Annotations on the Bible Volume 1
13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind: but what the LORD saith that will I speak.
14 And now behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee , what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days .
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes were open, hath said:
16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him but not now : I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth .
18 And Edom shall be a possession , Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies , and Israel shall do valiantly :
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion , and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city .
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever .
21 And he looked on the Kenite , and took up his parable, and said, strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock:
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted▪ until Ashur shall carry thee away captive .
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas? who shall live when God doth this?
24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim , and shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict Eber , and he also shall perish forever.
25 And Balaam rose up, and went, and returned to his place : and Balak also went his way.
CHAP. XXV.
1 AND Israel abode in Shittim , and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab .
2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods : and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods :
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor ▪ and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun , that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, slay ye everyone his men , that were joined unto Baal-Peor.
6 And behold one of the children of Israel came, and brought unto his brethren , a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses , and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from amongst the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand.
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent , and thrust both of them through , the man of Israel and the woman through her belly : so the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague, were twenty and four thousand .
10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, (while he was zealous for my sake among them) that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace .
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him , even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood , because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites k.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur , he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 * Vex the Midianites and smite them .
18 For they vex you with their wiles , wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi , the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, , which was slain in the day of the plague for Peors sake.
CHAP. XXVI.
1 AND it came to pass after the plague that the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel * from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab , by Jordan near Jericho saying,
4 Take the sum of the people , from twenty years old and upward as the LORD * commanded Moses, and the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
5 Reuben the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanock, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochite: of Pallu, the family of the Palluite:
6 Of Hesron, the family of the Hesronite: of Carmi, the family of the Carmite.
7 These are the families of the Reubenite: and they that were numbered of them, were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty .
8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram: this is that Dathan, and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses, and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD.
10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah , when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign :
11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not .
12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel , the family of the Nemuelite: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminite: of Jachin , the family of the Jachinite:
13 Of Zerah , the family of the Zarhite: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulite.
14 These are the families of the Simeonite: twenty and two thousand and two hundred .
15 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon , the family of the Zephonite; of Haggi, the family of the Haggite: of Shuni, the family of the Shunite.
16 Of Ozni , the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
17 Of Arod , the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
18 These are the families of the children of Gad, according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred .
19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hesron, the family of the Hesronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
22 These are the families of Judah, according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred .
23 * Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua , the family of the Punites.
24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
25 These are the families of Issachar, according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred .
26 Of the sons of Zebulun, after their families of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
27 These are the families of the Zebulunites, according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred .
28 The sons of Joseph, after their families, were Manasseh and Ephraim.
29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites .
30 These are the sons of Gilead, of Jeezer , the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
32 And of Shemida, the family of Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad, were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred .
35 These are the sons of Ephraim, after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher , the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran , the family of the Eranites.
37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim, according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel , the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram , the family of the Ahiramites:
39 Of Shupham , the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham , the family of the Huphamites.
40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard , the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham , the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families .
43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred .
44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui , the family of the Jesuits; of Beriah, the family of the Berilites.
45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
46 And the name of the daughter of Asher, was Sarah ,
47 These are the families of the sons of Asher, according to those that were numbered of them, who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred .
48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
50 These are the families of Naphtali, according to their families: and they that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand, and a thousand seven hundred and thirty .
52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance, according to the number of names .
54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance▪ to everyone shall his inheritance be given, according to those that were numbered of him .
55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot : according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few .
57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites: of Gershon the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
58 These are the families of the Levite : the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korhites: and Kohath begat Amram.
59 And the name of Amrams wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
60 And unto Aaron was born, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
62 And those that were numbered of them, were twenty and three thousand , all males from a month old and upward : for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho.
64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness: and there was not left a man of them , save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
CHAP. XXVII.
1 THen came the daughters of Zelophehad , the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation , saying,
3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah : but died in his own sin , and had no sons.
4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD .
6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their fathers brethren, and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their fathers to pass unto them.
8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
10 And if he have no brethren , then ye shall give his inheritance unto his fathers brethren.
11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman, that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment , as the LORD commanded Moses.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim , and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people , as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
14 For ye rebelled against my commandment (in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation) to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
15 And Moses spake unto the LORD , saying,
16 Let the LORD God of the spirits of all flesh , set a man over the congregation;
17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them , and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit , and lay thine hand upon him .
19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation : and give him a charge in their sight.
20 And thou shalt put some of thine honor upon him , that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him , after the judgment of Urim before the LORD : at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.
23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
CHAP. XXVIII.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel , and say unto them, My offering and * my bread for my sacrifices made by fire for a † sweet savor unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
3 And thou shalt say unto them, * This is the offering made by fire, which ye shall offer unto the LORD: two lambs of the first year without spot, day by day, for a continual burnt-offering.
4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even.
5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat-offering , mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
6 It is a continual burnt-offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD, for a drink-offering.
8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou shalt offer it , a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet favor unto the LORD.
9 And on the Sabbath-day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth-deals of flour for a meat-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof.
10 This is the burnt-offering of every Sabbath, beside the continual burnt-offering, and his drinkoffering.
11 And in the beginnings of your months , ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot.
12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meatoffering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oil, for one ram.
13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering unto one lamb, for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
14 And their drink-offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt-offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
15 And one kid of the goats for a sin- offering unto the LORD shall be offered, besides the continual burnt-offering, and his drink-offering.
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD .
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast , seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work therein.
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt-offering unto the LORD, two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish.
20 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram.
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb throughout the seven lambs.
22 And one goat for a sin- offering, to make an atonement for you.
23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt-offering in the morning , which is for a continual burnt-offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days the meat of the sacrifice made by fire , of a sweet savor unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt-offering, and his drink-offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
26 Also in the day of the first-fruits , when ye bring a new meat-offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out : ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
27 But ye shall offer the burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto the LORD, two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year.
28 And their meat-offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram.
29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs.
30 And one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you.
31 Ye shall offer them besides the continual burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink-offerings.
CHAP. XXIX.
1 AND in the seventh month , on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation, Ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
2 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto the LORD, one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish.
3 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram:
4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
5 And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make an atonement for you.
6 Beside the burnt-offering of the month , and his meat-offering, and the daily burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and their drink-offerings according to their manner for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls : ye shall not do any work therein.
8 But ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto the LORD, for a sweet savor, one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish.
9 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram:
10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs.
11 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering, beside the sin- offering of atonement , and the continual burnt-offering, and the meat-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.
12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ye shall have an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days .
13 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD, thirteen young bullocks , two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year: they shall be without blemish.
14 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth-deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams:
15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
16 And one kid of the goats for a sin- offering beside the continual burnt-offering, his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot.
18 And their meat-offering, and their drinkofferings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner :
19 And one kid of the goats for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, and the meatoffering thereof, and their drink-offerings.
20 And on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish.
21 And their meat-offering, and their drinkofferings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
22 And one goat for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish.
24 Their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner.
25 And one kid of the goats for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
27 And their meat-offering, and their drinkofferings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
28 And one goat for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
30 And their meat-offering, and their drinkofferings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
31 And one goat for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, his meat-offering and his drink-offering.
32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
33 And their meat-offering, and their drinkofferings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
34 And one goat for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 But ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savor unto the LORD, one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
37 Their meat-offering, and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
38 And one goat for a sin- offering, beside the continual burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD, in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your free-will-offerings , for your burnt-offerings, and for your meat-offerings, and for your drinkofferings, and for your peace-offerings.
40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
CHAP. XXX.
1 AND Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes , concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD , or swear an oath to bind his Soul with a bond , he shall not break his word , he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his own mouth .
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her fathers house , in her youth :
4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond, wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her : then all her vows shall stand, and every bond, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand :
5 But if her Father disallow her in the day that he heareth ; not any of her vows, or of her bonds, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her : because her Father disallowed her.
6 And if she had at all an husband when she vowed , or uttered ought out of her lips , wherewith she bound her soul;
7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds, wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallow her, on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect, and the LORD shall forgive her.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced , wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
10 And if she vowed in her husbands house , or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond, wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand.
12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand, her husband hath made them void, and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul , her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
14 But if her Husband altogether hold his peace at her, from day today, then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her, in the day that he heard them.
15 But if he shall any ways make them void, after that he hath heard them , then he shall bear her Iniquity .
16 These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her fathers house.
CHAP. XXXI.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe , twelve thousand armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe; them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest to the war, with the holy instruments , and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they slew all the males .
8 And they slew the Kings of Midian , besides the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur , and Hur, and Reba, five Kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor, they slew with the sword.
And the children of Israel took all the Women of Midian Captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their Flocks, and all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their cities , wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles with fire:
11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey both of men and of beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey and the spoil unto Moses, and Eleazar the Priest, and unto the Congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the Priest, and all the Princes of the congregation went forth to meet them without the camp .
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host , with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones , and kill every woman that hath known man , by lying with him.
18 But all the women children that have not known a man , by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves .
19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days : whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves, and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats hair , and all things made of wood.
21 And Eleazar the Priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the Law which the LORD commanded Moses.
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go thorough the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless, it shall be purified with the water of separation; and all that abideth not the fire, ye shall make go through the water.
24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation;
27 And divide the prey into two parts between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation .
28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD, of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep.
29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest for an heave-offering of the LORD .
30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty , of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the sheep, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand, and seventy thousand, and five thousand sheep,
33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man, by lying with him.
36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand, and seven and thirty thousand, and five hundred sheep.
37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
40 And the persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute which was the LORD'S heave-offering unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses .
42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred:
43 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation, was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, and seven thousand and five hundred sheep.
44 And thirty and six thousand beeves:
45 And thirty thousand asses, and five hundred,
46 And sixteen thousand persons,)
47 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
48 And the officers, which were over thousands of the host: the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds came near unto Moses.
49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them: even all wrought jewels.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
CHAP. XXXII.
1 NOW the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer , and the land of Gilead , that behold, the place was a place for cattle:
2 The children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
3 Ataroth , and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah , and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam , and Nebo, and Beon f,
4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel , is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.
5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession: and bring us not over Jordan .
6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here ?
7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel, from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
9 For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob because they have not wholly followed me:
12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenezite , and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.
14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers stead, an increase of sinful men , to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness, and ye shall destroy all this people .
16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheep-folds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabitants of the land .
18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance:
19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan fore the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
22 And the land be subdued before the LORD : then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep, and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth .
25 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle shall be there in the cities of Gilead t.
27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
28 So concerning them, Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for your possession:
30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possession among you in the land of Canaan .
31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the Kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorite, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with the cities thereof, in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer.
35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
36 And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
38 And Nebo , and Baal-meon, ( their names being changed ) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they built.
39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it , and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh , and he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
42 And Nobah went, and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
CHAP. XXXIII.
1 THese are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt, with their armies , under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD : and these are their journeys, according to their goings out.
3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month: on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians .
4 (For the Egyptians buried all their first-born, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgment.)
5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and went three days journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah:
9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim, and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees, and they pitched there.
10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red-sea .
11 And they removed from the Red-sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah .
19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez.
20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
29 And they went from Mithchah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan .
32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad .
33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber .
36 And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor in the edge of the land of Edom.
38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor, at the commandment of the LORD, and died there in the fortieth year, after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old, when he died in mount Hor.
40 And king Arad the Canaanite (which dwelt in the south, in the land of Canaan) heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
42▪ And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
45 And they departed from Iim , and pitched in Dibon-gad .
46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon- diblathaim.
47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo .
48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho.
49 And they pitched by Jordan from Beth-jesimoth, even unto Abel-Shittim , in the plains of Moab.
50 And the LORD spake unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan:
52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures , and destroy all their molten images , and quite pluck down all their high places .
53 And ye shall disposses the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families, and to the moe ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth, according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them, shall be pricks in your eyes t, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
56 Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
CHAP. XXXIV.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof.)
3 Then your south-quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin, along by the coast of Edom , and your south-border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward .
4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim , and pass unto Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-Barnea , and shall go on to Hazar-addar , and pass on to Azmon .
5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt , and the goings out of it shall be at the sea .
6 And as for the western border: ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west-border.
7 And this shall be your north border: from the great •… ea ye shall poin •… o •… for you mo •… H •… r .
〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉8 From mount Hor, ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath , and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad.
9 And the border shall go unto Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north-border.
10 And ye shall point out your east-border, from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah; on the east-side of Ain: and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.
12 And the border shall go down to Jordan , and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which they shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.
14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad, according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
15 The two tribes, and the half tribe, have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho, eastward, toward the sun-rising.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest , and Joshua the son of Nun.
18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
19 And the names of the men are these: of the tribe of Judah , Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chisbon.
22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
23 The prince of the children of Joseph: for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali; Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
CHAP. XXXV.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in: and ye shall give also unto the Levites, suburbs for the cities round about them.
3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle , and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
4 And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward, a thousand cubits round about .
5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east-side two thousand cubits, and on the south-side two thousand cubits, and on the west-side two thousand cubits, and on the north-side two thousand cubits: and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities for refuge , which ye shall appoint for the man-slayer , that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
8 And the cities which ye shall give, shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many, ye shall give many ; but from them that have few, ye shall give few. Everyone shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, when ye be come over Jordan, into the land of Canaan:
11 Then ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you, that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares .
12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge, from the avenger , that the man-slayer die not , until he stand before the congregation in judgment .
13 And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge.
14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan , and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge:
15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger , and for the sojourner among them: that everyone that killeth any person unawares, may flee thither.
16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron (so that he die ) he is a murderer▪ the murderer shall surely be put to death .
17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone , (wherewith he may die) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
18 Or if he smite him with an hand-weapon of wood (wherewith he may die) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer : when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die:
21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death, for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him.
22 But if he thrust him suddenly s, without enmity, or have cast upon him anything without laying of wait:
23 Or with any stone wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer, and the revenger of blood, according to these judgments.
25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it , unto the death of the high priest , which was anointed with holy oil.
26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of his city of refuge, whither he was fled:
27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer: he shall not be guilty of blood :
28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge, until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest, the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment, unto you, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.
30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death, by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die .
31 Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer , which is guilty of death, but he shall be surely put to death.
32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. .
33 So ye shall not pollute the land, wherein ye are: for blood, it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that sheddeth it .
34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inherit , wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
CHAP. XXXVI.
1 AND the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel.
2 And they said, the LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD, to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other Tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the Tribe, whereunto they are received : so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be , then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the Tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well .
6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best: only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for everyone of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father: that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe: but everyone of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their fathers brothers sons .
12 And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father
13 These are the commandments, and the judgments which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho.
CHAP. I.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai , in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel , after their families, by the house of their fathers, , with the number of their names, every male by their poll:
3 From twenty years old and upward all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe ▪ everyone head of the house of his fathers.
5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you : of the tribe of Reuben ; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel .
15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names.
18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their poll.
19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations , after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war.
21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred .
28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
29 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
30 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old, and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
33 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred .
34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
35 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred .
38 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:
43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel:
46 Even all they that were numbered, were six hundred thousand and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi , neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel.
50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony , and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof, and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh , shall be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
CHAP. II.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard , with the ensign of their fathers house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
3 And on the east-side toward the rising of the Sun, shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch, throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
5 And those that do pitch next unto him, shall be the tribe of Issachar : and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.
6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah, were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred , throughout their armies: these shall first set forth.
10 On the south-side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben , according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
12 And those which pitch by him, shall be the tribe of Simeon, and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Revel .
15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben, were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies: and they shall set forth in the second rank.
17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites, in the midst of the camp : as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
18 On the west-side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim , according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
22 Then the Tribe of Benjamin and the captain of the sons of Benjamin, shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim, were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies: and they shall go forward in the third rank.
25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north-side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Abiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
27 And those that encamp by him, shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher, shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali, shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred : they shall go hindmost with their standards.
32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers; all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards , and so they set forward, everyone after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
CHAP. III.
1 THese also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai .
2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born, and Ablhu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priests office.
4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests office in the sight of Aaron their father.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them , before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
7 And they shall keep his charge , and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel , to do the service of the tabernacle.
9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priests office : and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel, instead of all the first-born that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine.
13 Because all the first-born are mine, for on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast, mine they shall be: I am the LORD
14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15 Number the children of Levi, after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward, shalt thou number them.
16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
17 And these were the sons of Levi, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, according to the house of their fathers.
21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite: these are the families of the Gershonite.
22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them, were seven thousand and five hundred.
23 The families of the Gershonite shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonite shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall be the tabernacle , and the tent , the covering thereof , and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it , for all the service thereof.
27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite: these are the families of the Kohathite.
28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary .
29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathite, shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging , and all the service thereof .
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites : and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite: these are the families of Merari.
34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari, was Zuriel the son of Abigail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari, shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto:
37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords .
38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward; shall be Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel : and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males, from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand .
40 And the LORD said unto Moses, number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel , from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel , and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.
43 And all the first-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine, I am the LORD.
46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
47 Thou shalt even take five shekels a piece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: the shekel is twenty gerahs.
48 And thou shalt give the number wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons .
49 And Moses took the redemption money, of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites.
50 Of the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money, a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
CHAP. IV.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers:
3 From thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years old , all that enter into the host , to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things .
5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil , and cover the ark of testimony with it:
6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers-skins , and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof .
7 And upon the table of show- bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes , and the spoons, and the bowls and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon.
8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers-skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuff-dishes, and all the oil-vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it.
10 And they shall put it, and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers-skins: and shall put it upon a bar .
11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers-skins, and shall put to the staves thereof.
12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry , wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers-skins, and shall put them on a bar.
13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar , and spread a purple cloth thereon:
14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgersskins, and put to the staves of it.
15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it : but they shall not touch any holy thing lest they die . These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath, in the tabernacle of the congregation.
16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat-offering , and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle , and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from among the Levites.
19 But thus do unto them, that they may live and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things, Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them everyone to his service , and to his burden.
20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon throughout the houses of their fathers by their families:
23 From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old shalt thou number them: all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens.
25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle , and the tabernacle of the congregation , his covering , and the covering of the badgers-skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons, shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonite, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.
28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families by the house of their fathers.
30 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, everyone that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation, the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof ,
32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
34 And Moses and Aaron, and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathite, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
35 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, everyone that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
36 And those that were numbered of them by their families, were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
39 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, everyone that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
40 Even those that were numbered of them: throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number, according to the commandment of the LORD.
42 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers:
43 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, everyone that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred ▪
45 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, and Aaron, and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers:
47 From thirty years old and upward, even unto fifty years old, everyone that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation:
48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore .
49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
CHAP. V.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone that hath •… n issue , and whosoever is defiled by the dead .
3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them, that they defile not their camps , in the midst whereof I dwell .
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp, as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Speak unto the children of Israel, when a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit , to do a trespass against the LORD , and that person be guilty :
7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done, and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof , and add unto it the fifth part thereof , and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
8 But if the man have no kinsman , to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest : beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priests shall be his .
10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside , and commit a trespass against him,
13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close , and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her , neither she be taken with the manner.
14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an Ephah of barley meal, he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon ; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance :
16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD .
17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel , and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water :
18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD , and uncover the woman's head , and put the offering of memorial in her hands which is the jealousy-offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse .
19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath , and say unto the woman, If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.
20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled; and some man have lien with thee beside thine husband;
21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an Oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse, and an oath among thy people when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell .
22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: and the woman shall say, Amen, amen .
23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and he shall blot them out with the bitter water .
24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water, that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy-offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar.
26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof , and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
27 And when he hath made her to drink the water then it shall come to pass, that if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse, shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean, then she shall be free , and shall conceive seed .
29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled.
30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity , and this woman shall bear her iniquity .
CHAP. VI.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite , to separate themselves unto the LORD:
3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink , and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried .
4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine-tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
5 All the days of the vow of his separation, there shall no razor come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy ; and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall come at no dead body.
7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother , for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering , and the other for a burnt-offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that sameday.
12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation , and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass- offering: but the days that were before shall be lost , because his separation was defiled:
13 And this is the law of the Nazarite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he-lamb of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt-offering, and one ew-lamb of the first year, without blemish, for a sin- offering , and one ram without blemish, for peaceofferings :
15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meatoffering, and their drink-offerings .
16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin- offering, and his burnt-offering.
17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat-offering, and his drink-offering.
18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation , at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation , and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire , which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings.
19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite , after the hair of his separation is shaven.
20 And the priest shall wave them for a waveoffering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest with the wave-breast, and heaveshoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine .
21 This is the Law of the Nazarite, who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, besides that that his hand shall get : according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do, after the law of his separation.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel , saying unto them,
24 The LORD bless thee , and keep thee :
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee m, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee , and give thee peace ,
27 And they shall put my Name upon the children of Israel , and I will bless them .
CHAP. VII.
1 AND it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it b, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar, and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers (who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered) offered :
3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons , and twelve oxen: a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and thou shalt give them unto the Levites: to every man according to his service .
6 And Moses took the wagons, and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them, was that they should bear upon their shoulders .
10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar , in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering each prince on his day , for the dedicating of the altar.
12 And he that offered his offering the first day, was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah .
13 And his offering was one silver charger , the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering.
14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold full of incense:
15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:
16 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
17 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering.
20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
22 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering:
23 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings: five oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun did offer:
25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
28 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
29 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
31 His offering was one silver charger of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering.
32 One golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense:
33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
34 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
35 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
36 On the fifth day, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering.
38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
40 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
41 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered.
43 His offering was one silver charger, of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat offering:
44 One golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense:
45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
46 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
47 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered.
49 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
52 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
53 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh.
55 His offering was one silver charger, of an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-Offering:
58 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering.
59 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered.
61 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering.
64 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
65 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered.
67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
69 One bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
70 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering:
71 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.
72 On the eleventh day, Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered.
73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
76 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering.
77 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
78 On the twelfth day, Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered.
79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat-offering:
80 One golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense:
81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering:
82 One kid of the goats for a sin- offering.
83 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
84 This was the dedication of the altar, (in the day when it was anointed ) by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl, seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels a piece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
87 All the oxen for the burnt-offering, were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat-offering : and the kids of the goats for sin- offering twelve.
88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings, were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed .
89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation , to speak with him , then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy-seat , that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
CHAP. VIII.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick .
3 And Aaron did so: he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold , unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the candlestick.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh , and let them wash their cloths, and so make themselves clean.
8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin- offering.
9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation, and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together.
10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD, and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites g.
11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
23 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks : and thou shalt offer the one for a sin- offering, and the other for a burnt-offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons and offer them for an offering unto the LORD .
14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
15 And after that shall the Levites go in , to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel: instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the first-born of all the children of Israel have I taken them unto me.
17 For all the first-born of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel.
19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron, and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel , in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel : that there be no plague , among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come high unto the sanctuary.
20 And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
21 And the Levites were purified , and they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD, and Aaron made an atonement for them, to cleanse them.
22 And after that went the Levites in, to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation, before Aaron, and before his sons : as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward, they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof , and shall serve no more:
26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation to keep the charge, and shall do no service: thus shalt thou do unto the Levites, touching their charge.
CHAP. IX.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year , after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep the pass-over at its appointed season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel that they should keep the pass-over.
5 And they kept the pass-over on the fourteenth day of the first month at even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6 And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man , that they could not keep the pass-over on that day: and they came before Moses , and before Aaron on that day.
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in its appointed season, among the children of Israel?
8 And Moses said unto them, stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you .
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10 to Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you, or of your posterity, shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off , yet ye shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning , nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover, they shall keep it.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover : even the same soul shall be cut off from his people, because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season: that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD, according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony : and at even there was upon the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire , until the morning.
16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17. And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed; and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched, as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle, they rested in the tents.
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD , and journeyed not.
20 And so it was when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle, according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
21 And so it was when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
CHAP. X.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Make thee two trumpets of silver : of an whole piece shalt thou make them, that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly: and for the journeying of the camps.
3 And when they shall blow with them , all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
5 When ye blow an alarm , then the camps that lie on the east-part, shall go forward.
6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south-side, shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys .
7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow: but ye shall not sound an alarm.
8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets : and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations.
9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets , and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies .
10 Also in the days of your gladness , and in your solemn days , and in the beginnings of your months , ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, that they may be to you for a memorial before your God : I am the LORD your God.
11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran :
13 And they first took their journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah, according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar, was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, was Eliab the son of Helon.
17 And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon, and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon, was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad, was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
21 And the Kohathite set forward, bearing the sanctuary, and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward which was the rearward of all the camps throughout their hosts, and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher, was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, was Ahira the son of Enan.
28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel, according to their armies when they set forward.
29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses father in law , We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
30 And he said unto him, I will not go , but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee, forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes .
32 And it shall be if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days journey : and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days journey: to search out a resting place for them.
34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day , when they went out of the camp.
35 And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
36 And when it rested, he said, Return , O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
CHAP. XI.
1 AND when the people complained , it displeased the LORD, and the LORD heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp .
2 And the people cried unto Moses : and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah : because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
4 And the * mixed multitude that was among them, fell a lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again , and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely : the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
6 But now our soul is dried away , there is nothing at all besides this Manna, before our eyes .
7 And the manna was as coriander-seed , and the color thereof as the color of bdellium .
8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil .
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it .
10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent , and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, Moses also was displeased .
11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight , that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them , that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom (as a nursing father beareth the sucking-child ) unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that me may eat.
14 I am not able to bear all this people alone , because it is too heavy for me.
15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness .
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel , whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them: and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
17 And I will come down , and talk with thee there, and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them , and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh: (for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD , saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt) therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days:
20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils , and it be loathsome unto you , because ye have despised the LORD , which is among you , and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt ?
21 And Moses said, The people amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen , and thou hast said, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month.
22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them ? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them?
23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short ? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee, or not.
24 And Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle .
25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders, and it came to pass, that when the spirit rested upon them , they prophesied , and did not cease .
26 But there remained two of the men in the camp , the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other, Medad: and the spirit rested upon them (and they were of them that were written , but went not out unto the tabernacle) and they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses , and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun the servant of Moses, one of his young men answered, and said, My lord Moses, forbid them .
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake ? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets , and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them.
30 And Moses gat him into the camp , he and the elders of Israel.
31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD , and brought quail from the sea , and let them fall by the camp, as it were a days journey on this side, and as it were a days journey on the other side round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth .
32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night , and all the next day, and they gathered the quail: he that gathered least, gathered ten homers : and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed , the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague .
34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah , because there they buried the people that lusted.
35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth : and abode at Hazeroth.
CHAP. XII.
1 AND Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman , whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us ? And the LORD heard it .
3 (Now the man Moses was very meek , above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation, and they three came out,
5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle , and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you , I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision , and will speak unto him in a dream :
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house .
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth , even apparently , and not in dark speeches , and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed .
10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle , and behold, Miriam became leprous , white as snow : and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead , of whom the flesh is half consumed, when he cometh out of his mothers womb .
13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face , should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days , and after that let her be received in again.
15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not, till Miriam was brought in again .
16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth , and pitched in the wilderness of Paran .
CHAP. XIII.
1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses , saying,
2 Send thou men , that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, everyone a ruler among them.
3 And Moses, by the commandment of the LORD, sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palto the son of Raph •… .
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh , Gaddi the son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Shether the son of Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land: and Moses called Oshea the son of Nun, Jehoshua .
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get ye up this way southward , and go up into the mountain :
18 And see the land what it is , and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many:
19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad , and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents or in strong holds:
20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage , and bring of the fruit of the land, (now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.)
21 So they went up, and searched the land, from the wilderness of Zin , unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath .
22 And they ascended by the south , and came unto Hebron: where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak were: (now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt )
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff , and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh , and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him , and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey , and this is the fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless, the people, be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
29 The Amalekite dwelleth in the land of the south : and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwelleth in the mountains : and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea , and by the coast of Jordan.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses , and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it .
31 But the men that went up with him , said, We be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we .
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land , which they had searched, unto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land