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Numbers
Chapter 1
- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day
of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
- Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
- From twenty years old and upward, all that are
able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number
them by their armies.
- And with you there shall be a man of every tribe;
every one head of the house of his fathers.
- And these are the names of the men that shall
stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
- Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
- Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama
the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
- These were the renowned of the congregation,
princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in
Israel.
- And Moses and Aaron took these men which are
expressed by their names:
- And they assembled all the congregation together
on the first day of the second month, and they declared their
pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, by their polls.
- As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them
in the wilderness of Sinai.
- And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of
their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls,
every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to
go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
- Of the children of Simeon, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that
were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by
their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Of the children of Gad, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and
fifty.
- Of the children of Judah, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six
hundred.
- Of the children of Issachar, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four
hundred.
- Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four
hundred.
- Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the
children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families,
by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
- Of the children of Manasseh, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Of the children of Benjamin, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four
hundred.
- Of the children of Dan, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven
hundred.
- Of the children of Asher, by their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
- Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their
generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Those that were numbered of them, even of the
tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four
hundred.
- These are those that were numbered, which Moses
and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men:
each one was for the house of his fathers.
- So were all those that were numbered of the
children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in
Israel;
- Even all they that were numbered were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
- But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers
were not numbered among them.
- For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
- Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi,
neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
- But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the
tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and
over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle,
and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and
shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
- And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the
Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be
pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh
nigh shall be put to death.
- And the children of Israel shall pitch their
tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own
standard, throughout their hosts.
- But the Levites shall pitch round about the
tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the
congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep
the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
- And the children of Israel did according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Chapter 2
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
- Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by
his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far
off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
- And on the east side toward the rising of the sun
shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout
their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of
the children of Judah.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
- And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the
tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be
captain of the children of Issachar.
- And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
- Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of
Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
- And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
- All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were
an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and
four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
- On the south side shall be the standard of the
camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the
children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
- And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe
of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the
sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
- All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were
an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred
and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the
second rank.
- Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set
forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp:
as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by
their standards.
- On the west side shall be the standard of the
camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of
the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
- And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and
the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the
son of Pedahzur.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of
the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
- All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim
were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred,
throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third
rank.
- The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the
north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of
Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
- And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe
of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be
Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
- Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of
the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
- And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
- All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan
were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six
hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
- These are those which were numbered of the
children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that
were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
- But the Levites were not numbered among the
children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- And the children of Israel did according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their
standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families,
according to the house of their fathers.
Chapter 3
- These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses
in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
- And these are the names of the sons of Aaron;
Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the
priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in
the priest's office.
- And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when
they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of
Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered
in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them
before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
- And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of
the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the
congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
- And they shall keep all the instruments of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children
of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
- And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to
his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of
Israel.
- And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and
they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from
among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that
openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the
Levites shall be mine;
- Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the
day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I
hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast:
mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness
of Sinai, saying,
- Number the children of Levi after the house of
their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old
and upward shalt thou number them.
- And Moses numbered them according to the word of
the LORD, as he was commanded.
- And these were the sons of Levi by their names;
Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
- And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by
their families; Libni, and Shimei.
- And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram,
and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli,
and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to
the house of their fathers.
- Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and
the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the
Gershonites.
- Those that were numbered of them, according to
the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even
those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five
hundred.
- The families of the Gershonites shall pitch
behind the tabernacle westward.
- And the chief of the house of the father of the
Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
- And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the
tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the
tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
- And the hangings of the court, and the curtain
for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by
the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service
thereof.
- And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites,
and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the
Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families
of the Kohathites.
- In the number of all the males, from a month old
and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the
charge of the sanctuary.
- The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on
the side of the tabernacle southward.
- And the chief of the house of the father of the
families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
- And their charge shall be the ark, and the table,
and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the
sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the
service thereof.
- And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be
chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of
them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
- Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the
family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
- And those that were numbered of them, according
to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
were six thousand and two hundred.
- And the chief of the house of the father of the
families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall
pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
- And under the custody and charge of the sons of
Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars
thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all
the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
- And the pillars of the court round about, and
their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
- But those that encamp before the tabernacle
toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation
eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge
of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the
stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
- All that were numbered of the Levites, which
Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD,
throughout their families, all the males from a month old and
upward, were twenty and two thousand.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the
firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month
old and upward, and take the number of their names.
- And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the
LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel;
and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among
the cattle of the children of Israel.
- And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him,
all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
- And all the firstborn males by the number of
names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered
of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and
thirteen.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn
among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites
instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the
LORD.
- And for those that are to be redeemed of the two
hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the
children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
- Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the
poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them:
(the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
- And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd
number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
- And Moses took the redemption money of them that
were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
- Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took
he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
- And Moses gave the money of them that were
redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of
the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter 4
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
- Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the
sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their
fathers,
- From thirty years old and upward even until fifty
years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
- This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in
the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
- And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall
come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail,
and cover the ark of testimony with it:
- And shall put thereon the covering of badgers'
skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and
shall put in the staves thereof.
- And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread
a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and
the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall
be thereon:
- And they shall spread upon them a cloth of
scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins,
and shall put in the staves thereof.
- And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the
candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister unto it:
- And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof
within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a
bar.
- And upon the golden altar they shall spread a
cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins,
and shall put to the staves thereof:
- And they shall take all the instruments of
ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them
in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers'
skins, and shall put them on a bar:
- And they shall take away the ashes from the
altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
- And they shall put upon it all the vessels
thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the
fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the
altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins,
and put to the staves of it.
- And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of
covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as
the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall
come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they
die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
- And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense,
and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the
oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the
sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron
saying,
- Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the
Kohathites from among the Levites:
- But thus do unto them, that they may live, and
not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and
his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and
to his burden:
- But they shall not go in to see when the holy
things are covered, lest they die.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,
throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
- From thirty years old and upward until fifty
years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform
the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
- This is the service of the families of the
Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
- And they shall bear the curtains of the
tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his
covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon
it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation,
- And the hangings of the court, and the hanging
for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the
tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all
the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so
shall they serve.
- At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be
all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their
burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in
charge all their burdens.
- This is the service of the families of the sons
of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their
charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
- As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them
after their families, by the house of their fathers;
- From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into
the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- And this is the charge of their burden, according
to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the
boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars
thereof, and sockets thereof,
- And the pillars of the court round about, and
their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their
instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon
the instruments of the charge of their burden.
- This is the service of the families of the sons
of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of
the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
- And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the
congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their
families, and after the house of their fathers,
- From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
- And those that were numbered of them by their
families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
- These were they that were numbered of the
families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
- And those that were numbered of the sons of
Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their
fathers,
- From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
- Even those that were numbered of them, throughout
their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand
and six hundred and thirty.
- These are they that were numbered of the families
of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD.
- And those that were numbered of the families of
the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of
their fathers,
- From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
- Even those that were numbered of them after their
families, were three thousand and two hundred.
- These be those that were numbered of the families
of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according
to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
- All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom
Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their
families, and after the house of their fathers,
- From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty
years old, every one that came to do the service of the
ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
- Even those that were numbered of them, were eight
thousand and five hundred and fourscore,
- According to the commandment of the LORD they
were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his
service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of
him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter 5
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Command the children of Israel, that they put out
of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and
whosoever is defiled by the dead:
- Both male and female shall ye put out, without the
camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the
midst whereof I dwell.
- And the children of Israel did so, and put them
out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the
children of Israel.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or
woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass
against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
- Then they shall confess their sin which they have
done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal
thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto
him against whom he hath trespassed.
- But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the
trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD,
even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
atonement shall be made for him.
- And every offering of all the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be
his.
- And every man's hallowed things shall be his:
whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against
him,
- And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid
from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be
defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken
with the manner;
- And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he
be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of
jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be
not defiled:
- Then shall the man bring his wife unto the
priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part
of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering
of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
- And the priest shall bring her near, and set her
before the LORD:
- And the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the
tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
- And the priest shall set the woman before the
LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of
memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the
priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the
curse:
- And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and
say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou
hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy
husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
- But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of
thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with
thee beside thine husband:
- Then the priest shall charge the woman with an
oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The
LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD
doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- And this water that causeth the curse shall go
into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to
rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
- And the priest shall write these curses in a
book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
- And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter
water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
- Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering
out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the
LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
- And the priest shall take an handful of the
offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar,
and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
- And when he hath made her to drink the water,
then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have
done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall
swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among
her people.
- And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean;
then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth
aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
- Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him,
and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before
the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
- Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity,
and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Chapter 6
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow
a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
- He shall separate himself from wine and strong
drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong
drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
grapes, or dried.
- All the days of his separation shall he eat
nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to
the husk.
- All the days of the vow of his separation there
shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled,
in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy,
and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
- All the days that he separateth himself unto the
LORD he shall come at no dead body.
- He shall not make himself unclean for his father,
or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they
die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
- All the days of his separation he is holy unto the
LORD.
- And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he
hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave
his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he
shave it.
- And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles,
or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
- And the priest shall offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an
atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow
his head that same day.
- And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of
his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost,
because his separation was defiled.
- And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the
days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
- And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD,
one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt
offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a
sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
- And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine
flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed
with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
- And the priest shall bring them before the LORD,
and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
- And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of
peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened
bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
- And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his
separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in
the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
- And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of
the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one
unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite,
after the hair of his separation is shaven:
- And the priest shall wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the
wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may
drink wine.
- This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed,
and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside
that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed,
so he must do after the law of his separation.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On
this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto
them,
- The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
- The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be
gracious unto thee:
- The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and
give thee peace.
- And they shall put my name upon the children of
Israel, and I will bless them.
Chapter 7
- And it came to pass on the day that Moses had
fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified
it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the
vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
- That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of
their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over
them that were numbered, offered:
- And they brought their offering before the LORD,
six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the
princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
tabernacle.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Take it of them, that they may be to do the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt
give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
- And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave
them unto the Levites.
- Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of
Gershon, according to their service:
- And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the
sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
- But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because
the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they
should bear upon their shoulders.
- And the princes offered for dedicating of the
altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered
their offering before the altar.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer
their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of
the altar.
- And he that offered his offering the first day
was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
- And his offering was one silver charger, the
weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of
incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar,
prince of Issachar, did offer:
- He offered for his offering one silver charger,
the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of
incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince
of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
- On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur,
prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
- His offering was one silver charger of the weight
of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel,
prince of the children of Gad, offered:
- His offering was one silver charger of the weight
of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud,
prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
- His offering was one silver charger of the weight
of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni,
prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,
prince of the children of Dan, offered:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran,
prince of the children of Asher, offered:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince
of the children of Naphtali, offered:
- His offering was one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
- One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first
year, for a burnt offering:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
- And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was
the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
- This was the dedication of the altar, in the day
when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers
of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
- Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and
thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels
weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary:
- The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense,
weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
- All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve
bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve,
with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering
twelve.
- And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace
offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he
goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the
dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
- And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of
the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of
one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark
of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
Chapter 8
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou
lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over
against the candlestick.
- And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof
over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
- And this work of the candlestick was of beaten
gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was
beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed
Moses, so he made the candlestick.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Take the Levites from among the children of
Israel, and cleanse them.
- And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them:
Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all
their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves
clean.
- Then let them take a young bullock with his meat
offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young
bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.
- And thou shalt bring the Levites before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole
assembly of the children of Israel together:
- And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD:
and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the
Levites:
- And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD
for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute
the service of the LORD.
- And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the
heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make
an atonement for the Levites.
- And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and
before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
- Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among
the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
- And after that shall the Levites go in to do the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt
cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
- For they are wholly given unto me from among the
children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even
instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken
them unto me.
- For all the firstborn of the children of Israel
are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every
firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
- And I have taken the Levites for all the
firstborn of the children of Israel.
- And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron
and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the
service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel:
that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the
children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
- And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of
the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all
that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the
children of Israel unto them.
- And the Levites were purified, and they washed
their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the
LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
- And after that went the Levites in to do their
service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and
before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the
Levites, so did they unto them.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from
twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait
upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
- And from the age of fifty years they shall cease
waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
- But shall minister with their brethren in the
tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do
no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their
charge.
Chapter 9
- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were
come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Let the children of Israel also keep the passover
at his appointed season.
- In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye
shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the
rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye
keep it.
- And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that
they should keep the passover.
- And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day
of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according
to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
- And there were certain men, who were defiled by
the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on
that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
- And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the
dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not
offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel?
- And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will
hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any
man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a
dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the
passover unto the LORD.
- The fourteenth day of the second month at even
they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs.
- They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor
break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the
passover they shall keep it.
- But the man that is clean, and is not in a
journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul
shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the
offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear
his sin.
- And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and
will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance
of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he
do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him
that was born in the land.
- And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up
the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the
testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until the morning.
- So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and
the appearance of fire by night.
- And when the cloud was taken up from the
tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed:
and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel
pitched their tents.
- At the commandment of the LORD the children of
Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they
pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested
in their tents.
- And when the cloud tarried long upon the
tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the
charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
- And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon
the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they
abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD
they journeyed.
- And so it was, when the cloud abode from even
unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the
morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that
the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
- Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a
year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining
thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed
not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
- At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the
tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they
kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the
hand of Moses.
Chapter 10
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole
piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the
calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
- And when they shall blow with them, all the
assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
- And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the
princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall
gather themselves unto thee.
- When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on
the east parts shall go forward.
- When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the
camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they
shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
- But when the congregation is to be gathered
together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
- And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow
with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for
ever throughout your generations.
- And if ye go to war in your land against the
enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and
ye shall be saved from your enemies.
- Also in the day of your gladness, and in your
solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow
with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices
of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial
before your God: I am the LORD your God.
- And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the
second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up
from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
- And the children of Israel took their journeys
out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the
wilderness of Paran.
- And they first took their journey according to
the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
- In the first place went the standard of the camp
of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his
host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
- And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons
of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the
tabernacle.
- And the standard of the camp of Reuben set
forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur
the son of Shedeur.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the
sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they
came.
- And the standard of the camp of the children of
Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host
was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- And the standard of the camp of the children of
Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps
throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
- Thus were the journeyings of the children of
Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
- And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the
Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the
place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us,
and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning
Israel.
- And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will
depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
- And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee;
forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the
wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
- And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it
shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same
will we do unto thee.
- And they departed from the mount of the LORD
three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD
went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting
place for them.
- And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day,
when they went out of the camp.
- And it came to pass, when the ark set forward,
that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be
scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
- And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD,
unto the many thousands of Israel.
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- And when the people complained, it displeased the
LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the
fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in
the uttermost parts of the camp.
- And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses
prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
- And he called the name of the place Taberah:
because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
- And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a
lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said,
Who shall give us flesh to eat?
- We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt
freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick:
- But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing
at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
- And the manna was as coriander seed, and the
colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
- And the people went about, and gathered it, and
ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in
pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of
fresh oil.
- And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,
the manna fell upon it.
- Then Moses heard the people weep throughout
their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger
of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
- And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast
thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found
favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people
upon me?
- Have I conceived all this people? have I
begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in
thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the
land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
- Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this
people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we
may eat.
- I am not able to bear all this people alone,
because it is too heavy for me.
- And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray
thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let
me not see my wretchedness.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me
seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the
elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto
the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with
thee.
- And I will come down and talk with thee there:
and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put
it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with
thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
- And say thou unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye
have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh
to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will
give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
- Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five
days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
- But even a whole month, until it come out at
your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye
have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him,
saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
- And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are
six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give
them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for
them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be
gathered together for them, to suffice them?
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand
waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to
pass unto thee or not.
- And Moses went out, and told the people the
words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of
the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
- And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake
unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it
unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit
rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
- But there remained two of the men in the camp,
the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad:
and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were
written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied
in the camp.
- And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and
said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
- And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses,
one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid
them.
- And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my
sake? would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and
that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
- And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the
elders of Israel.
- And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and
brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as
it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey
on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits
high upon the face of the earth.
- And the people stood up all that day, and all
that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails:
he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all
abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- And while the flesh was yet between their teeth,
ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the
people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
- And he called the name of that place
Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that
lusted.
- And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah
unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Chapter 12
- And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because
of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married
an Ethiopian woman.
- And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only
by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
- (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the
men which were upon the face of the earth.)
- And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto
Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of
the congregation. And they three came out.
- And the LORD came down in the pillar of the
cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron
and Miriam: and they both came forth.
- And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a
prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in
a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
- My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in
all mine house.
- With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the
LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak
against my servant Moses?
- And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
them; and he departed.
- And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle;
and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron
looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
- And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I
beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done
foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
- Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is
half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
- And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her
now, O God, I beseech thee.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had
but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let
her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
received in again.
- And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven
days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in
again.
- And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth,
and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Chapter 13
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Send thou men, that they may search the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe
of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
- And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent
them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of
the children of Israel.
- And these were their names: of the tribe of
Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
- Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
- Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
- Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
- Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
- Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
- Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of
Sodi.
- Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of
Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
- Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
- Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of
Michael.
- Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of
Vophsi.
- Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
- These are the names of the men which Moses sent
to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun
Jehoshua.
- And Moses sent them to spy out the land of
Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and
go up into the mountain:
- And see the land, what it is, and the people
that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or
many;
- And what the land is that they dwell in, whether
it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in,
whether in tents, or in strong holds;
- And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean,
whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good
courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the
time of the firstripe grapes.
- So they went up, and searched the land from the
wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
- And they ascended by the south, and came unto
Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak,
were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut
down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they
bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
- The place was called the brook Eshcol, because
of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down
from thence.
- And they returned from searching of the land
after forty days.
- And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron,
and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the
wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and
unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
- And they told him, and said, We came unto the
land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk
and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in
the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and
moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south:
and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in
the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast
of Jordan.
- And 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.
- But the men that went up with him said, We be
not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than
we.
- And they brought up an evil report of the land
which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The
land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth
up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are
men of a great stature.
- And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Chapter 14
- And all the congregation lifted up their voice,
and cried; and the people wept that night.
- And all the children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto
them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
we had died in this wilderness!
- And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this
land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children
should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
- And they said one to another, Let us make a
captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before
all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
- And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their
clothes:
- And they spake unto all the company of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to
search it, is an exceeding good land.
- If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us
into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk
and honey.
- Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear
ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their
defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them
not.
- But all the congregation bade stone them with
stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of
the congregation before all the children of Israel.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this
people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me,
for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
- I will smite them with the pestilence, and
disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and
mightier than they.
- And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians
shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might
from among them;)
- And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this
land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people,
that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth
over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar
of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one
man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will
speak, saying,
- Because the LORD was not able to bring this
people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath
slain them in the wilderness.
- And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my
LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
- The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing
the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation.
- Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this
people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou
hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
- And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to
thy word:
- But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be
filled with the glory of the LORD.
- Because all those men which have seen my glory,
and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and
have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
- Surely they shall not see the land which I sware
unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me
see it:
- But my servant Caleb, because he had another
spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring
into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in
the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness
by the way of the Red sea.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
- How long shall I bear with this evil
congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the
LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
- Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and
all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number,
from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
- Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- But your little ones, which ye said should be a
prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which
ye have despised.
- But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall
in this wilderness.
- And your children shall wander in the wilderness
forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be
wasted in the wilderness.
- After the number of the days in which ye
searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall
ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my
breach of promise.
- I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto
all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against
me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall
die.
- And the men, which Moses sent to search the
land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur
against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
- Even those men that did bring up the evil report
upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land,
lived still.
- And Moses told these sayings unto all the
children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
- And they rose up early in the morning, and gat
them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here,
and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we
have sinned.
- And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress
the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
- Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that
ye be not smitten before your enemies.
- For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there
before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are
turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
- But they presumed to go up unto the hill top:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses,
departed not out of the camp.
- Then the Amalekites came down, and the
Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and
discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I
give unto you,
- And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD,
a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a
freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour
unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
- Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the
LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with
the fourth part of an hin of oil.
- And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink
offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or
sacrifice, for one lamb.
- Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat
offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of
an hin of oil.
- And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the
third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt
offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace
offerings unto the LORD:
- Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat
offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin
of oil.
- And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half
an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the LORD.
- Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for
one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
- According to the number that ye shall prepare,
so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
- All that are born of the country shall do these
things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever
be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall
do.
- One ordinance shall be both for you of the
congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with
you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall
the stranger be before the LORD.
- One law and one manner shall be for you, and for
the stranger that sojourneth with you.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
- Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread
of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
- Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your
dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the
threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
- Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto
the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
- And if ye have erred, and not observed all these
commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
- Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the
hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and
henceforward among your generations;
- Then it shall be, if ought be committed by
ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all
the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his
drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats
for a sin offering.
- And the priest shall make an atonement for all
the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their
offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin
offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
- And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among
them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
- And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he
shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
- And the priest shall make an atonement for the
soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance
before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be
forgiven him.
- Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth
through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children
of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
- But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously,
whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same
reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his
people.
- Because he hath despised the word of the LORD,
and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
- And while the children of Israel were in the
wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the
sabbath day.
- And they that found him gathering sticks brought
him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
- And they put him in ward, because it was not
declared what should be done to him.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be
surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with
stones without the camp.
- And all the congregation brought him without the
camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them
that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments
throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of
the borders a ribband of blue:
- And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye
may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD,
and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
- That ye may remember, and do all my
commandments, and be holy unto your God.
- I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
- Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and
On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
- And they rose up before Moses, with certain of
the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the
assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
- And they gathered themselves together against
Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much
upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them,
and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves
above the congregation of the LORD?
- And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
- And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company,
saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who
is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he
hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
- This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his
company;
- And put fire therein, and put incense in them
before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the
LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye
sons of Levi.
- And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye
sons of Levi:
- Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the
God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the
tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to
minister unto them?
- And he hath brought thee near to him, and all
thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the
priesthood also?
- For which cause both thou and all thy company
are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that
ye murmur against him?
- And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the
sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
- Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up
out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in
the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over
us?
- Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land
that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of
fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we
will not come up.
- And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the
LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass
from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
- And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy
company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
- And take every man his censer, and put incense
in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two
hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his
censer.
- And they took every man his censer, and put fire
in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
- And Korah gathered all the congregation against
them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
- Separate yourselves from among this
congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
- And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God,
the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt
thou be wroth with all the congregation?
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up
from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
- And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and
Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
- And he spake unto the congregation, saying,
Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and
touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
- So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came
out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and
their sons, and their little children.
- And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the
LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done
them of mine own mind.
- If these men die the common death of all men, or
if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the
LORD hath not sent me.
- But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth
open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain
unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall
understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
- And it came to pass, as he had made an end of
speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was
under them:
- And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto
Korah, and all their goods.
- They, and all that appertained to them, went
down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and
they perished from among the congregation.
- And all Israel that were round about them fled
at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up
also.
- And there came out a fire from the LORD, and
consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou
the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
- The censers of these sinners against their own
souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the
altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are
hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
- And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers,
wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made
broad plates for a covering of the altar:
- To be a memorial unto the children of Israel,
that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near
to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as
his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
- But on the morrow all the congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron,
saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
- And it came to pass, when the congregation was
gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked
toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud
covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
- And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle
of the congregation.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Get you up from among this congregation, that I
may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
- And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and
put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go
quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for
there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
- And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into
the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun
among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for
the people.
- And he stood between the dead and the living;
and the plague was stayed.
- Now they that died in the plague were fourteen
thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the
matter of Korah.
- And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
Chapter 17
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of
every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers,
of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
- And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of
Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their
fathers.
- And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of
the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with
you.
- And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod,
whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease
from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they
murmur against you.
- And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and
every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each
prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods:
and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
- And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the
tabernacle of witness.
- And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses
went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of
Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and
bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
- And Moses brought out all the rods from before
the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and
took every man his rod.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod
again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the
rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me,
that they die not.
- And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so
did he.
- And the children of Israel spake unto Moses,
saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
- Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the
tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with
dying?
Chapter 18
- And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons
and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity
of your priesthood.
- And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the
tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be
joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with
thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
- And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of
all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of
the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
- And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the
charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the
service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto
you.
- And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary,
and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more
upon the children of Israel.
- And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the
Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given
as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
- Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep
your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the
vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you
as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put
to death.
- And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also
have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the
hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given
them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance
for ever.
- This shall be thine of the most holy things,
reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat
offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every
trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me, shall
be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
- In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every
male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
- And this is thine; the heave offering of their
gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I
have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with
thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house
shall eat of it.
- All the best of the oil, and all the best of the
wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall
offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
- And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which
they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that
is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
- Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
- Every thing that openeth the matrix in all
flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or
beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou
surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou
redeem.
- And those that are to be redeemed from a month
old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the
money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is
twenty gerahs.
- But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of
a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they
are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt
burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto
the LORD.
- And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the
wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
- All the heave offerings of the holy things,
which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given
thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for
ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee
and to thy seed with thee.
- And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have
no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part
among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children
of Israel.
- And, behold, I have given the children of Levi
all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service
which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
- Neither must the children of Israel henceforth
come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear
sin, and die.
- But the Levites shall do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their
iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations, that among the children of Israel they have no
inheritance.
- But the tithes of the children of Israel, which
they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to
the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the
children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them,
When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have
given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an
heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
- And this your heave offering shall be reckoned
unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and
as the fulness of the winepress.
- Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto
the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of
Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron
the priest.
- Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave
offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed
part thereof out of it.
- Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have
heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto
the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the
increase of the winepress.
- And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your
households: for it is your reward for your service in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
- And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when
ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute
the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Chapter 19
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
- This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish,
and upon which never came yoke:
- And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest,
that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay
her before his face:
- And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood
with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
- And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her
skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he
burn:
- And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop,
and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.
- Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he
shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
- And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in
water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until
the even.
- And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes
of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean
place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of
Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
- And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it
shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
- He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall
be unclean seven days.
- He shall purify himself with it on the third
day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify
not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be
clean.
- Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that
is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of
the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the
water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean;
his uncleanness is yet upon him.
- This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all
that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be
unclean seven days.
- And every open vessel, which hath no covering
bound upon it, is unclean.
- And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a
sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or
a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- And for an unclean person they shall take of the
ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running
water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
- And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it
in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the
vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that
touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
- And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the
unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
- But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not
purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the
water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
- And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them,
that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his
clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be
unclean until even.
- And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall
be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until
even.
Chapter 20
- Then came the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the
people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
- And there was no water for the congregation: and
they gathered themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron.
- And the people chode with Moses, and spake,
saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before
the LORD!
- And why have ye brought up the congregation of
the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die
there?
- And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of
Egypt, to bring us in unto 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.
- And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the
assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared
unto them.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly
together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the
rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou
shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give
the congregation and their beasts drink.
- And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as
he commanded him.
- And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation
together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye
rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
- And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod
he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and
the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because
ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children
of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the
land which I have given them.
- This is the water of Meribah; because the
children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified
in them.
- And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the
king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all
the travail that hath befallen us:
- How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we
have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and
our fathers:
- And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our
voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of
Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy
border:
- Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country:
we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards,
neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the
king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left,
until we have passed thy borders.
- And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by
me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
- And the children of Israel said unto him, We
will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy
water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything
else, go through on my feet.
- And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom
came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
- Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through
his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
- And the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount
Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
- Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he
shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water
of Meribah.
- Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them
up unto mount Hor:
- And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them
upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his
people, and shall die there.
- And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they
went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
- And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and
put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top
of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
- And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was
dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of
Israel.
Chapter 21
- And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in
the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies;
then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
- And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said,
If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I
will utterly destroy their cities.
- And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel,
and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them
and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
- And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of
the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the
people was much discouraged because of the way.
- And the people spake against God, and against
Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in
the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water;
and our soul loatheth this light bread.
- And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the
people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We
have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against
thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.
And Moses prayed for the people.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery
serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that
every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
- And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it
upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten
any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
- And the children of Israel set forward, and
pitched in Oboth.
- And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at
Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the
sunrising.
- From thence they removed, and pitched in the
valley of Zared.
- From thence they removed, and pitched on the
other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out
of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
- Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of
the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of
Arnon,
- And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down
to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
- And from thence they went to Beer: that is the
well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
- Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well;
sing ye unto it:
- The princes digged the well, the nobles of the
people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
- And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel
to Bamoth:
- And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the
country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward
Jeshimon.
- And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of
the Amorites, saying,
- Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn
into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the
waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way,
until we be past thy borders.
- And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass
through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together,
and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to
Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
- And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword,
and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was
strong.
- And Israel took all these cities: and Israel
dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all
the villages thereof.
- 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 unto Arnon.
- Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come
into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
- For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame
from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the
lords of the high places of Arnon.
- Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of
Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters,
into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
- We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even
unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which
reacheth unto Medeba.
- Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
- And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took
the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were
there.
- And 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 the battle at Edrei.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for
I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his
land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
- So they smote him, and his sons, and all his
people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed
his land.
Chapter 22
- And the children of Israel set forward, and
pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
- And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel
had done to the Amorites.
- And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because
they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children
of Israel.
- And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now
shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the
ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor
was king of the Moabites at that time.
- He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son
of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the
children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a
people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the
earth, and they abide over against me:
- Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this
people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall
prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of
the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he
whom thou cursest is cursed.
- And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian
departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they
came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
- And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and
I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me:
and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
- And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are
these with thee?
- And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of
Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
- Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt,
which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them;
peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
- And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with
them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
- And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto
the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD
refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
- And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went
unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
- And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more
honourable than they.
- And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus
saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder
thee from coming unto me:
- For I will promote thee unto very great honour,
and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I
pray thee, curse me this people.
- And Balaam answered and said unto the servants
of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and
gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or
more.
- Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here
this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
- And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto
him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
- And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled
his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
- And God's anger was kindled because he went: and
the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against
him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with
him.
- And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing
in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned
aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the
ass, to turn her into the way.
- But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the
vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
- And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she
thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against
the wall: and he smote her again.
- And the angel of the LORD went further, and
stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the
right hand or to the left.
- And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she
fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he
smote the ass with a staff.
- And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and
she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast
smitten me these three times?
- And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast
mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now
would I kill thee.
- And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine
ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto
this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
- Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he
saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword
drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his
face.
- And the angel of the LORD said unto him,
Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold,
I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
- And the ass saw me, and turned from me these
three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I
had slain thee, and saved her alive.
- And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I
have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way
against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back
again.
- And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go
with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee,
that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
- And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he
went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border
of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
- And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly
send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me?
am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
- And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto
thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word
that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
- And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto
Kirjathhuzoth.
- And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to
Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
- And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak
took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal,
that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
Chapter 23
- And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven
altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
- And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and
Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
- And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt
offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet
me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an
high place.
- And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have
prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a
bullock and a ram.
- And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and
said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
- And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by
his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the
king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of
the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
- How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or
how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
- For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from
the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and
shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number
of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be like his!
- And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done
unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou
hast blessed them altogether.
- And he answered and said, Must I not take heed
to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
- And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with
me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou
shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all:
and curse me them from thence.
- And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to
the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock
and a ram on every altar.
- And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt
offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
- And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his
mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
- And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his
burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
- And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up,
Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
- God is not a man, that he should lie; neither
the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall
he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- Behold, I have received commandment to bless:
and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
- He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither
hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with
him, and the shout of a king is among them.
- God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it
were the strength of an unicorn.
- Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
neither is there any divination against Israel: according to
this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God
wrought!
- Behold, the people shall rise up as a great
lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down
until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
- And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them
at all, nor bless them at all.
- But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told
not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
- And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I
will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please
God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
- And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor,
that looketh toward Jeshimon.
- And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven
altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
- And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a
bullock and a ram on every altar.
Chapter 24
- And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to
bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for
enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
- And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel
abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit
of God came upon him.
- And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the
son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath
said:
- He hath said, which heard the words of God, which
saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but
having his eyes open:
- How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy
tabernacles, O Israel!
- As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens
by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD
hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
- He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and
his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
- God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it
were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his
enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with
his arrows.
- He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great
lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee,
and cursed is he that curseth thee.
- And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam,
and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I
called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether
blessed them these three times.
- Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought
to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept
thee back from honour.
- And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to
thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
- If Balak would give me his house full of silver
and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do
either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that
will I speak?
- And now, behold, I go unto my people: come
therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do
to thy people in the latter days.
- And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the
son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath
said:
- He hath said, which heard the words of God, and
knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the
Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
- I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold
him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a
Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of
Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
- And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall
be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
- Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have
dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
- And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his
parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his
latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
- And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his
parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest
thy nest in a rock.
- Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until
Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
- And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who
shall live when God doeth this!
- And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim,
and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also
shall perish for ever.
- And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his
place: and Balak also went his way.
Chapter 25
- And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began
to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
- And they called the people unto the sacrifices of
their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their
gods.
- And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the
anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads
of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun,
that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
- And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye
every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
- And, behold, one of the children of Israel came
and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight
of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
- And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the
congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
- And he went after the man of Israel into the
tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and
the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the
children of Israel.
- And those that died in the plague were twenty and
four thousand.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron
the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of
Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed
not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
- Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my
covenant of peace:
- And he shall have it, and his seed after him,
even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was
zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of
Israel.
- Now the name of the Israelite that was slain,
even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the
son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
- And the name of the Midianitish woman that was
slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people,
and of a chief house in Midian.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
- For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith
they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter
of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
Chapter 26
- And it came to pass after the plague, that the
LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, saying,
- Take the sum of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout
their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
- And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them
in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old
and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of
Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of
Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of
Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
- Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of
Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
- These are the families of the Reubenites: and
they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand
and seven hundred and thirty.
- And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
- And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and
Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the
congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the
company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
- And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time
the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
- Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
- 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:
- Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul,
the family of the Shaulites.
- These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty
and two thousand and two hundred.
- The children 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:
- Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the
family of the Erites:
- Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli,
the family of the Arelites.
- These are the families of the children of Gad
according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand
and five hundred.
- The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and
Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- And the sons of Judah after their families were;
of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family
of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
- And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
- These are the families of Judah according to
those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen
thousand and five hundred.
- Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of
Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the
Punites:
- Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of
Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
- These are the families of Issachar according to
those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand
and three hundred.
- Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of
Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the
Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
- These are the families of the Zebulunites
according to those that were numbered of them, threescore
thousand and five hundred.
- The sons of Joseph after their families were
Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family
of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the
family of the Gileadites.
- These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the
family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
- And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and
of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
- And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites:
and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
- And 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.
- These are the families of Manasseh, and those
that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven
hundred.
- These are the sons of Ephraim after their
families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of
Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
- And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran,
the family of the Eranites.
- These are the families of the sons of Ephraim
according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two
thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their
families.
- 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:
- Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of
Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
- And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of
Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the
Naamites.
- These are the sons of Benjamin after their
families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and
five thousand and six hundred.
- 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.
- All the families of the Shuhamites, according to
those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four
thousand and four hundred.
- Of the children of Asher after their families:
of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of
the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
- Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of
the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
- And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
- These are the families of the sons of Asher
according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty
and three thousand and four hundred.
- Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of
Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of
the Gunites:
- Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of
Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
- These are the families of Naphtali according to
their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty
and five thousand and four hundred.
- These were the numbered of the children of
Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and
thirty.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Unto these the land shall be divided for an
inheritance according to the number of names.
- To many thou shalt give the more inheritance,
and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one
shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered
of him.
- Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by
lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they
shall inherit.
- According to the lot shall the possession
thereof be divided between many and few.
- And these are they that were numbered of the
Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the
Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the
family of the Merarites.
- These are the families of the Levites: the
family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family
of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
- And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the
daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she
bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
- And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered
strange fire before the LORD.
- And those that were numbered of them were twenty
and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for
they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there
was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
- These are they that were numbered by Moses and
Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the
plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
- But among these there was not a man of them whom
Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely
die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them,
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Chapter 27
- Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these
are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Tirzah.
- And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar
the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
- Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not
in the company of them that gathered themselves together against
the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had
no sons.
- Why should the name of our father be done away
from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us
therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
- And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou
shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among
their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of
their father to pass unto them.
- And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his
inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
- And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give
his inheritance unto his brethren.
- And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give
his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
- And if his father have no brethren, then ye
shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him
of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into
this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel.
- And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be
gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
- For ye rebelled against my commandment in the
desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me
at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
- And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
- Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all
flesh, set a man over the congregation,
- Which may go out before them, and which may go
in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring
them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which
have no shepherd.
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua
the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand
upon him;
- And set him before Eleazar the priest, and
before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their
sight.
- And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon
him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be
obedient.
- And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest,
who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before
the LORD: 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.
- And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he
took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before
all the congregation:
- And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a
charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Chapter 28
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Command the children of Israel, and say unto
them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire,
for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in
their due season.
- And thou shalt say unto them, This is the
offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two
lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual
burnt offering.
- The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and
the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
- And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
- It is a continual burnt offering, which was
ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by
fire unto the LORD.
- And the drink offering thereof shall be the
fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt
thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink
offering.
- And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as
the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering
thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
- And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first
year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
- This is the burnt offering of every sabbath,
beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
- And in the beginnings of your months ye shall
offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and
one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
- And three tenth deals of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals
of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
- And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a
sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
- And their drink offerings shall be half an hin
of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram,
and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering
of every month throughout the months of the year.
- And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto
the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering,
and his drink offering.
- And in the fourteenth day of the first month is
the passover of the LORD.
- And in the fifteenth day of this month is the
feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
- In the first day shall be an holy convocation;
ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
- But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for
a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram,
and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without
blemish:
- And their meat offering shall be of flour
mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a
bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
- A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every
lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
- And one goat for a sin offering, to make an
atonement for you.
- Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering
in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
- After this manner ye shall offer daily,
throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside
the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
- And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
- Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye
bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be
out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
- But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a
sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven
lambs of the first year;
- And their meat offering of flour mingled with
oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto
one ram,
- A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout
the seven lambs;
- And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement
for you.
- Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without
blemish) and their drink offerings.
Chapter 29
- And in the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile
work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
- And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet
savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven
lambs of the first year without blemish:
- And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals
for a ram,
- And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the
seven lambs:
- And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to
make an atonement for you:
- Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his
meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat
offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner,
for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
- And ye shall have on the tenth day of this
seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your
souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
- But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD
for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs
of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
- And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to
one ram,
- A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout
the seven lambs:
- One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside
the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering,
and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
- And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye
shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and
ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
- And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young
bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall
be without blemish:
- And their meat offering shall be of flour
mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the
thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
- And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the
fourteen lambs:
- And one kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
- And on the second day ye shall offer twelve
young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year
without spot:
- And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs,
shall be according to their number, after the manner:
- And one kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering
thereof, and their drink offerings.
- And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams,
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
- And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs,
shall be according to their number, after the manner:
- And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
- And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams,
and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
- Their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
- And one kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
- And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams,
and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
- And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs,
shall be according to their number, after the manner:
- And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
- And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams,
and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
- And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs,
shall be according to their number, after the manner:
- And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
- And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams,
and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
- And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs,
shall be according to their number, after the manner:
- And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
- On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn
assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
- But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one
ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
- Their meat offering and their drink offerings
for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
- And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
- These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your
set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for
your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your
drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
- And Moses told the children of Israel according
to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter 30
- And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes
concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing
which the LORD hath commanded.
- If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an
oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word,
he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
- If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind
herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
- And her father hear her vow, and her bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his
peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
- But if her father disallow her in the day that he
heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath
bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because
her father disallowed her.
- And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed,
or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
- And her husband heard it, and held his peace at
her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and
her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
- But if her husband disallowed her on the day that
he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and
that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul,
of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
- But every vow of a widow, and of her that is
divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand
against her.
- And if she vowed in her husband's house, or
bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
- And her husband heard it, and held his peace at
her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and
every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
- But if her husband hath utterly made them void
on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her
lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall
not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall
forgive her.
- Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the
soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it
void.
- But if her husband altogether hold his peace at
her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all
her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held
his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
- But if he shall any ways make them void after
that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
- These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded
Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his
daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
Chapter 31
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites:
afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
- And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some
of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
- Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the
tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
- So there were delivered out of the thousands of
Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for
war.
- And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of
every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to
the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his
hand.
- And they warred against the Midianites, as the
LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
- And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the
rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,
and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor
they slew with the sword.
- And the children of Israel took all the women of
Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of
all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
- And they burnt all their cities wherein they
dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
- And they took all the spoil, and all the prey,
both of men and of beasts.
- And they brought the captives, and the prey, and
the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains
of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
- And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the
princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the
camp.
- And Moses was wroth with the officers of the
host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, which came from the battle.
- And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the
women alive?
- Behold, these caused the children of Israel,
through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the
LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the
congregation of the LORD.
- Now therefore kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with
him.
- But all the women children, that have not known
a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- And do ye abide without the camp seven days:
whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any
slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day,
and on the seventh day.
- And purify all your raiment, and all that is
made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made
of wood.
- And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war
which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which
the LORD commanded Moses;
- Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the
iron, the tin, and the lead,
- Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall
make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless
it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that
abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
- And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh
day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the
camp.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of
man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief
fathers of the congregation:
- And divide the prey into two parts; between them
that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between
all the congregation:
- And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of
war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of
the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
- Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar
the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
- And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt
take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the
asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them
unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
LORD.
- And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
- And the booty, being the rest of the prey which
the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy
thousand and five thousand sheep,
- And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
- And threescore and one thousand asses,
- And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of
women that had not known man by lying with him.
- And the half, which was the portion of them that
went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven
and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
- And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six
hundred and threescore and fifteen.
- And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of
which the LORD's tribute was threescore and twelve.
- And the asses were thirty thousand and five
hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
- And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which
the LORD's tribute was thirty and two persons.
- And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's
heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
- And of the children of Israel's half, which
Moses divided from the men that warred,
- (Now the half that pertained unto the
congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
- And thirty and six thousand beeves,
- And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
- And sixteen thousand persons;)
- Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses
took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave
them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of
the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- And the officers which were over thousands of
the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds,
came near unto Moses:
- And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have
taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and
there lacketh not one man of us.
- We have therefore brought an oblation for the
LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and
bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for
our souls before the LORD.
- And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold
of them, even all wrought jewels.
- And all the gold of the offering that they
offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
- (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man
for himself.)
- And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold
of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it
into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the
children of Israel before the LORD.
Chapter 32
- Now the children of Reuben and the children of
Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the
land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a
place for cattle;
- The children of Gad and the children of Reuben
came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto
the princes of the congregation, saying,
- Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Even the country which the LORD smote before the
congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants
have cattle:
- Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in
thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a
possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
- And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to
the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall
ye sit here?
- And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the
children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD
hath given them?
- Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from
Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
- For when they went up unto 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 the LORD had
given them.
- And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time,
and he sware, saying,
- Surely none of the men that came up out of
Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land
which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they
have not wholly followed me:
- Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite,
and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the
LORD.
- And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel,
and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all
the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was
consumed.
- And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers'
stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce
anger of the LORD toward Israel.
- For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet
again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all
this people.
- And they came near unto him, and said, We will
build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little
ones:
- But we ourselves will go ready armed before the
children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place:
and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the
inhabitants of the land.
- We will not return unto our houses, until the
children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
- For we will not inherit with them on yonder side
Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on
this side Jordan eastward.
- And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this
thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
- And will go all of you armed over Jordan before
the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
- And the land be subdued before the LORD: then
afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and
before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the
LORD.
- But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned
against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
- Build you cities for your little ones, and folds
for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your
mouth.
- And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord
commandeth.
- Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all
our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
- But thy servants will pass over, every man armed
for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
- So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel:
- And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad
and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every
man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued
before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession:
- But if they will not pass over with you armed,
they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
- And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy
servants, so will we do.
- We will pass over armed before the LORD into the
land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this
side Jordan may be ours.
- And Moses gave unto them, even to the children
of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the 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, with the
cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round
about.
- And the children of Gad built Dibon, and
Ataroth, and Aroer,
- And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
- And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities:
and folds for sheep.
- And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
- And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being
changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities
which they builded.
- And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh
went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which
was in it.
- And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of
Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
- And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the
small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
- And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages
thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Chapter 33
- These are the journeys of the children of Israel,
which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies
under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- And Moses wrote their goings out according to
their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are
their journeys according to their goings out.
- And they departed from Rameses in the first
month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow
after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand
in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn,
which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the
LORD executed judgments.
- And the children of Israel removed from Rameses,
and pitched in Succoth.
- And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in
Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
- And they removed from Etham, and turned again
unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched
before Migdol.
- And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and
passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and
went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in
Marah.
- And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim:
and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and
ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
- And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the
Red sea.
- And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped
in the wilderness of Sin.
- And they took their journey out of the
wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
- And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in
Alush.
- And they removed from Alush, and encamped at
Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
- And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in
the wilderness of Sinai.
- And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and
pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.
- And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and
encamped at Hazeroth.
- And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
Rithmah.
- And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at
Rimmonparez.
- And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched
in Libnah.
- And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at
Rissah.
- And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in
Kehelathah.
- And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in
mount Shapher.
- And they removed from mount Shapher, and
encamped in Haradah.
- And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in
Makheloth.
- And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at
Tahath.
- And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at
Tarah.
- And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in
Mithcah.
- And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in
Hashmonah.
- And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped
at Moseroth.
- And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in
Benejaakan.
- And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped
at Horhagidgad.
- And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in
Jotbathah.
- And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at
Ebronah.
- And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at
Eziongaber.
- And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in
the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
- And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in
mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
- And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at
the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth
year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of
Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
- And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three
years old when he died in mount Hor.
- And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the
south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children
of Israel.
- And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in
Zalmonah.
- And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in
Punon.
- And they departed from Punon, and pitched in
Oboth.
- And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in
Ijeabarim, in the border of Moab.
- And they departed from Iim, and pitched in
Dibongad.
- And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in
Almondiblathaim.
- And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and
pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
- And they departed from the mountains of Abarim,
and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
- And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth
even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of
Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
- Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of
the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and
destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high
places:
- And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the
land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to
possess it.
- And ye shall divide the land by lot for an
inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give
the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less
inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his
lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall
inherit.
- But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of
the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those
which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns
in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
- Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do
unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Command the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land
that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan
with the coasts thereof:)
- Then your south quarter shall be from the
wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south
border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
- And your border shall turn from the south to the
ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth
thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to
Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
- And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon
unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at
the sea.
- And as for the western border, ye shall even have
the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
- And this shall be your north border: from the
great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
- From mount Hor ye shall point out your border
unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border
shall be to Zedad:
- And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the
goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north
border.
- And ye shall point out your east border from
Hazarenan to Shepham:
- And the coast shall go down from Shepham to
Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend,
and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
- And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the
goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your
land with the coasts thereof round about.
- And Moses commanded the children of Israel,
saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which
the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half
tribe:
- For the tribe of the children of Reuben
according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the
children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have
received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have
received their inheritance:
- The two tribes and the half tribe have received
their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward,
toward the sunrising.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- These are the names of the men which shall
divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son
of Nun.
- And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to
divide the land by inheritance.
- And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe
of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- And of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
- Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of
Chislon.
- And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
- The prince of the children of Joseph, for the
tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
- And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
- And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
- And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
- And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
- And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
- These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide
the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of
Canaan.
Chapter 35
- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of
Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- Command the children of Israel, that they give
unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities
to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the
cities round about them.
- And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and
the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their
goods, and for all their beasts.
- And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall
give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and
outward a thousand cubits round about.
- And ye shall measure from without the city on the
east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two
thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on
the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the
midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
- And among the cities which ye shall give unto the
Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall
appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye
shall add forty and two cities.
- So all the cities which ye shall give to the
Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with
their suburbs.
- And the cities which ye shall give shall be of
the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have
many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give
few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according
to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
- Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of
refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth
any person at unawares.
- And they shall be unto you cities for refuge
from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand
before the congregation in judgment.
- And of these cities which ye shall give six
cities shall ye have for refuge.
- Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan,
and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which
shall be cities of refuge.
- These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the
children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner
among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee
thither.
- And if he smite him with an instrument of iron,
so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be
put to death.
- And if he smite him with throwing a stone,
wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
- Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood,
wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
- The revenger of blood himself shall slay the
murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
- But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him
by laying of wait, that he die;
- Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he
die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a
murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he
meeteth him.
- But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or
have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
- Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die,
seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not
his enemy, neither sought his harm:
- Then the congregation shall judge between the
slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
- And the congregation shall deliver the slayer
out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation
shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled:
and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which
was anointed with the holy oil.
- But if the slayer shall at any time come without
the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
- And the revenger of blood find him without the
borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood
kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
- Because he should have remained in the city of
his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the
death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of
his possession.
- So these things shall be for a statute of
judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
- Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be
put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall
not testify against any person to cause him to die.
- Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the
life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be
surely put to death.
- And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that
is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to
dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are:
for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed
of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed
it.
- Defile not therefore the land which ye shall
inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the
children of Israel.
Chapter 36
- And the chief fathers of the families of the
children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of
the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before
Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of
Israel:
- And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give
the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel:
and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
- And if they be married to any of the sons of the
other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their
inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall
be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received:
so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
- And when the jubile of the children of Israel
shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their
inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our
fathers.
- And Moses commanded the children of Israel
according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons
of Joseph hath said well.
- This is the thing which the LORD doth command
concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry
to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their
father shall they marry.
- So shall not the inheritance of the children of
Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children
of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his
fathers.
- And every daughter, that possesseth an
inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be
wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the
children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his
fathers.
- Neither shall the inheritance remove from one
tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the
children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
- Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the
daughters of Zelophehad:
- For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their
father's brothers' sons:
- And they were married into the families of the
sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
- These are the commandments and the judgments,
which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children
of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
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