NUM 1:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the
second month, in the second year after they had come
out of the land of Egypt, saying,
NUM 1:2 "Take a census of all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, by their
families, by their fathers' households, according to
the number of names, every male, head by head
NUM 1:3 from twenty years old and upward,
whoever {is able to} go out to war in Israel, you
and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
NUM 1:4 "With you, moreover, there shall be a
man of each tribe, each one head of his father's
household.
NUM 1:5 "These then are the names of the men
who shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son
of Shedeur;
NUM 1:6 of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai;
NUM 1:7 of Judah, Nahshon the son of
Amminadab;
NUM 1:8 of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
NUM 1:9 of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
NUM 1:10 of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim,
Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel
the son of Pedahzur;
NUM 1:11 of Benjamin, Abidan the son of
Gideoni;
NUM 1:12 of Dan, Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai;
NUM 1:13 of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;
NUM 1:14 of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
NUM 1:15 of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.
NUM 1:16 "These are they who were called of
the congregation, the leaders of their fathers'
tribes; they were the heads of divisions of Israel."
NUM 1:17 So Moses and Aaron took these men
who had been designated by name,
NUM 1:18 and they assembled all the
congregation together on the first of the second
month. Then they registered by ancestry in their
families, by their fathers' households, according to
the number of names, from twenty years old and
upward, head by head,
NUM 1:19 just as the Lord had commanded
Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of
Sinai.
NUM 1:20 Now the sons of Reuben, Israel's
first-born, their genealogical registration by their
families, by their fathers' households, according to
the number of names, head by head, every male from
twenty years old and upward, whoever {was able to}
go out to war,
NUM 1:21 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Reuben, {were} 46,500.
NUM 1:22 Of the sons of Simeon, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, their numbered men,
according to the number of names, head by head,
every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:23 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Simeon, {were} 59,300.
NUM 1:24 Of the sons of Gad, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:25 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Gad, {were} 45,650.
NUM 1:26 Of the sons of Judah, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:27 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Judah, {were} 74,600.
NUM 1:28 Of the sons of Issachar, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:29 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Issachar, {were} 54,400.
NUM 1:30 Of the sons of Zebulun, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:31 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Zebulun, {were} 57,400.
NUM 1:32 Of the sons of Joseph, {namely,} of
the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration
by their families, by their fathers' households,
according to the number of names, from twenty years
old and upward, whoever {was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:33 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Ephraim, {were} 40,500.
NUM 1:34 Of the sons of Manasseh, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:35 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Manasseh, {were} 32,200.
NUM 1:36 Of the sons of Benjamin, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:37 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Benjamin, {were} 35,400.
NUM 1:38 Of the sons of Dan, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:39 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Dan, {were} 62,700.
NUM 1:40 Of the sons of Asher, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:41 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Asher, {were} 41,500.
NUM 1:42 Of the sons of Naphtali, their
genealogical registration by their families, by
their fathers' households, according to the number
of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever
{was able to} go out to war,
NUM 1:43 their numbered men, of the tribe of
Naphtali, {were} 53,400.
NUM 1:44 These are the ones who were
numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the
leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of
his father's household.
NUM 1:45 So all the numbered men of the sons
of Israel by their fathers' households, from twenty
years old and upward, whoever {was able to} go out
to war in Israel,
NUM 1:46 even all the numbered men were
603,550.
NUM 1:47 The Levites, however, were not
numbered among them by their fathers' tribe.
NUM 1:48 For the Lord had spoken to Moses,
saying,
NUM 1:49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall
not number, nor shall you take their census among
the sons of Israel.
NUM 1:50 "But you shall appoint the Levites
over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all
its furnishings and over all that belongs to it.
They shall carry the tabernacle and all its
furnishings, and they shall take care of it; they
shall also camp around the tabernacle.
NUM 1:51 "So when the tabernacle is to set
out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the
tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But
the layman who comes near shall be put to death.
NUM 1:52 "And the sons of Israel shall camp,
each man by his own camp, and each man by his own
standard, according to their armies.
NUM 1:53 "But the Levites shall camp around
the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may be
no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel.
So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle
of the testimony."
NUM 1:54 Thus the sons of Israel did;
according to all which the Lord had commanded Moses,
so they did.
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NUM 2:1
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
NUM 2:2 "The sons of Israel shall camp, each
by his own standard, with the banners of their
fathers' households; they shall camp around the tent
of meeting at a distance.
NUM 2:3 "Now those who camp on the east side
toward the sunrise {shall be} of the standard of the
camp of Judah, by their armies, and the leader of
the sons of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab,
NUM 2:4 and his army, even their numbered
men, 74,600.
NUM 2:5 "And those who camp next to him
{shall be} the tribe of Issachar, and the leader of
the sons of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar,
NUM 2:6 and his army, even their numbered
men, 54,400.
NUM 2:7 "Then {comes} the tribe of Zebulun,
and the leader of the sons of Zebulun: Eliab the son
of Helon,
NUM 2:8 and his army, even his numbered men,
57,400.
NUM 2:9 "The total of the numbered men of the
camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall
set out first.
NUM 2:10 "On the south side {shall be} the
standard of the camp of Reuben by their armies, and
the leader of the sons of Reuben: Elizur the son of
Shedeur,
NUM 2:11 and his army, even their numbered
men, 46,500.
NUM 2:12 "And those who camp next to him
{shall be} the tribe of Simeon, and the leader of
the sons of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,
NUM 2:13 and his army, even their numbered
men, 59,300.
NUM 2:14 "Then {comes} the tribe of Gad, and
the leader of the sons of Gad: Eliasaph the son of
Deuel,
NUM 2:15 and his army, even their numbered
men, 45,650.
NUM 2:16 "The total of the numbered men of
the camp of Reuben: 151,450 by their armies. And
they shall set out second.
NUM 2:17 "Then the tent of meeting shall set
out {with} the camp of the Levites in the midst of
the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out,
every man in his place, by their standards.
NUM 2:18 "On the west side {shall be} the
standard of the camp of Ephraim by their armies, and
the leader of the sons of Ephraim {shall be}
Elishama the son of Ammihud,
NUM 2:19 and his army, even their numbered
men, 40,500.
NUM 2:20 "And next to him {shall be} the
tribe of Manasseh, and the leader of the sons of
Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,
NUM 2:21 and his army, even their numbered
men, 32,200.
NUM 2:22 "Then {comes} the tribe of Benjamin,
and the leader of the sons of Benjamin: Abidan the
son of Gideoni,
NUM 2:23 and his army, even their numbered
men, 35,400.
NUM 2:24 "The total of the numbered men of
the camp of Ephraim: 108,100, by their armies. And
they shall set out third.
NUM 2:25 "On the north side {shall be} the
standard of the camp of Dan by their armies, and the
leader of the sons of Dan: Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai,
NUM 2:26 and his army, even their numbered
men, 62,700.
NUM 2:27 "And those who camp next to him
{shall be} the tribe of Asher, and the leader of the
sons of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran,
NUM 2:28 and his army, even their numbered
men, 41,500.
NUM 2:29 "Then {comes} the tribe of Naphtali,
and the leader of the sons of Naphtali: Ahira the
son of Enan,
NUM 2:30 and his army, even their numbered
men, 53,400.
NUM 2:31 "The total of the numbered men of
the camp of Dan, {was} 157,600. They shall set out
last by their standards."
NUM 2:32 These are the numbered men of the
sons of Israel by their fathers' households; the
total of the numbered men of the camps by their
armies, 603,550.
NUM 2:33 The Levites, however, were not
numbered among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord
had commanded Moses.
NUM 2:34 Thus the sons of Israel did;
according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so
they camped by their standards, and so they set out,
every one by his family, according to his father's
household.
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NUM 3:1
Now these are {the records of} the generations of
Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with
Moses on Mount Sinai.
NUM 3:2 These then are the names of the sons
of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar
and Ithamar.
NUM 3:3 These are the names of the sons of
Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to
serve as priests.
NUM 3:4 But Nadab and Abihu died before the
Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord
in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no
children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests
in the lifetime of their father Aaron.
NUM 3:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 3:6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near and set
them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve
him.
NUM 3:7 "And they shall perform the duties
for him and for the whole congregation before the
tent of meeting, to do the service of the
tabernacle.
NUM 3:8 "They shall also keep all the
furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the
duties of the sons of Israel, to do the service of
the tabernacle.
NUM 3:9 "You shall thus give the Levites to
Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him
from among the sons of Israel.
NUM 3:10 "So you shall appoint Aaron and his
sons that they may keep their priesthood, but the
layman who comes near shall be put to death."
NUM 3:11 Again the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 3:12 "Now, behold, I have taken the
Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of
every first-born, the first issue of the womb among
the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine.
NUM 3:13 "For all the first-born are Mine; on
the day that I struck down all the first-born in the
land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the
first-born in Israel, from man to beast. They shall
be Mine; I am the Lord."
NUM 3:14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, saying,
NUM 3:15 "Number the sons of Levi by their
fathers' households, by their families; every male
from a month old and upward you shall number."
NUM 3:16 So Moses numbered them according to
the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.
NUM 3:17 These then are the sons of Levi by
their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
NUM 3:18 And these are the names of the sons
of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;
NUM 3:19 and the sons of Kohath by their
families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;
NUM 3:20 and the sons of Merari by their
families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of
the Levites according to their fathers' households.
NUM 3:21 Of Gershon {was} the family of the
Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these
{were} the families of the Gershonites.
NUM 3:22 Their numbered men, in the numbering
of every male from a month old and upward, {even}
their numbered men {were} 7,500.
NUM 3:23 The families of the Gershonites were
to camp behind the tabernacle westward,
NUM 3:24 and the leader of the fathers'
households of the Gershonites {was} Eliasaph the son
of Lael.
NUM 3:25 Now the duties of the sons of
Gershon in the tent of meeting {involved} the
tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the
screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,
NUM 3:26 and the hangings of the court, and
the screen for the doorway of the court, which is
around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords,
according to all the service concerning them.
NUM 3:27 And of Kohath {was} the family of
the Amramites and the family of the Izharites and
the family of the Hebronites and the family of the
Uzzielites; these were the families of the
Kohathites.
NUM 3:28 In the numbering of every male from
a month old and upward, {there were} 8,600,
performing the duties of the sanctuary.
NUM 3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath
were to camp on the southward side of the
tabernacle,
NUM 3:30 and the leader of the fathers'
households of the Kohathite families was Elizaphan
the son of Uzziel.
NUM 3:31 Now their duties {involved} the ark,
the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the
utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister,
and the screen, and all the service concerning them;
NUM 3:32 and Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest {was} the chief of the leaders of Levi, {and
had} the oversight of those who perform the duties
of the sanctuary.
NUM 3:33 Of Merari {was} the family of the
Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these
{were} the families of Merari.
NUM 3:34 Their numbered men in the numbering
of every male from a month old and upward, {were}
6,200.
NUM 3:35 And the leader of the fathers'
households of the families of Merari {was} Zuriel
the son of Abihail. They {were} to camp on the
northward side of the tabernacle.
NUM 3:36 Now the appointed duties of the sons
of Merari {involved} the frames of the tabernacle,
its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its
equipment, and the service concerning them,
NUM 3:37 and the pillars around the court
with their sockets and their pegs and their cords.
NUM 3:38 Now those who were to camp before
the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting
toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his
sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for the
obligation of the sons of Israel; but the layman
coming near was to be put to death.
NUM 3:39 All the numbered men of the Levites,
whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the
Lord by their families, every male from a month old
and upward, {were} 22,000.
NUM 3:40 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Number
every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a
month old and upward, and make a list of their
names.
NUM 3:41 "And you shall take the Levites for
Me, I am the Lord, instead of all the first-born
among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the
Levites instead of all the first-born among the
cattle of the sons of Israel."
NUM 3:42 So Moses numbered all the first-born
among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had
commanded him;
NUM 3:43 and all the first-born males by the
number of names from a month old and upward, for
their numbered men were 22,273.
NUM 3:44 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 3:45 "Take the Levites instead of all the
first-born among the sons of Israel and the cattle
of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am
the Lord.
NUM 3:46 "And for the ransom of the 273 of
the first-born of the sons of Israel who are in
excess beyond the Levites,
NUM 3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece,
per head; you shall take {them} in terms of the
shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
NUM 3:48 and give the money, the ransom of
those who are in excess among them, to Aaron and to
his sons."
NUM 3:49 So Moses took the ransom money from
those who were in excess, beyond those ransomed by
the Levites;
NUM 3:50 from the first-born of the sons of
Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of
the sanctuary, 1,365.
NUM 3:51 Then Moses gave the ransom money to
Aaron and to his sons, at the command of the Lord,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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NUM 4:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
NUM 4:2 "Take a census of the descendants of
Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their
families, by their fathers' households,
NUM 4:3 from thirty years and upward, even to
fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the
work in the tent of meeting.
NUM 4:4 "This is the work of the descendants
of Kohath in the tent of meeting, {concerning} the
most holy things.
NUM 4:5 "When the camp sets out, Aaron and
his sons shall go in and they shall take down the
veil of the screen and cover the ark of the
testimony with it;
NUM 4:6 and they shall lay a covering of
porpoise skin on it, and shall spread over {it} a
cloth of pure blue, and shall insert its poles.
NUM 4:7 "Over the table of the bread of the
Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and
put on it the dishes and the pans and the
sacrificial bowls and the jars for the libation, and
the continual bread shall be on it.
NUM 4:8 "And they shall spread over them a
cloth of scarlet {material,} and cover the same with
a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert
its poles.
NUM 4:9 "Then they shall take a blue cloth
and cover the lampstand for the light, along with
its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all
its oil vessels, by which they serve it;
NUM 4:10 and they shall put it and all its
utensils in a covering of porpoise skin, and shall
put it on the carrying bars.
NUM 4:11 "And over the golden altar they
shall spread a blue cloth and cover it with a
covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its
poles;
NUM 4:12 and they shall take all the utensils
of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary,
and put them in a blue cloth and cover them with a
covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the
carrying bars.
NUM 4:13 "Then they shall take away the ashes
from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.
NUM 4:14 "They shall also put on it all its
utensils by which they serve in connection with it:
the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins,
all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread
a cover of porpoise skin over it and insert its
poles.
NUM 4:15 "And when Aaron and his sons have
finished covering the holy {objects} and all the
furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to
set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to
carry {them,} so that they may not touch the holy
{objects} and die. These are the things in the tent
of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
NUM 4:16 "And the responsibility of Eleazar
the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light
and the fragrant incense and the continual grain
offering and the anointing oil - - the
responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that
is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings."
NUM 4:17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying,
NUM 4:18 "Do not let the tribe of the
families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the
Levites.
NUM 4:19 "But do this to them that they may
live and not die when they approach the most holy
{objects:} Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign
each of them to his work and to his load;
NUM 4:20 but they shall not go in to see the
holy {objects} even for a moment, lest they die."
NUM 4:21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 4:22 "Take a census of the sons of
Gershon also, by their fathers' households, by their
families;
NUM 4:23 from thirty years and upward to
fifty years old, you shall number them; all who
enter to perform the service to do the work in the
tent of meeting.
NUM 4:24 "This is the service of the families
of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:
NUM 4:25 they shall carry the curtains of the
tabernacle and the tent of meeting {with} its
covering and the covering of porpoise skin that is
on top of it, and the screen for the doorway of the
tent of meeting,
NUM 4:26 and the hangings of the court, and
the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court
which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and
their cords and all the equipment for their service;
and all that is to be done, they shall perform.
NUM 4:27 "All the service of the sons of the
Gershonites, in all their loads and in all their
work, shall be {performed} at the command of Aaron
and his sons; and you shall assign to them as a duty
all their loads.
NUM 4:28 "This is the service of the families
of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of
meeting, and their duties {shall be} under the
direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
NUM 4:29 "{As for} the sons of Merari, you
shall number them by their families, by their
fathers' households;
NUM 4:30 from thirty years and upward even to
fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who
enters the service to do the work of the tent of
meeting.
NUM 4:31 "Now this is the duty of their
loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting:
the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its
pillars and its sockets,
NUM 4:32 and the pillars around the court and
their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with
all their equipment and with all their service; and
you shall assign {each man} by name the items he is
to carry.
NUM 4:33 "This is the service of the families
of the sons of Merari, according to all their
service in the tent of meeting, under the direction
of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
NUM 4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the leaders
of the congregation numbered the sons of the
Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers'
households,
NUM 4:35 from thirty years and upward even to
fifty years old, everyone who entered the service
for work in the tent of meeting.
NUM 4:36 And their numbered men by their
families were 2,750.
NUM 4:37 These are the numbered men of the
Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the
tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
according to the commandment of the Lord through
Moses.
NUM 4:38 And the numbered men of the sons of
Gershon by their families, and by their fathers'
households,
NUM 4:39 from thirty years and upward even to
fifty years old, everyone who entered the service
for work in the tent of meeting.
NUM 4:40 And their numbered men by their
families, by their fathers' households, were 2,630.
NUM 4:41 These are the numbered men of the
families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was
serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered according to the commandment of the Lord.
NUM 4:42 And the numbered men of the families
of the sons of Merari by their families, by their
fathers' households,
NUM 4:43 from thirty years and upward even to
fifty years old, everyone who entered the service
for work in the tent of meeting.
NUM 4:44 And their numbered men by their
families were 3,200.
NUM 4:45 These are the numbered men of the
families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered according to the commandment of the Lord
through Moses.
NUM 4:46 All the numbered men of the Levites,
whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel
numbered, by their families and by their fathers'
households,
NUM 4:47 from thirty years and upward even to
fifty years old, everyone who could enter to do the
work of service and the work of carrying in the tent
of meeting.
NUM 4:48 And their numbered men were 8,580.
NUM 4:49 According to the commandment of the
Lord through Moses, they were numbered, everyone by
his serving or carrying; thus these were his
numbered men, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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NUM 5:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 5:2 "Command the sons of Israel that they
send away from the camp every leper and everyone
having a discharge and everyone who is unclean
because of a {dead} person.
NUM 5:3 "You shall send away both male and
female; you shall send them outside the camp so that
they will not defile their camp where I dwell in
their midst."
NUM 5:4 And the sons of Israel did so and
sent them outside the camp; just as the Lord had
spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.
NUM 5:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 5:6 "Speak to the sons of Israel, 'When a
man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind,
acting unfaithfully against the Lord, and that
person is guilty,
NUM 5:7 then he shall confess his sins which
he has committed, and he shall make restitution in
full for his wrong, and add to it one-fifth of it,
and give {it} to him whom he has wronged.
NUM 5:8 'But if the man has no relative to
whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the
restitution which is made for the wrong {must go} to
the Lord for the priest, besides the ram of
atonement, by which atonement is made for him.
NUM 5:9 'Also every contribution pertaining
to all the holy {gifts} of the sons of Israel, which
they offer to the priest, shall be his.
NUM 5:10 'So every man's holy {gifts} shall
be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it
becomes his.' "
NUM 5:11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 5:12 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and
say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and is
unfaithful to him,
NUM 5:13 and a man has intercourse with her
and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and
she is undetected, although she has defiled herself,
and there is no witness against her and she has not
been caught in the act,
NUM 5:14 if a spirit of jealousy comes over
him and he is jealous of his wife when she has
defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes
over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has
not defiled herself,
NUM 5:15 the man shall then bring his wife to
the priest, and shall bring {as} an offering for her
one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not
pour oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it
is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of
memorial, a reminder of iniquity.
NUM 5:16 'Then the priest shall bring her
near and have her stand before the Lord,
NUM 5:17 and the priest shall take holy water
in an earthenware vessel; and he shall take some of
the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and
put {it} into the water.
NUM 5:18 'The priest shall then have the
woman stand before the Lord and let {the hair of}
the woman's head go loose, and place the grain
offering of memorial in her hands, which is the
grain offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the
priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings
a curse.
NUM 5:19 'And the priest shall have her take
an oath and shall say to the woman, "If no man has
lain with you and if you have not gone astray into
uncleanness, {being} under {the authority of} your
husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that
brings a curse;
NUM 5:20 if you, however, have gone astray,
{being} under {the authority of} your husband, and
if you have defiled yourself and a man other than
your husband has had intercourse with you "
NUM 5:21 (then the priest shall have the
woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the
priest shall say to the woman), "the Lord make you a
curse and an oath among your people by the Lord's
making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell;
NUM 5:22 and this water that brings a curse
shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen
swell and your thigh waste away."And the woman shall
say," Amen. Amen."
NUM 5:23 'The priest shall then write these
curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into
the water of bitterness.
NUM 5:24 'Then he shall make the woman drink
the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that
the water which brings a curse will go into her and
{cause} bitterness.
NUM 5:25 'And the priest shall take the grain
offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, and he
shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and
bring it to the altar;
NUM 5:26 and the priest shall take a handful
of the grain offering as its memorial offering and
offer {it} up in smoke on the altar, and afterward
he shall make the woman drink the water.
NUM 5:27 'When he has made her drink the
water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled
herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that
the water which brings a curse shall go into her and
{cause} bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and
her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become
a curse among her people.
NUM 5:28 'But if the woman has not defiled
herself and is clean, she will then be free and
conceive children.
NUM 5:29 'This is the law of jealousy: when a
wife, {being} under {the authority of} her husband,
goes astray and defiles herself,
NUM 5:30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes
over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall
then make the woman stand before the Lord, and the
priest shall apply all this law to her.
NUM 5:31 'Moreover, the man shall be free
from guilt, but that woman shall bear her guilt.'"
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NUM 6:1
Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 6:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say
to them, 'When a man or woman makes a special vow,
the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the
Lord,
NUM 6:3 he shall abstain from wine and strong
drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from
wine or strong drink, neither shall he drink any
grape juice, nor eat fresh or dried grapes.
NUM 6:4 'All the days of his separation he
shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape
vine, from {the} seeds even to {the} skin.
NUM 6:5 'All the days of his vow of
separation no razor shall pass over his head. He
shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which
he separated himself to the Lord; he shall let the
locks of hair on his head grow long.
NUM 6:6 'All the days of his separation to
the Lord he shall not go near to a dead person.
NUM 6:7 'He shall not make himself unclean
for his father or for his mother, for his brother or
for his sister, when they die, because his
separation to God is on his head.
NUM 6:8 'All the days of his separation he is
holy to the Lord.
NUM 6:9 'But if a man dies very suddenly
beside him and he defiles his dedicated head {of
hair,} then he shall shave his head on the day when
he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh
day.
NUM 6:10 'Then on the eighth day he shall
bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the
priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.
NUM 6:11 'And the priest shall offer one for
a sin offering and {the} other for a burnt offering,
and make atonement for him concerning his sin
because of the {dead} person. And that same day he
shall consecrate his head,
NUM 6:12 and shall dedicate to the Lord his
days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a
year old for a guilt offering; but the former days
shall be void because his separation was defiled.
NUM 6:13 'Now this is the law of the Nazirite
when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he
shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent
of meeting.
NUM 6:14 'And he shall present his offering
to the Lord: one male lamb a year old without defect
for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old
without defect for a sin offering and one ram
without defect for a peace offering,
NUM 6:15 and a basket of unleavened cakes of
fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers
spread with oil, along with their grain offering and
their libations.
NUM 6:16 'Then the priest shall present
{them} before the Lord and shall offer his sin
offering and his burnt offering.
NUM 6:17 'He shall also offer the ram for a
sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, together
with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest
shall likewise offer its grain offering and its
libation.
NUM 6:18 'The Nazirite shall then shave his
dedicated head {of hair} at the doorway of the tent
of meeting, and take the dedicated hair of his head
and put {it} on the fire which is under the
sacrifice of peace offerings.
NUM 6:19 'And the priest shall take the ram's
shoulder {when it has been} boiled, and one
unleavened cake out of the basket, and one
unleavened wafer, and shall put {them} on the hands
of the Nazirite after he has shaved his dedicated
{hair}.
NUM 6:20 'Then the priest shall wave them for
a wave offering before the Lord. It is holy for the
priest, together with the breast offered by waving
and the thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward
the Nazirite may drink wine.'
NUM 6:21 "This is the law of the Nazirite who
vows his offering to the Lord according to his
separation, in addition to what {else} he can
afford; according to his vow which he takes, so he
shall do according to the law of his separation."
NUM 6:22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 6:23 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel.
You shall say to them:
NUM 6:24 The Lord bless you, and keep you;
NUM 6:25 The Lord make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
NUM 6:26 The Lord lift up His countenance on
you, And give you peace.'
NUM 6:27 "So they shall invoke My name on the
sons of Israel, and I then will bless them."
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NUM 7:1
Now it came about on the day that Moses had finished
setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and
consecrated it with all its furnishings and the
altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and
consecrated them also.
NUM 7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads
of their fathers' households, made an offering (they
were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones
who were over the numbered men).
NUM 7:3 When they brought their offering
before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen,
a cart for {every} two of the leaders and an ox for
each one, then they presented them before the
tabernacle.
NUM 7:4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 7:5 "Accept {these things} from them,
that they may be used in the service of the tent of
meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites,
{to} each man according to his service."
NUM 7:6 So Moses took the carts and the oxen,
and gave them to the Levites.
NUM 7:7 Two carts and four oxen he gave to
the sons of Gershon, according to their service,
NUM 7:8 and four carts and eight oxen he gave
to the sons of Merari, according to their service,
under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
NUM 7:9 But he did not give {any} to the sons
of Kohath because theirs {was} the service of the
holy {objects, which} they carried on the shoulder.
NUM 7:10 And the leaders offered the
dedication {offering} for the altar when it was
anointed, so the leaders offered their offering
before the altar.
NUM 7:11 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Let
them present their offering, one leader each day,
for the dedication of the altar."
NUM 7:12 Now the one who presented his
offering on the first day {was} Nahshon the son of
Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;
NUM 7:13 and his offering {was} one silver
dish whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty
{shekels,} one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of
them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain
offering;
NUM 7:14 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:15 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:16 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:17 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
NUM 7:18 On the second day Nethanel the son
of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented {an
offering;}
NUM 7:19 he presented as his offering one
silver dish whose weight {was} one hundred and
thirty {shekels,} one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a
grain offering;
NUM 7:20 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:21 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:22 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:23 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
NUM 7:24 On the third day {it was} Eliab the
son of Helon, leader of the sons of Zebulun;
NUM 7:25 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:26 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:27 one young bull, one ram, one male
lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:28 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:29 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
NUM 7:30 On the fourth day {it was} Elizur
the son of Shedeur, leader of the sons of Reuben;
NUM 7:31 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:32 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:33 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:34 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:35 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
NUM 7:36 On the fifth day {it was} Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the children of
Simeon;
NUM 7:37 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:38 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:39 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:40 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:41 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
NUM 7:42 On the sixth day {it was} Eliasaph
the son of Deuel, leader of the sons of Gad;
NUM 7:43 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:44 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:45 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:46 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:47 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
NUM 7:48 On the seventh day {it was} Elishama
the son of Ammihud, leader of the sons of Ephraim;
NUM 7:49 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:50 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:51 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:52 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:53 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
NUM 7:54 On the eighth day {it was} Gamaliel
the son of Pedahzur, leader of the sons of Manasseh;
NUM 7:55 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:56 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:57 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:58 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:59 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
NUM 7:60 On the ninth day {it was} Abidan the
son of Gideoni, leader of the sons of Benjamin;
NUM 7:61 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:62 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:63 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:64 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:65 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
NUM 7:66 On the tenth day {it was} Ahiezer
the son of Ammishaddai, leader of the sons of Dan;
NUM 7:67 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:68 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:69 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:70 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:71 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
NUM 7:72 On the eleventh day {it was} Pagiel
the son of Ochran, leader of the sons of Asher;
NUM 7:73 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:74 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:75 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:76 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:77 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
NUM 7:78 On the twelfth day {it was} Ahira
the son of Enan, leader of the sons of Naphtali;
NUM 7:79 his offering {was} one silver dish
whose weight {was} one hundred and thirty {shekels,}
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
NUM 7:80 one gold pan of ten {shekels,} full
of incense;
NUM 7:81 one bull, one ram, one male lamb one
year old, for a burnt offering;
NUM 7:82 one male goat for a sin offering;
NUM 7:83 and for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
five male lambs one year old. This {was} the
offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
NUM 7:84 This {was} the dedication {offering}
for the altar from the leaders of Israel when it was
anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls,
twelve gold pans,
NUM 7:85 each silver dish {weighing} one
hundred and thirty {shekels} and each bowl seventy;
all the silver of the utensils {was} 2,400
{shekels,} according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
NUM 7:86 the twelve gold pans, full of
incense, {weighing} ten {shekels} apiece, according
to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the
pans 120 {shekels;}
NUM 7:87 all the oxen for the burnt offering
twelve bulls, {all} the rams twelve, the male lambs
one year old with their grain offering twelve, and
the male goats for a sin offering twelve;
NUM 7:88 and all the oxen for the sacrifice
of peace offerings 24 bulls, {all} the rams 60, the
male goats 60, the male lambs one year old 60. This
{was} the dedication {offering} for the altar after
it was anointed.
NUM 7:89 Now when Moses went into the tent of
meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice
speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was
on the ark of the testimony, from between the two
cherubim, so He spoke to him.
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NUM 8:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 8:2 "Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When
you mount the lamps, the seven lamps will give light
in the front of the lampstand.'"
NUM 8:3 Aaron therefore did so; he mounted
its lamps at the front of the lampstand, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
NUM 8:4 Now this was the workmanship of the
lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to
its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the
pattern which the Lord had showed Moses, so he made
the lampstand.
NUM 8:5 Again the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 8:6 "Take the Levites from among the sons
of Israel and cleanse them.
NUM 8:7 "And thus you shall do to them, for
their cleansing: {sprinkle} purifying water on them,
and let them use a razor over their whole body, and
wash their clothes, and they shall be clean.
NUM 8:8 "Then let them take a bull with its
grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and a
second bull you shall take for a sin offering.
NUM 8:9 "So you shall present the Levites
before the tent of meeting. You shall also assemble
the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,
NUM 8:10 and present the Levites before the
Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands
on the Levites.
NUM 8:11 "Aaron then shall present the
Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the
sons of Israel, that they may qualify to perform the
service of the Lord.
NUM 8:12 "Now the Levites shall lay their
hands on the heads of the bulls; then offer the one
for a sin offering and the other for a burnt
offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the
Levites.
NUM 8:13 "And you shall have the Levites
stand before Aaron and before his sons so as to
present them as a wave offering to the Lord.
NUM 8:14 "Thus you shall separate the Levites
from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall
be Mine.
NUM 8:15 "Then after that the Levites may go
in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall
cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;
NUM 8:16 for they are wholly given to Me from
among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for
Myself instead of every first issue of the womb, the
first-born of all the sons of Israel.
NUM 8:17 "For every first-born among the sons
of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the
animals; on the day that I struck down all the
first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them
for Myself.
NUM 8:18 "But I have taken the Levites
instead of every first-born among the sons of
Israel.
NUM 8:19 "And I have given the Levites as a
gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of
Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel
at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement on
behalf of the sons of Israel, that there may be no
plague among the sons of Israel by their coming near
to the sanctuary."
NUM 8:20 Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the
congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites;
according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to
them.
NUM 8:21 The Levites, too, purified
themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and
Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the
Lord. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse
them.
NUM 8:22 Then after that the Levites went in
to perform their service in the tent of meeting
before Aaron and before his sons; just as the Lord
had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they
did to them.
NUM 8:23 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 8:24 "This is what {applies} to the
Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they
shall enter to perform service in the work of the
tent of meeting.
NUM 8:25 "But at the age of fifty years they
shall retire from service in the work and not work
any more.
NUM 8:26 "They may, however, assist their
brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep an
obligation; but they {themselves} shall do no work.
Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning
their obligations."
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NUM 9:1
Thus the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the first month of the second year after
they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
NUM 9:2 "Now, let the sons of Israel observe
the Passover at its appointed time.
NUM 9:3 "On the fourteenth day of this month,
at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed
time; you shall observe it according to all its
statutes and according to all its ordinances."
NUM 9:4 So Moses told the sons of Israel to
observe the Passover.
NUM 9:5 And they observed the Passover in the
first {month,} on the fourteenth day of the month,
at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according
to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the
sons of Israel did.
NUM 9:6 But there were {some} men who were
unclean because of {the} dead person, so that they
could not observe Passover on that day; so they came
before Moses and Aaron on that day.
NUM 9:7 And those men said to him, "{Though}
we are unclean because of {the} dead person, why are
we restrained from presenting the offering of the
Lord at its appointed time among the sons of
Israel?"
NUM 9:8 Moses therefore said to them, "Wait,
and I will listen to what the Lord will command
concerning you."
NUM 9:9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 9:10 "Speak to the sons of Israel,
saying, 'If any one of you or of your generations
becomes unclean because of a {dead} person, or is on
a distant journey, he may, however, observe the
Passover to the Lord.
NUM 9:11 'In the second month on the
fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it;
they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs.
NUM 9:12 'They shall leave none of it until
morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all
the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.
NUM 9:13 'But the man who is clean and is not
on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the
Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his
people, for he did not present the offering of the
Lord at its appointed time. That man shall bear his
sin.
NUM 9:14 'And if an alien sojourns among you
and observes the Passover to the Lord, according to
the statute of the Passover and according to its
ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one
statute, both for the alien and for the native of
the land.' "
NUM 9:15 Now on the day that the tabernacle
was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the
tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was
like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle,
until morning.
NUM 9:16 So it was continuously; the cloud
would cover it {by day,} and the appearance of fire
by night.
NUM 9:17 And whenever the cloud was lifted
from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel
would then set out; and in the place where the cloud
settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.
NUM 9:18 At the command of the Lord the sons
of Israel would set out, and at the command of the
Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud settled
over the tabernacle, they remained camped.
NUM 9:19 Even when the cloud lingered over
the tabernacle for many days, the sons of Israel
would keep the Lord's charge and not set out.
NUM 9:20 If sometimes the cloud remained a
few days over the tabernacle, according to the
command of the Lord they remained camped. Then
according to the command of the Lord they set out.
NUM 9:21 If sometimes the cloud remained from
evening until morning, when the cloud was lifted in
the morning, they would move out; or {if it
remained} in the daytime and at night, whenever the
cloud was lifted, they would set out.
NUM 9:22 Whether it was two days or a month
or a year that the cloud lingered over the
tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Israel
remained camped and did not set out; but when it was
lifted, they did set out.
NUM 9:23 At the command of the Lord they
camped, and at the command of the Lord they set out;
they kept the Lord's charge, according to the
command of the Lord through Moses.
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NUM 10:1
The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,
NUM 10:2 "Make yourself two trumpets of
silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and
you shall use them for summoning the congregation
and for having the camps set out.
NUM 10:3 "And when both are blown, all the
congregation shall gather themselves to you at the
doorway of the tent of meeting.
NUM 10:4 "Yet if {only} one is blown, then
the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel,
shall assemble before you.
NUM 10:5 "But when you blow an alarm, the
camps that are pitched on the east side shall set
out.
NUM 10:6 "And when you blow an alarm the
second time, the camps that are pitched on the south
side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them
to set out.
NUM 10:7 "When convening the assembly,
however, you shall blow without sounding an alarm.
NUM 10:8 "The priestly sons of Aaron,
moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be
for you a perpetual statute throughout your
generations.
NUM 10:9 "And when you go to war in your land
against the adversary who attacks you, then you
shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may
be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved
from your enemies.
NUM 10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness
and in your appointed feasts, and on the first
{days} of your months, you shall blow the trumpets
over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices
of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a
reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your
God."
NUM 10:11 Now it came about in the second
year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the
month, that the cloud was lifted from over the
tabernacle of the testimony;
NUM 10:12 and the sons of Israel set out on
their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then
the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
NUM 10:13 So they moved out for the first
time according to the commandment of the Lord
through Moses.
NUM 10:14 And the standard of the camp of the
sons of Judah, according to their armies, set out
first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its
army,
NUM 10:15 and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over
the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;
NUM 10:16 and Eliab the son of Helon over the
tribal army of the sons of Zebulun.
NUM 10:17 Then the tabernacle was taken down;
and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who
were carrying the tabernacle, set out.
NUM 10:18 Next the standard of the camp of
Reuben, according to their armies, set out with
Elizur the son of Shedeur, over its army,
NUM 10:19 and Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of
Simeon,
NUM 10:20 and Eliasaph the son of Deuel was
over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.
NUM 10:21 Then the Kohathites set out,
carrying the holy {objects;} and the tabernacle was
set up before their arrival.
NUM 10:22 Next the standard of the camp of
the sons of Ephraim, according to their armies, was
set out, with Elishama the son of Ammihud over its
army,
NUM 10:23 and Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur
over the tribal army of the sons of Manasseh;
NUM 10:24 and Abidan the son of Gideoni over
the tribal army of the sons of Benjamin.
NUM 10:25 Then the standard of the camp of
the sons of Dan, according to their armies, {which
formed} the rear guard for all the camps, set out,
with Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai over its army,
NUM 10:26 and Pagiel the son of Ochran over
the tribal army of the sons of Asher;
NUM 10:27 and Ahira the son of Enan over the
tribal army of the sons of Naphtali.
NUM 10:28 This was the order of march of the
sons of Israel by their armies as they set out.
NUM 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab the son of
Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are
setting out to the place of which the Lord said, 'I
will give it to you'; come with us and we will do
you good, for the Lord has promised good concerning
Israel."
NUM 10:30 But he said to him, "I will not
come, but rather will go to my {own} land and
relatives."
NUM 10:31 Then he said, "Please do not leave
us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the
wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us.
NUM 10:32 "So it will be, if you go with us,
it will come about that whatever good the Lord does
for us, we will do for you."
NUM 10:33 Thus they set out from the mount of
the Lord three days' journey, with the ark of the
covenant of the Lord journeying in front of them for
the three days, to seek out a resting place for
them.
NUM 10:34 And the cloud of the Lord was over
them by day, when they set out from the camp.
NUM 10:35 Then it came about when the ark set
out that Moses said, "Rise up, O Lord! And let Thine
enemies be scattered, And let those who hate Thee
flee before Thee."
NUM 10:36 And when it came to rest, he said,
"Return Thou, O Lord, {To} the myriad thousands of
Israel."
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NUM 11:1
Now the people became like those who complain of
adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the
Lord heard {it,} His anger was kindled, and the fire
of the Lord burned among them and consumed {some} of
the outskirts of the camp.
NUM 11:2 The people therefore cried out to
Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire
died out.
NUM 11:3 So the name of that place was called
Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among
them.
NUM 11:4 And the rabble who were among them
had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept
again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat?
NUM 11:5 "We remember the fish which we used
to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons
and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
NUM 11:6 but now our appetite is gone. There
is nothing at all to look at except this manna."
NUM 11:7 Now the manna was like coriander
seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
NUM 11:8 The people would go about and gather
{it} and grind {it} between two millstones or beat
{it} in the mortar, and boil {it} in the pot and
make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste
of cakes baked with oil.
NUM 11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp at
night, the manna would fall with it.
NUM 11:10 Now Moses heard the people weeping
throughout their families, each man at the doorway
of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was kindled
greatly, and Moses was displeased.
NUM 11:11 So Moses said to the Lord, "Why
hast Thou been so hard on Thy servant? And why have
I not found favor in Thy sight, that Thou hast laid
the burden of all this people on me?
NUM 11:12 "Was it I who conceived all this
people? Was it I who brought them forth, that Thou
shouldest say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom as a
nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which
Thou didst swear to their fathers'?
NUM 11:13 "Where am I to get meat to give to
all this people? For they weep before me, saying,
'Give us meat that we may eat!'
NUM 11:14 "I alone am not able to carry all
this people, because it is too burdensome for me.
NUM 11:15 "So if Thou art going to deal thus
with me, please kill me at once, if I have found
favor in Thy sight, and do not let me see my
wretchedness."
NUM 11:16 The Lord therefore said to Moses,
"Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of
Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people
and their officers and bring them to the tent of
meeting, and let them take their stand there with
you.
NUM 11:17 "Then I will come down and speak
with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who is
upon you, and will put {Him} upon them; and they
shall bear the burden of the people with you, so
that you shall not bear {it} all alone.
NUM 11:18 "And say to the people, 'Consecrate
yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for
you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying," Oh
that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were
well-off in Egypt."Therefore the Lord will give you
meat and you shall eat.
NUM 11:19 'You shall eat, not one day, nor
two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty
days,
NUM 11:20 but a whole month, until it comes
out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you;
because you have rejected the Lord who is among you
and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever
leave Egypt?"' "
NUM 11:21 But Moses said, "The people, among
whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet Thou hast said,
'I will give them meat in order that they may eat
for a whole month.'
NUM 11:22 "Should flocks and herds be
slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or
should all the fish of the sea be gathered together
for them, to be sufficient for them?"
NUM 11:23 And the Lord said to Moses, "Is the
Lord's power limited? Now you shall see whether My
word will come true for you or not."
NUM 11:24 So Moses went out and told the
people the words of the Lord. Also, he gathered
seventy men of the elders of the people, and
stationed them around the tent.
NUM 11:25 Then the Lord came down in the
cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit
who was upon him and placed {Him} upon the seventy
elders. And it came about that when the Spirit
rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not
do {it} again.
NUM 11:26 But two men had remained in the
camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the
other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now
they were among those who had been registered, but
had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied
in the camp.
NUM 11:27 So a young man ran and told Moses
and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the
camp."
NUM 11:28 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the
attendant of Moses from his youth, answered and
said, "Moses, my lord, restrain them."
NUM 11:29 But Moses said to him, "Are you
jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord's
people were prophets, that the Lord would put His
Spirit upon them!"
NUM 11:30 Then Moses returned to the camp,
{both} he and the elders of Israel.
NUM 11:31 Now there went forth a wind from
the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea, and let
{them} fall beside the camp, about a day's journey
on this side and a day's journey on the other side,
all around the camp, and about two cubits {deep} on
the surface of the ground.
NUM 11:32 And the people spent all day and
all night and all the next day, and gathered the
quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers)
and they spread {them} out for themselves all around
the camp.
NUM 11:33 While the meat was still between
their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the
Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord
struck the people with a very severe plague.
NUM 11:34 So the name of that place was
called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried
the people who had been greedy.
NUM 11:35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people
set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.
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NUM 12:1
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of
the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had
married a Cushite woman);
NUM 12:2 and they said, "Has the Lord indeed
spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through
us as well?" And the Lord heard it.
NUM 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very humble,
more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)
NUM 12:4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses
and Aaron and to Miriam, "You three come out to the
tent of meeting." So the three of them came out.
NUM 12:5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar
of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and
He called Aaron and Miriam. When they had both come
forward,
NUM 12:6 He said, "Hear now My words: If
there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, shall
make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak
with him in a dream.
NUM 12:7 "Not so, with My servant Moses, He
is faithful in all My household;
NUM 12:8 With him I speak mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds
the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?"
NUM 12:9 So the anger of the Lord burned
against them and He departed.
NUM 12:10 But when the cloud had withdrawn
from over the tent, behold, Miriam {was} leprous, as
{#663300 as} snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam,
behold, she {was} leprous.
NUM 12:11 Then Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my
lord, I beg you, do not account {this} sin to us, in
which we have acted foolishly and in which we have
sinned.
NUM 12:12 "Oh, do not let her be like one
dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes
from his mother's womb!"
NUM 12:13 And Moses cried out to the Lord,
saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"
NUM 12:14 But the Lord said to Moses, "If her
father had but spit in her face, would she not bear
her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for
seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may
be received again."
NUM 12:15 So Miriam was shut up outside the
camp for seven days, and the people did not move on
until Miriam was received again.
NUM 12:16 Afterward, however, the people
moved out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness
of Paran.
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NUM 13:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
NUM 13:2 "Send out for yourself men so that
they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am
going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send
a man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one
a leader among them."
NUM 13:3 So Moses sent them from the
wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord, all
of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.
NUM 13:4 These then {were} their names: from
the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
NUM 13:5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat
the son of Hori;
NUM 13:6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the
son of Jephunneh;
NUM 13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the
son of Joseph;
NUM 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea
the son of Nun;
NUM 13:9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti
the son of Raphu;
NUM 13:10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel
the son of Sodi;
NUM 13:11 from the tribe of Joseph, from the
tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
NUM 13:12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the
son of Gemalli;
NUM 13:13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the
son of Michael;
NUM 13:14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi
the son of Vophsi;
NUM 13:15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the
son of Machi.
NUM 13:16 These are the names of the men whom
Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called
Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.
NUM 13:17 When Moses sent them to spy out the
land of Canaan, he said to them, "Go up there into
the Negev; then go up into the hill country.
NUM 13:18 "And see what the land is like, and
whether the people who live in it are strong {or}
weak, whether they are few or many.
NUM 13:19 "And how is the land in which they
live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in
which they live, are {they} like {open} camps or
with fortifications?
NUM 13:20 "And how is the land, is it fat or
lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort
then to get some of the fruit of the land." Now the
time was the time of the first ripe grapes.
NUM 13:21 So they went up and spied out the
land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at
Lebo-hamath.
NUM 13:22 When they had gone up into the
Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and
Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron
was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
NUM 13:23 Then they came to the valley of
Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a
single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a
pole between two {men,} with some of the
pomegranates and the figs.
NUM 13:24 That place was called the valley of
Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of
Israel cut down from there.
NUM 13:25 When they returned from spying out
the land, at the end of forty days,
NUM 13:26 they proceeded to come to Moses and
Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of
Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and
they brought back word to them and to all the
congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
NUM 13:27 Thus they told him, and said, "We
went in to the land where you sent us; and it
certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is
its fruit.
NUM 13:28 "Nevertheless, the people who live
in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified
{and} very large; and moreover, we saw the
descendants of Anak there.
NUM 13:29 "Amalek is living in the land of
the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the
Amorites are living in the hill country, and the
Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of
the Jordan."
NUM 13:30 Then Caleb quieted the people
before Moses, and said, "We should by all means go
up and take possession of it, for we shall surely
overcome it."
NUM 13:31 But the men who had gone up with
him said, "We are not able to go up against the
people, for they are too strong for us."
NUM 13:32 So they gave out to the sons of
Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied
out, saying, "The land through which we have gone,
in spying it out, is a land that devours its
inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it
are men of {great} size.
NUM 13:33 "There also we saw the Nephilim
(the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we
became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we
were in their sight."
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NUM 14:1
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and
cried, and the people wept that night.
NUM 14:2 And all the sons of Israel grumbled
against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation
said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of
Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
NUM 14:3 "And why is the Lord bringing us
into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and
our little ones will become plunder; would it not be
better for us to return to Egypt?"
NUM 14:4 So they said to one another, "Let us
appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
NUM 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces in the presence of all the assembly of the
congregation of the sons of Israel.
NUM 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the
land, tore their clothes;
NUM 14:7 and they spoke to all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The
land which we passed through to spy out is an
exceedingly good land.
NUM 14:8 "If the Lord is pleased with us,
then He will bring us into this land, and give it to
us - - a land which flows with milk and honey.
NUM 14:9 "Only do not rebel against the Lord;
and do not fear the people of the land, for they
shall be our prey. Their protection has been removed
from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear
them."
NUM 14:10 But all the congregation said to
stone them with stones. Then the glory of the Lord
appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of
Israel.
NUM 14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, "How
long will this people spurn Me? And how long will
they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which
I have performed in their midst?
NUM 14:12 "I will smite them with pestilence
and dispossess them, and I will make you into a
nation greater and mightier than they."
NUM 14:13 But Moses said to the Lord, "Then
the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Thy strength
Thou didst bring up this people from their midst,
NUM 14:14 and they will tell {it} to the
inhabitants of this land. They have heard that Thou,
O Lord, art in the midst of this people, for Thou, O
Lord, art seen eye to eye, while Thy cloud stands
over them; and Thou dost go before them in a pillar
of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
NUM 14:15 "Now if Thou dost slay this people
as one man, then the nations who have heard of Thy
fame will say,
NUM 14:16 'Because the Lord could not bring
this people into the land which He promised them by
oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the
wilderness.'
NUM 14:17 "But now, I pray, let the power of
the Lord be great, just as Thou hast declared,
NUM 14:18 'The Lord is slow to anger and
abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and
transgression; but He will by no means clear {the
guilty,} visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children to the third and the fourth {generations.}'
NUM 14:19 "Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of
this people according to the greatness of Thy
lovingkindness, just as Thou also hast forgiven this
people, from Egypt even until now."
NUM 14:20 So the Lord said, "I have pardoned
{them} according to your word;
NUM 14:21 but indeed, as I live, all the
earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
NUM 14:22 "Surely all the men who have seen
My glory and My signs, which I performed in Egypt
and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test
these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
NUM 14:23 shall by no means see the land
which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of
those who spurned Me see it.
NUM 14:24 "But My servant Caleb, because he
has had a different spirit and has followed Me
fully, I will bring into the land which he entered,
and his descendants shall take possession of it.
NUM 14:25 "Now the Amalekites and the
Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and
set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red
Sea."
NUM 14:26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying,
NUM 14:27 "How long {shall I bear} with this
evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I
have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel,
which they are making against Me.
NUM 14:28 "Say to them, 'As I live,' says the
Lord, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I
will surely do to you;
NUM 14:29 your corpses shall fall in this
wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to
your complete number from twenty years old and
upward, who have grumbled against Me.
NUM 14:30 'Surely you shall not come into the
land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb
the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
NUM 14:31 'Your children, however, whom you
said would become a prey - - I will bring them in,
and they shall know the land which you have
rejected.
NUM 14:32 'But as for you, your corpses shall
fall in this wilderness.
NUM 14:33 'And your sons shall be shepherds
for forty years in the wilderness, and they shall
suffer {for} your unfaithfulness, until your corpses
lie in the wilderness.
NUM 14:34 'According to the number of days
which you spied out the land, forty days, for every
day you shall bear your guilt a year, {even} forty
years, and you shall know My opposition.
NUM 14:35 'I, the Lord, have spoken, surely
this I will do to all this evil congregation who are
gathered together against Me. In this wilderness
they shall be destroyed, and there they shall die.'
"
NUM 14:36 As for the men whom Moses sent to
spy out the land and who returned and made all the
congregation grumble against him by bringing out a
bad report concerning the land,
NUM 14:37 even those men who brought out the
very bad report of the land died by a plague before
the Lord.
NUM 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men
who went to spy out the land.
NUM 14:39 And when Moses spoke these words to
all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.
NUM 14:40 In the morning, however, they rose
up early and went up to the ridge of the hill
country, saying, "Here we are; we have indeed
sinned, but we will go up to the place which the
Lord has promised."
NUM 14:41 But Moses said, "Why then are you
transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it
will not succeed?
NUM 14:42 "Do not go up, lest you be struck
down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among
you.
NUM 14:43 "For the Amalekites and the
Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you
will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned
back from following the Lord. And the Lord will not
be with you."
NUM 14:44 But they went up heedlessly to the
ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the
covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp.
NUM 14:45 Then the Amalekites and the
Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down,
and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.
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NUM 15:1
Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 15:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and
say to them, 'When you enter the land where you are
to live, which I am giving you,
NUM 15:3 then make an offering by fire to the
Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a
special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your
appointed times, to make a soothing aroma to the
Lord, from the herd or from the flock.
NUM 15:4 'And the one who presents his
offering shall present to the Lord a grain offering
of one-tenth {of an ephah} of fine flour mixed with
one-fourth of a hin of oil,
NUM 15:5 and you shall prepare wine for the
libation, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt
offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
NUM 15:6 'Or for a ram you shall prepare as a
grain offering two-tenths {of an ephah} of fine
flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;
NUM 15:7 and for the libation you shall offer
one-third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to
the Lord.
NUM 15:8 'And when you prepare a bull as a
burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a special
vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord,
NUM 15:9 then you shall offer with the bull a
grain offering of three-tenths {of an ephah} of fine
flour mixed with one-half a hin of oil;
NUM 15:10 and you shall offer as the libation
one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a
soothing aroma to the Lord.
NUM 15:11 'Thus it shall be done for each ox,
or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or
of the goats.
NUM 15:12 'According to the number that you
prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to
their number.
NUM 15:13 'All who are native shall do these
things in this manner, in presenting an offering by
fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord.
NUM 15:14 'And if an alien sojourns with you,
or one who may be among you throughout your
generations, and he {wishes to} make an offering by
fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, just as you
do, so he shall do.
NUM 15:15 '{As for} the assembly, there shall
be one statute for you and for the alien who
sojourns {with you,} a perpetual statute throughout
your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be
before the Lord.
NUM 15:16 'There is to be one law and one
ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns
with you.' "
NUM 15:17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 15:18 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and
say to them, 'When you enter the land where I bring
you,
NUM 15:19 then it shall be, that when you eat
of the food of the land, you shall lift up an
offering to the Lord.
NUM 15:20 'Of the first of your dough you
shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering
of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.
NUM 15:21 'From the first of your dough you
shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your
generations.
NUM 15:22 'But when you unwittingly fail and
do not observe all these commandments, which the
Lord has spoken to Moses,
NUM 15:23 {even} all that the Lord has
commanded you through Moses, from the day when the
Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your
generations,
NUM 15:24 then it shall be, if it is done
unintentionally, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall offer
one bull for a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma
to the Lord, with its grain offering, and its
libation, according to the ordinance, and one male
goat for a sin offering.
NUM 15:25 'Then the priest shall make
atonement for all the congregation of the sons of
Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an
error, and they have brought their offering, an
offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering
before the Lord, for their error.
NUM 15:26 'So all the congregation of the
sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who
sojourns among them, for {it happened} to all the
people through error.
NUM 15:27 'Also if one person sins
unintentionally, then he shall offer a one year old
female goat for a sin offering.
NUM 15:28 'And the priest shall make
atonement before the Lord for the person who goes
astray when he sins unintentionally, making
atonement for him that he may be forgiven.
NUM 15:29 'You shall have one law for him who
does {anything} unintentionally, for him who is
native among the sons of Israel and for the alien
who sojourns among them.
NUM 15:30 'But the person who does {anything}
defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that
one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall
be cut off from among his people.
NUM 15:31 'Because he has despised the word
of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that
person shall be completely cut off; his guilt {shall
be} on him.' "
NUM 15:32 Now while the sons of Israel were
in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood
on the sabbath day.
NUM 15:33 And those who found him gathering
wood brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the
congregation;
NUM 15:34 and they put him in custody because
it had not been declared what should be done to him.
NUM 15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, "The
man shall surely be put to death; all the
congregation shall stone him with stones outside the
camp."
NUM 15:36 So all the congregation brought him
outside the camp, and stoned him to death with
stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
NUM 15:37 The Lord also spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 15:38 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and
tell them that they shall make for themselves
tassels on the corners of their garments throughout
their generations, and that they shall put on the
tassel of each corner a cord of blue.
NUM 15:39 "And it shall be a tassel for you
to look at and remember all the commandments of the
Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own
heart and your own eyes, after which you played the
harlot,
NUM 15:40 in order that you may remember to
do all My commandments, and be holy to your God.
NUM 15:41 "I am the Lord your God who brought
you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am
the Lord your God."
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NUM 16:1
Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the
son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,
took {action,}
NUM 16:2 and they rose up before Moses,
together with some of the sons of Israel, two
hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation,
chosen in the assembly, men of renown.
NUM 16:3 And they assembled together against
Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone
far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every
one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why
do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the
Lord?"
NUM 16:4 When Moses heard {this,} he fell on
his face;
NUM 16:5 and he spoke to Korah and all his
company, saying, "Tomorrow morning the Lord will
show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring
{him} near to Himself; even the one whom He will
choose, He will bring near to Himself.
NUM 16:6 "Do this: take censers for
yourselves, Korah and all your company,
NUM 16:7 and put fire in them, and lay
incense upon them in the presence of the Lord
tomorrow; and the man whom the Lord chooses {shall
be} the one who is holy. You have gone far enough,
you sons of Levi! "
NUM 16:8 Then Moses said to Korah, "Hear now,
you sons of Levi,
NUM 16:9 is it not enough for you that the
God of Israel has separated you from the {rest of}
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 to them;
NUM 16:10 and that He has brought you near, {Korah,}
and all your brothers, sons of Levi, with you? And
are you seeking for the priesthood also?
NUM 16:11 "Therefore you and all your company
are gathered together against the Lord; but as for
Aaron, who is he that you grumble against him?"
NUM 16:12 Then Moses sent a summons to Dathan
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, "We
will not come up.
NUM 16:13 "Is it not enough that you have
brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and
honey to have us die in the wilderness, but you
would also lord it over us?
NUM 16:14 "Indeed, you have not brought us
into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have
you given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards.
Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not
come up!"
NUM 16:15 Then Moses became very angry and
said to the Lord, "Do not regard their offering! I
have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I
done harm to any of them."
NUM 16:16 And Moses said to Korah, "You and
all your company be present before the Lord
tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron.
NUM 16:17 "And each of you take his firepan
and put incense on it, and each of you bring his
censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty
firepans; also you and Aaron {shall} each {bring}
his firepan."
NUM 16:18 So they each took his {own} censer
and put fire on it, and laid incense on it; and they
stood at the doorway of the tent of meeting, with
Moses and Aaron.
NUM 16:19 Thus Korah assembled all the
congregation against them at the doorway of the tent
of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to
all the congregation.
NUM 16:20 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying,
NUM 16:21 "Separate yourselves from among
this congregation, that I may consume them
instantly."
NUM 16:22 But they fell on their faces, and
said, "O God, Thou God of the spirits of all flesh,
when one man sins, wilt Thou be angry with the
entire congregation?"
NUM 16:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 16:24 "Speak to the congregation, saying,
'Get back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan
and Abiram.'"
NUM 16:25 Then Moses arose and went to Dathan
and Abiram, with the elders of Israel following him,
NUM 16:26 and he spoke to the congregation,
saying, "Depart now from the tents of these wicked
men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest
you be swept away in all their sin."
NUM 16:27 So they got back from around the
dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Dathan
and Abiram came out {and} stood at the doorway of
their tents, along with their wives and their sons
and their little ones.
NUM 16:28 And Moses said, "By this you shall
know that the Lord has sent me to do all these
deeds; for this is not my doing.
NUM 16:29 "If these men die the death of all
men, or if they suffer the fate of all men, {then}
the Lord has not sent me.
NUM 16:30 "But if the Lord brings about an
entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth
and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and
they descend alive into Sheol, then you will
understand that these men have spurned the Lord."
NUM 16:31 Then it came about as he finished
speaking all these words, that the ground that was
under them split open;
NUM 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them up, and their households, and all the
men who belonged to Korah, with {their} possessions.
NUM 16:33 So they and all that belonged to
them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed
over them, and they perished from the midst of the
assembly.
NUM 16:34 And all Israel who {were} around
them fled at their outcry, for they said, "The earth
may swallow us up!"
NUM 16:35 Fire also came forth from the Lord
and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were
offering the incense.
NUM 16:36 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 16:37 "Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron
the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of
the midst of the blaze, for they are holy; and you
scatter the burning coals abroad.
NUM 16:38 "As for the censers of these men
who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them
be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the
altar, since they did present them before the Lord
and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to
the sons of Israel."
NUM 16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the
bronze censers which the men who were burned had
offered; and they hammered them out as a plating for
the altar,
NUM 16:40 as a reminder to the sons of Israel
that no layman who is not of the descendants of
Aaron should come near to burn incense before the
Lord; that he might not become like Korah and his
company - - just as the Lord had spoken to him
through Moses.
NUM 16:41 But on the next day all the
congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against
Moses and Aaron, saying, "You are the ones who have
caused the death of the Lord's people."
NUM 16:42 It came about, however, when the
congregation had assembled against Moses and Aaron,
that they turned toward the tent of meeting, and
behold, the cloud covered it and the glory of the
Lord appeared.
NUM 16:43 Then Moses and Aaron came to the
front of the tent of meeting,
NUM 16:44 and the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 16:45 "Get away from among this
congregation, that I may consume them instantly."
Then they fell on their faces.
NUM 16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your
censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay
incense {on it;} then bring it quickly to the
congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath
has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!"
NUM 16:47 Then Aaron took {it} as Moses had
spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for
behold, the plague had begun among the people. So he
put {on} the incense and made atonement for the
people.
NUM 16:48 And he took his stand between the
dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.
NUM 16:49 But those who died by the plague
were 14,700, besides those who died on account of
Korah.
NUM 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the
doorway of the tent of meeting, for the plague had
been checked.
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NUM 17:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 17:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and
get from them a rod for each father's household:
twelve rods, from all their leaders according to
their fathers' households. You shall write each name
on his rod,
NUM 17:3 and write Aaron's name on the rod of
Levi; for there is one rod for the head {of each} of
their fathers' households.
NUM 17:4 "You shall then deposit them in the
tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I
meet with you.
NUM 17:5 "And it will come about that the rod
of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I shall
lessen from upon Myself the grumblings of the sons
of Israel, who are grumbling against you."
NUM 17:6 Moses therefore spoke to the sons of
Israel, and all their leaders gave him a rod apiece,
for each leader according to their fathers'
households, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among
their rods.
NUM 17:7 So Moses deposited the rods before
the Lord in the tent of the testimony.
NUM 17:8 Now it came about on the next day
that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and
behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had
sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms,
and it bore ripe almonds.
NUM 17:9 Moses then brought out all the rods
from the presence of the Lord to all the sons of
Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.
NUM 17:10 But the Lord said to Moses, "Put
back the rod of Aaron before the testimony to be
kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put
an end to their grumblings against Me, so that they
should not die."
NUM 17:11 Thus Moses did; just as the Lord
had commanded him, so he did.
NUM 17:12 Then the sons of Israel spoke to
Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish, we are dying, we
are all dying!
NUM 17:13 "Everyone who comes near, who comes
near to the tabernacle of the Lord, must die. Are we
to perish completely?"
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NUM 18:1
So the Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and
your father's household with you shall bear the
guilt in connection with the sanctuary; and you and
your sons with you shall bear the guilt in
connection with your priesthood.
NUM 18:2 "But bring with you also your
brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your
father, that they may be joined with you and serve
you, while you and your sons with you are before the
tent of the testimony.
NUM 18:3 "And they shall thus attend to your
obligation and the obligation of all the tent, but
they shall not come near to the furnishings of the
sanctuary and the altar, lest both they and you die.
NUM 18:4 "And they shall be joined with you
and attend to the obligations of the tent of
meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an
outsider may not come near you.
NUM 18:5 "So you shall attend to the
obligations of the sanctuary and the obligations of
the altar, that there may no longer be wrath on the
sons of Israel.
NUM 18:6 "And behold, I Myself have taken
your fellow Levites from among the sons of Israel;
they are a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord, to
perform the service for the tent of meeting.
NUM 18:7 "But you and your sons with you
shall attend to your priesthood for everything
concerning the altar and inside the veil, and you
are to perform service. I am giving you the
priesthood as a bestowed service, but the outsider
who comes near shall be put to death."
NUM 18:8 Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, "Now
behold, I Myself have given you charge of My
offerings, even all the holy gifts of the sons of
Israel, I have given them to you as a portion, and
to your sons as a perpetual allotment.
NUM 18:9 "This shall be yours from the most
holy {gifts, reserved} from the fire; every offering
of theirs, even every grain offering and every sin
offering and every guilt offering, which they shall
render to Me, shall be most holy for you and for
your sons.
NUM 18:10 "As the most holy {gifts} you shall
eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to
you.
NUM 18:11 "This also is yours, the offering
of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the
sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your
sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual
allotment. Everyone of your household who is clean
may eat it.
NUM 18:12 "All the best of the fresh oil and
all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the
first fruits of those which they give to the Lord, I
give them to you.
NUM 18:13 "The first ripe fruits of all that
is in their land, which they bring to the Lord,
shall be yours; everyone of your household who is
clean may eat it.
NUM 18:14 "Every devoted thing in Israel
shall be yours.
NUM 18:15 "Every first issue of the womb of
all flesh, whether man or animal, which they offer
to the Lord, shall be yours; nevertheless the
first-born of man you shall surely redeem, and the
first-born of unclean animals you shall redeem.
NUM 18:16 "And as to their redemption price,
from a month old you shall redeem them, by your
valuation, five shekels in silver, according to the
shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
NUM 18:17 "But the first-born of an ox or the
first-born of a sheep or the first-born of a goat,
you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall
sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up
their fat in smoke {as} an offering by fire, for a
soothing aroma to the Lord.
NUM 18:18 "And their meat shall be yours; it
shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering
and like the right thigh.
NUM 18:19 "All the offerings of the holy
{gifts,} which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord,
I have given to you and your sons and your daughters
with you, as a perpetual allotment. It is an
everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord to you
and your descendants with you."
NUM 18:20 Then the Lord said to Aaron, "You
shall have no inheritance in their land, nor own any
portion among them; I am your portion and your
inheritance among the sons of Israel.
NUM 18:21 "And to the sons of Levi, behold, I
have given all the tithe in Israel for an
inheritance, in return for their service which they
perform, the service of the tent of meeting.
NUM 18:22 "And the sons of Israel shall not
come near the tent of meeting again, lest they bear
sin and die.
NUM 18:23 "Only the Levites shall perform the
service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear
their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute
throughout your generations, and among the sons of
Israel they shall have no inheritance.
NUM 18:24 "For the tithe of the sons of
Israel, which they offer as an offering to the Lord,
I have given to the Levites for an inheritance;
therefore I have said concerning them, 'They shall
have no inheritance among the sons of Israel.'"
NUM 18:25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 18:26 "Moreover, you shall speak to the
Levites and say to them, 'When you take from the
sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you from
them for your inheritance, then you shall present an
offering from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.
NUM 18:27 'And your offering shall be
reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing
floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
NUM 18:28 'So you shall also present an
offering to the Lord from your tithes, which you
receive from the sons of Israel; and from it you
shall give the Lord's offering to Aaron the priest.
NUM 18:29 'Out of all your gifts you shall
present every offering due to the Lord, from all the
best of them, the sacred part from them.'
NUM 18:30 "And you shall say to them, 'When
you have offered from it the best of it, then {the
rest} shall be reckoned to the Levites as the
product of the threshing floor, and as the product
of the wine vat.
NUM 18:31 'And you may eat it anywhere, you
and your households, for it is your compensation in
return for your service in the tent of meeting.
NUM 18:32 'And you shall bear no sin by
reason of it, when you have offered the best of it.
But you shall not profane the sacred gifts of the
sons of Israel, lest you die.'"
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NUM 19:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
NUM 19:2 "This is the statute of the law
which the Lord has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the
sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished
red heifer in which is no defect, {and} on which a
yoke has never been placed.
NUM 19:3 'And you shall give it to Eleazar
the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp
and be slaughtered in his presence.
NUM 19:4 'Next Eleazar the priest shall take
some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some
of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting
seven times.
NUM 19:5 'Then the heifer shall be burned in
his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood,
with its refuse, shall be burned.
NUM 19:6 'And the priest shall take cedar
wood and hyssop and scarlet {material,} and cast it
into the midst of the burning heifer.
NUM 19:7 'The priest shall then wash his
clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward
come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean
until evening.
NUM 19:8 'The one who burns it shall also
wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in
water, and shall be unclean until evening.
NUM 19:9 'Now a man who is clean shall gather
up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside
the camp in a clean place, and the congregation of
the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove
impurity; it is purification from sin.
NUM 19:10 'And the one who gathers the ashes
of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean
until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute
to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns
among them.
NUM 19:11 'The one who touches the corpse of
any person shall be unclean for seven days.
NUM 19:12 'That one shall purify himself from
uncleanness with the water on the third day and on
the seventh day, {and then} he shall be clean; but
if he does not purify himself on the third day and
on the seventh day, he shall not be clean.
NUM 19:13 'Anyone who touches a corpse, the
body of a man who has died, and does not purify
himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord; and
that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because
the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he
shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
NUM 19:14 'This is the law when a man dies in
a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and
everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for
seven days.
NUM 19:15 'And every open vessel, which has
no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.
NUM 19:16 'Also, anyone who in the open field
touches one who has been slain with a sword or who
has died {naturally,} or a human bone or a grave,
shall be unclean for seven days.
NUM 19:17 'Then for the unclean {person} they
shall take some of the ashes of the burnt
purification from sin and flowing water shall be
added to them in a vessel.
NUM 19:18 'And a clean person shall take
hyssop and dip {it} in the water, and sprinkle {it}
on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the
persons who were there, and on the one who touched
the bone or the one slain or the one dying
{naturally} or the grave.
NUM 19:19 'Then the clean {person} shall
sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the
seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify
him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes
and bathe {himself} in water and shall be clean by
evening.
NUM 19:20 'But the man who is unclean and
does not purify himself from uncleanness, that
person shall be cut off from the midst of the
assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of
the Lord; the water for impurity has not been
sprinkled on him, he is unclean.
NUM 19:21 'So it shall be a perpetual statute
for them. And he who sprinkles the water for
impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches
the water for impurity shall be unclean until
evening.
NUM 19:22 'Furthermore, anything that the
unclean {person} touches shall be unclean; and the
person who touches {it} shall be unclean until
evening.'"
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NUM 20:1
Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation,
came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month;
and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died
there and was buried there.
NUM 20:2 And there was no water for the
congregation; and they assembled themselves against
Moses and Aaron.
NUM 20:3 The people thus contended with Moses
and spoke, saying, "If only we had perished when our
brothers perished before the Lord!
NUM 20:4 "Why then have you brought the
Lord's assembly into this wilderness, for us and our
beasts to die here?
NUM 20:5 "And why have you made us come up
from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place?
It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or
pomegranates, nor is there water to drink."
NUM 20:6 Then Moses and Aaron came in from
the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the
tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. Then the
glory of the Lord appeared to them;
NUM 20:7 and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 20:8 "Take the rod; and you and your
brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to
the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its
water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out
of the rock and let the congregation and their
beasts drink."
NUM 20:9 So Moses took the rod from before
the Lord, just as He had commanded him;
NUM 20:10 and Moses and Aaron gathered the
assembly before the rock. And he said to them,
"Listen now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water
for you out of this rock?"
NUM 20:11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and
struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came
forth abundantly, and the congregation and their
beasts drank.
NUM 20:12 But the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron, "Because you have not believed Me, to treat
Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel,
therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the
land which I have given them."
NUM 20:13 Those {were} the waters of Meribah,
because the sons of Israel contended with the Lord,
and He proved Himself holy among them.
NUM 20:14 From Kadesh Moses then sent
messengers to the king of Edom: "Thus your brother
Israel has said, 'You know all the hardship that has
befallen us;
NUM 20:15 that our fathers went down to
Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the
Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.
NUM 20:16 'But when we cried out to the Lord,
He heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us
out from Egypt; now behold, we are at Kadesh, a town
on the edge of your territory.
NUM 20:17 'Please let us pass through your
land. We shall not pass through field or through
vineyard; we shall not even drink water from a well.
We shall go along the king's highway, not turning to
the right or left, until we pass through your
territory.' "
NUM 20:18 Edom, however, said to him, "You
shall not pass through us, lest I come out with the
sword against you."
NUM 20:19 Again, the sons of Israel said to
him, "We shall go up by the highway, and if I and my
livestock do drink any of your water, then I will
pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet,
nothing {else.}"
NUM 20:20 But he said, "You shall not pass
through." And Edom came out against him with a heavy
force, and with a strong hand.
NUM 20:21 Thus Edom refused to allow Israel
to pass through his territory; so Israel turned away
from him.
NUM 20:22 Now when they set out from Kadesh,
the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to
Mount Hor.
NUM 20:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron at Mount Hor by the border of the land of
Edom, saying,
NUM 20:24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his
people; for he shall not enter the land which I have
given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled
against My command at the waters of Meribah.
NUM 20:25 "Take Aaron and his son Eleazar,
and bring them up to Mount Hor;
NUM 20:26 and strip Aaron of his garments and
put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron will be
gathered {to his people,} and will die there."
NUM 20:27 So Moses did just as the Lord had
commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the
sight of all the congregation.
NUM 20:28 And after Moses had stripped Aaron
of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar,
Aaron died there on the mountain top. Then Moses and
Eleazar came down from the mountain.
NUM 20:29 And when all the congregation saw
that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel wept
for Aaron thirty days.
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NUM 21:1
When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in
the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by the way
of Atharim, then he fought against Israel, and took
some of them captive.
NUM 21:2 So Israel made a vow to the Lord,
and said, "If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people
into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their
cities."
NUM 21:3 And the Lord heard the voice of
Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; then they
utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the
name of the place was called Hormah.
NUM 21:4 Then they set out from Mount Hor by
the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of
Edom; and the people became impatient because of the
journey.
NUM 21:5 And the people spoke against God and
Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to
die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no
water, and we loathe this miserable food."
NUM 21:6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents
among the people and they bit the people, so that
many people of Israel died.
NUM 21:7 So the people came to Moses and
said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken
against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord,
that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses
interceded for the people.
NUM 21:8 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a
fiery {serpent,} and set it on a standard; and it
shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when
he looks at it, he shall live."
NUM 21:9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and
set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a
serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze
serpent, he lived.
NUM 21:10 Now the sons of Israel moved out
and camped in Oboth.
NUM 21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and
camped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is
opposite Moab, to the east.
NUM 21:12 From there they set out and camped
in Wadi Zered.
NUM 21:13 From there they journeyed and
camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in
the wilderness that comes out of the border of the
Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
NUM 21:14 Therefore it is said in the Book of
the Wars of the Lord, "Waheb in Suphah, And the
wadis of the Arnon,
NUM 21:15 And the slope of the wadis That
extends to the site of Ar, And leans to the border
of Moab."
NUM 21:16 And from there {they continued} to
Beer, that is the well where the Lord said to Moses,
"Assemble the people, that I may give them water."
NUM 21:17 Then Israel sang this song: "Spring
up, O well! Sing to it!
NUM 21:18 "The well, which the leaders sank,
Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter
{and} with their staffs." And from the wilderness
{they continued} to Mattanah,
NUM 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and
from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
NUM 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that
is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which
overlooks the wasteland.
NUM 21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to
Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
NUM 21:22 "Let me pass through your land. We
will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will
not drink water from wells. We will go by the king's
highway until we have passed through your border."
NUM 21:23 But Sihon would not permit Israel
to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all
his people and went out against Israel in the
wilderness, and came to Jahaz and fought against
Israel.
NUM 21:24 Then Israel struck him with the
edge of the sword, and took possession of his land
from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of
Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon {was}
Jazer.
NUM 21:25 And Israel took all these cities
and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites,
in Heshbon, and in all her villages.
NUM 21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon,
king of the Amorites, who had fought against the
former king of Moab and had taken all his land out
of his hand, as far as the Arnon.
NUM 21:27 Therefore those who use proverbs
say, "Come to Heshbon! Let it be built! So let the
city of Sihon be established.
NUM 21:28 "For a fire went forth from Heshbon,
A flame from the town of Sihon; It devoured Ar of
Moab, The dominant heights of the Arnon.
NUM 21:29 "Woe to you, O Moab! You are
ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons
as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To
an Amorite king, Sihon.
NUM 21:30 "But we have cast them down,
Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon, Then we have laid
waste even to Nophah, Which {reaches} to Medeba."
NUM 21:31 Thus Israel lived in the land of
the Amorites.
NUM 21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer,
and they captured its villages and dispossessed the
Amorites who {were} there.
NUM 21:33 Then they turned and went up by the
way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out
with all his people, for battle at Edrei.
NUM 21:34 But the Lord said to Moses, "Do not
fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and
all his people and his land; and you shall do to him
as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived
at Heshbon."
NUM 21:35 So they killed him and his sons and
all his people, until there was no remnant left him;
and they possessed his land.
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NUM 22:1
Then the sons of Israel journeyed, and camped in the
plains of Moab beyond the Jordan {opposite} Jericho.
NUM 22:2 Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all
that Israel had done to the Amorites.
NUM 22:3 So Moab was in great fear because of
the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in
dread of the sons of Israel.
NUM 22:4 And Moab said to the elders of
Midian, "Now this horde will lick up all that is
around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the
field." And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab
at that time.
NUM 22:5 So he sent messengers to Balaam the
son of Beor, at Pethor, which is near the River,
{in} the land of the sons of his people, to call
him, saying, "Behold, a people came out of Egypt;
behold, they cover the surface of the land, and they
are living opposite me.
NUM 22:6 "Now, therefore, please come, curse
this people for me since they are too mighty for me;
perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them
out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless
is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."
NUM 22:7 So the elders of Moab and the elders
of Midian departed with the {fees for} divination in
their hand; and they came to Balaam and repeated
Balak's words to him.
NUM 22:8 And he said to them, "Spend the
night here, and I will bring word back to you as the
Lord may speak to me." And the leaders of Moab
stayed with Balaam.
NUM 22:9 Then God came to Balaam and said,
"Who are these men with you?"
NUM 22:10 And Balaam said to God, "Balak the
son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent {word} to me,
NUM 22:11 'Behold, there is a people who came
out of Egypt and they cover the surface of the land;
now come, curse them for me; perhaps I may be able
to fight against them, and drive them out.' "
NUM 22:12 And God said to Balaam, "Do not go
with them; you shall not curse the people; for they
are blessed."
NUM 22:13 So Balaam arose in the morning and
said to Balak's leaders, "Go back to your land, for
the Lord has refused to let me go with you."
NUM 22:14 And the leaders of Moab arose and
went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refused to come
with us."
NUM 22:15 Then Balak again sent leaders, more
numerous and more distinguished than the former.
NUM 22:16 And they came to Balaam and said to
him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Let
nothing, I beg you, hinder you from coming to me;
NUM 22:17 for I will indeed honor you richly,
and I will do whatever you say to me. Please come
then, curse this people for me.' "
NUM 22:18 And Balaam answered and said to the
servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his
house full of silver and gold, I could not do
anything, either small or great, contrary to the
command of the Lord my God.
NUM 22:19 "And now please, you also stay here
tonight, and I will find out what else the Lord will
speak to me."
NUM 22:20 And God came to Balaam at night and
said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise
up {and} go with them; but only the word which I
speak to you shall you do."
NUM 22:21 So Balaam arose in the morning, and
saddled his donkey, and went with the leaders of
Moab.
NUM 22:22 But God was angry because he was
going, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in
the way as an adversary against him. Now he was
riding on his donkey and his two servants were with
him.
NUM 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of
the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in
his hand, the donkey turned off from the way and
went into the field; but Balaam struck the donkey to
turn her back into the way.
NUM 22:24 Then the angel of the Lord stood in
a narrow path of the vineyards, {with} a wall on
this side and a wall on that side.
NUM 22:25 When the donkey saw the angel of
the Lord, she pressed herself to the wall and
pressed Balaam's foot against the wall, so he struck
her again.
NUM 22:26 And the angel of the Lord went
further, and stood in a narrow place where there was
no way to turn to the right hand or the left.
NUM 22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of
the Lord, she lay down under Balaam; so Balaam was
angry and struck the donkey with his stick.
NUM 22:28 And the Lord opened the mouth of
the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I
done to you, that you have struck me these three
times?"
NUM 22:29 Then Balaam said to the donkey,
"Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had
been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by
now."
NUM 22:30 And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am
I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your
life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do
so to you?" And he said, "No."
NUM 22:31 Then the Lord opened the eyes of
Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in
the way with his drawn sword in his hand; and he
bowed all the way to the ground.
NUM 22:32 And the angel of the Lord said to
him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three
times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary,
because your way was contrary to me.
NUM 22:33 "But the donkey saw me and turned
aside from me these three times. If she had not
turned aside from me, I would surely have killed you
just now, and let her live."
NUM 22:34 And Balaam said to the angel of the
Lord, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you
were standing in the way against me. Now then, if it
is displeasing to you, I will turn back."
NUM 22:35 But the angel of the Lord said to
Balaam, "Go with the men, but you shall speak only
the word which I shall tell you." So Balaam went
along with the leaders of Balak.
NUM 22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam was
coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab,
which is on the Arnon border, at the extreme end of
the border.
NUM 22:37 Then Balak said to Balaam, "Did I
not urgently send to you to call you? Why did you
not come to me? Am I really unable to honor you?"
NUM 22:38 So Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I
have come now to you! Am I able to speak anything at
all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I
shall speak."
NUM 22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and
they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
NUM 22:40 And Balak sacrificed oxen and
sheep, and sent {some} to Balaam and the leaders who
were with him.
NUM 22:41 Then it came about in the morning
that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to the
high places of Baal; and he saw from there a portion
of the people.
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NUM 23:1
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for
me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for
me here."
NUM 23:2 And Balak did just as Balaam had
spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a
ram on each altar.
NUM 23:3 Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand
beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps
the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows
me I will tell you." So he went to a bare hill.
NUM 23:4 Now God met Balaam, and he said to
Him, "I have set up the seven altars, and I have
offered up a bull and a ram on each altar."
NUM 23:5 Then the Lord put a word in Balaam's
mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and you shall
speak thus."
NUM 23:6 So he returned to him, and behold,
he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and
all the leaders of Moab.
NUM 23:7 And he took up his discourse and
said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, Moab's king
from the mountains of the East, 'Come curse Jacob
for me, And come, denounce Israel!'
NUM 23:8 "How shall I curse, whom God has not
cursed? And how can I denounce, whom the Lord has
not denounced?
NUM 23:9 "As I see him from the top of the
rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a
people {who} dwells apart, And shall not be reckoned
among the nations.
NUM 23:10 "Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the
death of the upright, And let my end be like his!"
NUM 23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, "What
have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies,
but behold, you have actually blessed them!"
NUM 23:12 And he answered and said, "Must I
not be careful to speak what the Lord puts in my
mouth?"
NUM 23:13 Then Balak said to him, "Please
come with me to another place from where you may see
them, although you will only see the extreme end of
them, and will not see all of them; and curse them
for me from there."
NUM 23:14 So he took him to the field of
Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars
and offered a bull and a ram on {each} altar.
NUM 23:15 And he said to Balak, "Stand here
beside your burnt offering, while I myself meet
{the} {Lord} yonder."
NUM 23:16 Then the Lord met Balaam and put a
word in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and
thus you shall speak."
NUM 23:17 And he came to him, and behold, he
was standing beside his burnt offering, and the
leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him,
"What has the Lord spoken?"
NUM 23:18 Then he took up his discourse and
said, "Arise, O Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, O
son of Zippor!
NUM 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should
lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He
said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and
will He not make it good?
NUM 23:20 "Behold, I have received {a
command} to bless; When He has blessed, then I
cannot revoke it.
NUM 23:21 "He has not observed misfortune in
Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; The Lord
his God is with him, And the shout of a king is
among them.
NUM 23:22 "God brings them out of Egypt, He
is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
NUM 23:23 "For there is no omen against
Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel;
At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob And to
Israel, what God has done.
NUM 23:24 "Behold, a people rises like a
lioness, And as a lion it lifts itself; It shall not
lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the
blood of the slain."
NUM 23:25 Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not
curse them at all nor bless them at all!"
NUM 23:26 But Balaam answered and said to
Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'Whatever the Lord
speaks, that I must do'?"
NUM 23:27 Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please
come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it
will be agreeable with God that you curse them for
me from there."
NUM 23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of
Peor which overlooks the wasteland.
NUM 23:29 And Balaam said to Balak, "Build
seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and
seven rams for me here."
NUM 23:30 And Balak did just as Balaam had
said, and offered up a bull and a ram on {each}
altar.
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NUM 24:1
When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless
Israel, he did not go as at other times to seek
omens but he set his face toward the wilderness.
NUM 24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes and
saw Israel camping tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of
God came upon him.
NUM 24:3 And he took up his discourse and
said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, And the
oracle of the man whose eye is opened;
NUM 24:4 The oracle of him who hears the
words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Falling down, yet having his eyes uncovered,
NUM 24:5 How fair are your tents, O Jacob,
Your dwellings, O Israel!
NUM 24:6 "Like valleys that stretch out, Like
gardens beside the river, Like aloes planted by the
Lord, Like cedars beside the waters.
NUM 24:7 "Water shall flow from his buckets,
And his seed {shall be} by many waters, And his king
shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be
exalted.
NUM 24:8 "God brings him out of Egypt, He is
for him like the horns of the wild ox. He shall
devour the nations {who are} his adversaries, And
shall crush their bones in pieces, And shatter
{them} with his arrows.
NUM 24:9 "He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him? Blessed is
everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who
curses you."
NUM 24:10 Then Balak's anger burned against
Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak
said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies,
but behold, you have persisted in blessing them
these three times!
NUM 24:11 "Therefore, flee to your place now.
I said I would honor you greatly, but behold, the
Lord has held you back from honor."
NUM 24:12 And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I
not tell your messengers whom you had sent to me,
saying,
NUM 24:13 'Though Balak were to give me his
house full of silver and gold, I could not do
anything contrary to the command of the Lord, either
good or bad, of my own accord. What the Lord speaks,
that I will speak'?
NUM 24:14 "And now behold, I am going to my
people; come, {and} I will advise you what this
people will do to your people in the days to come."
NUM 24:15 And he took up his discourse and
said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, And the
oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
NUM 24:16 The oracle of him who hears the
words of God, And knows the knowledge of the Most
High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling
down, yet having his eyes uncovered.
NUM 24:17 "I see him, but not now; I behold
him, but not near; A star shall come forth from
Jacob, And a scepter shall rise from Israel, And
shall crush through the forehead of Moab, And tear
down all the sons of Sheth.
NUM 24:18 "And Edom shall be a possession,
Seir, its enemies, also shall be a possession, While
Israel performs valiantly.
NUM 24:19 "One from Jacob shall have
dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from the
city."
NUM 24:20 And he looked at Amalek and took up
his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first of the
nations, But his end {shall be} destruction."
NUM 24:21 And he looked at the Kenite, and
took up his discourse and said, "Your dwelling place
is enduring, And your nest is set in the cliff.
NUM 24:22 "Nevertheless Kain shall be
consumed; How long shall Asshur keep you captive?"
NUM 24:23 And he took up his discourse and
said, "Alas, who can live except God has ordained
it?
NUM 24:24 "But ships {shall come} from the
coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur and
shall afflict Eber; So they also {shall come} to
destruction."
NUM 24:25 Then Balaam arose and departed and
returned to his place, and Balak also went his way.
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NUM 25:1
While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began
to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.
NUM 25:2 For they invited the people to the
sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and
bowed down to their gods.
NUM 25:3 So Israel joined themselves to Baal
of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel.
NUM 25:4 And the Lord said to Moses, "Take
all the leaders of the people and execute them in
broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce
anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel."
NUM 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of
Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined
themselves to Baal of Peor."
NUM 25:6 Then behold, one of the sons of
Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite
woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all
the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they
were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
NUM 25:7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from
the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in
his hand;
NUM 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel
into the tent, and pierced both of them through, the
man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So
the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
NUM 25:9 And those who died by the plague
were 24,000.
NUM 25:10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 25:11 "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath
from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with
My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy
the sons of Israel in My jealousy.
NUM 25:12 "Therefore say, 'Behold, I give him
My covenant of peace;
NUM 25:13 and it shall be for him and his
descendants after him, a covenant of a perpetual
priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and
made atonement for the sons of Israel.' "
NUM 25:14 Now the name of the slain man of
Israel who was slain with the Midianite woman, was
Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father's
household among the Simeonites.
NUM 25:15 And the name of the Midianite woman
who was slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was
head of the people of a father's household in Midian.
NUM 25:16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 25:17 "Be hostile to the Midianites and
strike them;
NUM 25:18 for they have been hostile to you
with their tricks, with which they have deceived you
in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi,
the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister
who was slain on the day of the plague because of
Peor."
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NUM 26:1
Then it came about after the plague, that the Lord
spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, saying,
NUM 26:2 "Take a census of all the
congregation of the sons of Israel from twenty years
old and upward, by their fathers' households,
whoever is able to go out to war in Israel."
NUM 26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest
spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho, saying,
NUM 26:4 "{Take a census of the people} from
twenty years old and upward, as the Lord has
commanded Moses." Now the sons of Israel who came
out of the land of Egypt {were:}
NUM 26:5 Reuben, Israel's first-born, the
sons of Reuben: {of} Hanoch, the family of the
Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
NUM 26:6 of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
NUM 26:7 These are the families of the
Reubenites, and those who were numbered of them were
43,730.
NUM 26:8 And the son of Pallu: Eliab.
NUM 26:9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and
Dathan and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram
who were called by the congregation, who contended
against Moses and against Aaron in the company of
Korah, when they contended against the Lord,
NUM 26:10 and the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them up along with Korah, when that
company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so
that they became a warning.
NUM 26:11 The sons of Korah, however, did not
die.
NUM 26:12 The sons of Simeon according to
their families: of Nemuel, the family of the
Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites;
of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
NUM 26:13 of Zerah, the family of the
Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
NUM 26:14 These are the families of the
Simeonites, 22,200.
NUM 26:15 The sons of Gad according to their
families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites;
of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the
family of the Shunites;
NUM 26:16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites;
of Eri, the family of the Erites;
NUM 26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites;
of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
NUM 26:18 These are the families of the sons
of Gad according to those who were numbered of them,
40,500.
NUM 26:19 The sons of Judah {were} Er and
Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
NUM 26:20 And the sons of Judah according to
their families were: of Shelah, the family of the
Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites;
of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
NUM 26:21 And the sons of Perez were: of
Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the
family of the Hamulites.
NUM 26:22 These are the families of Judah
according to those who were numbered of them,
76,500.
NUM 26:23 The sons of Issachar according to
their families: {of} Tola, the family of the
Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
NUM 26:24 of Jashub, the family of the
Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the
Shimronites.
NUM 26:25 These are the families of Issachar
according to those who were numbered of them,
64,300.
NUM 26:26 The sons of Zebulun according to
their families: of Sered, the family of the
Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of
Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
NUM 26:27 These are the families of the
Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of
them, 60,500.
NUM 26:28 The sons of Joseph according to
their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
NUM 26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir,
the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the
father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the
Gileadites.
NUM 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: {of}
Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the
family of the Helekites;
NUM 26:31 and {of} Asriel, the family of the
Asrielites; and {of} Shechem, the family of the
Shechemites;
NUM 26:32 and {of} Shemida, the family of the
Shemidaites; and {of} Hepher, the family of the
Hepherites.
NUM 26:33 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher
had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of
the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.
NUM 26:34 These are the families of Manasseh;
and those who were numbered of them were 52,700.
NUM 26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim
according to their families: of Shuthelah, the
family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family
of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
NUM 26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah:
of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
NUM 26:37 These are the families of the sons
of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of
them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according
to their families.
NUM 26:38 The sons of Benjamin according to
their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites;
of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram,
the family of the Ahiramites;
NUM 26:39 of Shephupham, the family of the
Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
NUM 26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and
Naaman: {of Ard,} the family of the Ardites; of
Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
NUM 26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin
according to their families; and those who were
numbered of them were 45,600.
NUM 26:42 These are the sons of Dan according
to their families: of Shuham, the family of the
Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan according
to their families.
NUM 26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites,
according to those who were numbered of them, were
64,400.
NUM 26:44 The sons of Asher according to
their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites;
of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the
family of the Beriites.
NUM 26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber,
the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family
of the Malchielites.
NUM 26:46 And the name of the daughter of
Asher {was} Serah.
NUM 26:47 These are the families of the sons
of Asher according to those who were numbered of
them, 53,400.
NUM 26:48 The sons of Naphtali according to
their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the
Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
NUM 26:49 of Jezer, the family of the
Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
NUM 26:50 These are the families of Naphtali
according to their families; and those who were
numbered of them were 45,400.
NUM 26:51 These are those who were numbered
of the sons of Israel, 601,730.
NUM 26:52 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 26:53 "Among these the land shall be
divided for an inheritance according to the number
of names.
NUM 26:54 "To the larger {group} you shall
increase their inheritance, and to the smaller
{group} you shall diminish their inheritance; each
shall be given their inheritance according to those
who were numbered of them.
NUM 26:55 "But the land shall be divided by
lot. They shall receive their inheritance according
to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
NUM 26:56 "According to the selection by lot,
their inheritance shall be divided between the
larger and the smaller {groups.}"
NUM 26:57 And these are those who were
numbered of the Levites according to their families:
of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath,
the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family
of the Merarites.
NUM 26:58 These are the families of Levi: the
family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites,
the family of the Mahlites, the family of the
Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath
became the father of Amram.
NUM 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was
Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi
in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and
their sister Miriam.
NUM 26:60 And to Aaron were born Nadab and
Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
NUM 26:61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they
offered strange fire before the Lord.
NUM 26:62 And those who were numbered of them
were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward,
for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel
since no inheritance was given to them among the
sons of Israel.
NUM 26:63 These are those who were numbered
by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the
sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho.
NUM 26:64 But among these there was not a man
of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the
priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the
wilderness of Sinai.
NUM 26:65 For the Lord had said of them,
"They shall surely die in the wilderness." And not a
man was left of them, except Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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NUM 27:1
Then 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, came near; and these are the names of his
daughters: Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and
Tirzah.
NUM 27:2 And they stood before Moses and
before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and
all the congregation, at the doorway of the tent of
meeting, saying,
NUM 27:3 "Our father died in the wilderness,
yet he was not among the company of those who
gathered themselves together against the Lord in the
company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he
had no sons.
NUM 27:4 "Why should the name of our father
be withdrawn from among his family because he had no
son? Give us a possession among our father's
brothers."
NUM 27:5 And Moses brought their case before
the Lord.
NUM 27:6 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 27:7 "The daughters of Zelophehad are
right in {their} statements. You shall surely give
them a hereditary possession among their father's
brothers, and you shall transfer the inheritance of
their father to them.
NUM 27:8 "Further, you shall speak to the
sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no
son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his
daughter.
NUM 27:9 'And if he has no daughter, then you
shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
NUM 27:10 'And if he has no brothers, then
you shall give his inheritance to his father's
brothers.
NUM 27:11 'And if his father has no brothers,
then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest
relative in his own family, and he shall possess it;
and it shall be a statutory ordinance to the sons of
Israel, just as the Lord commanded Moses.' "
NUM 27:12 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go up
to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I
have given to the sons of Israel.
NUM 27:13 "And when you have seen it, you too
shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your
brother was;
NUM 27:14 for in the wilderness of Zin,
during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled
against My command to treat Me as holy before their
eyes at the water."(These are the waters of Meribah
of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
NUM 27:15 Then Moses spoke to the Lord,
saying,
NUM 27:16 "May the Lord, the God of the
spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the
congregation,
NUM 27:17 who will go out and come in before
them, and who will lead them out and bring them in,
that the congregation of the Lord may not be like
sheep which have no shepherd."
NUM 27:18 So the Lord said to Moses, "Take
Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit,
and lay your hand on him;
NUM 27:19 and have him stand before Eleazar
the priest and before all the congregation; and
commission him in their sight.
NUM 27:20 "And you shall put some of your
authority on him, in order that all the congregation
of the sons of Israel may obey {him.}
NUM 27:21 "Moreover, he shall stand before
Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the
judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his command
they shall go out and at his command they shall come
in, {both} he and the sons of Israel with him, even
all the congregation."
NUM 27:22 And Moses did just as the Lord
commanded him; and he took Joshua and set him before
Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.
NUM 27:23 Then he laid his hands on him and
commissioned him, just as the Lord had spoken
through Moses.
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NUM 28:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 28:2 "Command the sons of Israel and say
to them, 'You shall be careful to present My
offering, My food for My offerings by fire, of a
soothing aroma to Me, at their appointed time.'
NUM 28:3 "And you shall say to them, 'This is
the offering by fire which you shall offer to the
Lord; two male lambs one year old without defect
{as} a continual burnt offering every day.
NUM 28:4 'You shall offer the one lamb in the
morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at
twilight;
NUM 28:5 also a tenth of an ephah of fine
flour for a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a
hin of beaten oil.
NUM 28:6 'It is a continual burnt offering
which was ordained in Mount Sinai as a soothing
aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
NUM 28:7 'Then the libation with it {shall
be} a fourth of a hin for each lamb, in the holy
place you shall pour out a libation of strong drink
to the Lord.
NUM 28:8 'And the other lamb you shall offer
at twilight; as the grain offering of the morning
and as its libation, you shall offer it, an offering
by fire, a soothing aroma to the Lord.
NUM 28:9 'Then on the sabbath day two male
lambs one year old without defect, and two-tenths
{of an ephah} of fine flour mixed with oil as a
grain offering, and its libation:
NUM 28:10 {'This is} the burnt offering of
every sabbath in addition to the continual burnt
offering and its libation.
NUM 28:11 'Then at the beginning of each of
your months you shall present a burnt offering to
the Lord; two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs
one year old without defect,
NUM 28:12 and three-tenths {of an ephah} of
fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for
each bull; and two-tenths of fine flour for a grain
offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;
NUM 28:13 and a tenth {of an ephah} of fine
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for each
lamb, for a burnt offering of a soothing aroma, an
offering by fire to the Lord.
NUM 28:14 'And their libations shall be half
a hin of wine for a bull and a third of a hin for
the ram and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is
the burnt offering of each month throughout the
months of the year.
NUM 28:15 'And one male goat for a sin
offering to the Lord; it shall be offered with its
libation in addition to the continual burnt
offering.
NUM 28:16 'Then on the fourteenth day of the
first month shall be the Lord's Passover.
NUM 28:17 'And on the fifteenth day of this
month {shall be} a feast, unleavened bread {shall
be} eaten for seven days.
NUM 28:18 'On the first day {shall be} a holy
convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
NUM 28:19 'And you shall present an offering
by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls and
one ram and seven male lambs one year old, having
them without defect.
NUM 28:20 'And for their grain offering, you
shall offer fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths
{of an ephah} for a bull and two-tenths for the ram.
NUM 28:21 'A tenth {of an ephah} you shall
offer for each of the seven lambs,
NUM 28:22 and one male goat for a sin
offering, to make atonement for you.
NUM 28:23 'You shall present these besides
the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a
continual burnt offering.
NUM 28:24 'After this manner you shall
present daily, for seven days, the food of the
offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the Lord;
it shall be presented with its libation in addition
to the continual burnt offering.
NUM 28:25 'And on the seventh day you shall
have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious
work.
NUM 28:26 'Also on the day of the first
fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the
Lord in your {Feast of} Weeks, you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
NUM 28:27 'And you shall offer a burnt
offering for a soothing aroma to the Lord, two young
bulls, one ram, seven male lambs one year old,
NUM 28:28 and their grain offering, fine
flour mixed with oil, three-tenths {of an ephah} for
each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
NUM 28:29 a tenth for each of the seven
lambs,
NUM 28:30 one male goat to make atonement for
you.
NUM 28:31 'Besides the continual burnt
offering and its grain offering, you shall present
{them} with their libations. They shall be without
defect.
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NUM 29:1
'Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you
shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day
for blowing trumpets.
NUM 29:2 'And you shall offer a burnt
offering as a soothing aroma to the Lord: one bull,
one ram, {and} seven male lambs one year old without
defect;
NUM 29:3 also their grain offering, fine
flour mixed with oil, three-tenths {of an ephah} for
the bull, two-tenths for the ram,
NUM 29:4 and one-tenth for each of the seven
lambs.
NUM 29:5 'And {offer} one male goat for a sin
offering, to make atonement for you,
NUM 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the
new moon, and its grain offering, and the continual
burnt offering and its grain offering, and their
libations, according to their ordinance, for a
soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
NUM 29:7 'Then on the tenth day of this
seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and
you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any
work.
NUM 29:8 'And you shall present a burnt
offering to the Lord {as} a soothing aroma: one
bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, having
them without defect;
NUM 29:9 and their grain offering, fine flour
mixed with oil, three-tenths {of an} {ephah} for the
bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
NUM 29:10 a tenth for each of the seven
lambs;
NUM 29:11 one male goat for a sin offering,
besides the sin offering of atonement and the
continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and
their libations.
NUM 29:12 'Then on the fifteenth day of the
seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you
shall do no laborious work, and you shall observe a
feast to the Lord for seven days.
NUM 29:13 'And you shall present a burnt
offering, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to
the Lord: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs one year old, which are without defect,
NUM 29:14 and their grain offering, fine
flour mixed with oil, three-tenths {of an ephah} for
each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of
the two rams,
NUM 29:15 and a tenth for each of the
fourteen lambs;
NUM 29:16 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its
grain offering and its libation.
NUM 29:17 'Then on the second day: twelve
bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old
without defect;
NUM 29:18 and their grain offering and their
libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:19 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering and
its grain offering, and their libations.
NUM 29:20 'Then on the third day: eleven
bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old
without defect;
NUM 29:21 and their grain offering and their
libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:22 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering and
its grain offering and its libation.
NUM 29:23 'Then on the fourth day: ten bulls,
two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without
defect;
NUM 29:24 their grain offering and their
libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:25 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its
grain offering and its libation.
NUM 29:26'Then on the fifth day: nine bulls,
two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without
defect;
NUM 29:27 and their grain offering and their
libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:28 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering and
its grain offering and its libation.
NUM 29:29 'Then on the sixth day: eight
bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old
without defect;
NUM 29:30 and their grain offering and their
libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:31 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its
grain offering and its libations.
NUM 29:32 'Then on the seventh day: seven
bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old
without defect;
NUM 29:33 and their grain offering and their
libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:34 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its
grain offering and its libation.
NUM 29:35 'On the eighth day you shall have a
solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
NUM 29:36 'But you shall present a burnt
offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma
to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one
year old without defect;
NUM 29:37 their grain offering and their
libations for the bull, for the ram and for the
lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
NUM 29:38 and one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the continual burnt offering and
its grain offering and its libation.
NUM 29:39 'You shall present these to the
Lord at your appointed times, besides your votive
offerings and your freewill offerings, for your
burnt offerings and for your grain offerings and for
your libations and for your peace offerings.' "
NUM 29:40 And Moses spoke to the sons of
Israel in accordance with all that the Lord had
commanded Moses.
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NUM 30:1
Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the
sons of Israel, saying, "This is the word which the
Lord has commanded.
NUM 30:2 "If a man makes a vow to the Lord,
or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding
obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall
do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
NUM 30:3 "Also if a woman makes a vow to the
Lord, and binds herself by an obligation in her
father's house in her youth,
NUM 30:4 and her father hears her vow and her
obligation by which she has bound herself, and her
father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall
stand, and every obligation by which she has bound
herself shall stand.
NUM 30:5 "But if her father should forbid her
on the day he hears {of it,} none of her vows or her
obligations by which she has bound herself shall
stand; and the Lord will forgive her because her
father had forbidden her.
NUM 30:6 "However, if she should marry while
under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by
which she has bound herself,
NUM 30:7 and her husband hears of it and says
nothing to her on the day he hears {it,} then her
vows shall stand and her obligations by which she
has bound herself shall stand.
NUM 30:8 "But if on the day her husband hears
{of it,} he forbids her, then he shall annul her vow
which she is under and the rash statement of her
lips by which she has bound herself; and the Lord
will forgive her.
NUM 30:9 "But the vow of a widow or of a
divorced woman, everything by which she has bound
herself, shall stand against her.
NUM 30:10 "However, if she vowed in her
husband's house, or bound herself by an obligation
with an oath,
NUM 30:11 and her husband heard {it,} but
said nothing to her {and} did not forbid her, then
all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by
which she bound herself shall stand.
NUM 30:12 "But if her husband indeed annuls
them on the day he hears {them,} then whatever
proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or
concerning the obligation of herself, shall not
stand; her husband has annulled them, and the Lord
will forgive her.
NUM 30:13 "Every vow and every binding oath
to humble herself, her husband may confirm it or her
husband may annul it.
NUM 30:14 "But if her husband indeed says
nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all
her vows or all her obligations which are on her; he
has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her
on the day he heard them.
NUM 30:15 "But if he indeed annuls them after
he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt."
NUM 30:16 These are the statutes which the
Lord commanded Moses, {as} between a man and his
wife, {and as} between a father and his daughter,
{while she is} in her youth in her father's house.
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NUM 31:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 31:2 "Take full vengeance for the sons of
Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be
gathered to your people."
NUM 31:3 And Moses spoke to the people,
saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that
they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord's
vengeance on Midian.
NUM 31:4 "A thousand from each tribe of all
the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war."
NUM 31:5 So there were furnished from the
thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe,
twelve thousand armed for war.
NUM 31:6 And Moses sent them, a thousand from
each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the
holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his
hand.
NUM 31:7 So they made war against Midian,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they
killed every male.
NUM 31:8 And they killed the kings of Midian
along with the {rest of} their slain: Evi and Rekem
and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian;
they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the
sword.
NUM 31:9 And the sons of Israel captured the
women of Midian and their little ones; and all their
cattle and all their flocks and all their goods,
they plundered.
NUM 31:10 Then they burned all their cities
where they lived and all their camps with fire.
NUM 31:11 And they took all the spoil and all
the prey, both of man and of beast.
NUM 31:12 And they brought the captives and
the prey and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the
priest and to the congregation of the sons of
Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are
by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
NUM 31:13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
and all the leaders of the congregation went out to
meet them outside the camp.
NUM 31:14 And Moses was angry with the
officers of the army, the captains of thousands and
the captains of hundreds, who had come from service
in the war.
NUM 31:15 And Moses said to them, "Have you
spared all the women?
NUM 31:16 "Behold, these caused the sons of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass
against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the
plague was among the congregation of the Lord.
NUM 31:17 "Now therefore, kill every male
among the little ones, and kill every woman who has
known man intimately.
NUM 31:18 "But all the girls who have not
known man intimately, spare for yourselves.
NUM 31:19 "And you, camp outside the camp
seven days; whoever has killed any person, and
whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves,
you and your captives, on the third day and on the
seventh day.
NUM 31:20 "And you shall purify for
yourselves every garment and every article of
leather and all the work of goats' {hair,} and all
articles of wood."
NUM 31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the
men of war who had gone to battle, "This is the
statute of the law which the Lord has commanded
Moses:
NUM 31:22 only the gold and the silver, the
bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,
NUM 31:23 everything that can stand the fire,
you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be
clean, but it shall be purified with water for
impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you
shall pass through the water.
NUM 31:24 "And you shall wash your clothes on
the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may
enter the camp."
NUM 31:25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 31:26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the
heads of the fathers' {households} of the
congregation, take a count of the booty that was
captured, both of man and of animal;
NUM 31:27 and divide the booty between the
warriors who went out to battle and all the
congregation.
NUM 31:28 "And levy a tax for the Lord from
the men of war who went out to battle, one in five
hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the
donkeys and of the sheep;
NUM 31:29 take it from their half and give it
to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the Lord.
NUM 31:30 "And from the sons of Israel's
half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of
the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of
the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to
the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the
Lord."
NUM 31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
NUM 31:32 Now the booty that remained from
the spoil which the men of war had plundered was
675,000 sheep,
NUM 31:33 and 72,000 cattle,
NUM 31:34 and 61,000 donkeys,
NUM 31:35 and of human beings, of the women
who had not known man intimately, all the persons
were 32,000.
NUM 31:36 And the half, the portion of those
who went out to war, was {as follows:} the number of
sheep was 337,500,
NUM 31:37 and the Lord's levy of the sheep
was 675,
NUM 31:38 and the cattle were 36,000, from
which the Lord's levy was 72.
NUM 31:39 And the donkeys were 30,500, from
which the Lord's levy was 61.
NUM 31:40 And the human beings were 16,000,
from whom the Lord's levy was 32 persons.
NUM 31:41 And Moses gave the levy {which was}
the Lord's offering to Eleazar the priest, just as
the Lord had commanded Moses.
NUM 31:42 As for the sons of Israel's half,
which Moses separated from the men who had gone to
war - -
NUM 31:43 now the congregation's half was
337,500 sheep,
NUM 31:44 and 36,000 cattle,
NUM 31:45 and 30,500 donkeys,
NUM 31:46 and the human beings were 16,000 -
-
NUM 31:47 and from the sons of Israel's half,
Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man
and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who
kept charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, just as
the Lord had commanded Moses.
NUM 31:48 Then the officers who were over the
thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and
the captains of hundreds, approached Moses;
NUM 31:49 and they said to Moses, "Your
servants have taken a census of men of war who are
in our charge, and no man of us is missing.
NUM 31:50 "So we have brought as an offering
to the Lord what each man found, articles of gold,
armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and
necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before
the Lord."
NUM 31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought
articles.
NUM 31:52 And all the gold of the offering
which they offered up to the Lord, from the captains
of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was
16,750 shekels.
NUM 31:53 The men of war had taken booty,
every man for himself.
NUM 31:54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold from the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and brought it to the tent of meeting as a
memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord.
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NUM 32:1
Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an
exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they
saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that
it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,
NUM 32:2 the sons of Gad and the sons of
Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the
priest and to the leaders of the congregation,
saying,
NUM 32:3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah,
Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon,
NUM 32:4 the land which the Lord conquered
before the congregation of Israel, is a land for
livestock; and your servants have livestock."
NUM 32:5 And they said, "If we have found
favor in your sight, let this land be given to your
servants as a possession; do not take us across the
Jordan."
NUM 32:6 But Moses said to the sons of Gad
and to the sons of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go
to war while you yourselves sit here?
NUM 32:7 "Now why are you discouraging the
sons of Israel from crossing over into the land
which the Lord has given them?
NUM 32:8 "This is what your fathers did when
I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
NUM 32:9 "For when they went up to the valley
of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the
sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land
which the Lord had given them.
NUM 32:10 "So the Lord's anger burned in that
day, and He swore, saying,
NUM 32:11 'None of the men who came up from
Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see
the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to
Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,
NUM 32:12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh
the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they
have followed the Lord fully.'
NUM 32:13 "So the Lord's anger burned against
Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness
forty years, until the entire generation of those
who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was
destroyed.
NUM 32:14 "Now behold, you have risen up in
your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to add
still more to the burning anger of the Lord against
Israel.
NUM 32:15 "For if you turn away from
following Him, He will once more abandon them in the
wilderness; and you will destroy all these people."
NUM 32:16 Then they came near to him and
said, "We will build here sheepfolds for our
livestock and cities for our little ones;
NUM 32:17 but we ourselves will be armed
ready {to go} before the sons of Israel, until we
have brought them to their place, while our little
ones live in the fortified cities because of the
inhabitants of the land.
NUM 32:18 "We will not return to our homes
until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed
his inheritance.
NUM 32:19 "For we will not have an
inheritance with them on the other side of the
Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has
fallen to us on this side of the Jordan toward the
east."
NUM 32:20 So Moses said to them, "If you will
do this, if you will arm yourselves before the Lord
for the war,
NUM 32:21 and all of you armed men cross over
the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His
enemies out from before Him,
NUM 32:22 and the land is subdued before the
Lord, then afterward you shall return and be free of
obligation toward the Lord and toward Israel, and
this land shall be yours for a possession before the
Lord.
NUM 32:23 "But if you will not do so, behold,
you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your
sin will find you out.
NUM 32:24 "Build yourselves cities for your
little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep; and do
what you have promised."
NUM 32:25 And the sons of Gad and the sons of
Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will
do just as my lord commands.
NUM 32:26 "Our little ones, our wives, our
livestock and all our cattle shall remain there in
the cities of Gilead;
NUM 32:27 while your servants, everyone who
is armed for war, will cross over in the presence of
the Lord to battle, just as my lord says."
NUM 32:28 So Moses gave command concerning
them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of
Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' {households}
of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
NUM 32:29 And Moses said to them, "If the
sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is
armed for battle, will cross with you over the
Jordan in the presence of the Lord, and the land
will be subdued before you, then you shall give them
the land of Gilead for a possession;
NUM 32:30 but if they will not cross over
with you armed, they shall have possessions among
you in the land of Canaan."
NUM 32:31 And the sons of Gad and the sons of
Reuben answered, saying, "As the Lord has said to
your servants, so we will do.
NUM 32:32 "We ourselves will cross over armed
in the presence of the Lord into the land of Canaan,
and the possession of our inheritance {shall remain}
with us across the Jordan."
NUM 32:33 So Moses gave to them, to the sons
of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the
half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of
Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og,
the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with
{their} territories, the cities of the surrounding
land.
NUM 32:34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon and
Ataroth and Aroer,
NUM 32:35 and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and
Jogbehah,
NUM 32:36 and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as
fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
NUM 32:37 And the sons of Reuben built
Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,
NUM 32:38 and Nebo and Baal-meon - - {their}
names being changed - - and Sibmah, and they gave
{other} names to the cities which they built.
NUM 32:39 And the sons of Machir the son of
Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and
dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
NUM 32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the
son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.
NUM 32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went
and took its towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.
NUM 32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and
its villages, and called it Nobah after his own
name.
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NUM 33:1
These are the journeys of the sons of Israel, by
which they came out from the land of Egypt by their
armies, under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
NUM 33:2 And Moses recorded their starting
places according to their journeys by the command of
the Lord, and these are their journeys according to
their starting places.
NUM 33:3 And they journeyed from Rameses in
the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first
month; on the next day after the Passover the sons
of Israel started out boldly in the sight of all the
Egyptians,
NUM 33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all
their first-born whom the Lord had struck down among
them. The Lord had also executed judgments on their
gods.
NUM 33:5 Then the sons of Israel journeyed
from Rameses, and camped in Succoth.
NUM 33:6 And they journeyed from Succoth, and
camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the
wilderness.
NUM 33:7 And they journeyed from Etham, and
turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon;
and they camped before Migdol.
NUM 33:8 And they journeyed from before
Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea
into the wilderness; and they went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped at
Marah.
NUM 33:9 And they journeyed from Marah, and
came to Elim; and in Elim there were twelve springs
of water and seventy palm trees; and they camped
there.
NUM 33:10 And they journeyed from Elim, and
camped by the Red Sea.
NUM 33:11 And they journeyed from the Red
Sea, and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
NUM 33:12 And they journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, and camped at Dophkah.
NUM 33:13 And they journeyed from Dophkah,
and camped at Alush.
NUM 33:14 And they journeyed from Alush, and
camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people
had no water to drink.
NUM 33:15 And they journeyed from Rephidim,
and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
NUM 33:16 And they journeyed from the
wilderness of Sinai, and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
NUM 33:17 And they journeyed from
Kibroth-hattaavah, and camped at Hazeroth.
NUM 33:18 And they journeyed from Hazeroth,
and camped at Rithmah.
NUM 33:19 And they journeyed from Rithmah,
and camped at Rimmon-perez.
NUM 33:20 And they journeyed from
Rimmon-perez, and camped at Libnah.
NUM 33:21 And they journeyed from Libnah, and
camped at Rissah.
NUM 33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and
camped in Kehelathah.
NUM 33:23 And they journeyed from Kehelathah,
and camped at Mount Shepher.
NUM 33:24 And they journeyed from Mount
Shepher, and camped at Haradah.
NUM 33:25 And they journeyed from Haradah,
and camped at Makheloth.
NUM 33:26 And they journeyed from Makheloth,
and camped at Tahath.
NUM 33:27 And they journeyed from Tahath, and
camped at Terah.
NUM 33:28 And they journeyed from Terah, and
camped at Mithkah.
NUM 33:29 And they journeyed from Mithkah,
and camped at Hashmonah.
NUM 33:30 And they journeyed from Hashmonah,
and camped at Moseroth.
NUM 33:31 And they journeyed from Moseroth,
and camped at Bene-jaakan.
NUM 33:32 And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan,
and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
NUM 33:33 And they journeyed from
Hor-haggidgad, and camped at Jotbathah.
NUM 33:34 And they journeyed from Jotbathah,
and camped at Abronah.
NUM 33:35 And they journeyed from Abronah,
and camped at Ezion-geber.
NUM 33:36 And they journeyed from Ezion-geber,
and camped in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.
NUM 33:37 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and
camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of
Edom.
NUM 33:38 Then Aaron the priest went up to
Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died
there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel
had come from the land of Egypt on the first {day}
in the fifth month.
NUM 33:39 And Aaron was one hundred
twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
NUM 33:40 Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad
who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard
of the coming of the sons of Israel.
NUM 33:41 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor,
and camped at Zalmonah.
NUM 33:42 And they journeyed from Zalmonah,
and camped at Punon.
NUM 33:43 And they journeyed from Punon, and
camped at Oboth.
NUM 33:44 And they journeyed from Oboth, and
camped at Iye-abarim, at the border of Moab.
NUM 33:45 And they journeyed from Iyim, and
camped at Dibon-gad.
NUM 33:46 And they journeyed from Dibon-gad,
and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
NUM 33:47 And they journeyed from
Almon-diblathaim, and camped in the mountains of
Abarim, before Nebo.
NUM 33:48 And they journeyed from the
mountains of Abarim, and camped in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan {opposite} Jericho.
NUM 33:49 And they camped by the Jordan, from
Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains
of Moab.
NUM 33:50 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the
plains of Moab by the Jordan {opposite} Jericho,
saying,
NUM 33:51 "Speak to the sons of Israel and
say to them, 'When you cross over the Jordan into
the land of Canaan,
NUM 33:52 then you shall drive out all the
inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy
all their figured stones, and destroy all their
molten images and demolish all their high places;
NUM 33:53 and you shall take possession of
the land and live in it, for I have given the land
to you to possess it.
NUM 33:54 'And you shall inherit the land by
lot according to your families; to the larger you
shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you
shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls
to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit
according to the tribes of your fathers.
NUM 33:55 'But if you do not drive out the
inhabitants of the land from before you, then it
shall come about that those whom you let remain of
them {will become} as pricks in your eyes and as
thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in
the land in which you live.
NUM 33:56 'And it shall come about that as I
plan to do to them, so I will do to you.'"
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NUM 34:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
NUM 34:2 "Command the sons of Israel and say
to them, 'When you enter the land of Canaan, this is
the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance,
{even the} land of Canaan according to its borders.
NUM 34:3 'Your southern sector shall extend
from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom,
and your southern border shall extend from the end
of the Salt Sea eastward.
NUM 34:4 'Then your border shall turn
{direction} from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim,
and continue to Zin, and its termination shall be to
the south of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall reach
Hazaraddar, and continue to Azmon.
NUM 34:5 'And the border shall turn
{direction} from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and
its termination shall be at the sea.
NUM 34:6 'As for the western border, you
shall have the Great Sea, that is, {its} coastline;
this shall be your west border.
NUM 34:7 'And this shall be your north
border: you shall draw your {border} line from the
Great Sea to Mount Hor.
NUM 34:8 'You shall draw a line from Mount
Hor to the Lebo-hamath, and the termination of the
border shall be at Zedad;
NUM 34:9 and the border shall proceed to
Ziphron, and its termination shall be at Hazar-enan.
This shall be your north border.
NUM 34:10 'For your eastern border you shall
also draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
NUM 34:11 and the border shall go down from
Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the
border shall go down and reach to the slope on the
east side of the Sea of Chinnereth.
NUM 34:12 'And the border shall go down to
the Jordan and its termination shall be at the Salt
Sea. This shall be your land according to its
borders all around.' "
NUM 34:13 So Moses commanded the sons of
Israel, saying, "This is the land that you are to
apportion by lot among you as a possession, which
the Lord has commanded to give to the nine and a
half tribes.
NUM 34:14 "For the tribe of the sons of
Reuben have received {theirs} according to their
fathers' households, and the tribe of the sons of
Gad according to their fathers' households, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh have received their
possession.
NUM 34:15 "The two and a half tribes have
received their possession across the Jordan opposite
Jericho, eastward toward the sunrising."
NUM 34:16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 34:17 "These are the names of the men who
shall apportion the land to you for inheritance:
Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.
NUM 34:18 "And you shall take one leader of
every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.
NUM 34:19 "And these are the names of the
men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
NUM 34:20 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud.
NUM 34:21 "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad
the son of Chislon.
NUM 34:22 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli.
NUM 34:23 "Of the sons of Joseph: of the
tribe of the sons of Manasseh a leader, Hanniel the
son of Ephod.
NUM 34:24 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Ephraim a leader, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
NUM 34:25 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Zebulun a leader, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
NUM 34:26 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Issachar a leader, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
NUM 34:27 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Asher a leader, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
NUM 34:28 "And of the tribe of the sons of
Naphtali a leader, Pedahel the son of Ammihud."
NUM 34:29 These are those whom the Lord
commanded to apportion the inheritance to the sons
of Israel in the land of Canaan.
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NUM 35:1
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by
the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,
NUM 35:2 "Command the sons of Israel that
they give to the Levites from the inheritance of
their possession, cities to live in; and you shall
give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
NUM 35:3 "And the cities shall be theirs to
live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their
cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.
NUM 35:4 "And the pasture lands of the cities
which you shall give to the Levites {shall extend}
from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits
around.
NUM 35:5 "You shall also measure outside the
city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on
the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west
side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two
thousand cubits, with the city in the center. This
shall become theirs as pasture lands for the cities.
NUM 35:6 "And the cities which you shall give
to the Levites {shall be} the six cities of refuge,
which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to;
and in addition to them you shall give forty-two
cities.
NUM 35:7 "All the cities which you shall give
to the Levites {shall be} forty-eight cities,
together with their pasture lands.
NUM 35:8 "As for the cities which you shall
give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you
shall take more from the larger and you shall take
less from the smaller; each shall give some of his
cities to the Levites in proportion to his
possession which he inherits."
NUM 35:9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying,
NUM 35:10 "Speak to the sons of Israel and
say to them, 'When you cross the Jordan into the
land of Canaan,
NUM 35:11 then you shall select for
yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that
the manslayer who has killed any person
unintentionally may flee there.
NUM 35:12 'And the cities shall be to you as
a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer may
not die until he stands before the congregation for
trial.
NUM 35:13 'And the cities which you are to
give shall be your six cities of refuge.
NUM 35:14 'You shall give three cities across
the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan;
they are to be cities of refuge.
NUM 35:15 'These six cities shall be for
refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and
for the sojourner among them; that anyone who kills
a person unintentionally may flee there.
NUM 35:16 'But if he struck him down with an
iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
NUM 35:17 'And if he struck him down with a
stone in the hand, by which he may die, and {as a
result} he died, he is a murderer; the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
NUM 35:18 'Or if he struck him with a wooden
object in the hand, by which he may die, and {as a
result} he died, he is a murderer; the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
NUM 35:19 'The blood avenger himself shall
put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death
when he meets him.
NUM 35:20 'And if he pushed him of hatred, or
threw something at him lying in wait and {as a
result} he died,
NUM 35:21 or if he struck him down with his
hand in enmity, and {as a result} he died, the one
who struck him shall surely be put to death, he is a
murderer; the blood avenger shall put the murderer
to death when he meets him.
NUM 35:22 'But if he pushed him suddenly
without enmity, or threw something at him without
lying in wait,
NUM 35:23 or with any deadly object of stone,
and without seeing it dropped on him so that he
died, while he was not his enemy nor seeking his
injury,
NUM 35:24 then the congregation shall judge
between the slayer and the blood avenger according
to these ordinances.
NUM 35:25 'And the congregation shall deliver
the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger,
and the congregation shall restore him to his city
of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it
until the death of the high priest who was anointed
with the holy oil.
NUM 35:26 'But if the manslayer shall at any
time go beyond the border of his city of refuge to
which he may flee,
NUM 35:27 and the blood avenger finds him
outside the border of his city of refuge, and the
blood avenger kills the manslayer, he shall not be
guilty of blood
NUM 35:28 because he should have remained in
his city of refuge until the death of the high
priest. But after the death of the high priest the
manslayer shall return to the land of his
possession.
NUM 35:29 'And these things shall be for a
statutory ordinance to you throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
NUM 35:30 'If anyone kills a person, the
murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of
witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on
the testimony of one witness.
NUM 35:31 'Moreover, you shall not take
ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of
death, but he shall surely be put to death.
NUM 35:32 'And you shall not take ransom for
him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may
return to live in the land before the death of the
priest.
NUM 35:33 'So you shall not pollute the land
in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no
expiation can be made for the land for the blood
that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who
shed it.
NUM 35:34 'And you shall not defile the land
in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell;
for I the Lord am dwelling in the midst of the sons
of Israel.'"
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NUM 36:1
And the heads of the fathers' {households} of the
family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of
Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before
the leaders, the heads of the fathers' {households}
of the sons of Israel,
NUM 36:2 and they said, "The Lord commanded
my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of
Israel as an inheritance, and my lord was commanded
by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad
our brother to his daughters.
NUM 36:3 "But if they marry one of the sons
of the {other} tribes of the sons of Israel, their
inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance
of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance
of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be
withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.
NUM 36:4 "And when the jubilee of the sons of
Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added
to the inheritance of the tribe to which they
belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from
the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
NUM 36:5 Then Moses commanded the sons of
Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying,
"The tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in
{their} statements.
NUM 36:6 "This is what the Lord has commanded
concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, 'Let
them marry whom they wish; only they must marry
within the family of the tribe of their father.'
NUM 36:7 "Thus no inheritance of the sons of
Israel shall be transferred from tribe to tribe, for
the sons of Israel shall each hold to the
inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
NUM 36:8 "And every daughter who comes into
possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the
sons of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family
of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of
Israel each may possess the inheritance of his
fathers.
NUM 36:9 "Thus no inheritance shall be
transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the
tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his
own inheritance."
NUM 36:10 Just as the Lord had commanded
Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:
NUM 36:11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and
Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their
uncles' sons.
NUM 36:12 They married {those} from the
families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph,
and their inheritance remained with the tribe of the
family of their father.
NUM 36:13 These are the commandments and the
ordinances which the Lord commanded to the sons of
Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab by the
Jordan {opposite} Jericho.
