1:1 And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,
in
the Tent of meeting,
on the first day of the second month, in
the second year after
they came out of the land of Egypt,
1:2 Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their
families, and by
their fathers' houses, every male by name;
1:3 All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to
go
to war in Israel, are
to be numbered by you and Aaron.
1:4 And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the
head of his father's
house.
1:5 These are the names of those who are to be your helpers:
from Reuben, Elizur,
the son of Shedeur;
1:6 From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;
1:7 From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;
1:8 From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;
1:9 From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;
1:10 Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the
son
of Ammihud; from
Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,
1:11 From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;
1:12 From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;
1:13 From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;
1:14 From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;
1:15 From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.
1:16 These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs
of
their fathers'
houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.
1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;
1:18 And they got together all the people on the first day
of
the second month; and
everyone made clear his family and his
father's house, by
the number of the names, from twenty years
old and over.
1:19 As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were
numbered by him in
the waste place of Sinai.
1:20 The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son
of
Israel, were numbered
by their families and their fathers'
houses, every male of
twenty years old and over, who was able
to go to war;
1:21 Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben
were numbered.
1:22 The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over,
who was able to go to war;
1:23 Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of
Simeon
were numbered.
1:24 The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by
their
families and their
fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
old and over who was
able to go to war;
1:25 Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe
of
Gad were numbered.
1:26 The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by
their
families and their
fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
old and over who was
able to go to war;
1:27 Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of
Judah
were numbered.
1:28 The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered
by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over
who was able to go to war;
1:29 Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of
Issachar
were numbered.
1:30 The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over
who was able to go to war;
1:31 Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of
Zebulun
were numbered.
1:32 The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over
who was able to go to war;
1:33 Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim
were
numbered.
1:34 The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered
by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over
who was able to go to war;
1:35 Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of
Manasseh
were numbered.
1:36 The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered
by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over
who was able to go to war;
1:37 Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of
Benjamin
were numbered.
1:38 The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by
their
families and their
fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
and over who was able
to go to war;
1:39 Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan
were
numbered.
1:40 The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by
their
families and their
fathers' houses, every male of twenty years
old and over who was
able to go to war;
1:41 Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher
were
numbered.
1:42 The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered
by
their families and
their fathers' houses, every male of twenty
years old and over
who was able to go to war;
1:43 Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of
Naphtali
were numbered.
1:44 These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and
by
the twelve chiefs of
Israel, one from every tribe.
1:45 So all those who were numbered of the children of
Israel,
by their families,
all those of twenty years old and over who
were able to go to
war,
1:46 Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and
fifty.
1:47 But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were
not
numbered among them.
1:48 For the Lord said to Moses,
1:49 Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the
children of Israel,
1:50 But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of
meeting
with its vessels and
everything in it: they are to take up the
Tent, and be
responsible for everything to do with it, and put
up their tents round
it.
1:51 And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites
are
to take it down; and
when it is to be put up, they are to do
it: any strange
person who comes near it is to be put to death.
1:52 The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every
man
in his tent-circle
round his flag.
1:53 But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent
of
meeting, so that
wrath may not come on the children of Israel:
the Tent of meeting
is to be in the care of the Levites.
1:54 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given
orders
to Moses.
2:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2:2 The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the
order of their
families, by the flags of their fathers' houses,
facing the Tent of
meeting on every side.
2:3 Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the
dawn,
will be round the
flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon,
the son of Amminadab,
as their chief.
2:4 The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six
hundred.
2:5 And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with
Nethanel, the son of
Zuar, as their chief.
2:6 The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four
hundred.
2:7 After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of
Helon, as their
chief.
2:8 The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four
hundred.
2:9 The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and
eighty-six thousand,
four hundred. They go forward first.
2:10 On the south side is the flag of the children of
Reuben, in
the order of their
armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as
their chief.
2:11 The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five
hundred.
2:12 And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with
Shelumiel,
the son of
Zurishaddai, as their chief.
2:13 The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three
hundred.
2:14 Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as
their chief.
2:15 The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six
hundred
and fifty.
2:16 The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to
a
hundred and fifty-one
thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go
forward second.
2:17 Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the
tents
of the Levites, in
the middle of the armies; in the same order
as their tents are
placed, they are to go forward, every man
under his flag.
2:18 On the west side will be the flag of the children of
Ephraim, with
Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.
2:19 The number of his army was forty thousand, five
hundred.
2:20 And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son
of
Pedahzur, as their
chief.
2:21 The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two
hundred.
2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of
Gideoni, as their
chief.
2:23 The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four
hundred.
2:24 The number of all the armies of Ephraim was a hundred
and
eight thousand, one
hundred. They go forward third.
2:25 On the north side will be the flag of the children of
Dan,
with Ahiezer, the son
of Ammishaddai, as their chief.
2:26 The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven
hundred.
2:27 Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel,
the
son of Ochran, as
their chief.
2:28 The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five
hundred;
2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of
Enan, as
their chief.
2:30 The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four
hundred.
2:31 The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a
hundred and
fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go
forward last, by
their flags.
2:32 These are all who were numbered of the children of
Israel,
in the order of their
fathers' families: all the armies in
their tents together
came to six hundred and three thousand,
five hundred and
fifty.
2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of
Israel, as the Lord
said to Moses.
2:34 So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to
Moses, so
they put up their
tents by their flags, and they went forward
in the same order, by
their families, and by their fathers'
houses.
3:1 Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the
day
when the word of the
Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.
3:2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the
oldest,
and Abihu, Eleazar,
and Ithamar.
3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests,
on
whom the holy oil was
put, who were marked out as priests.
3:4 And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord
when
they made an offering
of strange fire before the Lord, in the
waste land of Sinai,
and they had no children: and Eleazar and
Ithamar did the work
of priests before Aaron their father.
3:5 And the Lord said to Moses,
3:6 Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before
Aaron
the priest, to be his
helpers,
3:7 In order that they may be responsible to him and to all
Israel for the care
of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work
of the House;
3:8 And they will have the care of all the vessels of the
Tent
of meeting, and will
do for the children of Israel all the
necessary work of the
House.
3:9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may
be
his without question
from among the children of Israel.
3:10 And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep
their
place as priests; any
strange person who comes near is to be
put to death.
3:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
3:12 See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of
Israel
to be mine in place
of the first sons of the children of
Israel;
3:13 For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put
to
death all the first
sons in the land of Egypt, I took for
myself every first
male birth of man and beast. They are mine;
I am the Lord.
3:14 And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,
3:15 Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their
families
and their fathers' houses;
let every male of a month old and
over be numbered.
3:16 So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had
been ordered.
3:17 These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath
and
Merari.
3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by
their
families: Libni and
Shimei.
3:19 And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and
Izhar
and Hebron and
Uzziel.
3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and
Mushi.
These are the
families of the Levites in the order of their
fathers' houses.
3:21 From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these
are
the families of the
Gershonites.
3:22 Those who were numbered of them, the males from one
month
old and over, were
seven thousand, five hundred.
3:23 The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the
back
of the House, to the
west.
3:24 The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of
Lael.
3:25 In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the
care of the House,
and the Tent with its cover, and the veil
for the door of the
Tent of meeting,
3:26 And the hangings for the open space round the House and
the
altar, and the
curtain for its doorway, and all the cords
needed for its use.
3:27 From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and
the
Hebronites and the
Uzzielites; these are the families of the
Kohathites.
3:28 Those who were numbered of them, the males from one
month
old and over, were
eight thousand, six hundred, who were
responsible for the
care of the holy place.
3:29 The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the
south
side of the House.
3:30 Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel.
3:31 In their care are the ark, and the table, and the
lights,
and the altars, and
all the vessels used in the holy place, and
the veil, and all they
are used for.
3:32 Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over
all
the Levites and
overseer of those responsible for the care of
the holy place.
3:33 From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these
are
the families of
Merari.
3:34 Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month
old
and over, were six
thousand, two hundred.
3:35 The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son
of
Abihail: their tents
are to be placed on the north side of the
House.
3:36 And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent,
with their rods and
pillars and bases, and all the instruments,
and all they are used
for,
3:37 And the pillars of the open space round it, with their
bases and nails and
cords.
3:38 And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side
of
the House in front of
the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn,
are Moses and Aaron
and his sons, who will do the work of the
holy place for the
children of Israel; and any strange person
who comes near will
be put to death.
3:39 All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the
order of
the Lord, all the
males of one month old and over numbered in
the order of their
families, were twenty-two thousand.
3:40 And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male
children
be numbered, and take
the number of their names.
3:41 And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of
the
first sons of the
children of Israel; and the cattle of the
Levites in place of
the first births among the cattle of the
children of Israel.
3:42 So Moses had all the first sons among the children of
Israel numbered, as
the Lord said to him.
3:43 Every first son from a month old and over was numbered
by
name, and the number
came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred
and seventy-three.
3:44 And the Lord said to Moses,
3:45 Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the
children of Israel,
and the cattle of the Levites in place of
their cattle; the
Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
3:46 And the price you have to give for the two hundred and
seventy-three first
sons of the children of Israel which are in
addition to the
number of the Levites,
3:47 Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the
holy place (the
shekel is twenty gerahs);
3:48 And this money, the price of those over the number of
the
Levites, is to be
given to Aaron and his sons.
3:49 So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place
had
not been taken by the
Levites;
3:50 From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand,
three
hundred and
sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;
3:51 And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the
Lord
had said.
4:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
4:2 Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be
numbered by their
families, in the order of their fathers'
houses;
4:3 All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to
do
the work of the Tent
of meeting.
4:4 And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in
connection with the
most holy things.
4:5 When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with
his
sons, and take down
the veil of the curtain, covering the ark
of witness with it;
4:6 And putting over it the leather cover and over that a
blue
cloth; and putting
its rods in place.
4:7 And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a
blue
cloth, and on it all
the vessels, the spoons and the basins and
the cups; and the
holy bread with them;
4:8 And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it
with
a leather cover, and
putting its rods in their places.
4:9 And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the
light-support with
its lights and its instruments and its trays
and all the oil
vessels which are used for it:
4:10 All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put
it on
the frame.
4:11 On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth,
covering it
with a leather cover;
and they are to put its rods in their
places.
4:12 All the vessels which are used in the holy place they
are
to put in a blue
cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and
put them on the
frame.
4:13 And they are to take away the burned waste from the
altar,
and put a purple
cloth on it;
4:14 Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets,
the
meat-hooks, the
spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the
altar; they are to
put a leather cover over all these, and put
its rods in their
places.
4:15 And after the holy place and all its vessels have been
covered up by Aaron
and his sons, when the tents of the people
go forward, the sons
of Kohath are to come and take it up; but
the holy things may
not be touched by them for fear of death.
4:16 And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be
responsible for the
oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes
for burning, and the
regular meal offering, and the holy oil;
the House and the
holy place and everything in it will be in
his care.
4:17 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
4:18 Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from
among the Levites;
4:19 But do this to them, so that life and not death may be
theirs when they come
near the most holy things; let Aaron and
his sons go in and
give to every one his work and that which he
is to take up;
4:20 But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy
place,
even for a minute,
for fear of death.
4:21 And the Lord said to Moses,
4:22 Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the
order of their
fathers' houses;
4:23 All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able
to do
the work of the Tent
of meeting.
4:24 This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things
they
are to do and take
up.
4:25 They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the
Tent
of meeting with its
cover and the leather cover over it, and
the hangings for the
door of the Tent of meeting;
4:26 And the hangings for the open space round the House and
the
altar, and the
curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all
the things used for
them; whatever is necessary for these, they
are to do.
4:27 From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites
will
have word about all
the things they are to do and take up; you
are to give them
their orders.
4:28 This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in
the
Tent of meeting, and
they will be under the direction of
Ithamar, the son of
Aaron the priest.
4:29 The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in
the
order of their
fathers' houses;
4:30 Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to
do
the work of the Tent
of meeting.
4:31 And this is their part in the work of the Tent of
meeting:
the transport of the
boards and the rods of the Tent, with the
pillars and their
bases;
4:32 And the pillars of the open space outside it, with
their
bases and their nails
and cords and all the instruments used,
and everything which
has to be done there; all the instruments
for which they are
responsible are to be numbered by name.
4:33 This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in
connection with the
Tent of meeting, under the direction of
Ithamar, the son of
Aaron the priest.
4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in
hand the numbering of
the sons of the Kohathites, by families,
in the order of their
fathers' houses;
4:35 Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who
were
able to do the work
in the Tent of meeting;
4:36 And the number of all these was two thousand, seven
hundred
and fifty.
4:37 This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did
the
work in the Tent of
meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and
Aaron at the order of
the Lord.
4:38 And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by
families,
4:39 All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able
to
do the work in the
Tent of meeting,
4:40 Who were numbered by families in the order of their
fathers' houses, were
two thousand, six hundred and thirty.
4:41 This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the
work
in the Tent of
meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and
Aaron at the order of
the Lord.
4:42 And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by
families, in the
order of their fathers' houses,
4:43 All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the
work
in the Tent of
meeting,
4:44 Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two
hundred.
4:45 This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by
Moses
and Aaron at the
order of the Lord.
4:46 And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and
Aaron
and the chiefs of the
people, by families, in the order of
their fathers'
houses,
4:47 Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to
do
the work of the Tent
of meeting and of its transport,
4:48 Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.
4:49 At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses,
every
one in relation to
his work and to his part in the transport;
so they were numbered
by Moses at the order of the Lord.
5:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
5:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the
tent-circle every
leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow
from his body, and
anyone who is unclean from the touch of the
dead;
5:3 Male or female they are to be put outside the
tent-circle,
so that they may not
make unclean my resting-place among them.
5:4 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to
Moses,
and put them outside
the tent-circle.
5:5 And the Lord said to Moses,
5:6 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does
any
of the sins of men,
going against the word of the Lord, and is
in the wrong;
5:7 Let them say openly what they have done; and make
payment
for the wrong done,
with the addition of a fifth part, and give
it to him to whom the
wrong was done.
5:8 But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may
be
made, then the
payment for sin made to the Lord will be the
priest's, in addition
to the sheep offered to take away his
sin.
5:9 And every offering lifted up of all the holy things
which
the children of
Israel give to the priest, will be his.
5:10 And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man
gives to the priest
will be his.
5:11 And the Lord said to Moses,
5:12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does
wrong, sinning
against him
5:13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret
so
that her husband has
no knowledge of it, and there is no
witness against her,
and she is not taken in the act;
5:14 If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart,
and
he has doubts of his
wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts
of her without cause:
5:15 Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her
the
tenth part of an
ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume;
for it is a meal
offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering
keeping wrongdoing in
mind.
5:16 And the priest will make her come near and put her
before
the Lord;
5:17 And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in
it
dust from the floor
of the House;
5:18 And he will make the woman come before the Lord with
her
hair loose, and will
put the meal offering, the offering of a
bitter spirit, in her
hands; and the priest will take in his
hand the bitter water
causing the curse;
5:19 And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If
no
man has been your
lover and you have not been with another in
place of your
husband, you are free from this bitter water
causing the curse;
5:20 But if you have been with another in place of your
husband
and have made
yourself unclean with a lover:
5:21 Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the
woman, and say to
her, May the Lord make you a curse and an
oath among your
people, sending on you wasting of the legs and
disease of the
stomach;
5:22 And this water of the curse will go into your body,
causing
disease of your
stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman
will say, So be it.
5:23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing
out
the writing with the
bitter water;
5:24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for
drink;
and the bitter water
causing the curse will go into her.
5:25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal
offering of
doubt, waving it
before the Lord, and will take it to the
altar;
5:26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on
the
altar as a sign, and
then he will give the woman the bitter
water.
5:27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean,
sinning against her
husband, when she has taken the bitter
water it will go into
her body, causing disease of the stomach
and wasting of the
legs, and she will be a curse among her
people.
5:28 But if she is clean she will be free and will have
offspring.
5:29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with
another in
place of her husband
and becomes unclean;
5:30 Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in
his
heart about his wife;
let him take her to the priest, who will
put in force this
law.
5:31 Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the
woman's
sin will be on her.
6:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
6:2 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes
an
oath to keep himself
separate and give himself to the Lord;
6:3 He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and
take
no mixed wine or
strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or
any grapes, green or
dry.
6:4 All the time he is separate he may take nothing made
from
the grape-vine, from
its seeds to its skin.
6:5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near
his
head; till the days
while he is separate are ended he is holy
and his hair may not
be cut.
6:6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any
dead
body.
6:7 He may not make himself unclean for his father or his
mother, his sister or
his brother, if death comes to them;
because he is under
an oath to keep himself separate for God.
6:8 All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.
6:9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he
becomes unclean, let
his hair be cut off on the day when he is
made clean, on the
seventh day.
6:10 And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at
the
door of the Tent of
meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;
6:11 And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the
other for a burned
offering to take away the sin which came on
him on account of the
dead, and he will make his head holy that
same day.
6:12 And he will give to the Lord his days of being
separate,
offering a he-lamb of
the first year as an offering for error:
but the earlier days
will be a loss, because he became unclean.
6:13 And this is the law for him who is separate, when the
necessary days are
ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent
of meeting,
6:14 And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the
first
year, without a mark,
for a burned offering, and one female
lamb of the first
year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and
one male sheep,
without a mark, for peace-offerings,
6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best
meal
mixed with oil, and
thin unleavened cakes covered with oil,
with their meal
offering and drink offerings.
6:16 And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make
his
sin-offering and his
burned offering;
6:17 Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the
basket of
unleavened bread; and
at the same time, the priest will make
his meal offering and
his drink offering.
6:18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut
off at
the door of the Tent
of meeting, and let him put it on the fire
on which the
peace-offerings are burning.
6:19 And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep
and
one unleavened cake
and one thin cake out of the basket, and
put them on the hands
of the separate one after his hair has
been cut,
6:20 Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is
holy for the priest,
together with the waved breast and the leg
which is lifted up;
after that, the man may take wine.
6:21 This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep
himself
separate, and for his
offering to the Lord on that account, in
addition to what he
may be able to get; this is the law of his
oath, which he will
have to keep.
6:22 And the Lord said to Moses,
6:23 Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of
blessing
which are to be used
by you in blessing the children of Israel;
say to them,
6:24 May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you:
6:25 May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in
grace:
6:26 May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he
give
you peace.
6:27 So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and
I
will give them my
blessing.
7:1 And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had
put
oil on it and made it
holy, with all the things in it, and had
made the altar and
all its vessels holy with oil;
7:2 Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers'
houses, made
offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes,
who were over those
who were numbered.
7:3 And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six
covered carts and
twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the
chiefs, and for every
one an ox.
7:4 And the Lord said to Moses,
7:5 Take the things from them, to be used for the work of
the
Tent of meeting; and
give them to the Levites, to every man
what is needed for
his work.
7:6 So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to
the
Levites.
7:7 Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon
for
their work;
7:8 And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of
Merari
for their work, under
the direction of Ithamar, the son of
Aaron the priest.
7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they
had
the care of the holy
place, taking it about on their backs.
7:10 And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the
day
when the holy oil was
put on it; they made their offering
before the altar.
7:11 And the Lord said to Moses, Let every chief on his day
give
his offering to make
the altar holy.
7:12 And he who made his offering on the first day was
Nahshon,
the son of Amminadab,
of the tribe of Judah:
7:13 And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and
thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:14 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for
burning;
7:15 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:16 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:17 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Nahshon,
the son of Amminadab.
7:18 On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of
Issachar, made his
offering:
7:19 He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels
in
weight, one silver
basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of
the holy place; the
two of them full of the best meal mixed
with oil for a meal
offering;
7:20 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:21 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:22 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:23 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Nethanel,
the son of Zuar.
7:24 On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the
children of Zebulun:
7:25 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:26 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:27 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:28 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:29 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Eliab,
the son of Helon.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of
the
children of Reuben:
7:31 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:32 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:33 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:34 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:35 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Elizur,
the son of Shedeur.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai,
chief
of the children of
Simeon:
7:37 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:38 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:39 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:40 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:41 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of
Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.
7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of
the
children of Gad:
7:43 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:44 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:45 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:46 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:47 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Eliasaph,
the son of Reuel
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief
of
the children of
Ephraim:
7:49 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:50 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:51 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:52 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:53 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Elishama,
the son of Ammihud.
7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief
of
the children of
Manasseh:
7:55 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:56 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:57 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:58 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:59 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Gamaliel,
the son of Pedahzur.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of
the
children of Benjamin:
7:61 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:62 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:63 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year
for a burned
offering;
7:64 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:65 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Abidan,
the son of Gideoni.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief
of
the children of Dan:
7:67 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:68 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:69 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:70 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:71 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Ahiezer,
the son of Ammishaddai.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of
the
children of Asher:
7:73 His offering was one silver plate; a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:74 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:75 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:76 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:77 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Pagiel,
the son of Ochran.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the
children of Naphtali:
7:79 His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty
shekels in weight,
one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the
scale of the holy
place; the two of them full of the best meal
mixed with oil for a
meal offering;
7:80 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
7:81 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first
year, for a burned
offering;
7:82 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;
7:83 And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep,
five he-goats, five
he-lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Ahira,
the son of Enan.
7:84 These were the offerings given for the altar by the
chiefs
of Israel, when the
holy oil was put on it: twelve silver
plates, twelve silver
basins, twelve gold spoons;
7:85 The weight of every silver plate was a hundred and
thirty
shekels, and of every
basin seventy; the weight of all the
silver of the vessels
was two thousand and four hundred
shekels, by the scale
of the holy place;
7:86 The weight of the twelve gold spoons of spice for
burning
was ten shekels for
every one, by the scale of the holy place;
all the gold of the
spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels;
7:87 All the oxen, for the burned offering were twelve, the
male
sheep twelve, the
he-lambs of the first year twelve, with their
meal offering; and
the males of the goats for sin-offering
twelve;
7:88 And all the oxen for the peace-offerings, twenty-four
oxen,
the male sheep sixty,
and the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs of
the first year sixty.
This was given for the altar after the
holy oil was put on
it.
7:89 And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have
talk
with him, then the
Voice came to his ears from over the cover
which was on the ark
of witness, from between the two winged
ones. And he had talk
with him.
8:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
8:2 Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places,
the
seven lights will
give light in front of the support.
8:3 And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so
that
they gave light in
front of the support, as the Lord gave
orders to Moses.
8:4 The support for the lights was of hammered gold work,
from
its base to its
flowers it was of hammered work; from the
design which the Lord
had given to Moses, he made the support
for the lights.
8:5 And the Lord said to Moses,
8:6 Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel
and
make them clean.
8:7 And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy
water which takes
away sin be put on them, and let the hair all
over their bodies be
cut off with a sharp blade, and let their
clothing be washed
and their bodies made clean.
8:8 Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering,
crushed
grain mixed with oil,
and take another ox for a sin-offering.
8:9 And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent
of
meeting, and let all
the children of Israel come together:
8:10 And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and
the
children of Israel
are to put their hands on them:
8:11 And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave
offering from the
children of Israel, so that they may do the
Lord's work.
8:12 And the Levites are to put their hands on the heads of
the
oxen, and one of the
oxen is to be offered for a sin-offering
and the other for a
burned offering to the Lord to take away
the sin of the
Levites.
8:13 Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his
sons,
to be offered as a
wave offering to the Lord.
8:14 So you are to make the Levites separate from the
children
of Israel, and the
Levites will be mine.
8:15 After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has
to be
done in the Tent of
meeting; you are to make them clean and
give them as a wave
offering.
8:16 For they have been given to me from among the children
of
Israel; in place of
every mother's first son, the first to come
to birth in Israel, I
have taken them for myself.
8:17 For every mother's first son among the children of
Israel
is mine, the first
male birth of man or beast: on the day when
I sent death on all
the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made
them mine.
8:18 And in place of the first sons among the children of
Israel, I have taken
the Levites.
8:19 And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from
among
the children of
Israel, to undertake for them all the work of
the Tent of meeting,
and to take away sin from the children of
Israel so that no
evil may come on them when they come near the
holy place.
8:20 All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of
Israel
did to the Levites;
as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the
Levites, so the
children of Israel did.
8:21 And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their
clothing was washed,
and Aaron gave them for a wave offering
before the Lord; and
Aaron took away their sin and made them
clean.
8:22 And then the Levites went in to do their work in the
Tent
of meeting before
Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the
Lord had given Moses
about the Levites were put into effect.
8:23 And the Lord said to Moses,
8:24 This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five
years old and over
are to go in and do the work of the Tent of
meeting;
8:25 But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up
their work and do no
more;
8:26 But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting,
taking
care of it but doing
no work. This is what you are to do in
connection with the
Levites and their work.
9:1 And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai,
in
the first month of
the second year after they had come out of
the land of Egypt,
9:2 Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its
regular
time.
9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are
to
keep it at the
regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.
9:4 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep
the
Passover.
9:5 So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the
month, at evening, in the waste land of
Sinai: as the Lord
gave orders to Moses, so the children of
Israel did.
9:6 And there were certain men who were unclean because of a
dead body, so that
they were not able to keep the Passover on
that day; and they
came before Moses and before Aaron on that
day:
9:7 And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by
the
dead body of a man;
why may we not make the offering of the
Lord at the regular
time among the children of Israel?
9:8 And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives
me
directions about you.
9:9 And the Lord said to Moses,
9:10 Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of
your
families is unclean
because of a dead body, or is on a journey
far away, still he is
to keep the Passover to the Lord:
9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the
evening,
they are to keep it,
taking it with unleavened bread and
bitter-tasting
plants;
9:12 Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no
bone
of it is to be
broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the
Passover.
9:13 But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey,
does
not keep the
Passover, will be cut off from his people: because
he did not make the
offering of the Lord at the regular time,
his sin will be on
him.
9:14 And if a man from another country is among you and has
a
desire to keep the
Passover to the Lord, let him do as is
ordered in the law of
the Passover: there is to be the same
rule for the man from
another nation and for him who had his
birth in the land.
9:15 And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud
came
down on it, on the
Tent of witness; and in the evening there
was a light like fire
over the House till the morning.
9:16 And so it was at all times: it was covered by the
cloud,
and by a light as of
fire by night.
9:17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the
House,
then the children of
Israel went journeying on; and in the
place where the cloud
came to rest, there the children of
Israel put up their
tents.
9:18 At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went
forward, and at the
order of the Lord they put up their tents:
as long as the cloud
was resting on the House, they did not go
away from that place.
9:19 When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time
the
children of Israel,
waiting for the order of the Lord, did not
go on.
9:20 Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or
three days; then, by
the order of the Lord, they kept their
tents in that place,
and when the Lord gave the order they went
on.
9:21 And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to
morning; and when the
cloud was taken up in the morning they
went on their journey
again: or if it was resting there by day
and by night, whenever
the cloud was taken up they went
forward.
9:22 Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days
or a
month or a year
without moving, the children of Israel went on
waiting there and did
not go on; but whenever it was taken up
they went forward on
their journey.
9:23 At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at
the
word of the Lord they
went forward on their journey: they kept
the orders of the
Lord as he gave them by Moses.
10:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
10:2 Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for
getting the people
together and to give the sign for the moving
of the tents.
10:3 When they are sounded, all the people are to come
together
to you at the door of
the Tent of meeting.
10:4 If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the
heads
of the thousands of
Israel, are to come to you.
10:5 When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the
east
side are to go
forward.
10:6 At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the
south
side are to go
forward: the loud note will be the sign to go
forward.
10:7 But when all the people are to come together, the horn
is
to be sounded but not
loudly.
10:8 The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the
priests; this is to be
a law for you for ever, from generation
to generation.
10:9 And if you go to war in your land against any who do
you
wrong, then let the
loud note of the horn be sounded; and the
Lord your God will
keep you in mind and give you salvation from
those who are against
you.
10:10 And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on
the
first day of every
month, let the horns be sounded over your
burned offerings and
your peace-offerings; and they will put
the Lord in mind of
you: I am the Lord your God.
10:11 Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the
second
month, the cloud was
taken up from over the Tent of witness.
10:12 And the children of Israel went on their journey out
of
the waste land of
Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the
waste land of Paran.
10:13 They went forward for the first time on their journey
as
the Lord had given
orders by the hand of Moses.
10:14 First the flag of the children of Judah went forward
with
their armies: and at
the head of his army was Nahshon, the son
of Amminadab.
10:15 And at the head of the army of the children of
Issachar
was Nethanel, the son
of Zuar.
10:16 And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun
was
Eliab, the son of
Helon.
10:17 Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon
and
the sons of Merari,
who were responsible for moving the House,
went forward.
10:18 Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward
with
their armies: and at
the head of his army was Elizur, the son
of Shedeur.
10:19 And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon
was
Shelumiel, the son of
Zurishaddai.
10:20 At the head of the army of the children of Gad was
Eliasaph, the son of
Reuel.
10:21 Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place;
the
others put up the
House ready for their coming.
10:22 Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward
with
their armies: and at
the head of his army was Elishama, the son
of Ammihud.
10:23 At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh
was
Gamaliel, the son of
Pedahzur.
10:24 At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin
was
Abidan, the son of
Gideoni.
10:25 And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were
moved last of all,
went forward with their armies: and at the
head of his army was
Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.
10:26 At the head of the army of the children of Asher was
Pagiel, the son of
Ochran.
10:27 And at the head of the army of the children of
Naphtali
was Ahira, the son of
Enan.
10:28 This was the order in which the children of Israel
were
journeying by armies;
so they went forward.
10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law
Reuel the Midianite,
We are journeying to that place of which
the Lord has said, I
will give it to you: so come with us, and
it will be for your
profit: for the Lord has good things in
store for Israel.
10:30 But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to
the
land of my birth and
to my relations.
10:31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes
for
us, guiding us to the
right places in the waste land to put up
our tents.
10:32 And if you come with us, we will give you a part in
whatever good the
Lord does for us.
10:33 So they went forward three days' journey from the
mountain
of the Lord; and the
ark of the Lord's agreement went three
days' journey before
them, looking for a resting-place for
them;
10:34 And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when
they
went forward from the
place where they had put up their tents.
10:35 And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O
Lord,
and let the armies of
those who are against you be broken, and
let your haters go in
flight before you.
10:36 And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord,
and
give a blessing to
the families of Israel.
11:1 Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and
the
Lord, hearing it, was
angry and sent fire on them, burning the
outer parts of the
tent-circle.
11:2 And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made
prayer to the Lord,
and the fire was stopped.
11:3 So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of
the
Lord which had been
burning among them.
11:4 And the mixed band of people who went with them were
overcome by desire:
and the children of Israel, weeping again,
said, Who will give
us flesh for our food?
11:5 Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for
nothing, and the
fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp
and pleasing to the
taste:
11:6 But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at
all:
we have nothing but
this manna before our eyes.
11:7 Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small
clear
drops.
11:8 The people went about taking it up from the earth,
crushing
it between stones or
hammering it to powder, and boiling it in
pots, and they made
cakes of it: its taste was like the taste
of cakes cooked with
oil.
11:9 When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna
came down with it.
11:10 And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at
his
tent-door, the wrath
of the Lord was great, and Moses was very
angry.
11:11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this
evil? and why have I
not grace in your eyes, that you have put
on me the care of all
this people?
11:12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them
birth, that you say
to me, Take them in your arms, like a child
at the breast, to the
land which you gave by an oath to their
fathers?
11:13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people?
For
they are weeping to
me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
11:14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this
people, for it is
more than my strength.
11:15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in
answer to
my prayer, if I have
grace in your eyes; and let me not see my
shame.
11:16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the
responsible men of
Israel, who are in your opinion men of
weight and authority
over the people; make them come to the
Tent of meeting and
be there with you.
11:17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and
I
will take some of the
spirit which is on you and put it on
them, and they will
take part of the weight of the people off
you, so that you do
not have to take it by yourself.
11:18 And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before
tomorrow and you will
have flesh for your food: for in the ears
of the Lord you have
been weeping and saying, Who will give us
flesh for food? for
we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord
will give you flesh,
and it will be your food;
11:19 Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or
twenty
days;
11:20 But every day for a month, till you are tired of it,
turning from it in
disgust: because you have gone against the
Lord who is with you,
and have been weeping before him saying,
Why did we come out
of Egypt?
11:21 Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six
hundred thousand men
on foot; and you have said, I will give
them flesh to be
their food for a month.
11:22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or
are
all the fish in the
sea to be got together so that they may be
full?
11:23 And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become
short? Now you will
see if my word comes true for you or not.
11:24 And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the
Lord: and he took
seventy of the responsible men of the people,
placing them round
the Tent.
11:25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with
him, and put on the
seventy men some of the spirit which was on
him: now when the
spirit came to rest on them, they were like
prophets, but only at
that time.
11:26 But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them
named Eldad and the
other Medad: and the spirit came to rest on
them; they were among
those who had been sent for, but they had
not gone out to the
Tent: and the prophet's power came on them
in the tent-circle.
11:27 And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad
and
Medad are acting as
prophets in the tent-circle.
11:28 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant
from the time when he
was a child, said, My lord Moses, let
them be stopped.
11:29 And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my
account? If only all
the Lord's people were prophets, and the
Lord might put his
spirit on them!
11:30 Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went
back
to the tent-circle.
11:31 Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from
the
sea, so that they
came down on the tents, and all round the
tent-circle, about a
day's journey on this side and on that, in
masses about two
cubits high over the face of the earth.
11:32 And all that day and all night and the day after, the
people were taking up
the birds; the smallest amount which
anyone got was ten
homers: and they put them out all round the
tents.
11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth,
before
it was tasted, the
wrath of the Lord was moved against the
people and he sent a
great outburst of disease on them.
11:34 So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because
there
they put in the earth
the bodies of the people who had given
way to their desires.
11:35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth;
and
there they put up
their tents.
12:1 Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because
of
the Cushite woman to
whom he was married, for he had taken a
Cushite woman as his
wife.
12:2 And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to
Moses only? have they
not come to us? And the Lord took note of
it.
12:3 Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on
earth.
12:4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and
Miriam,
Come out, you three,
to the Tent of meeting. And the three of
them went out.
12:5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his
place at the door of
the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come
before him.
12:6 And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a
prophet among you I
will give him knowledge of myself in a
vision and will let
my words come to him in a dream.
12:7 My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my
house:
12:8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and
not in
dark sayings; and
with his eyes he will see the form of the
Lord: why then had
you no fear of saying evil against my
servant Moses?
12:9 And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went
away.
12:10 And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and
straight
away Miriam became a
leper, as white as snow: and Aaron,
looking at Miriam,
saw that she was a leper.
12:11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin
be on
our heads, for we
have done foolishly and are sinners.
12:12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted
when he comes out
from the body of his mother.
12:13 And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer
come
before you, O God,
and make her well.
12:14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a
mark
of shame on her,
would she not be shamed for seven days? Let
her be shut up
outside the tent-circle for seven days, and
after that she may
come in again.
12:15 So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for
seven
days: and the people
did not go forward on their journey till
Miriam had come in
again.
12:16 After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put
up
their tents in the
waste land of Paran.
13:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
13:2 Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan,
which I
am giving to the
children of Israel; from every tribe of their
fathers you are to
send a man, every one a chief among them.
13:3 And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the
Lord gave orders, all
of them men who were heads of the
children of Israel.
13:4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben,
Shammua, the son of
Zaccur.
13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.
13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.
13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.
13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.
13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of
Manasseh,
Gaddi, the son of
Susi.
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael
13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.
13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get
knowledge about the
land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of
Nun, the name of Joshua.
13:17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of
Canaan,
and said to them, Go
up into the South and into the
hill-country;
13:18 And see what the land is like; and if the people
living in
it are strong or
feeble, small or great in number;
13:19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is
good or
bad; and what their
living-places are, tent-circles or walled
towns;
13:20 And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is
wood
in it or not. And be
of good heart, and come back with some of
the produce of the
land. Now it was the time when the first
grapes were ready.
13:21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the
waste
land of Zin to Rehob,
on the way to Hamath.
13:22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman
and Sheshai and
Talmai, the children of Anak, were living
there. (Now the
building of Hebron took place seven years
before that of Zoan
in Egypt.)
13:23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting
down a
vine-branch with its
grapes, two of them took it on a rod
between them; and
they took some pomegranates and figs.
13:24 That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of
the
grapes which the
children of Israel took from there.
13:25 At the end of forty days they came back from viewing
the
land.
13:26 And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the
children
of Israel, to Kadesh
in the waste land of Paran; and gave an
account to them and
to all the people and let them see the
produce of the land.
13:27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us,
and
truly it is flowing
with milk and honey: and here is some of
the produce of it.
13:28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the
towns are walled and
very great; further, we saw the children
of Anak there.
13:29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites
and
the Jebusites and the
Amorites are living in the hill-country;
and the Canaanites by
the sea and by the side of Jordan.
13:30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and
said to Moses, Let us
go up straight away and take this land;
for we are well able
to overcome it.
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 stronger than we.
13:32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of
the
land they had been to
see, saying, This land through which we
went is a land
causing destruction to those living in it; and
all the people we saw
there are men of more than common size.
13:33 There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak,
offspring
of the Nephilim: and
we seemed to ourselves no more than
insects, and so we
seemed to them.
14:1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all
that
night they gave
themselves up to weeping.
14:2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against
Moses
and Aaron, said, If
only we had come to our death in the land
of Egypt, or even in
this waste land!
14:3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our
death by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will get into
strange hands: would
it not be better for us to go back to
Egypt?
14:4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain
over
us, and go back to
Egypt.
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before
the
meeting of the
people.
14:6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh, two of
those who had been to see the land, giving
signs of grief,
14:7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we
went
through to see is a
very good land.
14:8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into
this land and give it
to us, a land flowing with milk and
honey.
14:9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the
people of the land,
for they will be our food; their strength
has been taken from
them and the Lord is with us: have no fear
of them.
14:10 But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then
the
glory of the Lord was
seen in the Tent of meeting, before the
eyes of all the
children of Israel.
14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people
have
no respect for me?
how long will they be without faith, in the
face of all the signs
I have done among them?
14:12 I will send disease on them for their destruction, and
take away their
heritage, and I will make of you a nation
greater and stronger
than they.
14:13 And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the
ears
of the Egyptians; for
by your power you took this people out
from among them;
14:14 And they will give the news to the people of this
land:
they have had word that
you, Lord, are present with this
people, letting
yourself be seen face to face, and that your
cloud is resting over
them, and that you go before them in a
pillar of cloud by
day and in a pillar of fire by night.
14:15 Now if you put to death all this people as one man,
then
the nations who have
had word of your glory will say,
14:16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into
the
land which he made an
oath to give them, he sent destruction on
them in the waste
land.
14:17 So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the
power
of the Lord be great,
as you said:
14:18 The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy,
overlooking
wrongdoing and evil,
and will not let wrongdoers go free;
sending punishment on
children for the sins of their fathers,
to the third and
fourth generation.
14:19 May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the
measure of your great
mercy, as you have had mercy on them from
Egypt up till now.
14:20 And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:
14:21 But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will
be
full of the glory of
the Lord;
14:22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the
signs
which I have done in
Egypt and in the waste land, still have
put me to the test
ten times, and have not given ear to my
voice;
14:23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath
to
their fathers; not
one of these by whom I have not been
honoured will see it.
14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit
in
him, and has been
true to me with all his heart, him I will
take into that land
into which he went, and his seed will have
it for their
heritage.
14:25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the
valley;
tomorrow, turning
round, go into the waste land by the way to
the Red Sea.
14:26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
14:27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and
their
outcries against me?
The words which they say against me have
come to my ears.
14:28 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly
as
your words have come
to my ears, so certainly will I do this to
you:
14:29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste
land;
and of all your
number, all those of twenty years old and over
who have been crying
out against me,
14:30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word
you
would have for your
resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh, and
Joshua, the son of Nun.
14:31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into
strange hands, I will
take in, and they will see the land which
you would not have.
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in
this
waste land.
14:33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land
for
forty years,
undergoing punishment for your false ways, till
your bodies become
dust in the waste land.
14:34 And as you went through the land viewing it for forty
days, so for forty
years, a year for every day, you will
undergo punishment
for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I
am against you.
14:35 I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do
to
all this evil people
who have come together against me: in this
waste land
destruction will come on them, and death will be
their fate.
14:36 And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who,
by
the bad account they
gave of the land, were the cause of the
outcry the people
made against Moses,
14:37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to
their
death by disease
before the Lord.
14:38 But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh, of those
who went to see the land, were not touched
by disease.
14:39 And when Moses put these words before the children of
Israel, the people
were full of grief.
14:40 And early in the morning they got up and went to the
top
of the mountain,
saying, We are here and we will go up to the
place which the Lord
said he would give us: for we have done
wrong.
14:41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the
Lord's
order, seeing that no
good will come of it?
14:42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will
be
overcome by those who
are fighting against you.
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before
you, and you will be
put to death by their swords: because you
have gone back from
the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be
with you.
14:44 But they gave no attention to his words and went to
the
top of the mountain,
though Moses and the ark of the Lord's
agreement did not go
out of the tent-circle.
14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who
were
living in the
hill-country, and overcame them completely,
driving them back as
far as Hormah.
15:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
15:2 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into
the
land which I am
giving to you for your resting-place,
15:3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord,
a
burned offering or an
offering in connection with an oath, or
an offering freely
given, or at your regular feasts, an
offering for a sweet
smell to the Lord, from the herd or the
flock:
15:4 Then let him who is making his offering, give to the
Lord a
meal offering of a
tenth part of a measure of the best meal
mixed with a fourth
part of a hin of oil:
15:5 And for the drink offering, you are to give with the
burned
offering or other
offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine
for every lamb.
15:6 Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth
parts of a measure of
the best meal mixed with a third part of
a hin of oil:
15:7 And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin
of
wine, for a sweet
smell to the Lord.
15:8 And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or
other
offering, or for the
effecting of an oath, or for
peace-offerings to
the Lord:
15:9 Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth
parts
of a measure of the
best meal mixed with half a hin of oil.
15:10 And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine,
for
an offering made by
fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.
15:11 This is to be done for every young ox and for every
male
sheep or he-lamb or
young goat.
15:12 Whatever number you make ready, so you are to do for
every
one.
15:13 All those who are Israelites by birth are to do these
things in this way,
when giving an offering made by fire of a
sweet smell to the
Lord.
15:14 And if a man from another country or any other person
living among you,
through all your generations, has the desire
to give an offering
made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord,
let him do as you do.
15:15 There is to be one law for you and for the man of
another
country living with
you, one law for ever from generation to
generation; as you
are, so is he to be before the Lord.
15:16 The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for
those from other
lands living with you.
15:17 And the Lord said to Moses,
15:18 Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the
land
where I am guiding
you,
15:19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the
land,
you are to give an offering
lifted up before the Lord.
15:20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake
for
a lifted offering,
lifting it up before the Lord as the
offering of the
grain-floor is lifted up.
15:21 From generation to generation you are to give to the
Lord
a lifted offering
from the first of your rough meal.
15:22 And if in error you go against any of these laws which
the
Lord has given to
Moses,
15:23 All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand
of
Moses, from the day
when the Lord gave them, and ever after
from generation to
generation;
15:24 Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the
knowledge
of the meeting of the
people, let all the meeting give a young
ox as a burned
offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its
meal offering and its
drink offering, as is ordered in the law,
together with a
he-goat for a sin-offering.
15:25 So the priest will make the people free from sin, and
they
will have
forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given
their offering made
by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering
before the Lord, on
account of their error:
15:26 And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well
as
those from other
lands living among them, will have
forgiveness; for it
was an error on the part of the people.
15:27 And if one person does wrong, without being conscious
of
it, then let him give
a she-goat of the first year for a
sin-offering.
15:28 And the priest will take away the sin of the person
who
has done wrong, if
the wrong was done unconsciously, and he
will have
forgiveness.
15:29 The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is
to
be the same for him
who is an Israelite by birth and for the
man from another
country who is living among them.
15:30 But the person who does wrong in the pride of his
heart,
if he is one of you
or of another nation by birth, is acting
without respect for
the Lord, and will be cut off from his
people.
15:31 Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord,
and
did not keep his law,
that man will be cut off without mercy
and his sin will be
on him.
15:32 Now while the children of Israel were in the waste
land,
they saw a man who
was getting sticks on the Sabbath day.
15:33 And those who saw him getting sticks took him before
Moses
and Aaron and all the
people.
15:34 And they had him shut up, because they had no
directions
about what was to be
done with him.
15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be
put to death: let him
be stoned by all the people outside the
tent-circle.
15:36 So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and
he
was stoned to death
there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
15:37 And the Lord said to Moses,
15:38 Say to the children of Israel that through all their
generations they are
to put on the edges of their robes an
ornament of twisted
threads, and in every ornament a blue cord;
15:39 So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in
mind
the orders of the
Lord and do them; and not be guided by the
desires of your
hearts and eyes, through which you have been
untrue to me:
15:40 And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do
them
and be holy to your
God.
15:41 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land
of
Egypt, so that I
might be your God: I am the Lord your God.
16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son
of
Levi, with Dathan and
Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
son of Pallu, the son
of Reuben, made themselves ready,
16:2 And came before Moses, with certain of the children of
Israel, two hundred
and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good
name who had a place
in the meeting of the people.
16:3 They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and
said to them, You
take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all
the people are holy,
every one of them, and the Lord is among
them; why then have
you put yourselves in authority over the
people of the Lord?
16:4 And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face;
16:5 And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the
Lord
will make clear who
are his, and who is holy, and who may come
near him: the man of
his selection will be caused to come near
him.
16:6 So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for
burning perfumes;
16:7 And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord
tomorrow; then the
man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you
take overmuch on
yourselves, you sons of Levi.
16:8 And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:
16:9 Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of
Israel has made you
separate from the rest of Israel, letting
you come near himself
to do the work of the House of the Lord,
and to take your
place before the people to do what has to be
done for them;
16:10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi,
come
near to him? and
would you now be priests?
16:11 So you and all your band have come together against
the
Lord; and Aaron, who
is he, that you are crying out against
him?
16:12 Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab:
and they said, We
will not come up:
16:13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land
flowing with milk and
honey, to put us to death in the waste
land, but now you are
desiring to make yourself a chief over
us?
16:14 And more than this, you have not taken us into a land
flowing with milk and
honey, or given us a heritage of fields
and vine-gardens:
will you put out the eyes of these men? We
will not come up.
16:15 Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give
no
attention to their
offering: not one of their asses have I
taken, or done wrong
to any of them.
16:16 And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to
come
before the Lord
tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:
16:17 And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes,
and
put sweet spices in
them; let every man take his vessel before
the Lord, two hundred
and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and
everyone with his
vessel.
16:18 So every man took his vessel and they put fire in
them,
with spices, and came
to the door of the Tent of meeting with
Moses and Aaron.
16:19 And Korah made all the people come together against
them
to the door of the
Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord
was seen by all the
people.
16:20 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
16:21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send
sudden
destruction on them.
16:22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the
God
of the spirits of all
flesh, because of one man's sin will your
wrath be moved
against all the people?
16:23 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:24 Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah
Dathan, and Abiram.
16:25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the
responsible men of
Israel went with him.
16:26 And he said to the people, Come away now from the
tents of
these evil men,
without touching anything of theirs, or you may
be taken in the
punishment of their sins.
16:27 So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah
Dathan, and Abiram:
and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door
of their tents, with
their wives and their sons and their
little ones.
16:28 And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has
sent me
to do all these
works, and I have not done them of myself.
16:29 If these men have the common death of men, or if the
natural fate of all
men overtakes them, then the Lord has not
sent me.
16:30 But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth
to
take them in, with
everything which is theirs, and they go down
living into the
underworld, then it will be clear to you that
the Lord has not been
honoured by these men.
16:31 And while these words were on his lips, the earth
under
them was parted in
two;
16:32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with
their
families, and all the
men who were joined to Korah, and their
goods.
16:33 So they and all theirs went down living into the
underworld, and the
earth was shut over them, and they were cut
off from among the
meeting of the people.
16:34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at
their
cry, For fear, said
they, that we go down into the heart of the
earth.
16:35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two
hundred and fifty men
who were offering the perfume.
16:36 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:37 Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he
is to
take out of the
flames the vessels with the perfumes in them,
turning the fire out
of them, for they are holy;
16:38 And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives
have made payment for
their sin, be hammered out into plates as
a cover for the
altar; for they have been offered before the
Lord and are holy; so
that they may be a sign to the children
of Israel.
16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had
been offered by those
who were burned up, and they were
hammered out to make
a cover for the altar:
16:40 To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children
of
Israel, that no man
who is not of the seed of Aaron has the
right of burning
spices before the Lord, so that he may not be
like Korah and his
band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth
of Moses.
16:41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made
an
outcry against Moses
and against Aaron, saying, You have put to
death the Lord's
people.
16:42 Now when the people had come together against Moses
and
Aaron, looking in the
direction of the Tent of meeting, they
saw the cloud
covering it, and the glory of the Lord came
before their eyes.
16:43 Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of
meeting.
16:44 And the Lord said to Moses,
16:45 Come out from among this people, so that I may send
sudden
destruction on them.
And they went down on their faces.
16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in
it
fire from the altar,
and sweet spices, and take it quickly into
the meeting of the
people, and make them free from sin: for
wrath has gone out
from the Lord, and the disease is starting.
16:47 And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and
went
running among the
people; and even then the disease had made a
start among them; and
he put spices in his vessel to take away
the sin of the
people.
16:48 And he took his place between the dead and the living:
and
the disease was
stopped.
16:49 Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were
caused by
that disease, in
addition to those who came to their end
because of what Korah
had done.
16:50 Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent
of
meeting: and the
disease came to a stop.
17:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
17:2 Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you
rods, one for every
family, for every chief, the head of his
father's house,
making twelve rods; let every man's name be
placed on his rod.
17:3 And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for
there is to be one
rod for the head of every family.
17:4 And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in
front
of the ark of witness
where I come to you.
17:5 And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for
myself
will have buds on it;
so I will put a stop to the outcries
which the children of
Israel make to me against you.
17:6 So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel,
and
all their chiefs gave
him rods, one for the head of every
family, making twelve
rods: and Aaron's rod was among them.
17:7 And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of
witness.
17:8 Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of
witness;
and he saw that
Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had
put out buds, and was
covered with buds and flowers and fruit.
17:9 Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord,
and
gave them back to the
children of Israel: and they saw them,
and every man took
his rod.
17:10 And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in
front
of the ark of
witness, to be kept for a sign against this
false-hearted people,
so that you may put a stop to their
outcries against me,
and death may not overtake them.
17:11 This Moses did: as the Lord gave orders, so he did.
17:12 And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly,
destruction has come
on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.
17:13 Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes
near the House of the
Lord: are we all to come to destruction?
18:1 And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your
father's family are
to be responsible for all wrongdoing in
relation to the holy
place: and you and your sons are to be
responsible for the
errors which come about in your work as
priests.
18:2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with
you,
so that they may be
joined with you and be your servants: but
you and your sons
with you are to go in before the ark of
witness.
18:3 They are to do your orders and be responsible for the
work
of the Tent; but they
may not come near the vessels of the holy
place or the altar,
so that death may not overtake them or you.
18:4 They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent
of
meeting, doing
whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of
any other family may
come near you.
18:5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the
altar,
so that wrath may never
again come on the children of Israel.
18:6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from
among
the children of
Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord,
to do the work of the
Tent of meeting.
18:7 And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as
priests for the altar
and everything on it, and everything
inside the veil; you
are to do the work of priests; I have
given you your
position as priests; and any other man who comes
near will be put to
death.
18:8 And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your
care my lifted
offerings; even all the holy things of the
children of Israel I
have given to you and to your sons as your
right for ever,
because you have been marked with the holy oil.
18:9 This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the
fire offerings; every
offering of theirs, every meal offering
and sin-offering, and
every offering which they make on account
of error, is to be
most holy for you and your sons.
18:10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let
every
male have them for
food; it is to be holy to you.
18:11 And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give
and
all the wave
offerings of the children of Israel I have given
to you and to your
sons and to your daughters as your right for
ever: everyone in
your house who is clean may have them for
food.
18:12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain,
the
first-fruits of them
which they give to the Lord, to you have I
given them.
18:13 The earliest produce from their land which they take
to
the Lord is to be
yours; everyone in your house who is clean
may have it for his
food.
18:14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to
be
yours.
18:15 The first birth of every living thing which is offered
to
the Lord, of man or
beast, is to be yours; but for the first
sons of man payment
is to be made, and for the first young of
unclean beasts.
18:16 Payment is to be made for these when they are a month
old,
at the value fixed by
you, a price of five shekels by the scale
of the holy place,
that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
18:17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of
an
ox or a sheep or a
goat; these are holy: their blood is to be
dropped on the altar,
and their fat burned for an offering made
by fire, a sweet
smell to the Lord.
18:18 Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the
wave
offering and the
right leg, it is to be yours.
18:19 All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the
children of Israel
give to the Lord, I have given to you and to
your sons and to your
daughters as a right for ever. This is an
agreement made with
salt before the Lord, to you and to your
seed for ever.
18:20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage
in
their land, or any
part among them; I am your part and your
heritage among the
children of Israel.
18:21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their
heritage
all the tenths
offered in Israel, as payment for the work they
do, the work of the
Tent of meeting.
18:22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near
the
Tent of meeting, so
that death may not come to them because of
sin.
18:23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of
meeting,
and be responsible
for errors in connection with it: this is a
law for ever through
all your generations; and among the
children of Israel
they will have no heritage.
18:24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a
lifted offering to
the Lord I have given to the Levites as
their heritage. and
so I have said to them, Among the children
of Israel they will
have no heritage.
18:25 And the Lord said to Moses,
18:26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of
Israel the tenth
which I have given to you from them as your
heritage, a tenth
part of that tenth is to be offered as an
offering lifted up
before the Lord.
18:27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit
as if
it was grain from the
grain-floor and wine from the vines.
18:28 So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord
from
all the tenths which
you get from the children of Israel,
giving out of it the
Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the
priest.
18:29 From everything given to you, let the best of it, the
holy
part of it, be
offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.
18:30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on
high, it is to be put
to the account of the Levites as the
increase of the
grain-floor and of the place where the grapes
are crushed.
18:31 It is to be your food, for you and your families in
every
place: it is your
reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.
18:32 And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the
best
of it has been lifted
up on high; you are not to make a wrong
use of the holy
things of the children of Israel, so that death
may not overtake you.
19:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
19:2 This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made,
saying, Give orders
to the children of Israel to give you a red
cow without any mark
on her, and on which the yoke has never
been put:
19:3 Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her
outside
the tent-circle and
have her put to death before him.
19:4 Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on
his
finger, shaking the
blood seven times in the direction of the
front of the Tent of
meeting:
19:5 And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and
her
flesh and her blood
and her waste are to be burned:
19:6 Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red
thread, and put them
into the fire where the cow is burning.
19:7 And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing
his
body in water, may
come back to the tent-circle, and will be
unclean till evening.
19:8 And he who does the burning is to have his clothing
washed
and his body bathed
in water and be unclean till evening.
19:9 Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned
cow
and put it outside
the tent-circle in a clean place, where it
is to be kept for the
children of Israel and used in making the
water which takes
away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.
19:10 And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to
have
his clothing washed
with water and be unclean till evening:
this is to be a law
for ever, for the children of Israel as
well as for the man
from another country who is living among
them.
19:11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven
days:
19:12 On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make
himself clean with
the water, and so he will be clean: but if
he does not do this
on the third day and on the seventh day, he
will not be clean.
19:13 Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making
himself clean in this
way, makes the House of the Lord unclean;
and that man will be
cut off from Israel: because the water was
not put on him, he
will be unclean; his unclean condition is
unchanged.
19:14 This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent:
everyone who comes
into the tent, and everyone who is in the
tent, will be unclean
for seven days.
19:15 And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will
be
unclean.
19:16 And anyone touching one who has been put to death with
the
sword in the open
country, or the body of one who has come to
his end by a natural
death, or a man's bone, or the
resting-place of a
dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
19:17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the
burning of the
sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a
vessel:
19:18 And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the
water, shaking it
over the tent, and all the vessels, and the
people who were
there, and over him by whom the bone, or the
body of one who has
been put to death with the sword, or the
body of one who has
come to his end by a natural death, or the
resting-place was
touched.
19:19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the
third
day and on the
seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to
make him clean; and
after washing his clothing and bathing
himself in water, he
will be clean in the evening.
19:20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself
clean in this way,
will be cut off from the meeting of the
people, because he
has made the holy place of the Lord unclean:
the water has not
been put on him, he is unclean.
19:21 This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the
water on the unclean
person is to have his clothing washed; and
anyone touching the
water will be unclean till evening.
19:22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be
unclean;
and any person
touching it will be unclean till evening.
20:1 In the first month all the children of Israel came into
the
waste land of Zin,
and put up their tents in Kadesh; there
death came to Miriam,
and they put her body to rest in the
earth.
20:2 And there was no water for the people: and they came
together against
Moses and against Aaron.
20:3 And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only
death had overtaken
us when our brothers came to their death
before the Lord!
20:4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste,
for
death to come to us
and to our cattle there?
20:5 Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil
place? This is no
place of seed or figs or vines or other
fruits, and there is
no water for drinking.
20:6 Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the
door
of the Tent of
meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they
saw the glory of the
Lord.
20:7 And the Lord said to Moses,
20:8 Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all
the
people come together,
and before their eyes give orders to the
rock to give out its
water; and so make water come out of the
rock for them, and
give the people and their cattle drink.
20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave
him
orders.
20:10 Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in
front of the rock,
and he said to them, Give ear now, you
people whose hearts
are turned from the Lord; are we to get
water for you out of
the rock?
20:11 And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows
with his rod: and
water came streaming out, and the people and
their cattle had
drink enough.
20:12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had
not
enough faith in me to
keep my name holy before the children of
Israel, you will not
take this people into the land which I
have given them.
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children
of
Israel went against
the Lord, and they saw that he was holy
among them.
20:14 Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to
say
to him, Your brother
Israel says, You have knowledge of all the
things we have been
through;
20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were
living
in Egypt for a long
time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us
and to our fathers:
20:16 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and
sent an
angel and took us out
of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a
town on the edge of
your land;
20:17 Let us now go through your land: we will not go into
field
or vine-garden, or
take the water of the springs; we will go by
the highway, not
turning to the right or to the left, till we
have gone past the
limits of your land.
20:18 And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for
if
you do I will come
out against you with the sword.
20:19 And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up
by
the highway: and if
we or our cattle take of your water, we
will give you a price
for it: only let us go through on our
feet, nothing more.
20:20 But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came
out
against them in his
strength, with a great army.
20:21 So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and
Israel went in
another direction.
20:22 And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their
people, to Mount Hor.
20:23 And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the
Lord said to Moses
and Aaron,
20:24 Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not
go
into the land which I
have given to the children of Israel,
because you went
against my word at the waters of Meribah.
20:25 So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor;
20:26 And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on
Eleazar,
his son: and death
will come to Aaron there, and he will be put
to rest with his
people.
20:27 So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes
of
all the people they
went up Mount Hor.
20:28 And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on
Eleazar,
his son; and there on
the top of the mountain death came to
Aaron: then Moses and
Eleazar came down from the mountain.
20:29 And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the
children of Israel
gave themselves up to weeping for him for
thirty days.
21:1 And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of
Arad,
living in the South,
that Israel was coming by the way of
Atharim, and he came
out against them and took some of them
prisoners.
21:2 Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you
will
give up this people
into my hands, then I will send complete
destruction on all
their towns.
21:3 And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave
the
Canaanites up to
them; and they put them and their towns
completely to
destruction: and that place was named Hormah.
21:4 Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red
Sea,
going round the land
of Edom: and the spirit of the people was
overcome with
weariness on the way.
21:5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they
said,
Why have you taken us
out of Egypt to come to our death in the
waste land? For there
is no bread and no water, and this poor
bread is disgusting
to us.
21:6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and
their bites were a
cause of death to numbers of the people of
Israel.
21:7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done
wrong
in crying out against
the Lord and against you: make prayer to
the Lord to take away
the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer
for the people.
21:8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake
and
put it on a rod, and
anyone who has been wounded by the snakes,
looking on it will be
made well.
21:9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and
anyone who had a
snakebite, after looking on the snake of
brass, was made well.
21:10 Then the children of Israel went on and put up their
tents
in Oboth.
21:11 And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their
tents in Iye-abarim,
in the waste land before Moab looking
east.
21:12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in
the
valley of Zered.
21:13 From there they went on and put up their tents on the
other side of the
Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge
of the land of the
Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of
division between Moab
and the Amorites:
21:14 As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb
in
Suphah, and the
valley of the Amon;
21:15 The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar
and
touching the edge of
Moab.
21:16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of
which
the Lord said to
Moses, Make the people come together and I
will give them water.
21:17 Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O
water-spring, let us
make a song to it:
21:18 The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the
great
ones of the people,
with the law-givers' rod, and with their
sticks. Then from the
waste land they went on to Mattanah:
21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to
Bamoth:
21:20 And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of
Moab,
and to the top of
Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.
21:21 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites,
saying,
21:22 Let me go through your land: we will not go into field
or
vine-garden, or take
the water of the springs; we will go by
the highway till we
have gone past the limits of your land.
21:23 And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land;
but
got all his people
together and went out against Israel into
the waste land, as
far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.
21:24 But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from
the
Arnon to the Jabbok,
as far as the country of the children of
Ammon, for the country
of the children of Ammon was strongly
armed.
21:25 And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and
all
the towns and small
places of the Amorites.
21:26 For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the
Amorites,
who had made war
against an earlier king of Moab and taken from
him all his land as
far as the Arnon.
21:27 So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon,
building up the town
of Sihon and making it strong:
21:28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the
town
of Sihon: for the
destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of
the high places of
the Arnon.
21:29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O
people of Chemosh:
his sons have gone in flight, and his
daughters are prisoners,
in the hands of Sihon, king of the
Amorites.
21:30 They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come
on
Heshbon, even to
Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far
as Nophah, stretching
out to Medeba.
21:31 So Israel put up their tents in the land of the
Amorites.
21:32 And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took
its
towns, driving out
the Amorites who were living there.
21:33 Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and
Og,
king of Bashan, went
out against them with all his people, to
the fight at Edrei.
21:34 And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I
have given him up
into your hands, with all his people and his
land; do to him as
you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at
Heshbon.
21:35 So they overcame him and his sons and his people,
driving
them all out: and
they took his land for their heritage.
22:1 Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up
their
tents in the lowlands
of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at
Jericho.
22:2 Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done
to
the Amorites.
22:3 And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because
their numbers were so
great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter
against the children
of Israel.
22:4 Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is
clear that this great
people will be the destruction of
everything round us,
making a meal of us as the ox does of the
grass of the field.
At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was
king of Moab.
22:5 So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the
River in the land of
the children of his people, saying to him,
See, a people has
come out of Egypt, covering all the face of
the earth, and they
have put up their tents opposite to me:
22:6 Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on
this
people, for they are
greater than I: and then I may be strong
enough to overcome
them and send them out of the land: for it
is clear that good
comes to him who has your blessing, but he
on whom you put your
curse is cursed.
22:7 So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away,
taking
in their hands
rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam
and said to him what
Balak had given them orders to say.
22:8 And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I
will give you an
answer after hearing what the Lord says; so
the chiefs of Moab
kept there with Balaam that night.
22:9 And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with
you?
22:10 And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king
of
Moab, has sent them
to me, saying,
22:11 See, the people who have come out of Egypt are
covering
all the earth: now,
put a curse on this people for me, so that
I may be able to make
war on them, driving them out of the
land.
22:12 And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them,
or
put a curse on this
people, for they have my blessing.
22:13 In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of
Balak, Go back to
your land, for the Lord will not let me go
with you.
22:14 So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said,
Balaam
will not come with
us.
22:15 So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of
higher
position than the
others.
22:16 And they came to Balaam and said, Balak, son of
Zippor,
says, Let nothing
keep you from coming to me:
22:17 For I will give you a place of very great honour, and
whatever you say to
me I will do; so come, in answer to my
prayer, and put a
curse on this people.
22:18 But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak,
Even
if Balak gave me his
house full of silver and gold, it would
not be possible for
me to do anything more or less than the
orders of the Lord my
God.
22:19 So take your rest here this night, till I have
knowledge
what more the Lord
has to say to me.
22:20 And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If
these men have come
for you, go with them: but do only what I
say to you.
22:21 So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass
ready,
went with the chiefs
of Moab.
22:22 But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the
angel
of the Lord took up a
position in the road to keep him from his
purpose. Now he was
seated on his ass, and his two servants
were with him.
22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the
road
with his sword in his
hand; and turning from the road, the ass
went into the field;
and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her
back on to the road.
22:24 Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a
narrow road through
the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side
and on that.
22:25 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near
the
wall, crushing
Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her
more blows.
22:26 Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a
narrow place where
there was no room for turning to the right
or to the left.
22:27 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on
the
earth under Balaam;
and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard
blows with his stick.
22:28 Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and
opening her mouth she
said to Balaam, What have I done to you
that you have given
me blows these three times?
22:29 And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem
foolish:
if only I had a sword
in my hand I would put you to death.
22:30 And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon
which
you have gone all
your life till this day? and have I ever done
this to you before?
And he said, No.
22:31 Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the
angel of the Lord in
the way with his sword in his hand: and he
went down on his face
to the earth.
22:32 And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you
given
your ass blows these
three times? See, I have come out against
you to keep you back,
because your purpose is not pleasing to
me.
22:33 And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three
times: if she had not
gone to one side, I would certainly have
put you to death and
kept her safe.
22:34 And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done
wrong, for I did not
see that you were in the way against me:
but now, if it is
evil in your eyes, I will go back again.
22:35 And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the
men;
but say only what I
give you to say. Then Balaam went on with
the chiefs of Balak.
22:36 Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the
chief
town of Moab, on the
edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of
the land, for the
purpose of meeting him.
22:37 And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you,
requesting you with
all my heart to come to me? why did you not
come? am I not able
to give you a place of honour?
22:38 Then Balaam said to Balak, Now I have come to you; but
have I power to say
anything? Only what God puts into my mouth
may I say.
22:39 And Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath-huzoth.
22:40 And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent
to
Balaam and the chiefs
who were with him.
22:41 And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high
places
of Baal, and from
there he was able to see the outer limits of
the people.
23:1 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and
get
ready seven oxen and
seven male sheep.
23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam
made
an offering on every
altar of an ox and a male sheep.
23:3 Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your
burned
offering, and I will
go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I
will give you word of
whatever he says to me. And he went to an
open place on a hill.
23:4 And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have
made
ready seven altars,
offering an ox and a male sheep on every
altar.
23:5 And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go
back
to Balak, and this is
what you are to say.
23:6 So he went back to him where he was waiting by his
burned
offering with all the
chiefs of Moab.
23:7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said,
From
Aram Balak has sent
for me, the king of Moab from the mountains
of the East: come,
put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with
Israel.
23:8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God?
how
may I be angry with
him with whom the Lord is not angry?
23:9 From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on
him
from the hills: it is
a people made separate, not to be
numbered among the
nations.
23:10 Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob
or
the number of the
thousands of Israel? May my death be the
death of the upright
and my last end like his!
23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I
sent for you so that
my haters might be cursed, and see, you
have given them a
blessing.
23:12 And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only
what
the Lord puts into my
mouth?
23:13 And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another
place
from which you will
not be able to see them all, but only the
outskirts of them;
and you will send curses on them from there.
23:14 So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top
of
Pisgah, and there
they made seven altars, offering an ox and a
male sheep on every
altar.
23:15 Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your
burned
offering, while I go
over there to the Lord.
23:16 And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his
mouth,
and said, Go back to
Balak, and this is what you are to say.
23:17 So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned
offering with the
chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to
him, What has the
Lord said?
23:18 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said,
Up!
Balak, and give ear;
give attention to me, O son of Zippor:
23:19 God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of
man,
that his purpose may
be changed: what he has said, will he not
do? and will he not
give effect to the words of his mouth?
23:20 See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has
given
a blessing which I
have no power to take away.
23:21 He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel:
the
Lord his God is with
him, and the glad cry of a king is among
them.
23:22 It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns
are
like those of the
mountain ox.
23:23 No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts
against Israel; at
the right time it will be said of Jacob and
of Israel, See what
God has done!
23:24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself
up
like a lion: he will
take no rest till he has made a meal of
those he has
overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put
to death.
23:25 Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse
on
them, at all events
do not give them a blessing.
23:26 But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to
you,
I may only do what
the Lord says?
23:27 Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you
to
another place; it may
be that God will let you put a curse on
them from there.
23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down
over
the waste land.
23:29 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here
and
get seven oxen and
seven male sheep ready for me.
23:30 And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a
male
sheep on every altar.
24:1 Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to
give
his blessing to
Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use
of secret arts, but
turning his face to the waste land,
24:2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with
their
tents in the order of
their tribes: and the spirit of God came
on him.
24:3 And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words
of
Balaam, son of Beor,
the words of the man whose eyes are open:
24:4 He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who
has
seen the vision of
the Ruler of all, falling down, but having
his eyes open:
24:5 How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O
Israel!
24:6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by
the
riverside, like
flowering trees planted by the Lord, like
cedar-trees by the
waters.
24:7 Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm
will
be on great nations:
his king will be higher than Agag, and his
kingdom made great in
honour.
24:8 It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are
like those of the
mountain ox; the nations warring against him
will be his food,
their bones will be broken, they will be
wounded with his
arrows.
24:9 He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a
she-lion: by whom
will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on
everyone who gives
you blessing, and a curse on everyone by
whom you are cursed.
24:10 Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and
angrily
waving his hands he
said to Balaam, I sent for you so that
those who are against
me might be cursed, but now, see, three
times you have given
them a blessing.
24:11 Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my
purpose to give you a
place of honour, but now the Lord has
kept you back from
honour.
24:12 Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men
you
sent to me,
24:13 Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and
gold,
it would not be
possible for me to go outside the orders of the
Lord, doing good or
evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever
the Lord says I will
say?
24:14 So now I will go back to my people: but first let me
make
clear to you what
this people will do to your people in days to
come.
24:15 Then he went on with his story and said, These are the
words of Balaam, the
son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes
are open:
24:16 He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who
has
knowledge of the Most
High, who has seen the vision of the
Ruler of all, falling
down and having his eyes open:
24:17 I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near:
a
star will come out of
Jacob, and a rod of authority out of
Israel, sending
destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and
on the head of all
the sons of Sheth.
24:18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to
the
last of the people of
Seir.
24:19 And Israel will go on in strength, and Jacob will have
rule over his haters.
24:20 Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his
story and said,
Amalek was the first of the nations, but his
part will be
destruction for ever.
24:21 And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story
and
said, Strong is your
living-place, and your secret place is
safe in the rock.
24:22 But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur
takes
you away prisoner.
24:23 Then he went on with his story and said, But who may
keep
his life when God
does this?
24:24 But ships will come from the direction of Kittim,
troubling Asshur and
troubling Eber, and like the others their
fate will be
destruction.
24:25 Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and
Balak
went away.
25:1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became
false to the Lord,
doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
25:2 For they sent for the people to be present at the
offerings
made to their gods;
and the people took part in their feasts
and gave honour to
their gods.
25:3 So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in
honour of
the Baal of Peor: and
the Lord was moved to wrath against
Israel.
25:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the
people, hanging them
up in the sun before the Lord, so that the
wrath of the Lord may
be turned from Israel.
25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put
to
death those of his
men who have had relations with the women of
Moab in honour of the
Baal of Peor.
25:6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his
brothers,
taking with him a
woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and
all the meeting of
the people, while they were weeping at the
door of the Tent of
meeting.
25:7 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, seeing it,
got up from among the people and took a
spear in his hand,
25:8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving
the
spear through the two
of them, through the man of Israel and
through the stomach
of the woman. So the disease was stopped
among the children of
Israel.
25:9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their
death by
the disease.
25:10 And the Lord said to Moses,
25:11 Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my
honour, my wrath has
been turned away from the children of
Israel, so that I
have not sent destruction on them all in my
wrath.
25:12 So say to them that I will make with him an agreement
of
peace:
25:13 And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have
the
right to be priests
for ever; because, by his care for the
honour of his God, he
took away the sin of the children of
Israel.
25:14 Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the
woman
of Midian was Zimri,
the son of Salu, a chief of one of the
families of the
Simeonites.
25:15 And the woman of Midian who was put to death was
Cozbi,
the daughter of Zur;
he was the head of a family in Midian.
25:16 Then the Lord said to Moses,
25:17 Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;
25:18 For they are a danger to you with their false ways,
causing sin to come
on you in the question of Peor, and because
of Cozbi, their
sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian,
who was put to death
at the time of the disease which came on
you because of Peor.
26:1 Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses
and
Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest,
26:2 Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the
names of
their fathers'
families, all those of twenty years old and over
who are able to go to
war in Israel.
26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in
the
lowlands of Moab by
Jordan at Jericho, saying,
26:4 Let all the people of twenty years old and over be
numbered, as the Lord
has given orders to Moses and the
children of Israel
who have come out of Egypt.
26:5 Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by
their families: of
Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of
Pallu, the family of
the Palluites:
26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the
family of the
Carmites.
26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites: their number
was
forty-three thousand,
seven hundred and thirty.
26:8 And the sons of Pallu, Eliab
26:9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram.
These
are the same Dathan
and Abiram who had a place in the meeting
of the people, who
together with Korah made an outcry against
Moses and Aaron and
against the Lord:
26:10 And they went down into the open mouth of the earth,
together with Korah,
when death overtook him and all his band;
at the time when two
hundred and fifty men were burned in the
fire, and they became
a sign.
26:11 But death did not overtake the sons of Korah.
26:12 The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the
family of the
Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the
Jaminites: of Jachin,
the family of the Jachinites:
26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the
family of the
Shaulites.
26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two
thousand, two
hundred.
26:15 The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the
family
of the Zephonites: of
Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of
Shuni, the family of
the Shunites:
26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family
of
the Erites:
26:17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the
family
of the Arelites.
26:18 These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were
numbered, forty
thousand, five hundred.
26:19 The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had
come
to their death in the
land of Canaan.
26:20 And the sons of Judah by their families were: of
Shelah,
the family of the
Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the
Perezites: of Zerah,
the family of the Zerahites.
26:21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of
the
Hezronites: of Hamul,
the family of the Hamulites.
26:22 These are the families of Judah as they were numbered,
seventy-six thousand,
five hundred.
26:23 The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the
family of the
Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites:
26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron,
the
family of the Shimronites.
26:25 These are the families of Issachar, as they were
numbered,
sixty-four thousand,
three hundred.
26:26 The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the
family of the
Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites:
of Jahleel, the
family of the Jahleelites.
26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were
numbered, sixty
thousand, five hundred.
26:28 The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and
Ephraim.
26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
Machirites: and
Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the
family of the
Gileadites.
26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of
the
Iezerites: of Helek,
the family of the Helekites:
26:31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of
Shechem, the family
of the Shechemites:
26:32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of
Hepher, the family of
the Hepherites.
26:33 And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but
only
daughters, and the
names of the daughters of Zelophehad were
Mahlah, and Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
26:34 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were
numbered of them were
fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.
26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of
Shuthelah, the family
of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the
family of the
Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the
family
of the Eranites:
26:37 These are the families of Ephraim as they were
numbered,
thirty-two thousand,
five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph
by their families.
26:38 The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the
family of the
Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the
Ashbelites: of
Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
26:39 Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of
Hupham, the family of
the Huphamites.
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.
26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and
those who were
numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six
hundred.
26:42 These are the sons of Dan by their families: of
Shuham,
the family of the
Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by
their families.
26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were
numbered,
were sixty-four
thousand, four hundred.
26:44 The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the
family
of the Imnites: of
Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of
Beriah, the family of
the Beriites.
26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the
Heberites: of
Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites:
26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher as they
were
numbered, fifty-three
thousand, four hundred.
26:48 The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel,
the
family of the
Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
26:49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the
family of the
Shillemites.
26:50 These are the families of Naphtali by their families:
and
those who were
numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four
hundred.
26:51 Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were
six
hundred and one
thousand, seven hundred and thirty.
26:52 And the Lord said to Moses,
26:53 Let there be a division of the land among these, for
their
heritage, in relation
to the number of names.
26:54 To those families who are more in number, give a greater
heritage; to those
who are less in number, a smaller part: to
every one let the
heritage be given in relation to the number
in his family.
26:55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the
decision of the Lord:
by the names of the tribes of their
fathers let their
heritage be given them.
26:56 As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let
distribution be made
between those who are more in number and
those who are less.
26:57 These were those of the Levites who were numbered by
their
families: of Gershon,
the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath,
the family of the
Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the
Merarites.
26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the
Libnites, the family
of the Hebronites, the family of the
Mahlites, the family
of the Mushites, the family of the
Korahites. And Kohath
was the father of Amram.
26:59 Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom
he
had in Egypt: by
Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister
Miriam.
26:60 Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar.
26:61 Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an
offering
of strange fire
before the Lord.
26:62 Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month
old
and over, were
numbered: they were not numbered with the rest
of the children of
Israel, for they had no heritage among the
children of Israel.
26:63 All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
priest
when the children of
Israel were numbered in the lowlands of
Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho.
26:64 But among all these was not one of those numbered by
Moses
and Aaron the priest
when the children of Israel were numbered
in the waste land of
Sinai.
26:65 For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly
overtake them in the
waste land. And of them all, only Caleb,
the son of Jephunneh,
and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still
living.
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 forward: their
names are Mahlah,
Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
27:2 They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the
chiefs and all the
people at the door of the Tent of meeting,
and said,
27:3 Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not
among those who were
banded together with Korah against the
Lord; but death came
to him in his sin; and he had no sons.
27:4 Why is the name of our father to be taken away from
among
his family, because
he had no son? Give us a heritage among our
father's brothers.
27:5 So Moses put their cause before the Lord.
27:6 And the Lord said to Moses,
27:7 What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right:
certainly
you are to give them
a heritage among their father's brothers:
and let the property
which would have been their father's go to
them.
27:8 And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son
at
the time of his
death, let his heritage go to his daughter.
27:9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to
his
brothers.
27:10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to
his
father's brothers.
27:11 And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his
nearest relation in
the family, as his heritage: this is to be
a decision made by
law for the children of Israel, as the Lord
gave orders to Moses.
27:12 And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain
of
Abarim so that you
may see the land which I have given to the
children of Israel.
27:13 And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest
with
your people, as your
brother Aaron was:
27:14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were
angry, you and he
went against my word and did not keep my name
holy before their eyes,
at the waters. (These are the waters of
Meribah in Kadesh in
the waste land of Zin.)
27:15 Then Moses said to the Lord,
27:16 Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put
a
man at the head of
this people,
27:17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide;
so
that the people of
the Lord may not be like sheep without a
keeper.
27:18 And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of
Nun, a
man in whom is the
spirit, and put your hand on him;
27:19 And take him before Eleazar the priest and all the
meeting
of the people, and
give him his orders before their eyes.
27:20 And put your honour on him, so that all the children
of
Israel may be under
his authority.
27:21 He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so
that
he may get directions
from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at
his word they will go
out, and at his word they will come in,
he and all the
children of Israel.
27:22 So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put
him
before Eleazar the
priest and the meeting of the people:
27:23 And he put his hands on him and gave him his orders,
as
the Lord had said by
Moses.
28:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
28:2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them,
Let
it be your care to
give me my offerings at their regular times,
the food of the
offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell.
28:3 Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which
you
are to give to the
Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any
mark, two every day
as a regular burned offering.
28:4 Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at
evening;
28:5 And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a
meal
offering mixed with
the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.
28:6 It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in
Mount
Sinai, for a sweet
smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
28:7 And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a
hin
for one lamb: in the
holy place let the wine be drained out for
a drink offering for
the Lord.
28:8 Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal
offering of the
morning and its drink offering, let it be
offered as an
offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the
Lord.
28:9 And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year,
without any mark, and
two tenth parts of the best meal for a
meal offering mixed
with oil, and its drink offering:
28:10 This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in
addition to the
regular burned offering, and its drink
offering.
28:11 And on the first day of every month you are to give a
burned offering to
the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and
seven he-lambs of the
first year, without any mark;
28:12 And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal
offering
mixed with oil, for
every ox; and two tenth parts of the best
meal for a meal
offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep;
28:13 And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with
oil
for a meal offering
for every lamb; for a burned offering of a
sweet smell, an
offering made by fire to the Lord.
28:14 And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine
for
an ox, and the third
part of a hin for a male sheep, and the
fourth part of a hin
for a lamb: this is the burned offering
for every month
through all the months of the year.
28:15 And one he-goat for a sin-offering to the Lord; it is
to
be offered in
addition to the regular burned offering and its
drink offering.
28:16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month, is the Lord's
Passover.
28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a
feast;
for seven days let
your food be unleavened cakes.
28:18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you
may do
no sort of
field-work:
28:19 And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned
offering to the Lord;
two oxen, one male sheep, and seven
he-lambs of the first
year, without any mark:
28:20 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil:
let
three tenth parts of
an ephah be offered for an ox and two
tenth parts for a
male sheep;
28:21 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven
lambs;
28:22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your
sin.
28:23 These are to be offered in addition to the morning
burned
offering, which is a
regular burned offering at all times.
28:24 In this way, every day for seven days, give the food
of
the offering made by
fire, a sweet smell to the Lord: it is to
be offered in
addition to the regular burned offering, and its
drink offering.
28:25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting;
you
may do no field-work.
28:26 And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an
offering of new meal
to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there
is to be a holy
meeting: you may do no field-work:
28:27 And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the
Lord;
two oxen, one male
sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year;
28:28 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
three tenth parts for
an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,
28:29 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven
lambs;
28:30 And one he-goat to take away your sin.
28:31 These are in addition to the regular burned offering
and
its meal offering;
take care that they are without any mark,
and let them be
offered with their drink offerings.
29:1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
let
there be a holy
meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let
the day be marked by
the blowing of horns;
29:2 And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet
smell;
one ox, one male
sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year,
without any mark on
them:
29:3 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
three tenth parts for
an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,
29:4 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven
lambs;
29:5 And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your
sin:
29:6 In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and
its
meal offering, and
the regular burned offering and its meal
offering, and their
drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a
sweet smell, an
offering made by fire to the Lord.
29:7 And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will
be a
holy meeting; keep
yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of
work;
29:8 And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet
smell;
one ox, one male
sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only
those without any
mark on them may be used:
29:9 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
three tenth parts for
an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,
29:10 A separate tenth part for every one of the seven
lambs;
29:11 One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
offering for taking
away your sin, and the regular burned
offering and its meal
offering, and their drink offerings.
29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let
there be
a holy meeting; do no
field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord
for seven days;
29:13 And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire
of a
sweet smell to the
Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen he-lambs of
the first year, all without any mark on
them;
29:14 And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil,
three tenth parts for
every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth
parts for every male
sheep,
29:15 And a separate tenth part for every one of the
fourteen
lambs;
29:16 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
offering.
29:17 On the second day of the feast give an offering of
twelve
oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen he-lambs of the first year,
without any mark on
them;
29:18 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for
the
oxen and the sheep
and the lambs, in relation to their number,
as it is ordered:
29:19 And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the
regular burned
offering, and its meal offering, and their drink
offerings.
29:20 And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen
he-lambs of the first
year, without any mark;
29:21 And their meal offering and drink offerings for the
oxen,
for the male sheep,
and for the lambs, in relation to their
number, as it is
ordered:
29:22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
offering.
29:23 And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen
he-lambs of the first
year, without any mark:
29:24 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for
the
oxen, for the male
sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
their number, as it
is ordered.
29:25 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
offering.
29:26 And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen
he-lambs of the first
year, without any mark:
29:27 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for
the
oxen, for the male
sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
their number, as it
is ordered:
29:28 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
offering.
29:29 And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen
he-lambs of the first
year, without any mark:
29:30 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for
the
oxen, for the male
sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
their number, as it
is ordered:
29:31 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, its meal offering, and its drink
offerings.
29:32 And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep,
fourteen he-lambs of
the first year, without any mark:
29:33 And their meal offering and their drink offerings for
the
oxen, for the male
sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to
their number, as it
is ordered:
29:34 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, its meal offering, and its drink
offering.
29:35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may
do
no field-work;
29:36 And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire
of a
sweet smell to the
Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs
of the first year,
without any mark:
29:37 With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the
ox,
the male sheep, and
the lambs, in relation to their number, as
it is ordered:
29:38 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the
regular burned
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
offering.
29:39 These are the offerings which you are to give to the
Lord
at your regular
feasts, in addition to the offerings for an
oath, and the free
offerings you give, for your burned
offerings and your
drink offerings and your peace-offerings.
29:40 So Moses gave the children of Israel all these
directions
as the Lord had given
him orders.
30:1 And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the
children
of Israel, This is
the order of the Lord.
30:2 When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an
undertaking having
the force of an oath, let him not go back
from his word, but
let him do whatever he has said he will do.
30:3 If a woman, being young and under the authority of her
father, takes an oath
to the Lord or gives an undertaking;
30:4 If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking
she
has given, says
nothing to her, then all her oaths and every
undertaking she has
given will have force.
30:5 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back
her
word, then the oaths
or the undertakings she has given will
have no force; and
she will have forgiveness from the Lord,
because her oath was
broken by her father.
30:6 And if she is married to a husband at the time when she
is
under an oath or an
undertaking given without thought;
30:7 If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at
the
time, then the oaths
she made and the undertakings she gave
will have force.
30:8 But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it
back,
then the oath she
made and the undertaking she gave without
thought will have no
force or effect, and she will have the
Lord's forgiveness.
30:9 But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer
married
to her husband, and
every undertaking she has given, will have
force.
30:10 If she made an oath while she was under the authority
of
her husband,
30:11 And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her
and
did not put a stop to
it, then all her oaths and every
undertaking she gave
will have force.
30:12 But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them
without
force or effect, then
whatever she has said about her oaths or
her undertaking has
no force: her husband has made them without
effect, and she will
have the Lord's forgiveness.
30:13 Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to
keep
herself from
pleasure, may be supported or broken by her
husband.
30:14 But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing
whatever to her, then
he is giving the support of his authority
to her oaths and
undertakings, because at the time of hearing
them he said nothing
to her.
30:15 But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes
them
without force, then
he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
30:16 These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in
relation
to a man and his
wife, or a father and a young daughter who is
under his authority.
31:1 Then the Lord said to Moses,
31:2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did
to
the children of
Israel: and after that you will go to rest with
your people.
31:3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be
armed for war to put
into effect against Midian the Lord's
punishment on them.
31:4 From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
31:5 So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken
from
every tribe, twelve
thousand men armed for war.
31:6 And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every
tribe, and with them
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest,
taking in his hands
the vessels of the holy place and the horns
for sounding the note
of war.
31:7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to
Moses; and they put
to death every male.
31:8 They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest,
Evi
and Reken and Zur and
Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian:
and Balaam, the son
of Beor, they put to death with the sword.
31:9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children
of
Israel took prisoner;
and all their cattle and flocks and all
their goods they took
for themselves;
31:10 And after burning all their towns and all their
tent-circles,
31:11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and
beast.
31:12 And the prisoners and the goods and everything they
had
taken, they took to
Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people
of Israel, to the
tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the
Jordan at Jericho.
31:13 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of
the
people went out to
them before they had come into the
tent-circle.
31:14 And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the
captains of thousands
and the captains of hundreds who had come
back from the war.
31:15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the
women
safe?
31:16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of
Israel's sin against
the Lord in the question of Peor, because
of which disease came
on the people of the Lord.
31:17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman
who
has had sex relations
with a man.
31:18 But all the female children who have had no sex
relations
with men, you may
keep for yourselves.
31:19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the
tent-circle
for seven days,
anyone of you who has put any person to death
or come near a dead
body; and on the third day and on the
seventh day make
yourselves and your prisoners clean.
31:20 And every bit of clothing, and anything made of
leather or
goats' hair or wood,
you are to make clean.
31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had
been to the fight,
This is the rule of the law which the Lord
has given to Moses:
31:22 But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and
lead,
31:23 And anything which may be heated, is to go through the
fire and be made
clean; but in addition it is to be put in the
water of cleaning:
and anything which may not go through the
fire is to be put in
the water.
31:24 And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing,
you
will be clean, and
then you may come into the tent-circle.
31:25 And the Lord said to Moses,
31:26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the
war,
of man and of beast,
you and Eleazar the priest and the heads
of families of the
people:
31:27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for
the
men of war who went
out to the fight, and one for all the
people:
31:28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered
to the Lord one out
of every five hundred, from the persons,
and from the oxen and
asses and sheep:
31:29 Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the
priest as an offering
to be lifted up to the Lord.
31:30 And from the part given to the children of Israel,
take
one out of every
fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and
asses and sheep, and
give it to the Levites who have the care
of the House of the
Lord.
31:31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders
to
Moses.
31:32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the
fighting-men
took for themselves,
were six hundred and seventy-five thousand
sheep,
31:33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,
31:34 And sixty-one thousand asses;
31:35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who
had
never had sex
relations with a man.
31:36 And the half given as their part to the men who went
to
the war, was three
hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five
hundred sheep,
31:37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and
seventy-five.
31:38 The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which
the
Lord's part was
seventy-two;
31:39 The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred,
of
which the Lord's part
was sixty-one.
31:40 And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of
which
the Lord's part was
thirty-two persons.
31:41 And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an
offering,
to Eleazar the
priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
31:42 And from the half given to the children of Israel,
which
Moses had kept
separate from that given to the fighting-men,
31:43 (Now the people's half was three hundred and
thirty-seven
thousand, five
hundred sheep,
31:44 And thirty-six thousand oxen,
31:45 And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,
31:46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
31:47 Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took
one
out of every fifty,
men and beasts, and gave them to the
Levites who had the
care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord
gave orders to Moses.
31:48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the
army,
the captains of
thousands and captains of hundreds, came to
Moses,
31:49 And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the
number of all the
fighting-men under our orders, and every one
is present;
31:50 And we have here an offering for the Lord from what
every
man took in the war,
ornaments of gold, leg-chains and
arm-rings,
finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make
our souls free from
sin before the Lord.
31:51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from
them,
even all the worked
ornaments.
31:52 And the gold which the captains of thousands and
captains
of hundreds gave, as
an offering to be lifted up before the
Lord, came to sixteen
thousand, seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
31:53 (For every man of the army had taken goods for himself
in
the war.)
31:54 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given
by
the captains of
thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it
into the Tent of
meeting, to be a sign in memory of the
children of Israel
before the Lord.
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had
a
great number of
cattle: and when they saw that the land of
Jazer and the land of
Gilead was a good place for cattle;
32:2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and
said to Moses and to
Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of
the meeting,
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon,
and
Elealeh, and Sebam,
and Nebo, and Beon,
32:4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the
children
of Israel, is a land
for cattle, and your servants have cattle.
32:5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be
given
to your servants as
their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.
32:6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children
of
Reuben, Are your
brothers to go to the war, while you take your
rest here?
32:7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the
desire
to go over into the
land which the Lord has given them?
32:8 So did your fathers, when I sent them from
Kadesh-barnea to
see the land.
32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw
the
land, they took from
the children of Israel the desire to go
into the land which
the Lord had given them.
32:10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made
an
oath, saying,
32:11 Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over
who
came out of Egypt
will see the land which I gave by oath to
Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob; because they have not been true to
me with all their
heart;
32:12 But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite,
and
Joshua, the son of
Nun: because they have been true to the
Lord.
32:13 Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them
wanderers in the
waste land for forty years? till all that
generation who had
done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.
32:14 And now you have come to take the place of your
fathers,
another generation of
sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord
against Israel.
32:15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them
wandering again in
the waste land; and you will be the cause of
the destruction of
all this people.
32:16 Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe
places
for our cattle here,
and towns for our little ones;
32:17 But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the
children of Israel
till we have taken them to their place: but
our little ones will
be safe in the walled towns against the
people of the land.
32:18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of
the
children of Israel
has come into his heritage.
32:19 For we will not have our heritage with them on the
other
side of Jordan and
forward; because our heritage has come to us
on this side of
Jordan to the east.
32:20 Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming
yourselves to go
before the Lord to the war,
32:21 Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the
Lord
till he has overcome
and sent in flight all who are against
him,
32:22 And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after
that you may come
back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to
Israel; and this land
will be yours for your heritage before
the Lord.
32:23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners
against
the Lord; and you may
be certain that your sin will have its
reward.
32:24 So get to work building your towns for your little
ones,
and safe places for
your sheep; and do as you have said.
32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
said to
Moses, Your servants
will do as my lord says.
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all
our
cattle, will be there
in the towns of Gilead;
32:27 But your servants will go over, every man armed for
war,
before the Lord to
the fight, as my lord says.
32:28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest
and
to Joshua, the son of
Nun, and to the heads of families of the
tribes of the
children of Israel.
32:29 And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben go
with you over Jordan, every man armed for
the fight before the
Lord, and all the land is given into your
hands, then let them
have the land of Gilead for a heritage:
32:30 But if they do not go over with you armed, they will
have
to take their heritage
with you in the land of Canaan.
32:31 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
said,
As the Lord has said
to your servants, so will we do.
32:32 We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of
Canaan, and you will
give us our heritage on this side of
Jordan.
32:33 So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and
the
children of Reuben
and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son
of Joseph, the
kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og,
king of Bashan, all
the land with its towns and the country
round them.
32:34 And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and
Ataroth and Aroer;
32:35 And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;
32:36 And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and
shut-in
places for sheep.
32:37 And the children of Reuben were the builders of
Heshbon
and Elealeh and
Kiriathaim;
32:38 And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,)
and
Sibmah: and they gave
other names to the towns they made.
32:39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went
to
Gilead and took it,
driving out the Amorites who were living
there.
32:40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh;
and
he made it his
living-place.
32:41 And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns
of
Gilead, naming them
Havvoth-Jair.
32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns,
naming
it Nobah, after
himself.
33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when
they
went out of the land
of Egypt in their armies, under the
direction of Moses
and Aaron.
33:2 And the stages of their journey on their way out were
put
down in writing by
Moses at the order of the Lord: these are
the stages of their
journey and the way they went.
33:3 On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out
from
Rameses; on the day
after the Passover the children of Israel
went out by the power
of the Lord before the eyes of all the
Egyptians,
33:4 While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the
bodies of
their sons on whom
the Lord had sent destruction: and their
gods had been judged
by him.
33:5 So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up
their tents in
Succoth.
33:6 And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in
Etham on the edge of
the waste land.
33:7 And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is
before
Baal-zephon, they put
up their tents before Migdol.
33:8 And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went
through
the sea into the
waste land: they went three days' journey
through the waste
land of Etham and put up their tents in
Marah.
33:9 And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there
were
twelve water-springs
and seventy palm-trees; and they put up
their tents there.
33:10 And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by
the
Red Sea.
33:11 Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their
tents
in the waste land of
Sin.
33:12 And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put
up
their tents in
Dophkah.
33:13 And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents
in
Alush.
33:14 And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in
Rephidim, where there
was no drinking-water for the people.
33:15 And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents
in
the waste land of
Sinai.
33:16 And they went on from the waste land of Sinai and put
up
their tents in
Kibroth-hattaavah.
33:17 And they went on from Kibroth-hattaavah, and put up
their
tents in Hazeroth.
33:18 And they went on from Hazeroth, and put up their tents
in
Rithmah.
33:19 And they went on from Rithmah, and put up their tents
in
Rimmon-perez.
33:20 And they went on from Rimmon-perez, and put up their
tents
in Libnah.
33:21 And they went on from Libnah, and put up their tents
in
Rissah.
33:22 And they went on from Rissah, and put up their tents
in
Kehelathah.
33:23 And they went on from Kehelathah, and put up their
tents
in Mount Shepher.
33:24 And they went on from Mount Shepher, and put up their
tents in Haradah.
33:25 And they went on from Haradah, and put up their tents
in
Makheloth.
33:26 And they went on from Makheloth, and put up their
tents in
Tahath.
33:27 And they went on from Tahath, and put up their tents
in
Terah.
33:28 And they went on from Terah, and put up their tents in
Mithkah.
33:29 And they went on from Mithkah, and put up their tents
in
Hashmonah.
33:30 And they went on from Hashmonah, and put up their
tents in
Moseroth.
33:31 And they went on from Moseroth, and put up their tents
in
Bene-jaakan.
33:32 And they went on from Bene-jaakan, and put up their
tents
in Hor-haggidgad.
33:33 And they went on from Hor-haggidgad, and put up their
tents in Jotbathah.
33:34 And they went on from Jotbathah, and put up their
tents in
Abronah.
33:35 And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents
in
Ezion-geber.
33:36 And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their
tents
in the waste land of
Zin (which is Kadesh).
33:37 And they went on from Kadesh, and put up their tents
in
Mount Hor, on the
edge of the land of Edom.
33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the
order of the Lord,
and came to his death there, in the fortieth
year after the
children of Israel had come out of the land of
Egypt, in the fifth
month, on the first day of the month.
33:39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the
time
of his death in Mount
Hor.
33:40 And news of the coming of the children of Israel came
to
the king of Arad, the
Canaanite, who was living in the South in
the land of Canaan.
33:41 And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their
tents in
Zalmonah.
33:42 And they went on from Zalmonah, and put up their tents
in
Punon.
33:43 And they went on from Punon, and put up their tents in
Oboth.
33:44 And they went on from Oboth, and put up their tents in
Iye-abarim at the
edge of Moab.
33:45 And they went on from Iyim, and put up their tents in
Dibon-gad.
33:46 And from Dibon-gad they went on, and put up their
tents in
Almon-diblathaim.
33:47 And from Almon-diblathaim they went on, and put up
their
tents in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
33:48 And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put
up
their tents in the
lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;
33:49 Planting their tents by the side of Jordan from
Beth-jeshimoth as far
as Abel-shittim in the lowlands of Moab.
33:50 And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the
Lord
said to Moses,
33:51 Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan
into the land of
Canaan,
33:52 See that all the people of the land are forced out
from
before you, and put
to destruction all their pictured stones,
and all their metal
images, and all their high places:
33:53 And take the land for yourselves, for your
resting-place:
for to you I have
given the land as your heritage.
33:54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the
decision of the Lord,
to every family its part; the greater the
family the greater
its heritage, and the smaller the family the
smaller will be its
heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord
gives to any man his
part, that will be his; distribution will
be made to you by
your fathers' tribes.
33:55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the
land,
then those of them
who are still there will be like pin-points
in your eyes and like
thorns in your sides, troubling you in
the land where you
are living.
33:56 And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do
to
them, so I will do to
you.
34:1 And the Lord said to Moses,
34:2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them,
When
you come into the
land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to
be your heritage, the
land of Canaan inside these limits,)
34:3 Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of
Zin
by the side of Edom,
and your limit on the south will be from
the east end of the
Salt Sea,
34:4 And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on
to
Zin: and its
direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it
will go as far as
Hazar-addar and on to Azmon:
34:5 And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt
as
far as the sea.
34:6 And for your limit on the west you will have the Great
Sea
and its edge: this
will be your limit on the west.
34:7 And your limit on the north will be the line from the
Great
Sea to Mount Hor:
34:8 And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of
Hamath; the farthest
point of it will be at Zedad:
34:9 And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest
point at Hazar-enan:
this will be your limit on the north.
34:10 And on the east, your limit will be marked out from
Hazar-enan to
Shepham,
34:11 Going down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of
Ain,
and on as far as the
east side of the sea of Chinnereth:
34:12 And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all
the
land inside these
limits will be yours.
34:13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel
saying,
This is the land
which is to be your heritage, by the decision
of the Lord, which by
the Lord's order is to be given to the
nine tribes and the
half-tribe:
34:14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their
fathers'
families, and the
tribe of the children of Gad, by their
fathers' families,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been
given their heritage:
34:15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given
their
heritage on the other
side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east
looking to the dawn.
34:16 And the Lord said to Moses,
34:17 These are the names of the men who are to make the
distribution of the
land among you: Eleazar the priest and
Joshua, the son of
Nun.
34:18 And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make
the
distribution of the
land.
34:19 And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of
Judah,
Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh.
34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel,
the
son of Ammihud.
34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon.
34:22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief,
Bukki,
the son of Jogli.
34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the
children of
Manasseh, a chief,
Hanniel, the son of Ephod:
34:24 And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chief,
Kemuel, the son of
Shiphtan.
34:25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief,
Elizaphan, the son of
Parnach.
34:26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief,
Paltiel, the son of
Azzan.
34:27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief,
Ahihud, the son of
Shelomi.
34:28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief,
Pedahel, the son of
Ammihud.
34:29 These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make
the
distribution of the
heritage among the children of Israel in
the land of Canaan.
35:1 And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by
Jordan at Jericho,
35:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the
Levites, from the
heritage which is theirs, towns for
themselves, with land
on the outskirts of the towns.
35:3 These towns are to be their living-places, with land
round
them for their cattle
and their food and all their beasts,
35:4 Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a
thousand cubits all
round.
35:5 The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand
cubits outside the
town on the east, and two thousand cubits on
the south and on the
west and on the north, the town being in
the middle. This
space will be the outskirts of their towns.
35:6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the
six
safe places to which
the taker of life may go in flight; and in
addition you are to
give them forty-two towns.
35:7 Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all
with
land round them.
35:8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of
the
children of Israel,
taking the greater number from those who
have much, and a
smaller number from those who have little:
everyone, in the
measure of his heritage, is to give of his
property to the
Levites.
35:9 And the Lord said to Moses,
35:10 Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over
Jordan into the land
of Canaan;
35:11 Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to
which anyone who
takes the life of another in error may go in
flight.
35:12 In these towns you may be safe from him who has the
right
of punishment; so
that death may not overtake the taker of life
till he has been
judged by the meeting of the people.
35:13 Six of the towns which you give will be such safe
places;
35:14 Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the
land of
Canaan, to be safe
places for flight.
35:15 For the children of Israel and for the man from
another
country who is living
among them, these six towns are to be
safe places, where
anyone causing the death of another through
error may go in
flight.
35:16 But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron
instrument, causing
his death, he is a taker of life and is
certainly to be put
to death.
35:17 Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand,
causing his death, he
is a taker of life and is certainly to be
put to death.
35:18 Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his
hands, causing his
death, he is a taker of life and is
certainly to be put
to death.
35:19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may
himself put to death
the taker of life when he comes face to
face with him.
35:20 If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting
secretly for him sent
a spear or stone at him, causing his
death;
35:21 Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing
death; he
who gave the
death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of
life: he whose right
it is to give punishment for blood may put
to death the taker of
life when he comes face to face with him.
35:22 But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and
not
in hate, or without
design has sent something against him,
35:23 Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing
him,
so causing his death,
though he had nothing against him and no
desire to do him
evil:
35:24 Then let the meeting of the people be judge between
the
man responsible for
the death and him who has the right of
punishment for blood,
acting by these rules:
35:25 And let the people keep the man responsible for the
death
safe from the hands
of him who has the right of punishment for
blood, and send him
back to his safe town where he had gone in
flight: there let him
be till the death of the high priest who
was marked with the
holy oil.
35:26 But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town
where he had gone in
flight,
35:27 And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the
walls
of the town, puts him
to death, he will not be responsible for
his blood:
35:28 Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe
town
till the death of the
high priest: but after the death of the
high priest the taker
of life may come back to the place of his
heritage.
35:29 These rules are to be your guide in judging through
all
your generations
wherever you may be living.
35:30 Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be
put
to death on the word
of witnesses: but the word of one witness
is not enough.
35:31 Further, no price may be given for the life of one who
has
taken life and whose
right reward is death: he is certainly to
be put to death.
35:32 And no price may be offered for one who has gone in
flight
to a safe town, for
the purpose of letting him come back to his
place before the
death of the high priest.
35:33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy:
for
blood makes the land
unholy: and there is no way of making the
land free from the
blood which has come on it, but only by the
death of him who was
the cause of it.
35:34 Do not make unclean the land where you are living and
in
which is my House: for
I the Lord am present among the children
of Israel.
36:1 Now the heads of the families of the children of
Gilead,
the son of Machir,
the son of Manasseh, of the families of the
sons of Joseph, came
to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of
families of the
children of Israel being present,
36:2 And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make
distribution of the
land as their heritage to the children of
Israel: and my lord
was ordered by the Lord to give the
heritage of
Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.
36:3 Now if they get married to any of the sons of other
tribes
of the children of
Israel, then their property will be taken
away from the
heritage of our fathers, and become part of the
heritage of the tribe
into which they get married: and their
heritage will be
taken away from the heritage of our tribe.
36:4 And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of
Israel,
their property will
be joined to the heritage of the tribe of
which they are part
and will be taken away from the heritage of
the tribe of our
fathers.
36:5 So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to
the
children of Israel,
saying, What the tribe of the sons of
Joseph have said is
right.
36:6 This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of
Zelophehad: The Lord
says, Let them take as their husbands
whoever is most
pleasing to them, but only among the family of
their father's tribe.
36:7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe
among
the children of Israel;
but every one of the children of Israel
will keep the
heritage of his father's tribe.
36:8 And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the
children of Israel is
to be married to one of the family of her
father's tribe, so
that every man of the children of Israel may
keep the heritage of
his fathers.
36:9 And no property will be handed from one tribe to
another,
but every tribe of
the children of Israel will keep its
heritage.
36:10 So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord gave
orders
to Moses:
36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah,
the
daughters of
Zelophehad, took as their husbands the sons of
their father's
brothers:
36:12 And were married into the families of the sons of
Manasseh, the son of
Joseph, and their property was kept in the
tribe of their
father's family
36:13 These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave
to
the children of
Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by
Jordan at Jericho.