# Numbers

1,1God spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 1,2Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one; 1,3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions. 1,4With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house. 1,5These are the names of the men who shall stand with you; Of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. 1,6Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 1,7Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 1,8Of Issachar; Nethanel the son of Zuar. 1,9Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. 1,10Of the children of Joseph; Of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 1,11Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni. 1,12Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 1,13Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ochran. 1,14Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 1,15Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. 1,16These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. 1,17Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. 1,18They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one. 1,19As God commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 1,20The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,21those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. 1,22Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,23those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 1,24Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,25those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. 1,26Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,27those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred. 1,28Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,29those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. 1,30Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,31those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 1,32Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,33those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred. 1,34Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,35those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. 1,36Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1,37those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. 1,38Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1,39those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. 1,40Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1,41those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. 1,42Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1,43those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. 1,44These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; they were each one for his fathers' house. 1,45So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel; 1,46even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 1,47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 1,48For God spoke to Moses, saying, 1,49Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel; 1,50but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it. 1,51When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 1,52The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions. 1,53But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony. 1,54Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that God commanded Moses, so they did.

2,1And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2,2The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses; at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it. 2,3Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions; and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 2,4His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. 2,5Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar. 2,6His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. 2,7The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon. 2,8His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 2,9All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first. 2,10On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. 2,11His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred. 2,12Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 2,13His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 2,14The tribe of Gad; and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 2,15His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. 2,16All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second. 2,17Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards. 2,18On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions; and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 2,19His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred. 2,20Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 2,21His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. 2,22The tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. 2,23His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. 2,24All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third. 2,25On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions; and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 2,26His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. 2,27Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran. 2,28His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred. 2,29The tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. 2,30His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. 2,31All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards. 2,32These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 2,33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as God commanded Moses. 2,34Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that God commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.

3,1Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that God spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. 3,2These are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3,3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 3,4Nadab and Abihu died before God, when they offered strange fire before God, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father. 3,5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 3,6Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. 3,7They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. 3,8They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. 3,9You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. 3,10You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 3,11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 3,12Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine; 3,13for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am God. 3,14And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 3,15Count the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward. 3,16Moses numbered them according to the word of God, as he was commanded. 3,17These were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 3,18These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni and Shimei. 3,19The sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3,20The sons of Merari by their families; Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses. 3,21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. 3,22Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred. 3,23The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward. 3,24The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. 3,25The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 3,26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service. 3,27Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. 3,28According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary. 3,29The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. 3,30The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. 3,31Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service. 3,32Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary. 3,33Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari. 3,34Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred. 3,35The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle. 3,36The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, 3,37the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. 3,38Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 3,39All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of God, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. 3,40God said to Moses, Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 3,41You shall take the Levites for me (I am God) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel. 3,42Moses numbered, as God commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 3,43All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three. 3,44And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 3,45Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am God. 3,46For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites, 3,47you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs); 3,48and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons. 3,49Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; 3,50from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; 3,51and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of God, as God commanded Moses.

4,1And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 4,2Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 4,3from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. 4,4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. 4,5When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it, 4,6and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. 4,7On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. 4,8They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. 4,9They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. 4,10They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. 4,11On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. 4,12They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. 4,13They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. 4,14They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. 4,15When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting. 4,16The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings. 4,17And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 4,18Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 4,19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things; Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; 4,20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die. 4,21And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 4,22Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; 4,23you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. 4,24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens; 4,25they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 4,26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve. 4,27At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities. 4,28This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting; and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 4,29As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; 4,30you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. 4,31This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting; the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, 4,32and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service; and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden. 4,33This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 4,34Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 4,35from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting. 4,36Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty. 4,37These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of God by Moses. 4,38Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses, 4,39from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, 4,40even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty. 4,41These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of God. 4,42Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 4,43from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, 4,44even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred. 4,45These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of God by Moses. 4,46All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 4,47from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, 4,48even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. 4,49According to the commandment of God they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as God commanded Moses.

5,1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 5,2Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead. 5,3Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell. 5,4The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as God spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel. 5,5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 5,6Speak to the children of Israel; 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against God, and that soul is guilty; 5,7then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty. 5,8But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to God shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. 5,9Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his. 5,10Every man's holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.' 5,11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 5,12Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them; 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him, 5,13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act; 5,14and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled; 5,15then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her; the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. 5,16The priest shall bring her near, and set her before God; 5,17and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. 5,18The priest shall set the woman before God, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse. 5,19The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 5,20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband; 5,21then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, God make you a curse and an oath among your people, when God allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; 5,22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away. The woman shall say, Amen, Amen. 5,23'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. 5,24He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 5,25The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before God, and bring it to the altar. 5,26The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 5,27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people. 5,28If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. 5,29'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled; 5,30or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before God, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. 5,31The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'

6,1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 6,2Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them; 'When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to God, 6,3he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 6,4All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins. 6,5'All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to God. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. 6,6'All the days that he separates himself to God he shall not go near a dead body. 6,7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his consecration for God is on his head. 6,8All the days of his separation he is holy to God. 6,9'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. 6,10On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. 6,11The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day. 6,12He shall separate to God the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. 6,13'This is the law of the Nazirite; when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, 6,14and he shall offer his offering to God, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 6,15and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings. 6,16The priest shall present them before God, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering. 6,17He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to God, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering. 6,18The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. 6,19The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation; 6,20and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before God. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine. 6,21'This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to God for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.' 6,22And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 6,23Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.' You shall tell them, 6,24'God bless you, and keep you. 6,25God make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. 6,26God lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.' 6,27So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

7,1It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; 7,2that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered; 7,3and they brought their offering before God, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle. 7,4God spoke to Moses, saying, 7,5Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service. 7,6Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. 7,7He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service; 7,8and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 7,9But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders. 7,10The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar. 7,11God said to Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar. 7,12He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, 7,13and his offering was; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,14one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,15one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,16one male goat for a sin offering; 7,17and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 7,18On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering. 7,19He offered for his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,20one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,21one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,22one male goat for a sin offering; 7,23and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar. 7,24On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun 7,25gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,26one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,27one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,28one male goat for a sin offering; 7,29and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. 7,30On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben 7,31gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,32one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,33one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,34one male goat for a sin offering; 7,35and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. 7,36On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon 7,37gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,38one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,39one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,40one male goat for a sin offering; 7,41and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old; this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7,42On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad 7,43gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,44one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,45one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,46one male goat for a sin offering; 7,47and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 7,48On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim 7,49gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,50one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,51one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,52one male goat for a sin offering; 7,53and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. 7,54On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh 7,55gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,56one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,57one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,58one male goat for a sin offering; 7,59and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 7,60On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin 7,61gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,62one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,63one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,64one male goat for a sin offering; 7,65and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. 7,66On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan 7,67gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,68one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,69one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,70one male goat for a sin offering; 7,71and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 7,72On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher 7,73gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,74one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,75one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,76one male goat for a sin offering; 7,77and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran. 7,78On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali 7,79gave his offering; one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7,80one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 7,81one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7,82one male goat for a sin offering; 7,83and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. 7,84This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel; twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; 7,85each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; 7,86the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; 7,87all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve; 7,88and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed. 7,89When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with God, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

8,1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8,2Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.' 8,3Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as God commanded Moses. 8,4This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work; according to the pattern which God had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand. 8,5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8,6Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 8,7You shall do this to them, to cleanse them; sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. 8,8Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering. 8,9You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel. 8,10You shall present the Levites before God. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites, 8,11and Aaron shall offer the Levites before God for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of God. 8,12The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to God, to make atonement for the Levites. 8,13You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to God. 8,14Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. 8,15After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering. 8,16For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me. 8,17For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. 8,18I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 8,19I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary. 8,20Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that God commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them. 8,21The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before God; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. 8,22After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons; as God had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them. 8,23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8,24This is that which belongs to the Levites; from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; 8,25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more, 8,26but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.

9,1And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 9,2Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. 9,3On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season—according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it. 9,4Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. 9,5They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that God commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. 9,6There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 9,7Those men said to him, We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of God in its appointed season among the children of Israel? 9,8Moses answered them, Wait, that I may hear what God will command concerning you. 9,9And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 9,10Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to God. 9,11In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9,12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. 9,13But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of God in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. 9,14'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to God; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.' 9,15On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. 9,16So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 9,17Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. 9,18At the commandment of God, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of God they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. 9,19When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept God's command, and didn't travel. 9,20Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of God they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of God they traveled. 9,21Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled. 9,22Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. 9,23At the commandment of God they encamped, and at the commandment of God they traveled. They kept God's command, at the commandment of God by Moses.

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

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

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

13,1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 13,2Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them. 13,3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of God; all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. 13,4These were their names; Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 13,5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 13,6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 13,7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 13,8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 13,9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 13,10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 13,11Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 13,12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13,13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 13,14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 13,15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 13,16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 13,17Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country; 13,18and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 13,19and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; 13,20and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. 13,21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 13,22They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 13,23They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 13,24That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. 13,25They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. 13,26They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 13,27They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit. 13,28However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there. 13,29Amalek dwells in the land of the South; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan. 13,30Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 13,31But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 13,32They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. 13,33There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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

15,1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 15,2Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, 15,3and will make an offering by fire to God, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to God, of the herd, or of the flock; 15,4then he who offers his offering shall offer to God a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil; 15,5and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 15,6'Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil; 15,7and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to God. 15,8When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to God; 15,9then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; 15,10and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to God. 15,11Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. 15,12According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number. 15,13'All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to God. 15,14If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to God; as you do, so he shall do. 15,15For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the foreigner be before God. 15,16One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.' 15,17And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 15,18Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land where I bring you, 15,19then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to God. 15,20Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering; as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. 15,21Of the first of your dough you shall give to God a wave offering throughout your generations. 15,22'When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which God has spoken to Moses, 15,23even all that God has commanded you by Moses, from the day that God gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 15,24then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to God, with the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. 15,25The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to God, and their sin offering before God, for their error; 15,26and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. 15,27'If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 15,28The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before God, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. 15,29You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them. 15,30'But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes God; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15,31Because he has despised the word of God, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.' 15,32While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 15,33Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 15,34They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. 15,35God said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp. 15,36All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as God commanded Moses. 15,37And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 15,38Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue; 15,39and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of God, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute; 15,40that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. 15,41I am God your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am God your God.

16,1Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; 16,2and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; 16,3and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and God is among them; why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of God? 16,4When Moses heard it, he fell on his face; 16,5and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning God will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him; even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him. 16,6Do this; take censers, Korah, and all his company; 16,7and put fire in them, and put incense on them before God tomorrow; and it shall be that the man whom God chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi! 16,8Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi! 16,9Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of God, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; 16,10and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also? 16,11Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against God; and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him? 16,12Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We won't come up; 16,13is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us? 16,14Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up. 16,15Moses was very angry, and said to God, Don't respect their offering; I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them. 16,16Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before God, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow; 16,17and each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before God his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer. 16,18They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron. 16,19Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting; and the glory of God appeared to all the congregation. 16,20And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 16,21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment! 16,22They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation? 16,23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 16,24Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!' 16,25Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. 16,26He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins! 16,27So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. 16,28Moses said, Hereby you shall know that God has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind. 16,29If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then God hasn't sent me. 16,30But if God make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Hell; then you shall understand that these men have despised God. 16,31It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 16,32and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. 16,33So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Hell; and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. 16,34All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up! 16,35Fire came forth from God, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. 16,36And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 16,37Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy, 16,38even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar; for they offered them before God; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel. 16,39Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, 16,40to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before God; that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as God spoke to him by Moses. 16,41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed God's people! 16,42It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tent of Meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of God appeared. 16,43Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting. 16,44And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 16,45Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment! They fell on their faces. 16,46Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from God! The plague has begun. 16,47Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. 16,48He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 16,49Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah. 16,50Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting; and the plague was stayed.

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

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

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

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

21,1The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 21,2Israel vowed a vow to God, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 21,3God listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called Hormah. 21,4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 21,5The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. 21,6God sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. 21,7The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against God, and against you. Pray to God, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people. 21,8God said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. 21,9Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard; and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. 21,10The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth. 21,11They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. 21,12From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered. 21,13From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 21,14Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of God, Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 21,15the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab. 21,16From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which God said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. 21,17Then sang Israel this song; Spring up, well; sing to it; 21,18the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles. From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 21,19and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 21,20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. 21,21Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 21,22Let me pass through your land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border. 21,23Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel. 21,24Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 21,25Israel took all these cities; and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. 21,26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon. 21,27Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established; 21,28for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon. 21,29Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. 21,30We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba. 21,31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 21,32Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there. 21,33They turned and went up by the way of Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 21,34God said to Moses, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon. 21,35So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land.

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

23,1Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 23,2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram. 23,3Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps God will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height. 23,4God met Balaam; and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 23,5God put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. 23,6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. 23,7He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel. 23,8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom God has not defied? 23,9For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. 23,10Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his! 23,11Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether. 23,12He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which God puts in my mouth? 23,13Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse me them from there. 23,14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 23,15He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there. 23,16God met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and say this. 23,17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has God spoken? 23,18He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor. 23,19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? 23,20Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it. 23,21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. God his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them. 23,22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. 23,23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done! 23,24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain. 23,25Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 23,26But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that God speaks, that I must do?' 23,27Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there. 23,28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. 23,29Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 23,30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

24,1When Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 24,2Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. 24,3He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says; 24,4he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open; 24,5How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel! 24,6As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which God has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters. 24,7Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted. 24,8God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows. 24,9He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed. 24,10Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. 24,11Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, God has kept you back from honor. 24,12Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying, 24,13'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of God, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what God says'? 24,14Now, behold, I go to my people; come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days. 24,15He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says; 24,16he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open; 24,17I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth. 24,18Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly. 24,19Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city. 24,20He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction. 24,21He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock. 24,22Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive. 24,23He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this? 24,24But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction. 24,25Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

25,1Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; 25,2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. 25,3Israel joined himself to Baal Peor; and the anger of God was kindled against Israel. 25,4God said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to God before the sun, that the fierce anger of God may turn away from Israel. 25,5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor. 25,6Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 25,7When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 25,8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 25,9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. 25,10And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 25,11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. 25,12Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace; 25,13and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.' 25,14Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. 25,15The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian. 25,16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 25,17Harass the Midianites, and strike them; 25,18for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.

26,1It happened after the plague, that God spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 26,2Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel. 26,3Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 26,4Take a census, from twenty years old and upward; as God commanded Moses and the children of Israel. These are those that came out of the land of Egypt. 26,5Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben; of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 26,6of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 26,7These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty. 26,8The sons of Pallu; Eliab. 26,9The sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against God, 26,10and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign. 26,11Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die. 26,12The sons of Simeon after their families; of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; 26,13of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. 26,14These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred. 26,15The sons of Gad after their families; of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; 26,16of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; 26,17of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites. 26,18These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. 26,19The sons of Judah; Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 26,20The sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. 26,21The sons of Perez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. 26,22These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. 26,23The sons of Issachar after their families; of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; 26,24of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 26,25These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. 26,26The sons of Zebulun after their families; of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 26,27These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred. 26,28The sons of Joseph after their families; Manasseh and Ephraim. 26,29The sons of Manasseh; of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. 26,30These are the sons of Gilead; of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; 26,31and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 26,32and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 26,33Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 26,34These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. 26,35These are the sons of Ephraim after their families; of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. 26,36These are the sons of Shuthelah; of Eran, the family of the Eranites. 26,37These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families. 26,38The sons of Benjamin after their families; of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 26,39of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. 26,40The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman; the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. 26,41These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. 26,42These are the sons of Dan after their families; of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. 26,43All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. 26,44The sons of Asher after their families; of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites. 26,45Of the sons of Beriah; of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. 26,46The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. 26,47These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred. 26,48The sons of Naphtali after their families; of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 26,49of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. 26,50These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. 26,51These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. 26,52And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26,53To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. 26,54To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance; to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given. 26,55Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. 26,56According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer. 26,57These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families; of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 26,58These are the families of Levi; the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram. 26,59The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. 26,60To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 26,61Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before God. 26,62Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. 26,63These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 26,64But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 26,65For God had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

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

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

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

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

32,1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock; 32,2the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, 32,3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 32,4the land which God struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock. 32,5They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan. 32,6Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here? 32,7Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which God has given them? 32,8Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. 32,9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which God had given them. 32,10God's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, 32,11'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me; 32,12except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed God completely.' 32,13God's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of God, was consumed. 32,14Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of God toward Israel. 32,15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. 32,16They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones; 32,17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 32,18We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 32,19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. 32,20Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before God to the war, 32,21and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before God, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, 32,22and the land is subdued before God; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards God, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before God. 32,23But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against God; and be sure your sin will find you out. 32,24Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth. 32,25The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands. 32,26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; 32,27but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before God to battle, as my lord says. 32,28So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' households of the tribes of the children of Israel. 32,29Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before God, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; 32,30but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 32,31The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As God has said to your servants, so will we do. 32,32We will pass over armed before God into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan. 32,33Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land. 32,34The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 32,35and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, 32,36and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 32,37The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, 32,38and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built. 32,39The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. 32,40Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein. 32,41Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair. 32,42Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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

34,1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 34,2Command the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders), 34,3then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 34,4and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon; 34,5and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. 34,6'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border; this shall be your west border. 34,7'This shall be your north border; from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor; 34,8from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; 34,9and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan; this shall be your north border. 34,10'You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; 34,11and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 34,12and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.' 34,13Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which God has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; 34,14for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance; 34,15the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise. 34,16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 34,17These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance; Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 34,18You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. 34,19These are the names of the men; Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 34,20Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 34,21Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 34,22Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. 34,23Of the children of Joseph; of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 34,24Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 34,25Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 34,26Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 34,27Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 34,28Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. 34,29These are they whom God commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

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

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

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