
Numbers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   {3:29} The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south
side of the tabernacle. {3:30} The prince of the fathers' house of the
families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. {3:31}
Their 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. {3:32} Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be
prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who
keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

   {4:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {4:2} "Take a
census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, {4:3} from thirty years old and
upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to
do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

   {4:4} "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of
Meeting, the most holy things. {4:5} When the camp moves forward, Aaron
shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the
screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it, {4:6} and shall put
a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of
blue, and shall put in its poles.

   {4:7} "On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth,
and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with
which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. {4:8} They
shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a
covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

   {4:9} "They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the
light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all
its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. {4:10} They shall put
it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it
on the frame.

   {4:11} "On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and
cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

   {4:12} "They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they
minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them
with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

   {4:13} "They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a
purple cloth on it. {4:14} They shall put on it all its vessels, with
which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the
shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

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

   {4:16} "The 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."

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

   {4:21} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {4:22} "Take a census of the
sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;
{4:23} you 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.

   {4:24} "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in
serving and in bearing burdens: {4:25} they shall carry the curtains of
the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering
of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the
Tent of Meeting, {4:26} and the hangings of the court, and the screen
for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and
around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their
service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they
serve. {4:27} At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the
service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all
their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their
responsibilities. {4:28} This 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.

   {4:29} "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their
families, by their fathers' houses; {4:30} you 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. {4:31}
This 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, {4:32} and the pillars of the court around it, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the
instruments of the duty of their burden. {4:33} This is the service of
the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in
the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest."

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

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

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

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

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

   {5:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:12} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is
unfaithful to him, {5:13} and a man lies with her carnally, and it is
hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is
defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in
the act; {5:14} and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is
jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
{5:15} then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring
her offering for her: the tenth part of an [2>]ephah[<2] of barley
meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is
a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to memory. {5:16} The priest shall bring her near, and set her
before Yahweh; {5:17} and the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle
the priest shall take, and put it into the water. {5:18} The priest
shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head
go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is
the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the
water of bitterness that brings a curse. {5:19} The priest shall cause
her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you,
and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband,
be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. {5:20} But
if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are
defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:" {5:21}
then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of
cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse
and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall
away, and your body to swell; {5:22} and this water that brings a curse
will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall
away." The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen."

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

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

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

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

   {6:6} "'All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall
not go near a dead body. {6:7} He shall not make himself unclean for
his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when
they die; because his separation to [3>]God[<3] is on his head. {6:8}
All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   {7:84} This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was
anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve
silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; {7:85} each silver platter weighing
one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of
the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; {7:86} the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing
ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of
the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; {7:87} all the 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; {7:88} and 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.

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

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

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

   {8:5} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {8:6} "Take the Levites from
among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. {8:7} You 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. {8:8} Then let them take a young bull,
and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young
bull you shall take for a sin offering. {8:9} You shall present the
Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole
congregation of the children of Israel. {8:10} You shall present the
Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on
the Levites, {8:11} and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for
a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may
be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

   {8:12} "The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls,
and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a
burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. {8:13} You
shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them
as a wave offering to Yahweh. {8:14} Thus you shall separate the
Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be
mine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   {9:14} "'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the
Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and
according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute,
both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"

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

   {10:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {10:2} "Make 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.
{10:3} When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather
themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. {10:4} If they
blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel,
shall gather themselves to you. {10:5} When you blow an alarm, the
camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. {10:6} When 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. {10:7} But when
the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall
not sound an alarm.

   {10:8} "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets.
This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
{10:9} When you go to war in your land against the adversary who
oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then
you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved
from your enemies.

   {10:10} "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts,
and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over
your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings;
and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh
your God."

   {10:11} It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the
twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle of the testimony. {10:12} The children of Israel went
forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and
the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. {10:13} They first went
forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

   {10:14} First, 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. {10:15} Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army
of the tribe of the children of Issachar. {10:16} Eliab the son of
Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.
{10:17} The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the
sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward. {10:18} The
standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies.
Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army. {10:19} Shelumiel the son
of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of
Simeon. {10:20} Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the
tribe of the children of Gad.

   {10:21} The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The
others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

   {10:22} The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over
his army. {10:23} Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the
tribe of the children of Manasseh. {10:24} Abidan the son of Gideoni
was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.

   {10:25} The 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. {10:26} Pagiel the
son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
{10:27} Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali. {10:28} Thus were the travels of the children of
Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.

   {10:29} Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses'
father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, 'I
will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for
Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."

   {10:30} He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own
land, and to my relatives."

   {10:31} He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we
are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. {10:32} It
shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good
Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."

   {10:33} They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days'
journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days'
journey, to seek out a resting place for them. {10:34} The cloud of
Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
{10:35} It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise
up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you
flee before you!" {10:36} When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to
the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."

   {11:1} The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When
Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among
them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. {11:2} The people
cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated. {11:3}
The name of that place was called [4>]Taberah[<4], because Yahweh's
fire burnt among them.

   {11:4} The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us
flesh to eat? {11:5} We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for
nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions,
and the garlic; {11:6} but now we have lost our appetite. There is
nothing at all except this manna to look at." {11:7} The manna was like
coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.
{11:8} The 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. {11:9} When the dew fell on the
camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

   {11:10} Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families,
every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled
greatly; and Moses was displeased. {11:11} Moses said to Yahweh, "Why
have you 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?
{11:12} Have 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?'
{11:13} Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they
weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' {11:14} I am not
able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
{11:15} If you 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."

   {11:16} Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the
elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and
officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they
may stand there with you. {11:17} I will come down and talk with you
there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on
them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you
not bear it yourself alone.

   {11:18} "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow,
and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh,
saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in
Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat. {11:19}
You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten
days, nor twenty days, {11:20} but a whole month, until it come out at
your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have
rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
"Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

   {11:21} Moses 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.' {11:22} Shall 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?"

   {11:23} Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now
you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."

   {11:24} Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and
he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them
around the Tent. {11:25} Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to
him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy
elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they
prophesied, but they did so no more. {11:26} But 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.
{11:27} A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are
prophesying in the camp!"

   {11:28} Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his
chosen men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!"

   {11:29} Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that
all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on
them!"

   {11:30} Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
{11:31} A wind from Yahweh 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. {11:32} The people rose up all
that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the
quails. He who gathered least gathered [5>]ten homers;[<5] and they
spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. {11:33} While
the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger
of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people
with a very great plague. {11:34} The name of that place was called
[6>]Kibroth Hattaavah,[<6] because there they buried the people who
lusted.

   {11:35} From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they stayed at Hazeroth.

   {12:1} Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. {12:2}
They said, "Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken
also with us?" And Yahweh heard it.

   {12:3} Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were
on the surface of the earth. {12:4} Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to
Aaron, and to Miriam, "You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!"

   The three of them came out. {12:5} Yahweh came down in a pillar of
cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam;
and they both came forward. {12:6} He said, "Hear now my words. If
there is a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in
a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. {12:7} My servant Moses is
not so. He is faithful in all my house. {12:8} With him I will speak
mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see
Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my
servant, against Moses?" {12:9} The anger of Yahweh was kindled against
them; and he departed. {12:10} The cloud departed from over the Tent;
and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at
Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

   {12:11} Aaron 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. {12:12} Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh
is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."

   {12:13} Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!"

   {12:14} Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her
face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside
of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."

   {12:15} Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the
people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again. {12:16}
Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the
wilderness of Paran.

   {13:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {13:2} "Send 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."

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

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

   {14:44} But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't
depart out of the camp. {14:45} Then the Amalekite came down, and the
Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them
down, even to Hormah.

   {15:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {15:2} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your
habitations, which I give to you, {15:3} and will make an offering by
fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow,
or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock; {15:4} then he who
offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of a tenth
part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of
oil: {15:5} and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin,
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: {15:7} and for the drink offering you shall offer the third
part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. {15:8} When you
prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish
a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh; {15:9} then shall he offer
with the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine
flour mixed with half a hin of oil: {15:10} and you shall offer for the
drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh. {15:11} Thus shall it be done for each bull,
or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
{15:12} According 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 Yahweh.
{15:14} If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be
among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.
{15:15} For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for
the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout
your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
{15:16} One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the
stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.'"

   {15:17} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {15:18} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land where I
bring you, {15:19} then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of
the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. {15:20} Of 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.
{15:21} Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a wave
offering throughout your generations.

   {15:22} "'When you shall err, and not observe all these
commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses, {15:23} even all that
Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave
commandment, and onward throughout your generations; {15:24} then it
shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for
a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with the meal
offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the
ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. {15:25} The priest
shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have
brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their
sin offering before Yahweh, for their error: {15:26} and all the
congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the
people it was done unwittingly.

   {15:27} "'If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a
female goat a year old for a sin offering. {15:28} The priest shall
make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before
Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. {15:29}
You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him
who is 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 Yahweh; and that
soul shall be cut off from among his people. {15:31} Because he has
despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul
shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'"

   {15:32} While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. {15:33} Those who
found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all
the congregation. {15:34} They put him in custody, because it had not
been declared what should be done to him.

   {15:35} Yahweh said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death:
all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."
{15:36} All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and
stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {15:37} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {15:38} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves
[9>]fringes[<9] in the borders of their garments throughout their
generations, and that they put on the [10>]fringe[<10] of each border a
cord of blue: {15:39} and it shall be to you for a [11>]fringe[<11],
that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh,
and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute; {15:40} that you may
remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. {15:41} I
am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be
your God: I am Yahweh your God."

   {16:1} Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of
Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: {16:2} and they rose up before Moses,
with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of
the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; {16:3} and
they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and
said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the
congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why
then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?"

   {16:4} When Moses heard it, he fell on his face: {16:5} and he spoke
to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning Yahweh will
show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to
him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.
{16:6} Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7} and
put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and
it shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You
have gone too far, you sons of Levi!"

   {16:8} Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi! {16:9} Is
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 Yahweh, and to stand before the
congregation to minister to them; {16:10} and that he has brought you
near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek
the priesthood also? {16:11} Therefore you and all your company are
gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur
against him?"

   {16:12} Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and
they said, "We won't come up: {16:13} is it a small thing that you have
brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in
the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
{16:14} Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk
and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you
put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up." {16:15} Moses was
very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have
not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
{16:16} Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before
Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: {16:17} and each man take
his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh
his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his
censer." {16:18} They 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. {16:19} Korah assembled all the congregation against
them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the glory of Yahweh
appeared to all the congregation. {16:20} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying, {16:21} "Separate yourselves from among this
congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" {16:22} They fell
on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"

   {16:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:24} "Speak to the
congregation, saying, 'Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram!'" {16:25} Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and
the elders of Israel followed him. {16:26} He spoke to the
congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked
men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their
sins!"

   {16:27} So 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. {16:28} Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent
me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind. {16:29} If
these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after
the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me. {16:30} But if
Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow
them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into
[12>]Sheol[<12]; then you shall understand that these men have despised
Yahweh."

   {16:31} It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground split apart that was under them; {16:32} and the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all
the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. {16:33} So they,
and all that appertained to them, went down alive into [13>]Sheol[<13]:
and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the
assembly. {16:34} All Israel that were around them fled at their cry;
for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!" {16:35} Fire came forth
from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the
incense.

   {16:36} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:37} "Speak to Eleazar the
son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the
burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy, {16:38} even
the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be
made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them
before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the
children of Israel." {16:39} Eleazar the priest took the bronze
censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out
for a covering of the altar, {16:40} to be a memorial to the children
of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron,
comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and
as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses. {16:41} But on the
next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's
people!" {16:42} It happened, when the congregation was assembled
against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tent of
Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh
appeared. {16:43} Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of
Meeting. {16:44} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:45} "Get away from
among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They
fell on their faces.

   {16:46} Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire 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
Yahweh! The plague has begun."

   {16:47} Aaron 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. {16:48} He stood
between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. {16:49} Now
those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,
besides those who died about the matter of Korah. {16:50} Aaron
returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague
was stayed.

   {17:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {17:2} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all
their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write
every man's name on his rod. {17:3} You shall write Aaron's name on the
rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers'
houses. {17:4} You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the
testimony, where I meet with you. {17:5} It shall happen, that the rod
of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from
me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against
you."

   {17:6} Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes
gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses,
even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. {17:7}
Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.

   {17:8} It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of
the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was
budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe
almonds. {17:9} Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to
all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

   {17:10} Yahweh said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the
testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion;
that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not
die." {17:11} Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

   {17:12} The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we
perish! We are undone! We are all undone! {17:13} Everyone who comes
near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies! Will we all
perish?"

   {18:1} Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers'
house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and
your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. {18:2}
Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring
near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but
you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.
{18:3} They shall keep your 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. {18:4} They 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.

   {18:5} "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of
the altar; that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
{18:6} I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the
children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the
service of the Tent of Meeting. {18:7} You and your sons with you shall
keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within
the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service
of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

   {18:8} Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "I, behold, I have given you the
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. {18:9} This 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. {18:10} You shall eat of it like
the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to
you.

   {18:11} "This 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.

   {18:12} "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage,
and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh,
to you have I given them. {18:13} The first-ripe fruits of all that is
in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who
is clean in your house shall eat of it.

   {18:14} "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. {18:15}
Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to
Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall
surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn
of unclean animals. {18:16} You 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).

   {18:17} "But 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 Yahweh. {18:18} Their
flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right
thigh, it shall be yours. {18:19} All the wave offerings of the holy
things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you,
and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is
a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with
you."

   {18:20} Yahweh said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in
their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your
portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

   {18:21} "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe
in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they
serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting. {18:22} Henceforth the
children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they
bear sin, and die. {18:23} But the Levites shall do the service of the
Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a
statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of
Israel they shall have no inheritance. {18:24} For the tithe of the
children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I
have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to
them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"

   {18:25} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {18:26} "Moreover you shall
speak to the Levites, and tell them, 'When you take of the children of
Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance,
then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of
the tithe. {18:27} Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as
though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of
the winepress. {18:28} Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to
Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel;
and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
{18:29} Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of
Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'

   {18:30} "Therefore 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. {18:31} You
shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your
reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting. {18:32} You
shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its
best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of
Israel, that you not die.'"

   {19:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {19:2} "This is
the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: 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. {19:3} You shall give
her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the
camp, and one shall kill her before his face: {19:4} and Eleazar the
priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood
toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. {19:5} One shall
burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood,
with her dung, shall he burn: {19:6} and the priest shall take cedar
wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the
burning of the heifer. {19:7} Then the priest shall wash his clothes,
and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening. {19:8} He
who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in
water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

   {19:9} "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer,
and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be
kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for
impurity: it is a sin offering. {19:10} He who gathers the ashes of the
heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the 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.

   {19:11} "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days: {19:12} the 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. {19:13} Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has
died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and
that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity
was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet
on him.

   {19:14} "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who
comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean
seven days. {19:15} Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on
it, is unclean.

   {19:16} "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a
sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean
seven days.

   {19:17} "For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning
of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a
vessel: {19:18} and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the
water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the
persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain,
or the dead, or the grave: {19:19} and the clean person shall sprinkle
on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. {19:20} But the
man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall
be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the
sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on
him; he is unclean. {19:21} It shall be a perpetual statute to them:
and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and
he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

   {19:22} "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and
the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening."

   {20:1} The 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. {20:2} There was
no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron. {20:3} The people strove with Moses,
and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died
before Yahweh! {20:4} Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into
this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? {20:5}
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this
evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."

   {20:6} Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of
Yahweh appeared to them. {20:7} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {20:8}
"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your
brother, and speak 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."

   {20:9} Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
{20:10} Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock,
and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water
out of this rock for you?" {20:11} Moses lifted up his hand, and struck
the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their livestock.

   {20:12} Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe
in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given
them."

   {20:13} These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of
Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them. {20:14} Moses
sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:

   "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has
happened to us: {20:15} how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we
lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and
our fathers: {20:16} and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice,
and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we
are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.

   {20:17} "Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass
through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water
of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn
aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your
border."

   {20:18} Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I
come out with the sword against you."

   {20:19} The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the
highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I
give its price: let me only, without doing anything else, pass through
on my feet."

   {20:20} He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against
him with many people, and with a strong hand. {20:21} Thus Edom refused
to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from
him.

   {20:22} They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even
the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. {20:23} Yahweh spoke to
Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom,
saying, {20:24} "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall
not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel,
because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. {20:25}
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; {20:26}
and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and
Aaron shall be taken, and shall die there."

   {20:27} Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount
Hor in the sight of all the congregation. {20:28} Moses stripped Aaron
of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there
on the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the
mountain. {20:29} When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead,
they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

   {21:1} The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South,
heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought
against Israel, and took some of them captive. {21:2} Israel vowed a
vow to Yahweh, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into
my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." {21:3} Yahweh
listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and
they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place
was called Hormah.

   {21:4} They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the [14>]Red
Sea[<14], to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was
much discouraged because of the way. {21:5} The people spoke against
God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die
in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and
our soul loathes this light bread."

   {21:6} Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the
people; and many people of Israel died. {21:7} The people came to
Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against
Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents
from us." Moses prayed for the people.

   {21:8} Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a
standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he
sees it, shall live." {21:9} Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it
on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man,
when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. {21:10} The children
of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth. {21:11} They traveled from
Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before
Moab, toward the sunrise. {21:12} From there they traveled, and
encamped in the valley of Zered. {21:13} From there they traveled, and
encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness,
that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the
border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. {21:14} Therefore it is
said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys
of the Arnon, {21:15} the slope of the valleys that incline toward the
dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."

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

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


   From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; {21:19} and from
Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; {21:20} and from
Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of
Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. {21:21} Israel sent messengers
to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, {21:22} "Let me pass through
your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will
not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway,
until we have passed your border."

   {21:23} Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but
Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel
into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
{21:24} Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his
land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for
the border of the children of Ammon was strong. {21:25} Israel took all
these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in
Heshbon, and in all its towns. {21:26} For Heshbon was the city of
Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king
of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
{21:27} Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
"Come to Heshbon.
   Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
{21:28} for 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.
{21:29} Woe 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.
{21:30} We have shot at them.
   Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
   Which reaches to Medeba."

   {21:31} Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. {21:32} Moses
sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the
Amorites who were there. {21:33} They turned and went up by the way of
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.

   {21:34} Yahweh said to Moses, "Don't fear him: for I have delivered
him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do
to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

   {21:35} So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until
there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.

   {22:1} The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains
of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. {22:2} Balak the son of Zippor
saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. {22:3} Moab was very
afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed
because of the children of Israel. {22:4} Moab said to the elders of
Midian, "Now 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. {22:5} He
sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the
River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying,
"Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover
the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me. {22:6}
Please 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."

   {22:7} The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke
to him the words of Balak. {22:8} He said to them, "Lodge here this
night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me."
The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. {22:9} God came to Balaam, and
said, "Who are these men with you?" {22:10} Balaam 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.'"

   {22:12} God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall
not curse the people; for they are blessed."

   {22:13} Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of
Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with
you."

   {22:14} The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and
said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

   {22:15} Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than
they. {22:16} They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak
the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
{22:17} for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you
say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for
me.'"

   {22:18} Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give
me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of
Yahweh my God, to do less or more. {22:19} Now therefore, please wait
also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me
more."

   {22:20} God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men
have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I
speak to you, that you shall do."

   {22:21} Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and
went with the princes of Moab. {22:22} God's anger was kindled because
he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an
adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two
servants were with him. {22:23} The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey
turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck
the donkey, to turn her into the way. {22:24} Then the angel of Yahweh
stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this
side, and a wall on that side. {22:25} The donkey saw the angel of
Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot
against the wall: and he struck her again.

   {22:26} The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow
place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to
the left. {22:27} The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down
under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey
with his staff.

   {22:28} Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to
Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three
times?"

   {22:29} Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I
wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."

   {22:30} The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which
you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit
of doing so to you?"

   He said, "No."

   {22:31} Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel
of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he
bowed his head, and fell on his face. {22:32} The angel of Yahweh said
to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I
have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before
me: {22:33} and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these
three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would
have killed you, and saved her alive."

   {22:34} Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I
didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it
displeases you, I will go back again."

   {22:35} The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but
only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak."

   So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. {22:36} When Balak heard
that Balaam 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. {22:37} Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you
to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote
you to honor?"

   {22:38} Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I
now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my
mouth, that shall I speak."

   {22:39} Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
{22:40} Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to
the princes who were with him. {22:41} It happened in the morning, that
Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and
he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

   {23:1} Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

   {23:2} Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered
on every altar a bull and a ram. {23:3} Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by
your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet
me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you."

   He went to a bare height. {23:4} God met Balaam: and he said to him,
"I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a
ram on every altar."

   {23:5} Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to
Balak, and thus you shall speak."

   {23:6} He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt
offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. {23:7} He took up his
parable, and said,
"From Aram has Balak brought me,
   the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.
Come, curse Jacob for me.
   Come, defy Israel.
{23:8} How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
   How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
{23:9} For from the top of the rocks I see him.
   From the hills I see him.
Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
   and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
{23:10} Who can count the dust of Jacob,
   or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous!
   Let my last end be like his!"

   {23:11} Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you
to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

   {23:12} He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that
which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

   {23:13} Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place,
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."

   {23:14} He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,
and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
{23:15} He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I
meet over there."

   {23:16} Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
"Return to Balak, and say this."

   {23:17} He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt
offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What
has Yahweh spoken?"

   {23:18} He took up his parable, and said,
"Rise up, Balak, and hear!
   Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
{23:19} God is not a man, that he should lie,
   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?
{23:20} Behold, I have received a command to bless.
   He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
{23:21} He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
   Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
Yahweh his God is with him.
   The shout of a king is among them.
{23:22} God brings them out of Egypt.
   He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
{23:23} Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
   Neither is there any divination with Israel.
Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,
   What has God done!
{23:24} Behold, 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."

   {23:25} Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all."

   {23:26} But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All
that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"

   {23:27} Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another
place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from
there."

   {23:28} Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the
desert. {23:29} Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

   {23:30} Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a
ram on every altar.

   {24:1} When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he
didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set
his face toward the wilderness. {24:2} Balaam lifted up his eyes, and
he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God
came on him. {24:3} He took up his parable, and said,
"Balaam the son of Beor says,
   the man whose eye was closed says;
{24:4} he says, who hears the words of God,
   who sees the vision of the Almighty,
   falling down, and having his eyes open:
{24:5} How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
   and your tents, Israel!
{24:6} As valleys they are spread forth,
   as gardens by the riverside,
   as aloes which Yahweh has planted,
   as cedar trees beside the waters.
{24:7} Water shall flow from his buckets.
   His seed shall be in many waters.
His king shall be higher than Agag.
   His kingdom shall be exalted.
{24:8} God brings him 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.
{24:9} He 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."

   {24:10} Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his
hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my
enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three
times. {24:11} Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to
promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from
honor."

   {24:12} Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers
who you sent to me, saying, {24:13} 'If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do
either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says'?
{24:14} Now, behold, I go to my people: come, I will inform you what
this people shall do to your people in the latter days."

   {24:15} He took up his parable, and said,
"Balaam the son of Beor says,
   the man whose eye was closed says;
   {24:16} he says, who hears the words of God,
   knows the knowledge of the Most High,
   and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
   Falling down, and having his eyes open:
{24:17} I see him, but not now.
   I see him, but not near.
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.
{24:18} Edom shall be a possession.
   Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession,
   while Israel does valiantly.
{24:19} Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
   and shall destroy the remnant from the city."

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

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

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

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

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

   {25:5} Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men
who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

   {25:6} Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his
brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of
all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping
at the door of the Tent of Meeting. {25:7} When Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst
of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; {25:8} and he went
after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the
plague was stayed from the children of Israel. {25:9} Those who died by
the plague were twenty-four thousand. {25:10} Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, {25:11} "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that
he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume
the children of Israel in my jealousy. {25:12} Therefore say, 'Behold,
I give to him my covenant of peace: {25:13} and it shall be to him, and
to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood;
because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children
of Israel.'"

   {25:14} Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was
slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of
a fathers' house among the Simeonites. {25:15} The name of the
Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was
head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

   {25:16} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {25:17} "Harass the
Midianites, and strike them; {25:18} for 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."

   {26:1} It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and
to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, {26:2} "Take 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." {26:3} Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them
in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, {26:4} "Take a
census, from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and
the children of Israel."

   These are those that came out of the land of Egypt. {26:5} Reuben,
the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of
the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; {26:6} of
Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the
Carmites. {26:7} These are the families of the Reubenites; and those
who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred
thirty. {26:8} The sons of Pallu: Eliab. {26:9} The sons of Eliab:
Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who
were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against
Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh, {26:10}
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with
Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred
fifty men, and they became a sign. {26:11} Notwithstanding, the sons of
Korah didn't die. {26:12} The sons of Simeon after their families: of
Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the
Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; {26:13} of Zerah,
the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
{26:14} These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand
two hundred. {26:15} The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon,
the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of
Shuni, the family of the Shunites; {26:16} of Ozni, the family of the
Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; {26:17} of Arod, the family
of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites. {26:18} These
are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were
numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. {26:19} The sons of
Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. {26:20}
The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of
the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the
family of the Zerahites. {26:21} The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
{26:22} These are the families of Judah according to those who were
numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. {26:23} The sons
of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites;
of Puvah, the family of the Punites; {26:24} of Jashub, the family of
the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. {26:25}
These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered
of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. {26:26} The sons of Zebulun
after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon,
the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
{26:27} These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those
who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred. {26:28} The
sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. {26:29} The
sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir
became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
{26:30} These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the
Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; {26:31} and Asriel,
the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the
Shechemites; {26:32} and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and
Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. {26:33} Zelophehad the son of
Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of
Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. {26:34}
These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them
were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. {26:35} These are the sons of
Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the
Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the
family of the Tahanites. {26:36} These are the sons of Shuthelah: of
Eran, the family of the Eranites. {26:37} These are the families of the
sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them,
thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after
their families. {26:38} The sons of Benjamin after their families: of
Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the
Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; {26:39} of
Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the
Huphamites. {26:40} The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of
the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. {26:41} These are
the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered
of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. {26:42} These are the
sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the
Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. {26:43}
All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were
numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. {26:44} The
sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the
Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of
the Berites. {26:45} Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the
Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. {26:46} The
name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. {26:47} These are the families
of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them,
fifty-three thousand and four hundred. {26:48} The sons of Naphtali
after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of
Guni, the family of the Gunites; {26:49} of Jezer, the family of the
Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. {26:50} These are
the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who
were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. {26:51}
These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six
hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. {26:52} Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, {26:53} "To these the land shall be divided for an
inheritance according to the number of names. {26:54} To the more you
shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the
less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of
him shall his inheritance be given. {26:55} Notwithstanding, the land
shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their
fathers they shall inherit. {26:56} According to the lot shall their
inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer."

   {26:57} These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their
families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the
family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
{26:58} These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the
family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the
Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of
Amram. {26:59} The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of
Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and
Moses, and Miriam their sister. {26:60} To Aaron were born Nadab and
Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {26:61} Nadab and Abihu died, when they
offered strange fire before Yahweh. {26:62} Those who were numbered of
them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and
upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel,
because there was no inheritance given them among the children of
Israel. {26:63} These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar
the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan at Jericho. {26:64} But among these there was not a man
of them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered
the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. {26:65} For Yahweh
had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was
not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua
the son of Nun.

   {27:1} Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of
the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of
his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. {27:2}
They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the
princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting,
saying, {27:3} "Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among
the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in
the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
{27:4} Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his
family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the
brothers of our father."

   {27:5} Moses brought their cause before Yahweh. {27:6} Yahweh spoke
to Moses, saying, {27:7} "The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you
shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their
father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father
to pass to them. {27:8} You shall speak to the children of Israel,
saying, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his
inheritance to pass to his daughter. {27:9} If he has no daughter, then
you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. {27:10} If he has no
brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
{27:11} If 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 Yahweh commanded Moses.'"

   {27:12} Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim,
and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. {27:13}
When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as
Aaron your brother was gathered; {27:14} because you rebelled against
my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to
sanctify me at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of
Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

   {27:15} Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying, {27:16} "Let Yahweh, the God
of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
{27:17} who may go out before them, and who may come in before them,
and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the
congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd."

   {27:18} Yahweh said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in
whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; {27:19} and set him
before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and
commission him in their sight. {27:20} You shall put of your honor on
him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
{27:21} He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for
him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they
go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the
children of Israel with him, even all the congregation."

   {27:22} Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and
set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
{27:23} and he laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Yahweh
spoke by Moses.

   {28:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {28:2} "Command the children
of Israel, and tell them, 'My offering, my food for my offerings made
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in
their due season.' {28:3} You shall tell them, 'This is the offering
made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old
without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. {28:4}
You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the
other lamb at evening; {28:5} with the tenth part of an [15>]ephah[<15]
of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin
of beaten oil. {28:6} It is a continual burnt offering, which was
ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire
to Yahweh. {28:7} Its 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 Yahweh in the holy place. {28:8} The 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 Yahweh.

   {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: {28:10} this is
the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt
offering, and the drink offering of it.

   {28:11} "'In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt
offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a
year old without blemish; {28:12} and three tenth parts of an ephah of
fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two
tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the
one ram; {28:13} and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a
meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma,
an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {28:14} Their drink offerings shall
be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the
ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt
offering of every month throughout the months of the year. {28:15} One
male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the
continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.

   {28:16} "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is
Yahweh's Passover. {28:17} On the fifteenth day of this month shall be
a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. {28:18} In the
first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work;
{28:19} but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering
to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year
old; they shall be to you without blemish; {28:20} and their meal
offering, fine flour mixed with oil: you shall offer three tenth parts
for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram. {28:21} You shall offer a
tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; {28:22} and one male goat
for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. {28:23} You shall offer
these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a
continual burnt offering. {28:24} In this way you shall offer daily,
for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt
offering, and the drink offering of it. {28:25} On the seventh day you
shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work.

   {28:26} "'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new
meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no servile work; {28:27} but you shall offer
a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one
ram, seven male lambs a year old; {28:28} and their meal offering, fine
flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts
for the one ram, {28:29} a tenth part for every lamb of the seven
lambs; {28:30} one male goat, to make atonement for you. {28:31}
Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you
shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their
drink offerings.

   {29:1} "'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you
shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a
day of blowing of trumpets to you. {29:2} You shall offer a burnt
offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven
male lambs a year old without blemish; {29:3} and their meal offering,
fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth
parts for the ram, {29:4} and one tenth part for every lamb of the
seven lambs; {29:5} and one male goat for a sin offering, to make
atonement for you; {29:6} besides the burnt offering of the new moon,
and the meal offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the
meal offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their
ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

   {29:7} "'On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a
holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no
kind of work; {29:8} but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for
a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
they shall be to you without blemish; {29:9} and their meal offering,
fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth
parts for the one ram, {29:10} a tenth part for every lamb of the seven
lambs: {29:11} one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin
offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal
offering of it, and their drink offerings.

   {29:12} "'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a
holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a
feast to Yahweh seven days: {29:13} and you shall offer a burnt
offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh;
thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they
shall be without blemish; {29:14} and their meal offering, fine flour
mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls,
two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, {29:15} and a tenth part
for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; {29:16} and one male goat for a
sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering
of it, and the drink offering of it.

   {29:17} "'On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; {29:18} and their
meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
{29:19} and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings.

   {29:20} "'On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs a year old without blemish; {29:21} and their meal offering and
their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:22} and one male
goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the
meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

   {29:23} "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish; {29:24} their meal offering and their drink
offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to
their number, after the ordinance; {29:25} and one male goat for a sin
offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of
it, and the drink offering of it.

   {29:26} "'On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish; {29:27} and their meal offering and their
drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:28} and one male
goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the
meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

   {29:29} "'On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs a year old without blemish; {29:30} and their meal offering and
their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:31} and one male
goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal
offering of it, and the drink offerings of it.

   {29:32} "'On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs a year old without blemish; {29:33} and their meal offering and
their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:34} and one male
goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal
offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

   {29:35} "'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you
shall do no servile work; {29:36} but you shall offer a burnt offering,
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one
ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; {29:37} their meal
offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for
the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
{29:38} and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.

   {29:39} "'You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts,
besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt
offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings,
and for your peace offerings.'"

   {29:40} Moses told the children of Israel according to all that
Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {30:1} Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of
Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. {30:2}
When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul
with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all
that proceeds out of his mouth.

   {30:3} "Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by
a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, {30:4} and her
father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul,
and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand,
and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand. {30:5}
But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her
vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand:
and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

   {30:6} "If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash
utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, {30:7} and
her husband 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. {30:8} But 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 Yahweh will forgive her.

   {30:9} "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced,
everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

   {30:10} "If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a
bond with an oath, {30:11} and her husband heard it, and held his peace
at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and
every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. {30:12} But if
her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then
whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning
the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void;
and Yahweh will forgive her. {30:13} Every vow, and every binding oath
to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may
make it void. {30:14} But if her husband altogether hold his peace at
her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her
bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his
peace at her in the day that he heard them. {30:15} But if he shall
make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall
bear her iniquity."

   {30:16} These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses,
between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in
her youth, in her father's house.

   {31:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:2} "Avenge the children of
Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your
people."

   {31:3} Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you
for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's
vengeance on Midian. {31:4} Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all
the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war." {31:5} So there were
delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe,
twelve thousand armed for war. {31:6} Moses sent them, one thousand of
every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets
for the alarm in his hand. {31:7} They warred against Midian, as Yahweh
commanded Moses; and they killed every male. {31:8} They killed the
kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,
and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of
Beor they killed with the sword. {31:9} The children of Israel took
captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their
livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a
prey. {31:10} All their cities in the places in which they lived, and
all their encampments, they burnt with fire. {31:11} They took all the
spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal. {31:12} They
brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to
Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel,
to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
{31:13} Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp. {31:14}
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of
thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of
the war. {31:15} Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women
alive? {31:16} Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of
Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. {31:17}
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every
woman who has known man by lying with him. {31:18} But all the girls,
who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

   {31:19} "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed
any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the
third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. {31:20} As to
every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats'
hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

   {31:21} Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the
battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded
Moses: {31:22} however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron,
the tin, and the lead, {31:23} everything that may 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.
{31:24} You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall
be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

   {31:25} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:26} "Take the sum of the
prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the
priest, and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation;
{31:27} and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in
war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. {31:28} Levy a
tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of
five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the
flocks. {31:29} Take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the
priest, for Yahweh's wave offering. {31:30} Of 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
Yahweh."

   {31:31} Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {31:32} Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, {31:33} and
seventy-two thousand head of cattle, {31:34} and sixty-one thousand
donkeys, {31:35} and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women
who had not known man by lying with him. {31:36} The half, which was
the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred
thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: {31:37} and Yahweh's tribute
of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. {31:38} The cattle were
thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two. {31:39}
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's
tribute was sixty-one. {31:40} The persons were sixteen thousand; of
whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons. {31:41} Moses gave the
tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as
Yahweh commanded Moses. {31:42} Of the children of Israel's half, which
Moses divided off from the men who warred {31:43} (now the
congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep, {31:44} and thirty-six thousand head of cattle, {31:45}
and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, {31:46} and sixteen thousand
persons), {31:47} even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one
drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to
the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as
Yahweh commanded Moses.

   {31:48} The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the
captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to
Moses; {31:49} and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the
sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not
one man of us. {31:50} We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every
man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet
rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before
Yahweh."

   {31:51} Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all
worked jewels. {31:52} All the gold of the wave offering that they
offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains
of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. {31:53}
(The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) {31:54} Moses
and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and
of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial
for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

   {32:1} Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and
the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
{32:2} the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the
congregation, saying, {32:3} "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and
Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, {32:4}
the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a
land for livestock; and your servants have livestock." {32:5} They
said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to
your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan."

   {32:6} Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
{32:7} Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which Yahweh has given them? {32:8} Your
fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
{32:9} For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land,
they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should
not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. {32:10} Yahweh's
anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, {32:11} 'Surely
none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: {32:12} except Caleb
the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because
they have followed Yahweh completely.' {32:13} Yahweh's anger was
kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the
wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in
the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.

   {32:14} "Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an
increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh
toward Israel. {32:15} For if you turn away from after him, he will yet
again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this
people."

   {32:16} They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds
here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones: {32:17} but we
ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel,
until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall
dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
{32:18} We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel
have inherited every man his inheritance. {32:19} For we will not
inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because
our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

   {32:20} Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will
arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war, {32:21} and every armed
man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven
out his enemies from before him, {32:22} and the land is subdued before
Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards
Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a
possession before Yahweh.

   {32:23} "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against
Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out. {32:24} Build cities
for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has
proceeded out of your mouth."

   {32:25} The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to
Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. {32:26} Our
little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be
there in the cities of Gilead; {32:27} but your servants will pass
over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my
lord says."

   {32:28} So Moses 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. {32:29} Moses said
to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass
with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before
Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give
them the land of Gilead for a possession: {32:30} but if they will not
pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the
land of Canaan."

   {32:31} The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
saying, "As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do. {32:32} We
will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the
possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan."

   {32:33} Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even
the cities of the surrounding land. {32:34} The children of Gad built
Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, {32:35} and Atrothshophan, and Jazer,
and Jogbehah, {32:36} and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified
cities, and folds for sheep. {32:37} The children of Reuben built
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, {32:38} and Nebo, and Baal Meon,
(their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to
the cities which they built. {32:39} The children of Machir the son of
Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who
were therein. {32:40} Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh;
and he lived therein. {32:41} Jair the son of Manasseh went and took
its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair. {32:42} Nobah went and took
Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

   {33:1} These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they
went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of
Moses and Aaron. {33:2} Moses wrote their goings out according to their
journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys
according to their goings out. {33:3} They traveled from Rameses in the
first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day
after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians, {33:4} while the Egyptians were burying
all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods
also Yahweh executed judgments. {33:5} The children of Israel traveled
from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth. {33:6} They traveled from
Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
{33:7} They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which
is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol. {33:8} They
traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea
into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the
wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. {33:9} They traveled from
Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and
seventy palm trees; and they encamped there. {33:10} They traveled from
Elim, and encamped by the [16>]Red Sea[<16]. {33:11} They traveled from
the [17>]Red Sea[<17], and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. {33:12}
They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
{33:13} They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. {33:14} They
traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water
for the people to drink. {33:15} They traveled from Rephidim, and
encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. {33:16} They traveled from the
wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah. {33:17} They
traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth. {33:18} They
traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah. {33:19} They traveled
from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez. {33:20} They traveled from
Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah. {33:21} They traveled from
Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. {33:22} They traveled from Rissah, and
encamped in Kehelathah. {33:23} They traveled from Kehelathah, and
encamped in Mount Shepher. {33:24} They traveled from Mount Shepher,
and encamped in Haradah. {33:25} They traveled from Haradah, and
encamped in Makheloth. {33:26} They traveled from Makheloth, and
encamped in Tahath. {33:27} They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in
Terah. {33:28} They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
{33:29} They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah. {33:30}
They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth. {33:31} They
traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan. {33:32} They
traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad. {33:33} They
traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah. {33:34} They
traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah. {33:35} They traveled
from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber. {33:36} They traveled from
Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is
Kadesh). {33:37} They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor,
in the edge of the land of Edom. {33:38} Aaron the priest went up into
Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth
year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in
the fifth month, on the first day of the month. {33:39} Aaron was one
hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor. {33:40} The
Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of
Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. {33:41} They
traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah. {33:42} They
traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. {33:43} They traveled
from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. {33:44} They traveled from Oboth,
and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab. {33:45} They
traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad. {33:46} They traveled
from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim. {33:47} They traveled
from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before
Nebo. {33:48} They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped
in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. {33:49} They encamped
by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains
of Moab. {33:50} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the
Jordan at Jericho, saying, {33:51} Speak to the children of Israel, and
tell them, "When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
{33:52} then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten
images, and demolish all their high places. {33:53} You shall take
possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the
land to you to possess it. {33:54} You shall inherit the land by lot
according to your families; to the more you shall give the more
inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance:
wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit
according to the tribes of your fathers.

   {33:55} "But 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. {33:56} It shall happen that as I thought to
do to them, so will I do to you."

   {34:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {34:2} "Command the children
of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan (this
is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of
Canaan according to its borders), {34:3} then your south quarter shall
be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south
border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; {34:4} and your
border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass
along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh
Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon;
{34:5} and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of
Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

   {34:6} "'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and
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; {34:8} from Mount Hor you shall mark
out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall
be at Zedad; {34:9} and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the
goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north
border.

   {34:10} "'You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to
Shepham; {34:11} and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah,
on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach
to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; {34:12} and the border
shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the
Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.'"

   {34:13} Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the
land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give
to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; {34:14} for the tribe of the
children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of
the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:
{34:15} the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

   {34:16} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {34:17} "These are the names
of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar
the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. {34:18} You shall take one
prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. {34:19}
These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh. {34:20} Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the
son of Ammihud. {34:21} Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of
Chislon. {34:22} Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki
the son of Jogli. {34:23} Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of
the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. {34:24} Of
the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of
Shiphtan. {34:25} Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach. {34:26} Of the tribe of the children of
Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. {34:27} Of the tribe of
the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. {34:28} Of
the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of
Ammihud." {34:29} These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the
inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

   {35:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying, {35:2} "Command the children of Israel that they give
to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell
in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the
Levites. {35:3} The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their
suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for
all their animals.

   {35:4} "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the
Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand
cubits around it. {35:5} You shall measure outside of the city for the
east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand
cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north
side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to
them the suburbs of the cities.

   {35:6} "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall
be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to
flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities. {35:7} All
the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight
cities together with their suburbs. {35:8} Concerning the cities which
you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the
many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone
according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities
to the Levites." {35:9} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {35:10} "Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the
Jordan into the land of Canaan, {35:11} then you shall appoint you
cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any
person unwittingly may flee there. {35:12} The cities shall be to you
for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he
stands before the congregation for judgment. {35:13} The cities which
you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. {35:14} You shall
give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in
the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. {35:15} For the
children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living
among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who
kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

   {35:16} "'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that
he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
{35:17} If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may
die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death. {35:18} Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand,
by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death. {35:19} The avenger of blood shall
himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him
to death. {35:20} If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying
in wait, so that he died, {35:21} or in enmity struck him with his
hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death;
he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death,
when he meets him.

   {35:22} "'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on
him anything without lying in wait, {35:23} or with any stone, by which
a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and
he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; {35:24} then the
congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood
according to these ordinances; {35:25} and the congregation shall
deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the
congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was
fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest,
who was anointed with the holy oil.

   {35:26} "'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the
border of his city of refuge, where he flees, {35:27} and the avenger
of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the
avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
{35:28} because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the
death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the
manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

   {35:29} "'These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

   {35:30} "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at
the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
person that he die.

   {35:31} "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a
murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

   {35:32} "'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city
of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death
of the priest.

   {35:33} "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for
blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land
for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed
it. {35:34} You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the
midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel.'"

   {36:1} The heads of the fathers' 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: {36:2} and they said, "Yahweh commanded my lord to
give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my
lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our
brother to his daughters. {36:3} If they 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. {36:4} When
the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their
inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they
shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

   {36:5} Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word
of Yahweh, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
{36:6} This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the
daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think
best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be
married. {36:7} So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel
remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep
the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. {36:8} Every daughter who
possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall
be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the
children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his
fathers. {36:9} So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to
another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep
his own inheritance."

   {36:10} The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:
{36:11} for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.
{36:12} They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the
son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the
family of their father. {36:13} These are the commandments and the
ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all
caps) in other translations.

[2] {5:15} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

[3] {6:7} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

[4] {11:3} Taberah means "burning"

[5] {11:32} 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels

[6] {11:34} Kibroth Hattaavah means "graves of lust."

[7] {14:17} The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."

[8] {14:25} or, Sea of Reeds

[9] {15:38} or, tassels (Hebrew tzitzit)

[10] {15:38} or, tassel

[11] {15:39} or, tassel

[12] {16:30} Sheol is the place of the dead.

[13] {16:33} Sheol is the place of the dead.

[14] {21:4} or, Sea of Reeds

[15] {28:5} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel

[16] {33:10} or, Sea of Reeds

[17] {33:11} or, Sea of Reeds

