This is the law of the Nazarite who has made a vow, and of his offering to the LORD for his separation, excepting what he can afford in addition; according to the vow which he has vowed, so shall he do after the law of his separation."

"22 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 Speak to Aaron and to his sons and say to them, Thus you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them, 24 The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 The LORD make his face shine upon you and give you life; 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them."

"7:1 ¶ AND it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed it and sanctified it and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all its vessels, and had anointed them and sanctified them; 2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers who were the princes of the tribes and were over those who were numbered, 3 Brought their offerings before the LORD, six excellently constructed wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox; and they brought them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, 5 Take the offerings from them, that they may be used to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service. 6 And Moses took the oxen and the wagons, and gave them to the Levites. 7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service; 8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. 9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary assigned to them was that they should carry upon their shoulders."

"10 ¶ And the princes offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day that it was anointed; and the princes offered their offerings before the LORD. 11 And the LORD said to Moses, They shall offer each their offerings, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar. 12 And he who offered his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, the prince of the tribe of Judah; 13 And his offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 14 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense; 15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 17 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 18 On the second day, Nethanael the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer. 19 He offered for his offering one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense; 21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 23 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, and five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Nethanael the son of Zuar. 24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the tribe of Zebulun, did offer. 25 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 29 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. 30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the prince of the tribe of Reuben, did offer. 31 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 35 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. 36 On the fifth day Shelmuiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the tribe of Simeon, did offer. 37 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 41 And for the sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, and five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Shelmuiel the son of Zurishaddai. 42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Reuel, prince of the tribe of Gad, did offer. 43 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 47 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the tribe of Ephraim, offered. 49 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 53 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Perzur, prince of the tribe of Manasseh, offered. 55 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 59 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Perzur. 60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the tribe of Benjamin, offered. 61 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 65 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, and five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. 66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the tribe of Dan, offered. 67 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 71 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the tribe of Asher, offered. 73 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 77 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran. 78 On the twelfth day Ahida the son of Enan, prince of the tribe of Naphtali, offered. 79 His offering was one silver plate, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; 82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; 83 And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids of the goats, and five lambs of the first year; this was the offering of Ahida the son of Enan. 84 This was the dedication offering from the princes of Israel for the altar, on the day that it was anointed: twelve plates of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold, 85 Each plate of silver weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy. All the silver of the vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels. 87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meal offering; and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve; 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offering twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the kids of the goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty; this was the dedication offering for the altar, after it was anointed. 89 And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the congregation, he heard a voice speaking to him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him."

"8:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick. 3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the seven lamps thereof in front of the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses. 4 And the work of the candlestick was of molten gold; from its base to its flower was of cast work; according to the pattern which the LORD had shown to Moses, so he made the candlestick."

"5 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle purifying water upon them, and let them shave all the body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with its meal offering, a dish full of fine flour mixed with oil, and another young bullock shall you offer for a sin offering. 9 And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation; and you shall gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together; 10 Then you shall bring the Levites before the LORD; and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites; 11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering from the children of Israel, that they may perform the service of the LORD. 12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites. 13 And you shall make the Levites stand before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them for an offering to the LORD. 14 Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine. 15 And after that the Levites shall go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for an offering before the LORD. 16 For they are wholly given to me as a gift from among the children of Israel; instead of all that open the womb, even instead of the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them to me. 17 For all the first-born of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast; on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel. 19 And 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 tabernacle of the congregation and to make an atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel when they come near to the sanctuary. 20 And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites; so did the children of Israel to them. 21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them and cleansed them. 22 And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron and before his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did unto them the children of Israel. 23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 This shall be the law for the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation; 25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease from the service and shall serve no more, 26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation to keep guard, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their charge."

"9:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its rites, and according to all its ceremonies, shall you keep it. 4 And Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the passover. 5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. 6 And there were certain men who were defiled by touching 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. 7 And those men said unto them, We are defiled by touching the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the offering of the LORD at the appointed time among the children of Israel? 8 And Moses said to them, Stay where you are, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. 9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by touching a dead body, or is on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover to the LORD. 11 On the fourteenth day of the second month at the evening they shall keep it, and shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break any bone of it; according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and yet fails to keep the passover, at its appointed time, that person shall be cut off from among his people; because he brought not the offering of the LORD at its appointed time, that man shall suffer for his sin. 14 And if a proselyte shall sojourn among you and will keep the passover to the LORD, according to the ordinance of the passover and according to its statutes, so shall he do; you shall have one ordinance, both for the proselyte and for the native of the land."

"15 ¶ And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle of the congregation; in front of the door of the tent of the testimony at evening there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. 16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night; 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, after that the children of Israel journeyed and at the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped; all the days that the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained in their tents. 19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and journeyed not. 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And sometimes the cloud was upon the tabernacle from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed; whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 22 And whether it was a few days or months or a year, as long as the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, resting thereon, the children of Israel remained in their tents and journeyed not; but when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 23 At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the ordinances of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses."

"10:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Make two trumpets of silver; of casting work shall you make them, that you may use them for the calling of the assembly and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the people shall assemble themselves to you at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, the princes and the heads of the thousands of Israel shall gather themselves to you. 5 When they blow the trumpet, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. 6 And when they blow with the second trumpet, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey; they shall blow a trumpet for their journeys. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not make a joyful noise. 8 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if you go to war in your land against the enemies that oppress you, you shall blow with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be delivered from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladness and in your solemn days and in the beginning of your months you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, that they may be to you for a memorial before your God; I am the LORD your God."

"11 ¶ And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. 13 And they took their journey for the first time according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies; and over their host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanael the son of Zuar. 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, carrying the tabernacle. 18 And then the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies; and over their host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelmuiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 And over the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 21 Then the Kohathites set forward, carrying the sanctuary; and they set up the tabernacle before the people came. 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies; and over their host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Perzur. 24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. 25 And the standard of the children of Dan set forward, which was at the end of all the camps throughout their hosts; and over the host of the tribe of the children of Dan was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran. 27 And over the host of the tribe of Naphtali was Ahida the son of Enan. 28 Thus was the order of the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts."

"29 ¶ And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you. Come with us, and we will do you good; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel. 30 But he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, where I was born. 31 And Moses said to him, Do not leave us, for you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as a guide for us. 32 And if you shall go with us, it shall be that whatever goodness the LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to you. 33 And they departed from the mount of God three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them a day’s journey to prepare a resting place for them. 34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp. 35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, Moses said, Arise, O LORD, and let them that hate thee be scattered; and let thy enemies flee before thee. 36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel."

"11:1 ¶ AND when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; and the LORD heard it, and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed in the uttermost parts of the camp. 2 And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of that place Yakdana (a burning), because the fire of the LORD burned among them."

"4 ¶ And the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving; and they went about and caused the children of Israel to weep, saying, Who shall give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 But now our soul is dried up; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and its color as the color of beryllium. 8 And the people went about and gathered it and ground it in a mill or beat it in a mortar and baked it in pans and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of bread kneaded with oil. 9 And when the dew came down upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. 11 And Moses said to the LORD, My LORD, why hast thou caused displeasure to thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? Or have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father carries the suckling child, to the land which thou swearest to their fathers? 13 Where can I find meat to give to all this people? For they weep protesting to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me right away, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness."

"16 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be chiefs of the people and its scribes; and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may be ready there with you. 17 And I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. 18 And Moses said to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow and you shall eat meat: for you have wept before the LORD, saying, Who shall give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt; therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 But you shall eat it for a whole month, till it comes out of your nostrils and it become loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt? 21 Then Moses said before the LORD, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou hast said, I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slaughtered for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be caught for them, to suffice them? 23 And the LORD said to Moses, The LORD’S hand is full; now you shall see whether my word shall come true to you or not."

"24 ¶ And Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and made them stand round about the tabernacle. 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it to the seventy elders; and it came to pass that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and then they ceased to complain. 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 upon them; and they were among those who were registered, but they went not out to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, who had ministered to Moses from his youth, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. 29 But Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Would God that all the LORD’S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! 30 Then Moses came into the camp, he and the elders of Israel."

"31 ¶ And there went forth a wind from before the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people rose all that day and all that night and all the next day, and they gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out in the sun for themselves round about the camp. 33 And while the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place Kabrey di Rigta (the graves of craving); because it was there that they buried the people who craved meat. 35 And the people journeyed from Kabrey di Rigta to Hazeroth, and abode at Hazeroth."

"12:1 ¶ AND Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? Has he not spoken by us also? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.)"

"4 ¶ And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of the congregation. And the three of them came out. 5 And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. 6 And the LORD said to them, Hear now my words: If you are prophets, I the LORD will reveal myself to you in a vision and will speak to you in a dream. 7 Not so with my servant Moses, who is faithful in all my house. 8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, in a vision, and not in similes; and the glory of the LORD has he seen: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? 9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed."

"10 ¶ And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow; and when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous; 11 Then Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, I beseech you, do not lay the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb. 13 And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. 14 And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her come in again. 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days; and the people did not journey till Miriam came in again. 16 And after that the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran."

"13:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Send 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, every one a chief among them. 3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran by the commandment of the LORD; all of those men were chieftains of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 From the tribe of Simeon, Shaft the son of Hadi. 6 From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jophaniah. 7 From the tribe of Issachar, Negail the son of Joseph. 8 From the tribe of Ephraim, Hosea the son of Nun. 9 From the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Daphu. 10 From the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddi the son of Sori. 11 From the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 From the tribe of Dan, Gamaliel the son of Gamli. 13 From the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14 From the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15 From the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machir. 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hosea, the son of Nun, Joshua. 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way into the south, and go up on the mountain 18 And see what the land is, and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is, in which they dwell, whether it is fertile, or poor, or whether it has trees in it or not. 20 Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes."

"21 ¶ So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, which is at the entrance of Hamath. 22 And they went up into the south, and came as far as Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Tolmai, the sons of giants were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And they came as far as the valley of Segola, and cut down from there a branch with one bunch of grapes, and they carried it between two of them on a pole; and they brought some pomegranates and some figs. 24 That place was called the valley of Segola, because of the bunch of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there. 25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days."

"26 ¶ And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Rakim; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they related to Moses, and said, We went to the land to which you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very great: and moreover we saw the sons of giants there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the banks of Jordan. 30 Then 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. 31 But the men who went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up to the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, The land through which we have gone to spy out is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 33 There we saw giants, the sons of giants, the descendants of giants; and we were in their sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes."

"14:1 ¶ THEN all the congregation was in commotion, and lifted up their voices and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, Would God we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would God that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the LORD brought us into this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should be a prey? We were better off when we dwelt in Egypt. 4 And they said one to another, Let us appoint a leader, and let us return to Egypt."

"5 ¶ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jophaniah, who were of those who had spied out the land, rent their clothes; 7 And they said to all the congregation of the children of Israel, The land through which we passed to spy it out is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows indeed with milk and honey. 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither be afraid of the people of the land; for their conquest will be as easy as eating bread; their strength has left them, and the LORD is with us; fear them not. 10 But the whole congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel."

"11 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? And how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them? 12 I will smite them with pestilence, and destroy them, and I will make of you a nation which is greater and mightier than they. 13 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it (for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them), 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land; for they have heard that thou LORD art in the midst of this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud stands over them, and that thou goest before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 And if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations who have heard the fame of thee will say, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, let thy power, O LORD, be great according as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, and thou forgivest iniquity and transgression, by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon their children’s children to the third and fourth generation. 19 Pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven them from Egypt even until now."

"20 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, I have forgiven them according to your word; 21 But as truly as I live, the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 And yet all the men who have seen my glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness have tempted me, behold now, these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of those who provoked me see it; 24 But my servant Caleb, because he has my spirit with him and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went; and his descendants shall possess it. 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the mountains.) Tomorrow turn and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. 26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall this wicked congregation murmur in my presence? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel which they murmur in my presence. 28 Say to them, As I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my presence, so will I do to you; 29 Your corpses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, because you have murmured against me. 30 You shall not come into the land concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jophaniah, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, who you said would become the prey, and your sons who today do not know good and evil, they shall enter into the land, and I will bring them there, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 But as for you, your corpses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your sons shall be shepherds forty years in this wilderness, and shall suffer for your whoredom until your corpses are consumed in this wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, a year for each day, shall you suffer for your iniquities, forty years; then you shall know that it is because you have murmured before me. 35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation that are gathered together before me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."

"36 ¶ And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation murmur against him by publishing an evil report concerning the land, 37 These men who published an evil report of the land died by a sudden plague before the LORD. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jophaniah, who were of the men who went to spy out the land, still lived. 39 And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly. 40 And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised us; for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said to them, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? Therefore you shall not succeed. 42 Do not go up, for the LORD is not with you; lest you be defeated before your enemies. 43 For the Canaanites and the Amalekites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you are turned away from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 44 Yet they started to go up to the top of the mountain; but neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and smote them and pursued them as far as Hirmah."

"15:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you for an inheritance, 3 You shall offer an offering to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; 4 Then shall he who offers his offering to the LORD bring a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil. 5 And a fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering shall you offer with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third part of a hin of oil. 7 And for a drink offering you shall offer a third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet savour to the LORD. 8 And when you offer a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or as a peace offering to the LORD; 9 Then you shall offer with the bullock a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil. 10 And you shall bring for a drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD. 11 Thus shall you do for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid of the goats. 12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to every one according to their number. 13 All the house of Israel shall do these things after this manner, and shall offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD. 14 And if a proselyte, sojourn with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD; as you do, so shall he do. 15 One ordinance shall be both for .you and for the proselyte who sojourns with you, an ordinance for ever throughout your generations; the proselyte shall be like you before the LORD. 16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the proselyte who sojourns with you. 17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 18 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land whither I will bring you, 19 Then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave offering to the LORD. 20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough as an offering to the LORD; as you make the offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it. 21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a heave offering throughout your generations."

"22 ¶ And if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses, 23 Even all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that the LORD commanded Moses and henceforward throughout your generations; 24 Then it shall be, if the error was committed in the presence of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour to the LORD, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance thereof, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. 25 And the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it was an error; and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering to the LORD for their folly; 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel and the proselyte who sojourns among them, because all the people had erred. 27 And if any person sins through an error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin offering. 28 And the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins, when he sins by an error before the LORD. to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. 29 You shall have one law for him who does anything through ignorance, both for the children of Israel and for the proselytes who sojourn among you."

"30 ¶ But the person who commits sin wittingly, whether he be of you or of the proselytes, the same blasphemes before the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandments, that person shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. 32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 34 And they put him in prison, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. 35 And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses."

"37 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 38 Speak to the children of Israel and bid them that they make fringes on the borders of their mantles throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringes of the borders a ribbon of blue; 39 And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD your God and do them; and that you may not go astray, seeking after your own hearts and your own mind, after which you used to go astray; 40 That you may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. 41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the LORD your God."

"16:1 ¶ NOW Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, started a faction; 2 And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the assembly, who at that time were men of renown; 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, Is it not enough for you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; wherefore then do you lift up yourselves above the whole congregation of the LORD? 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face; 5 And he spoke to Korah and to all his company and said to them, In the morning the LORD will show who are his, and who are holy; and he will cause them to come near to him; and those whom he has chosen will he cause to come near to him. 6 This do: Take for yourselves censers, you Korah, and all your company; 7 And put fire into them, and put incense into them before the LORD tomorrow; and it shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he shall be holy; this is enough for you, O you sons of Levi. 8 And Moses said to Korah, Hear again, O you sons of Levi; 9 Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the whole congregation of Israel and brought you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? 10 And he has brought you near to him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you; and do you seek the priesthood also? 11 Therefore both you and all your company gather yourselves together before the LORD tomorrow; and what is Aaron, that you should murmur against him?"

"12 ¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, We will not come up; 13 Is it not enough for you that you have brought us out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but that you should also make yourselves princes over us? 14 Moreover you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; even if you should put out our eyes, we will not come up. 15 And Moses was greatly displeased, and said to the LORD, Respect not thou their offerings, because I have not taken an ass from one of them, neither have I hurt one of them. 16 And Moses said to Korah, Present yourselves, you and all your company before the LORD, you and they and Aaron, tomorrow; 17 And take every man his censer, and put fire into it, and put incense into it, and bring before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also and Aaron, each of you his censer. 18 So they took every man his censer, and put fire into it, and laid incense upon it, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation. 20 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 21 Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, that I may destroy them in a moment. 22 And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and shall the wrath come upon all the congregation?"

"23 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 Speak to all the congregation, saying, Keep away from about the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. 25 And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 And he spoke to all the congregation and said to them, Depart from the tents of these sinful men and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in their sins. 27 So they withdrew from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents with their wives and their sons and their little ones. 28 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all things that belong to them, and they go down alive with all that belongs to them into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have provoked the LORD. 31 And when Moses had finished speaking these words, the ground split asunder under them; 32 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households and all the men who were with Korah and all their goods. 33 They, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them, saying, Lest the earth swallow us up also."

"35 ¶ And there came out a fire from before the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. 36 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 37 Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to take up the censers from among the burned men and scatter the fire yonder; for they are sanctified. 38 The censers of these who sinned against their own souls, make them thin plates for a covering of the altar; for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel. 39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, with which they who were burned had offered incense, and they were made thin plates for a covering of the altar, 40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, so that no stranger, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah and all his company, whom the earth opened its mouth and swallowed, just as the LORD had spoken by the hand of Moses."

"41 ¶ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD. 42 And when all the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tabernacle of the congregation; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 45 Get you away from the midst of this congregation, that I may destroy them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from before the LORD; the plague has already begun among the people. 47 And Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague had already begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased. 49 Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died in the sedition of Korah. 50 And Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and the plague had ceased."

"17:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and take from every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, from all their princes according to the house of their fathers, twelve rods; write each man’s name upon his rod. 3 And you shall write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi; for one rod shall be for the head of the tribe of their fathers. 4 And you shall put them in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. 5 And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man with whom I am pleased shall bud; thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. 6 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was in the midst of their rods. 7 And Moses placed the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of the testimony."

"8 ¶ And on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and blossomed, and yielded ripe almonds. 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel; and they looked, and took every man his rod. 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod back before the testimony, to be kept as a token for the rebellious children; so that their murmurings may cease from me, that they die not. 11 And Moses did so; as the LORD commanded him, so did he. 12 And the children of Israel said to Moses, Behold, we perish and are lost, we all perish. 13 Whosoever comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD shall die; and, behold, we also are near to perish."

"18:1 ¶ AND the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear any guilt in connection with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear any guilt in connection with your priesthood. 2 And your brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, you shall bring with you, that they may accompany you and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of the testimony. 3 And they shall keep your charge and the charge of all the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the vessels of the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die. 4 And they shall accompany you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation for all the service of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not come near you. 5 And you shall have charge of the sanctuary, and charge of the altar, that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar and within the veil; and you shall serve; I have given your priest’s office as a gift; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

"8 ¶ And the LORD said to Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of my gift offerings and all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things from offerings made by fire: every offering of theirs, every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and all the offerings of theirs which they shall offer to me shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 10 In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you. 11 And this is the offering of your gifts, with 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, by a statute for ever; every one who is clean in your household shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil and all the best of the wheat and of the wine, the firstfruits of them that they shall give to the LORD, I have given them to you. 13 The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land which they shall bring to the LORD shall be yours; every one who is clean in your household shall eat of it. 14 Everything dedicated in Israel shall be yours. 15 Everything that opens the womb of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, whether it be of man or beasts, shall be yours; nevertheless the first-born of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem. 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old and upward shall you redeem, for a price of money of fifty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstlings of the cattle or the firstlings of the sheep or the firstlings of the goats, you shall not redeem, because they are holy; you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour to the LORD. 18 But their meat shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours. 19 All the gift offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to the LORD have I given to you and to your sons and your daughters with you, by a statute for ever; it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD to you and to your descendants with you."

"20 ¶ And the LORD said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them; but your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel shall be the gift offerings and the holy things of the LORD. 21 And, behold, I have given to the children of Levi all the tithes of the children of Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither shall the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute for ever throughout their generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 For the tithes of the children of Israel which they offer to the LORD 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. 25 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26 Speak to the Levites and say to them, When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer some of them as a gift offering to the LORD, a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your gift offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain from the threshing floor, and as the gift offering of the wine press. 28 Thus you also shall offer a gift offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel; and you shall give from it the LORD’S gift offering to Aaron the priest and to his sons. 29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every gift offering to the LORD, of all the best of them and the hallowed of them. 30 Therefore you shall say to them, When you have set apart the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor, and as the produce of the wine press. 31 And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households; for it is your wages for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered the best of it; neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die."

"19:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer, perfect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke; 3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth outside the camp, and one shall slaughter her in his sight; 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood towards the front of the tabernacle of the congregation seven times; 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin and her blood and her flesh, with her dung, shall he burn; 6 And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. 8 And he who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and he shall be unclean until the evening. 9 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for all the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of sprinkling, because it is a purification for sin. 10 And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; and it shall be to the children of Israel and to the proselytes who sojourn among them for a statute for ever."

"11 ¶ He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself by sprinkling with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he does not purify himself by sprinkling on the third day, then on the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever touches the body of any man who is dead, and does not purify himself by sprinkling, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet with him. 14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent and every one who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days. 15 And every open vessel which is not covered is unclean. 16 And whosoever 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. 17 And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering and shall pour running water into it in a vessel; 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the persons who were there and upon him who touched a bone or a slain person or one dead or a grave; 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean in the evening. 20 But the man who shall be unclean and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to you that he who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening. 22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

"20:1 ¶ THEN came the children of Israel, the whole congregation, into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people abode in Rakim; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the people to drink; and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people quarreled with Moses and with Aaron, saying, Would God that we had died with the death with which our brethren died before the LORD! 4 Why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die here? 5 And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, and have brought us to this evil place? It is no place for grain, or for wine or figs or pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink. 6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces; and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. 7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and gather the assembly together, you and Aaron your brother, and speak over the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock, so that you shall give the congregation and their cattle drink. 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; out of this rock we will bring forth water for you. 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and the water came out abundantly, and the people drank and all their cattle also. 12 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the presence of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. 13 These are the waters of Mesotha (contention); because the children of Israel strove before the LORD, and he was sanctified among them."

"14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Rakim to the king of Edom, saying, Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the trouble that has befallen us, 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians oppressed us and our fathers; 16 And when we prayed before the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Rakim, a town in the uttermost of your border; 17 Now let us pass through your land; we will not pass through the fields, nor through the vineyards, neither will we drink the water of the wells; but we will go by the king’s highway, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed your borders. 18 But Edom said to him, You shall not pass through my border, lest I come out against you with the sword. 19 And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway; and if we and our cattle drink of your water, then we will pay for it; we will only pass through it on foot. 20 But Edom said. You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against them with a strong force, and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him."

"22 ¶ And the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Rakim, and came to mount Hot. 23 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, 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 water of Mesotha, and did not sanctify me at the water in their presence. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to mount Hor; 26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people and shall die there. 27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on mount Hot; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel."

"21:1 ¶ WHEN the Canaanite, the king of Gadar who dwelled in the south, heard that Israel came by the way of the spies, then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners. 2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, If thou wilt surely deliver this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their cities. 3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites into their hands; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and they called the name of that place Hirmah."

"4 ¶ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people were much distressed because of the way. 5 And the people murmured against God and against Moses, saying, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For neither is there bread, nor water; and our soul is wearied with this inferior bread (manna). 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents against the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses and said to him, We have sinned, for we have murmured against the LORD and against you; pray before the LORD, that he take the serpents away from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent of brass, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass that every one who is bitten by a serpent, when he looks upon it, shall live. 9 So Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived."

"10 ¶ And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Aboth. 11 And they journeyed from Aboth, and encamped at the Een di Ebraye (the spring of the Hebrews), in the wilderness which is before Moab, to the east toward the sunrise. 12 From thence they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zared. 13 From thence they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites; for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, A flame of fire is in the whirlwind and in the river of Arnon, 15 And he made straight the slope of the valleys which extended to the site of Ad, which lies over the border of Moab. 16 And there is the Bera; that is, the well of which the LORD said to Moses, Gather the people together and I will give them water. 17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye to it: 18 The well which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people uncovered and searched out with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah; 19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20 And from Bamoth in the valley, which is in the country of Moab, to the top of the hill which looks toward Ashimon (the desert)."

"21 ¶ And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards; we will not drink water from the wells; but we will go along by the king’s highway until we have passed through your borders. 23 And Sihon would not let Israel pass through his borders; but Sihon gathered all his army together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, and as far as the border of the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified. 25 And Israel took all those cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all the villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon was the capital 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 as far as Arnon. 27 Wherefore they say in the proverbs. Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: 28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ad of Moab, and the worshippers of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to you, O Arnon! Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh; he has given his sons hostages, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites. 30 The fields of Heshbon have perished as far as Ribon, and have been laid waste as far as Lanhakh, which is in the wilderness. 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they captured its villages, and destroyed the Amorites that were there. 33 And they turned and went up to the land of Mathnin; and Og the king of Mathnin went out against them, he and all his people, to the battle at Ardai. 34 And the LORD said to Moses, Fear him not; for I will deliver him into your hands, and all his people and his country; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon. 35 So they smote him and his sons and all his people until there was not a survivor left to him; and they possessed his land."

"22:1 ¶ AND the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab on this side of Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And the Moabites were in great fear of the people because they were many; and Moab was distressed at the presence of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this multitude is licking up all that are around about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. 5 So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, an interpreter of dreams, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt; they cover the face of the land, and they are settled over against me. 6 Come now therefore and curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me; perhaps I shall be able to defeat some of them and destroy them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed and he whom you curse is cursed. 7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with gifts for divination in their hands; and they came to Balaam and told him the words of Balak. 8 And he said to them, Lodge here this night and I will give you an answer as the LORD shall speak to me; and the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 9 And God came to Balaam and said to him, Who are these men that are with you? 10 And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying, 11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt who cover the face of the earth; come now, and curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and destroy them. 12 And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; and you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed. 13 And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you. 14 So the princes of Moab rose up and went to Balak, and said to him, Balaam refused to come with us."

"15 ¶ And again Balak sent messengers who were greater and more honorable than they. 16 And they carne to Balaam and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing hinder you from coming to me; 17 For I will surely honor you exceedingly, and I will do for you whatever you say to me; come therefore, curse this people for me. 18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress against the word of the LORD my God, neither concerning a small matter nor concerning a great matter. 19 Now, therefore, tarry you also here this night, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me. 20 And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If these men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but only the word which I shall say to you, that shall you do. 21 So Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the princes of Balak."

"22 ¶ And God’s anger was kindled against him because he went; and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now as he was riding on his she-ass, and his two servants with him, 23 The she-ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn and held in his hand; and the she-ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field; and Balaam struck the she-ass to turn her into the way. 24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyard, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side. 25 And when the she-ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself against the wall and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall; and he struck her again. 26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left. 27 And when the she-ass saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the she-ass with a staff. 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the she-ass and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times? 29 And Balaam said to the she-ass, Because you have mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hands, for now would I kill you. 30 And the she-ass said to Balaam, Am I not your she-ass upon which you have ridden from your youth even to this day? Have I ever behaved in this manner toward you? And he said to her, No. 31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn and held in his hand; and he bowed down his head and worshipped on his face. 32 And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you struck your she-ass these three times? Behold, I went out to be an adversary against you, because you have directed your course contrary to me; 33 And the she-ass saw me and turned aside from me these three times; and if she had not turned aside from me, surely now I would have slain you, and saved her alive. 34 And Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I did not know that thou didst stand in the way against me; now therefore, if my mission is evil in thy eyes, I will turn back again. 35 And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the command that I shall speak to you, that shall you do. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak."

"36 ¶ And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him in a town of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon at the uttermost end of the border. 37 And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send messengers to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Perhaps you were saying that I am not able to honor you? 38 And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to you; have I now any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak. 39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Koriath-Hizroth. 40 And Balak slaughtered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and to the princes who were with him. 41 And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him to a high place of Baal, and from there he saw the uttermost part of the people of Israel."

"23:1 ¶ AND Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had told him; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. 3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offerings, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. So he went away quietly. 4 And God appeared to Balaam and said to him, You have prepared seven altars, and have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram. 5 Then the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said to him, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. 6 And he returned to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt offerings, he and all the princes of Moab. 7 And he took up his parable and said, Balak the king of the Moabites has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, destroy Israel for me. 8 How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I destroy whom the LORD has not destroyed? 9 For from the top of the mountains I see him, and from the hills I behold him; lo, the people are dwelling alone and are not reckoned among the nations. 10 Who can count the multitude of the descendants of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like theirs! 11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have surely blessed them. 12 And Balaam answered and said, Behold, whatever the LORD puts in my mouth that thing will I speak."

"13 ¶ And Balak said to him, Come with me to another place, from which you may see them; but you shall see the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse them for me from thence. 14 And he brought him to the field of watchmen, to the top of the hill, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 15 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offerings while I go yonder. 16 And the LORD appeared to Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said to him, Go again to Balak and say thus. 17 And when he came to him, he was standing by his burnt offerings, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken? 18 And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; and give ear to my testimony, O son of Zippor; 19 God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should be given counsel; he speaks and he shall do it, and his word abides for ever. 20 Behold, I was brought here to bless; and I cannot reverse the blessing. 21 I do not behold iniquity in Jacob, neither have I seen malice in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the glory of his King is among them. 22 God brought them out of Egypt with his might and excellency. 23 For there is no augury in Jacob, neither is there any divination in Israel; according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought! 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion and march like a lion; he shall not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain. 25 Then Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you. All that the LORD speaks to me, that very thing I must do? 27 And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there. 28 Then Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward Ashimon. 29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars and prepare me seven bullocks and seven rams. 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar."

"24:1 ¶ AND when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to seek divination; but set his face toward the wilderness. 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel encamping, tribe by tribe; and the spirit of God came upon him. 3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said; 4 He has said, who heard the word of God, who saw the vision of God, falling into a trance but having his eyes open: 5 How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel! 6 Like the valleys that flow, like gardens by the river’s side, like the tabernacle which the LORD has pitched, and like cedar trees beside the waters. 7 A man shall rise up from among his sons, and his offspring shall dwell by many waters; he shall be greater than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. 8 The God who brought them forth out of Egypt with his might and excellency, he shall devour the nations that are their enemies, and shall break their bones in pieces, and cut off their loins. 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall rouse him up? Blessed are they who bless you, and cursed are they who curse you."

"10 ¶ And 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 surely blessed them these three times. 11 Therefore, now get you out and go to your own country; for I had said, I will surely honor you but, lo, the LORD has deprived you of my honors. 12 And Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not say to your messengers whom you sent to me, 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not transgress the commandment of the LORD to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak. 14 And now, behold. I am going to my land; come, therefore, and I will give you counsel what this people shall do to your people in the latter days."

"15 ¶ And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said; 16 He has said, who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who saw the vision of God, falling into a trance but having his eyes open; 17 I have seen him, but not clearly enough; I beheld him, but he was not nigh; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Prince shall rise out of Israel, and shall destroy the mighty men of Moab and subdue all the children of Sheth. 18 And Edom shall be his possession; Seir, also the possession of his enemies, shall be his; and Israel shall gain strength. 19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him who has survived out of the city. 20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable and said, Amalek is the chief of the nations; but in the end he shall perish for ever. 21 And he looked on the Kenites and took up his parable and said, Strong is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in a rock. 22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted until Assyria shall carry you away captive. 23 And he took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this! 24 And legions shall come from the land of China, and shall conquer Assyria, and shall subdue the Hebrews, and they also shall perish for ever. 25 Then Balaam rose up and returned to his country; and Balak also went his way."

"25:1 ¶ AND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they invited the people to the sacrifices offered to their gods; and the people did eat, and worshipped their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people and expose them before the LORD in the daylight that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from the children of Israel. 5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay every one of you his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor."

"6 ¶ And, behold, one of the men of the children of Israel came to his brethren, and then he went in to 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 tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And 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; 8 And he went in after the man of Israel into the private chamber and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. 10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and said to him. 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel because he was moved with my zeal among them that I did not consume the children of Israel in my anger. 12 Therefore I said, Behold, I will give to him my covenant of peace; 13 And he shall have it and his sons after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the children of Israel. 14 Now the name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of a father’s house of the tribe of Simeon. 15 And the name of the Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the chief of the people of his father’s house in Midian."

"16 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17 Harass the Midianites and destroy them; 18 For they have distressed you with their treachery, wherewith they have plotted against you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain in the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."

"26:1 ¶ AND it came to pass after the plague that the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, 2 Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ houses, all that are able to go to war in Israel. 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest talked with the people in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 4 And Moses numbered them from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt."

"5 ¶ Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben, Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and their number was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the son of Pallu, Eliab. 9 And the sons of Eliab, Nebuel, and Dathan, and Abiram, the prominent men of the congregation who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they strove against the LORD; 10 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became an example. 11 Notwithstanding, the children of Korah did not die. 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Jemuel, the family of the Jemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; 13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand and two hundred. 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; 16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Edi, the family of the Edites; 17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Adel, the family of the Adelites; 18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. 19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 20 And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. 21 And the sons of Pharez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. 22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand and five hundred. 23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Pua, the family, of the Puaites; 24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand and three hundred. 26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Seder, the family of the Sadrites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Nahlael, the family of the Nahlaites. 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, sixty thousand and five hundred. 28 tithe sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim: 29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead comes the family of the Gileadites. 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; 31 And of Ashdael, the family of the Ashdaelites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Joah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 34 These are the families of Manasseh and those that were numbered of them, fifty-two thousand and seven hundred. 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. 36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Edan, the family of the Edanites. 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families. 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; 39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand and six hundred. 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. 43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand and four hundred. 44 The sons of Asher by their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites. 45 The sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. 46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah. 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; fifty-three thousand and four hundred. 48 The sops of Naphtali after their families: Nahzeel, the family of the Nahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. 50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand and four hundred. 51 These were the numbers of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty."

"52 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 53 To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. 54 To a large family you shall give a large inheritance and to a small family you shall give a small inheritance; every one shall receive his inheritance according to those that were numbered of him. 55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lots; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. 56 According to the lots shall their inheritance be divided between the larger families and the smaller families."

"57 ¶ These are they that 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. 58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram. 59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochaber, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam. 60 And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD. 62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, all males 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."

"63 ¶ These are those that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho. 64 But among these there was not a man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them except Caleb the son of Jophaniah and Joshua the son of Nun."

"27:1 ¶ THEN came 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, Joah, and Hogla, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the princes and all the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of those who revolted before the LORD in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sins and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give to us therefore a possession among the brothers of our father. 5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD said to Moses, 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. 8 And you shall say to the children of Israel, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. 9 And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. 10 And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers. 11 And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses."

"12 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of the Hebrews and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. 13 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered. 14 Because you rebelled against my commandment in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, and you did not sanctify me before their eyes; that is, the waters of Mesotha, at Rakim in the wilderness of Zin."

"15 ¶ And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, 16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation 17 Who may go out before them and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which have no shepherd. 18 And the LORD said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him; 19 And make him to stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation; and put him in charge in their sight. 20 And you shall put some of your honor upon him that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey him. 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask for him after the ordinance of the law before the LORD; at his word they shall go out and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, the whole congregation. 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and he took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation; 23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him authority, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses."

"28:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses and said to him, 2 Command the children of Israel and say to them, My offerings and the bread of my offerings made by fire for a sweet savour to me they shall observe, to offer to me in their due season. 3 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two lambs of the first year without blemish day by day for a continual burnt offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer at evening; 5 And a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. 6 It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 7 And the drink offering thereof shall be a fourth of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place you shall pour out the old wine before the LORD for a drink offering. 8 And the other lamb you shall offer at evening; as the meat offering of the morning and as its drink offering you shall offer it, a sacrifice made by fire for a sweet savour to the LORD."

"9 ¶ And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without blemish and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering with its drink offering; 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. 11 And in the beginning of your months you shall offer burnt offerings to the LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish; 12 And three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, for one bullock; and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, for a meal offering, for one ram; 13 And a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering for one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 14 And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine to a bullock and a third part of a hin to a ram and a fourth part of a hin to a lamb; this is the burnt offering of the beginning of every month throughout the months of the year. 15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering."

"16 ¶ And on the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18 On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of hard work; 19 But you shall offer sacrifices made by fire for burnt offerings to the LORD; two young bullocks and one ram and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be to you without blemish: 20 And their meal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bullock, and two tenths of an ephah for a ram; 21 And a tenth of an ephah you shall offer for every lamb; thus you shall do for every one of the seven lambs. 22 And one yearling goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you. 23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24 After this manner you shall offer daily for seven days the bread of the sacrifice made by fire for a sweet savour to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. 25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work. 26 Also on the day of first fruits, when you offer a meal offering of new wheat to the LORD at your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of hard work; 27 But you shall offer the burnt offerings for a sweet savour to the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28 And their meal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bullock, two tenths of an ephah for one ram, 29 And a tenth of an ephah for each lamb, likewise for each of the seven lambs; 30 And one kid of the goats to make atonement for you. 31 You shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering; you shall offer them without blemish, and their drink offerings."

"29:1 ¶ AND on the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of hard work; it is a day of blowing trumpets to you. 2 And you shall offer burnt offerings for a sweet savour to the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish; 3 And their meal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for a bullock and two tenths of an ephah for a ram, 4 And one tenth of an ephah for each lamb, likewise for each of the seven lambs; 5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; 6 Besides the burnt offering of the beginning of the month and its meal offering and the daily burnt offering and their meal offering and their drink offering, according to their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 7 And you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation; and you shall do no manner of hard work; 8 But you shall offer burnt offerings to the LORD for a sweet savour: one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish; 9 And their meal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bullock and two tenths of an ephah for the one ram, 10 And a tenth of an ephah for one lamb, likewise for each of the seven lambs; 11 One kid of the goats 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."

"12 ¶ And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of hard work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD for seven days; 13 And you shall offer burnt offerings, a sacrifice made by fire, a sweet savour to the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish: 14 And their meal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenths of an ephah for each of the two rams, 15 And a tenth of an ephah for each lamb of the fourteen lambs, 16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. 17 And on the second day you shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 18 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ritual; 19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offering. 20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 21 And their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual; 22 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering and its drink offering. 23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 24 Their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual; 25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. 26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 27 And their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual; 28 And one goat of the first year for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering and its drink offering. 29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 30 And their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual: 31 And one goat of the first year for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. 32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 33 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual; 34 And one he-goat of the first year for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. 35 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no manner of hard work; 36 But you shall offer burnt offerings, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD: one bullock, one ram, and four lambs of the first year without blemish; 37 Their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual; 38 And one goat of the first year for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering and its drink offering. 39 These things you shall do to the LORD at the time of your feasts, besides your vows and your freewill offerings and your burnt offerings and your meal offerings and your drink offerings. 40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses."

"30:1 ¶ AND Moses spoke to the chiefs of the tribes of the children of Israel and said to them, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: 2 When a man vows a vow to the LORD and swears an oath to bind himself by a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth."

"3 ¶ If a woman also vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a bond while she is in her father’s house in her youth, 4 And her father hears of her vows and the bonds wherewith she has bound herself, and her father shall keep silent toward her; then all her vows shall stand and every bond wherewith she has bound herself shall stand. 5 But if her father shall make them void in the day that he hears of all the vows and all the bonds by which she has bound herself, then they shall not stand; and the LORD shall forgive her because her father had declared them void. 6 And if she is given in marriage to a husband, and her vows are upon her or she has uttered anything out of her lips by which she bound herself. 7 And her husband hears of it and keeps silent in the day that he hears it; then all her vows shall stand and her bonds by which she has bound herself shall stand. 8 But if her husband makes them void on the day that he hears of it, then shall her vows be void and that which she uttered with her lips, and the gifts which she has promised, by which she bound herself, shall be of none effect; and the LORD shall forgive her. 9 But as to the vow of a widow or a deserted woman, everything by which she has bound herself shall stand against her. 10 And if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself with an oath, 11 And her husband heard it but kept silent toward her and did not nullify it; then her vow shall stand, and the bond by which she has bound herself shall stand. 12 But if her husband has utterly made her vows void on the day when he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bonds by which she bound herself shall not stand, because her husband has made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. 13 Every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish or her husband may make it void. 14 But if her husband should remain silent toward her from day to day; then he confirms all her vows and all her bonds which are upon her; he confirms them because he kept silent toward her on the day that he heard them. 15 But if he shall make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. 16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter while she is still in her youth in her father’s house."

"31:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel against the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people. 3 And Moses said to the people, Arm some of the men from among you for the host, and let them go against the Midianites to avenge the LORD against Midian. 4 Of every tribe, a thousand from each tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send into the army. 5 So there were selected out of the tribes of Israel a thousand men from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6 Then Moses sent them to war, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed men, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the army, with the holy vessels of the sanctuary and with trumpets to blow in his hand."

"7 ¶ And they warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of those that were slain; namely, Evi, Rakim, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; Balaam also, the son of Beor, they slew with the sword. 9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives; and their little ones and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their I wealth they plundered. 10 And they burned all the cities wherein they dwelt and all their unwalled villages with fire. 11 And they carried away all the spoil and all the booty, both of men and of beasts. 12 And they brought the captives, the booty, 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 near Jericho."

"13 ¶ And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and captains over hundreds who had come from the battle. 15 And Moses said to them, Why have you let all the women live? 16 For it was they who caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the female children, who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19 And as for you, you shall abide outside the camp seven days; whosoever has killed any person and whosoever has touched any slain purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day, 20 And purify all your garments and all that is made of skin and all the work of goats’ hair and all things made of wood. 21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had returned from the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses: 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Everything that may abide the fire, you shall make it to go through the fire and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water which is used for cleansing; and all that cannot abide the fire, you shall make pass through the water. 24 And you must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterward you shall come into the camp."

"25 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26 Take the count of the prey that was taken and of the captives, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the fathers of the congregation; 27 And divide the booty into two parts; between the men of war who went out to battle and between all the congregation; 28 And levy a tribute for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle; out of all the congregation, one person of every five hundred, both of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep; 29 Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD. 30 And from the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, and of all the beasts, and give them to the Levites, who have charge of the tabernacle of the LORD. 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 32 And the booty and the captives which the men of war had plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 And seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 And sixty-one thousand asses, 35 And thirty-two thousand persons in all, of women who had not known man by lying with him. 36 And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep; 37 And the LORD’S tribute of the sheep was six thousand and seven hundred and fifty. 38 And the oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which the LORD’S tribute was seven hundred and twenty. 39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD’S tribute was six hundred and ten. 40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’S tribute was three hundred and twenty persons. 41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’S gift offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. 42 And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men who had gone out to war, 43 (Now the half that pertained to the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep. 44 And thirty-six thousand oxen, 45 And thirty thousand and five hundred asses, 46 And sixteen thousand persons), 47 Even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of every fifty, both of man and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites, who have charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses."

"48 ¶ And the officers who were over thousands of the host, the commanders of thousands and the captains of hundreds came near to Moses; 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. 50 We have therefore brought as an offering for the LORD what every man has found, articles of gold, ankle chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD. 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all wrought jewels. 52 And all the gold of the gift offering that they offered to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and from the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels 53 (For the men of war had plundered every man for himself.) 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from commanders of thousands and from captains of hundreds and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD."

"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, behold, the place was a place for cattle; 2 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the princes of the congregation, 3 Ataroth, Ribon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sheba, Nebo, and Beon, 4 The land which the LORD smote before the children of Israel is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle; 5 Wherefore, they said, if we have found mercy in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and bring us not across the Jordan. 6 And Moses said to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad, Shall your brethren go to war, while you settle here? 7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? 8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Rakim-gia to spy out the land. 9 For when they went up as far as the valley of Segola, and spied out the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 10 And the LORD’S anger was kindled against them on that day, and he swore, saying, 11 Surely none of the men who came up out of the land 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; 12 Except Caleb the son of Jophaniah the Kenezite and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the LORD. 13 And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed. 14 And, behold, you also are risen up in your father’s stead, a generation of sinful men, to augment still the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel. 15 For if you turn away from after the LORD, he will again make you wander in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all this people."

"16 ¶ Then they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones; 17 But we ourselves will arm and go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall dwell in fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance; 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan or beyond; because we have already received our inheritance on this side of the Jordan eastward. 20 And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing and arm yourselves before the LORD for war, 21 And will go all of you armed across the Jordan before the LORD, to war, until he has destroyed his enemies from before his presence, 22 And the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be guiltless before the LORD and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. 23 But if you will not do so, behold, you will he sinning against the LORD; and be sure your sins will overtake you. 24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep; and do that which you have promised. 25 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad said to Moses, Your servants will do as our lord commands. 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead; 27 But your servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD for battle, as our lord said."

"28 ¶ So concerning all of them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the chiefs of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel; 29 And Moses said to them, If the children of Reuben and the children of Gad will cross with you over the Jordan, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; 30 But if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 31 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad answered, saying, As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do. 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan to war, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours. 33 And Moses gave to them, to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to half of the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Mathnin, all the land with its cities throughout its territories and the towns of the country round about it. 34 And the children of Gad built Ribon and Ataroth and Adoer 35 And Atroth, Shopham and Jazer and Jogbehah, 36 Beth-nimrah and Beth-hauran, fenced cities and folds for sheep. 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Koriathaim, 38 Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed), and Sibmah; and gave other names to the cities which they built. 39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and destroyed the Amorites who were in it. 40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their villages, and called them Caproney Jair (hamlets of Jair, to this day). 42 And Nocah went and took Keeth and its villages, and called it Nocah, 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 with their armies under the command of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote down their goings out and their journeys by the commandment of the LORD; and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 3 They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a mighty hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, 4 While the Egyptians were burying all their first-born whom the LORD had slain among them; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 5 And the children of Israel departed from Rameses and encamped in Succoth. 6 And they departed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they departed from Etham and encamped at the entrance of Heritha, the canal, which is before Baal-sephon; and they encamped before Migdol. 8 And they departed from the entrance of Heritha and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and encamped in Morath. 9 And they departed from Morath and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water. 10 And they departed from Elim and encamped by the Red Sea. 11 And they departed from the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Seen. 12 And they departed from the wilderness of Seen, and encamped at Raphka. 13 And they departed from Raphka and encamped in Alush. 14 And they departed from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. 15 And they departed from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. 16 And they departed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kabrey di ragrigtha, 17 And they departed from Kabrey di ragrigtha, and encamped at Hazeroth. 18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah. 19 And they departed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-parez. 20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and encamped at Libnah. 21 And they departed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah. 22 And they departed from Rissah, and encamped at Kehlat. 23 And they departed from Kehlat, and encamped at mount Shapher. 24 And they departed from mount Shapher, and encamped at Haradah. 25 And they departed from Haradah, and encamped at Makheloth. 26 And they departed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. 27 And they departed from Tahath, and encamped at Tarah. 28 And they departed from Tarah, and encamped at Mithcah. 29 And they departed from Mithcah, and encamped at Hashmonah. 30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. 31 And they departed from Moseroth, and encamped at Bene-jaakan. 32 And they departed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Had-gadgad. 33 And they departed from Had-gadgad, and encamped at Jotbath. 34 And they departed from Jotbath, and encamped at Acronah. 35 And they departed from Acronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber. 36 And they departed from Ezion-gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. 37 And they departed from Kadesh, and encamped at mount Hor on the edge of the land of Edom. 38 And Aaron the priest went up on mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the first month. 39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on mount Hor. 40 And the king of Gadar the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. 41 And they departed from mount Hor, and encamped at Zalmonah. 42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and encamped at Punon. 43 And they departed from Punon, and encamped in Aboth. 44 And they departed from Aboth, and encamped at Een-Ebraye, in the border of Moab. 45 And they departed from Een-Ebraye, and encamped at Ribon-gad. 46 And they journeyed from Ribon-gad, and encamped at Almon-diblathaim. 47 And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped at the mountain of Hebrews, which is before Nebo. 48 And they departed from the mountain of the Hebrews, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho. 49 And they encamped by the Jordan from Beth-ashimon as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab."

"50 ¶ And the LORD said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, 51 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan; 52 Then you shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their idols and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; 53 And you shall possess the land and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to possess it. 54 And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families; and to the large families you shall give a large inheritance, and to the small families you shall give a small inheritance; every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. 55 But if you will not destroy the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass. that those who are left of them shall be splinters in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land wherein you dwell. 56 And as I thought to do to them, I shall do to you."

"34:1 ¶ AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land which shall be divided to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with its territories), 3 Then your south boundary shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward; 4 And your boundary shall turn from the south to the ascent of Sepharvim, and pass on to Zin; and the limits thereof shall be from the south of Rakim-gia, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon; 5 And the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the limits thereof shall be at the sea. 6 And as for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coasts; this shall be your western border. 7 And this shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall mark out for you a boundary to mount Hor; 8 From mount Hor you shall mark out the boundary to the entrance of Hamath; and the limits of the border shall be at Zedad; 9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and its end shall be at Hazar-enan; these shall be your northern boundaries. 10 And you shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham; 11 And the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Diblath, on the east side of Ain; and the boundary shall descend and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 12 And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limits shall be at the salt sea; this shall be your land with the borders thereof round about. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall divide by lots, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe; 14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, and the half tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance; 15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

"16 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17 These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And you shall take one prince of every tribe to divide the land to you. 19 And these are the names of the chiefs: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jophaniah. 20 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shelmuel the son of Ammihud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Eldad the son of Chislon. 22 Of the tribe of Dan, Bakki the son of Jogli. 23 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Nahlael the son of Ephod. 24 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiptan. 25 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26 Of the tribe of Issachar, Petael the son of Azzor. 27 Of the tribe of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan."

"35:1 ¶ THE LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and they shall give also to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about them. 3 And the cities they shall have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts. 4 And the suburbs of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And you shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst; this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. 6 And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites, six cities shall be set aside for you for refuge, that the manslayer who had slain his neighbor without intent may flee thither; and to them you shall add forty-two other cities. 7 So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities in all, together with their suburbs. 8 And with regard to the cities which you shall give of the inheritance of the children of Israel: from those that have many you shall take many; but from those that have few you shall take few; every one shall give of his cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance which he inherits."

"9 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 Then you shall select for yourselves cities to he cities of refuge for you; that the person who kills someone unawares may flee there. 12 And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not be killed until he stand before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which you shall give, six cities shall you have for refuge. 14 You shall give three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities you shall give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 15 These six cities shall be for refuge, both for the children of Israel and for the proselytes and for the sojourner among them; that every one who kills any person unawares may flee there. 16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he might die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he struck him with a stone in the hand, so that he might die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him with an instrument of wood by hand, so that he might die, and he did die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer when he meets him. 20 But if he wound him because of hatred, or shoot an arrow at him by lying in wait, that he might die, he is a murderer; 21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he might die, and he did die, the murderer shall surely be put to death; the avenger of the blood himself shall slay the murderer when he meets him. 22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything without lying in wait, 23 Or with any stone with which a man may die, without seeing him when he cast it upon him, and he died, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of the blood according to these judgments; 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall send him to the city of refuge, to which he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the slayer shall at any time go outside the bounds of the city of his refuge, to which he has fled; 27 And the avenger of the blood find him outside the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of the blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood; 28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession. 29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all of your dwellings. 30 Whosoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but just one witness shall not testify against any person that he may be put to death. 31 Moreover you shall not accept a bribe for the life of a slayer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be surely put to death. 32 And you shall not take a bribe that he may flee to the city of refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the high priest. 33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood defiles the land; and the land in which blood is shed cannot be cleansed except by the shedding of the blood of him who shed it. 34 Defile not therefore the land in which you dwell, and wherein I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel."

"36:1 ¶ THEN the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the princes of the congregation, the chief fathers of the children of Israel; 2 And they said, The LORD commanded our lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and our lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of their fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they married; so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the jubilee year of the children of Israel shall come, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribes into which they married; so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of their fathers."

"5 ¶ And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has said well. 6 This is the thing which the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying. Let them marry whom they think best; but only within the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry, 7 So that no inheritance of the children of Israel shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe; for every one of the children of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his father. 8 And 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 inherit every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance be transferred from one tribe to another; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave to his own inheritance. 10 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad; 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hagla, Milcah, and Joah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father’s brothers; 12 And 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. 13 These are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses concerning the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho."