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{\MTB The Fourth Book of Moses,

\par }{\MTC Commonly Called

\par }{\MT Numbers


\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:1 }{\FT{When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.}}}
spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month,
in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

\VS{2}“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

\VS{3}from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.
You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

\VS{4}With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’
house.

\VS{5}These are the names of the men who shall stand with you:

\par }{\PP Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud;
of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


\par }{\PP \VS{15}Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:16 }{\FT{or, chiefs, or, leaders}}} of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands
of Israel.

\VS{17}Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.

\VS{18}They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second
month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

\VS{19}As the LORD commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.


\par }{\PP \VS{20}The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male
from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

\VS{21}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand
five hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one,
every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

\VS{23}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand
three hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{25}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand
six hundred fifty.


\par }{\PP \VS{26}Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{27}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand
six hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{28}Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{29}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four
thousand four hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{30}Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{31}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven
thousand four hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{32}Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

\VS{33}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand
five hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{34}Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{35}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two
thousand two hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{36}Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{37}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five
thousand four hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{38}Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{39}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand
seven hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{40}Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{41}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand
five hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{42}Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war:

\VS{43}those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three
thousand four hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{44}These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted,
and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.

\VS{45}So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’
houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—

\VS{46}all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

\VS{47}But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

\VS{48}For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{49}“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census
of them among the children of Israel;

\VS{50}but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all
its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings;
and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

\VS{51}When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the
tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

\VS{52}The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp,
and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

\VS{53}But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that
there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible
for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”


\par }{\PP \VS{54}Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so they did.



\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

\VS{2}“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the
banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.


\par }{\PP \VS{3}“Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be
of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah
shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

\VS{4}His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand
six hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. The
prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.

\VS{6}His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four
hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}“The tribe of Zebulun: the prince of the children of Zebulun shall
be Eliab the son of Helon.

\VS{8}His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four
hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}“All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six
thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

\VS{11}His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five
hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The
prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

\VS{13}His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand
three hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}“The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be
Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

\VS{15}His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand
six hundred fifty.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}“All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred
fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the
Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by
their standards.


\par }{\PP \VS{18}“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

\VS{19}His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five
hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{20}“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the
children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

\VS{21}His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand
two hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}“The tribe of Benjamin: the prince of the children of Benjamin
shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

\VS{23}His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand four
hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}“All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred
eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.


\par }{\PP \VS{25}“On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according
to their divisions. The prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

\VS{26}His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand
seven hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{27}“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The
prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.

\VS{28}His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand
five hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}“The tribe of Naphtali: the prince of the children of Naphtali
shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

\VS{30}His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand
four hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{31}“All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven
thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”


\par }{\PP \VS{32}These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by
their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three
thousand five hundred fifty.

\VS{33}But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as the LORD
commanded Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{34}Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families,
according to their fathers’ houses.



\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in
the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

\VS{2}These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar,
and Ithamar.


\par }{\PP \VS{3}These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were
anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

\VS{4}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. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s
office in the presence of Aaron their father.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{6}“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they
may minister to him.

\VS{7}They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation
before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

\VS{8}They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations
of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

\VS{9}You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to
him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

\VS{10}You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood,
but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”


\par }{\PP \VS{11}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{12}“Behold,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:12 }{\FT{“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is
often used as an interjection.}}} I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead
of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,

\VS{13}for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be
mine. I am the LORD.”


\par }{\PP \VS{14}The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

\VS{15}“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You
shall count every male from a month old and upward.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}Moses counted them according to the LORD’s word, as he was commanded.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.


\par }{\PP \VS{18}These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families:
Libni and Shimei.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel.


\par }{\PP \VS{20}The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.

\par }{\PP These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of
the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all
the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle
westward.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’
house of the Gershonites.

\VS{25}The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle,
the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

\VS{26}the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by
the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.


\par }{\PP \VS{27}Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the
Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the
Kohathites.

\VS{28}According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there
were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south
side of the tabernacle.

\VS{30}The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be
Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

\VS{31}Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels
of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.

\VS{32}Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the
Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.


\par }{\PP \VS{33}Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the
Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

\VS{34}Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from
a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 3:34 }{\FT{+ 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites,
and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant
digits, not 3 significant digits.}}}


\par }{\PP \VS{35}The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was
Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

\VS{36}The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards,
its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,

\VS{37}the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.


\par }{\PP \VS{38}Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of
the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements
of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

\VS{39}All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment
of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.


\par }{\PP \VS{40}The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the
children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

\VS{41}You shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn
among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
livestock of the children of Israel.”


\par }{\PP \VS{42}Moses counted, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among
the children of Israel.

\VS{43}All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old
and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.


\par }{\PP \VS{44}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{45}“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel,
and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.

\VS{46}For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the
children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,

\VS{47}you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel\FTNT{§}{{\FR 3:47 }{\FT{A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.}}} of the sanctuary you shall take them
(the shekel is twenty gerahs\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:47 }{\FT{A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.}}});

\VS{48}and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron
and to his sons.”


\par }{\PP \VS{49}Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number
of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

\VS{50}from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand
three hundred sixty-five shekels,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 3:50 }{\FT{A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or
about 30 pounds.}}} according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

\VS{51}and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to
the LORD’s word, as the LORD commanded Moses.



\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

\VS{2}“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families,
by their fathers’ houses,

\VS{3}from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into
the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


\par }{\PP \VS{4}“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting,
regarding the most holy things.

\VS{5}When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall
take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

\VS{6}put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its
poles.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}“On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and
put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread
shall be on it.

\VS{8}They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin,
and shall put in its poles.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}“They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light,
its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.

\VS{10}They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall
put it on the frame.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover
it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}“They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they
minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall
put them on the frame.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}“They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a
purple cloth on it.

\VS{14}They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the
fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread
on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.


\par }{\PP \VS{15}“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary
and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall
come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry
these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the
oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements
of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”


\par }{\PP \VS{17}The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

\VS{18}“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the
Levites;

\VS{19}but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the
most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;

\VS{20}but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they
die.”


\par }{\PP \VS{21}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{22}“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their
families;

\VS{23}you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old:
all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving
and in bearing burdens:

\VS{25}they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the Tent of Meeting, its
covering, the covering of sealskin that is on it, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

\VS{26}the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court
which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service,
and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.

\VS{27}At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons
of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to
them in all their responsibilities.

\VS{28}This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the
Tent of Meeting. Their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}“As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families,
by their fathers’ houses;

\VS{30}you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years
old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{31}This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent
of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

\VS{32}the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords,
with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty
of their burden to them by name.

\VS{33}This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all
their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”


\par }{\PP \VS{34}Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the
sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

\VS{35}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered
into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{36}Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred
fifty.

\VS{37}These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who
served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by
Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{38}Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families,
and by their fathers’ houses,

\VS{39}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered
into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

\VS{40}even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.

\VS{41}These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all
who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD.


\par }{\PP \VS{42}Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

\VS{43}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered
into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

\VS{44}even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand
two hundred.

\VS{45}These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom
Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{46}All those who were counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron
and the princes of Israel counted, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,

\VS{47}from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered
in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,

\VS{48}even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.

\VS{49}According to the commandment of the LORD they were counted by Moses, everyone
according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as the LORD commanded
Moses.



\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone
who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.

\VS{3}You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile
their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”


\par }{\PP \VS{4}The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp;
as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{6}“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that
men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty,

\VS{7}then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution
for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been
guilty.

\VS{8}But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt,
the restitution for guilt which is made to the LORD shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the
atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.

\VS{9}Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which
they present to the priest, shall be his.

\VS{10}Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it
shall be his.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{11}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{12}“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray
and is unfaithful to him,

\VS{13}and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband
and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in
the act;

\VS{14}and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and
she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t
defiled;

\VS{15}then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering
for her: one tenth of an efah\FTNT{†}{{\FR 5:15 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of barley meal. He shall pour no
oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial,
bringing iniquity to memory.

\VS{16}The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD.

\VS{17}The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall
take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

\VS{18}The priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman’s
head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy.
The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

\VS{19}The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no
man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority,
be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

\VS{20}But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if
you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”

\VS{21}then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and
the priest shall tell the woman, “May the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the
LORD allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

\VS{22}and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your
body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”


\par }{\PP \VS{23}“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
wipe them into the water of bitterness.

\VS{24}He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse;
and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

\VS{25}The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand,
and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

\VS{26}The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion,
and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

\VS{27}When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled
and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into
her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a
curse among her people.

\VS{28}If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall
conceive offspring.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 5:28 }{\FT{or, seed}}}


\par }{\PP \VS{29}“ ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband,
goes astray, and is defiled,

\VS{30}or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife;
then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

\VS{31}The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ”



\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall
make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

\VS{3}he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar
of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes
or dried.

\VS{4}All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine,
from the seeds even to the skins.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ ‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on
his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to the LORD. He shall be holy. He
shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not
go near a dead body.

\VS{7}He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his
brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God\FTNT{†}{{\FR 6:7 }{\FT{The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}}} is on his head.

\VS{8}All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the
head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he
shall shave it.

\VS{10}On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the
priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{11}The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,
and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that
same day.

\VS{12}He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring
a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation
was defiled.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation
are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,

\VS{14}and he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without
defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without
defect for peace offerings,

\VS{15}a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened
wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.

\VS{16}The priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering
and his burnt offering.

\VS{17}He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, with
the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.

\VS{18}The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent
of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice
of peace offerings.

\VS{19}The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake
out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he
has shaved the head of his separation;

\VS{20}and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are
holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that
the Nazirite may drink wine.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering
to the LORD for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which
he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{22}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{23}“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the
children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,


\par }{\Q \VS{24}‘The LORD bless you, and keep you.


\par }{\QB \VS{25}The LORD make his face to shine on you,

\par }{\QB and be gracious to you.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}The LORD lift up his face toward you,

\par }{\QB and give you peace.’


\par }{\PP \VS{27}“So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will
bless them.”



\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and
had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had
anointed and sanctified them;

\VS{2}the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, gave offerings. These
were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted;

\VS{3}and they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons and twelve
oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.

\VS{4}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{5}“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent
of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

\VS{7}He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their
service.

\VS{8}He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their
service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

\VS{9}But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary
belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in
the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}The LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each
prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”


\par }{\PP \VS{12}He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son
of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,

\VS{13}and his offering was:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 7:13 }{\FT{A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.}}}

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{14}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{15}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{16}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{17}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of
Amminadab.


\par }{\PP \VS{18}On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar,
gave his offering.

\VS{19}He offered for his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{20}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{21}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{22}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{23}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children
of Zebulun,

\VS{25}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{26}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{27}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{28}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{29}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of
Helon.


\par }{\PP \VS{30}On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children
of Reuben,

\VS{31}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{32}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{33}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{34}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{35}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of
Shedeur.


\par }{\PP \VS{36}On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of
the children of Simeon,

\VS{37}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{38}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{39}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{40}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{41}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son
of Zurishaddai.


\par }{\PP \VS{42}On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children
of Gad,

\VS{43}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{44}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{45}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{46}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{47}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son
of Deuel.


\par }{\PP \VS{48}On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
children of Ephraim,

\VS{49}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{50}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{51}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{52}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{53}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son
of Ammihud.


\par }{\PP \VS{54}On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the
children of Manasseh,

\VS{55}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{56}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{57}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{58}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{59}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son
of Pedahzur.


\par }{\PP \VS{60}On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children
of Benjamin,

\VS{61}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{62}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{63}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{64}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{65}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of
Gideoni.


\par }{\PP \VS{66}On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
children of Dan,

\VS{67}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{68}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{69}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{70}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{71}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.


\par }{\PP \VS{72}On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children
of Asher,

\VS{73}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{74}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{75}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{76}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{77}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of
Ochran.


\par }{\PP \VS{78}On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children
of Naphtali,

\VS{79}gave his offering:

\par }{\PP one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,

\par }{\PP one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them
full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{80}one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;


\par }{\PP \VS{81}one young bull,

\par }{\PP one ram,

\par }{\PP one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{82}one male goat for a sin offering;


\par }{\PP \VS{83}and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of
Enan.


\par }{\PP \VS{84}This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when
it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden
ladles;

\VS{85}each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy;
all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

\VS{86}the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according
to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;

\VS{87}all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male
lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;

\VS{88}and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls,
sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering of the
altar, after it was anointed.


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



\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall
give light in front of the lamp stand.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{3}Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the
lamp stand, as the LORD commanded Moses.

\VS{4}This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base
to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which the LORD had
shown Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{6}“Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

\VS{7}You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on
them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

\VS{8}Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with
oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

\VS{9}You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble
the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

\VS{10}You shall present the Levites before the LORD. The children of Israel shall
lay their hands on the Levites,

\VS{11}and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering on the
behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls,
and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make
atonement for the Levites.

\VS{13}You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them
as a wave offering to the LORD.

\VS{14}Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and
the Levites shall be mine.


\par }{\PP \VS{15}“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the
Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

\VS{16}For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead
of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.

\VS{17}For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and
animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

\VS{18}I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of
Israel.

\VS{19}I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the
children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement
for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children
of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”


\par }{\PP \VS{20}Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of
Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so
the children of Israel did to them.

\VS{21}The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and
Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the LORD and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

\VS{22}After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting
before Aaron and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did
to them.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{24}“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward
they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

\VS{25}and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and
shall serve no more,

\VS{26}but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty,
and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”



\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

\VS{2}“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

\VS{3}On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed
season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”


\par }{\PP \VS{4}Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

\VS{5}They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children
of Israel did.

\VS{6}There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so
that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

\VS{7}Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why
are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children
of Israel?”


\par }{\PP \VS{8}Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will
command concerning you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{9}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{10}“Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations
is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to
the LORD.

\VS{11}In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it;
they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

\VS{12}They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According
to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

\VS{13}But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover,
that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed
season, that man shall bear his sin.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}“ ‘If a foreigner lives among you and desires to keep the Passover
to the LORD, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance.
You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner and for him who is born in the land.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{15}On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered
the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the
appearance of fire, until morning.

\VS{16}So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by
night.

\VS{17}Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children
of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.

\VS{18}At the commandment of the LORD, the children of Israel traveled, and at the
commandment of the LORD they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

\VS{19}When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel
kept the LORD’s command, and didn’t travel.

\VS{20}Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the
commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they traveled.

\VS{21}Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was
taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.

\VS{22}Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the
tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it
was taken up, they traveled.

\VS{23}At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the
LORD they traveled. They kept the LORD’s command, at the commandment of the LORD by Moses.



\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Make two shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 10:2 }or, trumpets} of silver. You shall make them
of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps.

\VS{3}When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at
the door of the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{4}If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel,
shall gather themselves to you.

\VS{5}When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.

\VS{6}When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side
shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

\VS{7}But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall
not sound an alarm.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the shofars\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 10:8 }or, trumpets}.
This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

\VS{9}When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then
you shall sound an alarm with the shofars\FTNT{§}{{\FR 10:9 }or, trumpets}. Then you will be remembered before
the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and
in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 10:10 }or, trumpets} over your burnt
offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before
your God. I am the LORD your God.”


\par }{\PP \VS{11}In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day
of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.

\VS{12}The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness
of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.

\VS{13}They first went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went
forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

\VS{15}Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of
Issachar.

\VS{16}Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun.

\VS{17}The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari,
who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

\VS{18}The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies.
Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

\VS{19}Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Simeon.

\VS{20}Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Gad.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others
set up the tabernacle before they arrived.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward
according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

\VS{23}Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Manasseh.

\VS{24}Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Benjamin.


\par }{\PP \VS{25}The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the
rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was
over his army.

\VS{26}Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of
Asher.

\VS{27}Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.

\VS{28}Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies;
and they went forward.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’
father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with
us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.”


\par }{\PP \VS{30}He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own
land, and to my relatives.”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we
are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

\VS{32}It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good the LORD
does to us, we will do the same to you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{33}They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days’ journey.
The ark of the LORD’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

\VS{34}The cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the
camp.

\VS{35}When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies
be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”

\VS{36}When it rested, he said, “Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of the thousands
of Israel.”



\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the
LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts
of the camp.

\VS{2}The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

\VS{3}The name of that place was called Taberah,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 11:3 }{\FT{Taberah means “burning”
}}} because the LORD’s fire burned among them.


\par }{\PP \VS{4}The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and
the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

\VS{5}We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and
the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

\VS{6}but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna
to look at.”

\VS{7}The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 11:7 }{\FT{Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.}}}

\VS{8}The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in
mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

\VS{9}When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every
man at the door of his tent; and the LORD’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

\VS{11}Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why
haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

\VS{12}Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should
tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to
their fathers’?

\VS{13}Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me,
saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

\VS{14}I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for
me.

\VS{15}If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor
in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}The LORD said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders
of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the
Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

\VS{17}I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which
is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t
bear it yourself alone.


\par }{\PP \VS{18}“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for
tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us
meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

\VS{19}You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or
twenty days,

\VS{20}but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome
to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did
we come out of Egypt?” ’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{21}Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand
men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’

\VS{22}Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them?
Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”


\par }{\PP \VS{23}The LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s hand grown short? Now
you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”


\par }{\PP \VS{24}Moses went out, and told the people the LORD’s words; and he
gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

\VS{25}The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit
that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but
they did so no more.

\VS{26}But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name
of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone
out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

\VS{27}A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying
in the camp!”


\par }{\PP \VS{28}Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen
men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”


\par }{\PP \VS{29}Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that
all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”


\par }{\PP \VS{30}Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

\VS{31}A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them
fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the
camp, and about two cubits\FTNT{§}{{\FR 11:31 }{\FT{A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about
18 inches or 46 centimeters.}}} above the surface of the earth.

\VS{32}The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next
day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers;\FTNT{†}{{\FR 11:32 }{\FT{1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels}}} and they spread them all out for themselves
around the camp.

\VS{33}While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s
anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

\VS{34}The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 11:34 }{\FT{Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”}}} because there they buried the people who lusted.


\par }{\PP \VS{35}From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they stayed at Hazeroth.



\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman
whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

\VS{2}They said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also
with us?” And the LORD heard it.


\par }{\PP \VS{3}Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were
on the surface of the earth.

\VS{4}The LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come
out to the Tent of Meeting!”

\par }{\PP The three of them came out.

\VS{5}The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent,
and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.

\VS{6}He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD,
will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

\VS{7}My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

\VS{8}With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and
he shall see the LORD’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

\VS{9}The LORD’s anger burned against them; and he departed.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was
leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin
against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

\VS{12}Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when
he comes out of his mother’s womb.”


\par }{\PP \VS{13}Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”


\par }{\PP \VS{14}The LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face,
shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that
she shall be brought in again.”


\par }{\PP \VS{15}Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people
didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.

\VS{16}Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness
of Paran.



\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children
of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”


\par }{\PP \VS{3}Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.

\VS{4}These were their names:

\par }{\MM Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.


\par }{\MM \VS{5}Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.


\par }{\MM \VS{6}Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.


\par }{\MM \VS{7}Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.


\par }{\MM \VS{8}Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.


\par }{\MM \VS{9}Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.


\par }{\MM \VS{10}Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.


\par }{\MM \VS{11}Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi
the son of Susi.


\par }{\MM \VS{12}Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.


\par }{\MM \VS{13}Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.


\par }{\MM \VS{14}Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.


\par }{\MM \VS{15}Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.


\par }{\MM \VS{16}These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy
out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

\VS{17}Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this
way by the South, and go up into the hill country.

\VS{18}See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they
are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

\VS{19}and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what
cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;

\VS{20}and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood
therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of
the first-ripe grapes.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness
of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

\VS{22}They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai,
the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

\VS{23}They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates
and figs.

\VS{24}That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which
the children of Israel cut down from there.

\VS{25}They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

\VS{26}They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the
congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

\VS{27}They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it
flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

\VS{28}However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are
fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

\VS{29}Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the
Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”


\par }{\PP \VS{30}Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up
at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go
up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

\VS{32}They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the
children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up
its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

\VS{33}There we saw the Nephilim,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 13:33 }{\FT{or, giants}}} the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 13:33 }{\FT{or, giants}}} We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”



\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the
people wept that night.

\VS{2}All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole
congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this
wilderness!

\VS{3}Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and
our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

\VS{4}They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”


\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly
of the congregation of the children of Israel.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were
of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

\VS{7}They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The
land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

\VS{8}If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give
it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

\VS{9}Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for
they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear them.”


\par }{\PP \VS{10}But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.

\par }{\PP The LORD’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

\VS{11}The LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will
they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

\VS{12}I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make
of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”


\par }{\PP \VS{13}Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for
you brought up this people in your might from among them.

\VS{14}They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you
LORD are among this people; for you LORD are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you
go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

\VS{15}Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard
the fame of you will speak, saying,

\VS{16}‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he
swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’

\VS{17}Now please let the power of the Lord\FTNT{†}{{\FR 14:17 }{\FT{The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”}}} be great, according as you have
spoken, saying,

\VS{18}‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity
and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

\VS{19}Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your
loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”


\par }{\PP \VS{20}The LORD said, “I have pardoned according to your word;

\VS{21}but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the
LORD’s glory—

\VS{22}because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked
in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

\VS{23}surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither
shall any of those who despised me see it.

\VS{24}But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed
me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

\VS{25}Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn
and go into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.”

\VS{26}The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

\VS{27}“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against
me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

\VS{28}Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears,
so I will do to you.

\VS{29}Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted
of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against
me,

\VS{30}surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would
make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

\VS{31}But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or
killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

\VS{32}But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

\VS{33}Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall
bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

\VS{34}After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty
days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

\VS{35}I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation
who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall
die.”


\par }{\PP \VS{36}The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and
made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

\VS{37}even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague
before the LORD.

\VS{38}But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of
those men who went to spy out the land.


\par }{\PP \VS{39}Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the
people mourned greatly.

\VS{40}They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain,
saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised; for we have sinned.”


\par }{\PP \VS{41}Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD,
since it shall not prosper?

\VS{42}Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down
before your enemies.

\VS{43}For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall
by the sword because you turned back from following the LORD; therefore the LORD will not be with you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{44}But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless,
the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.

\VS{45}Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain,
and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah.



\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the
land of your habitations, which I give to you,

\VS{3}and will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice,
to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the
LORD, of the herd, or of the flock—

\VS{4}then he who offers his offering shall offer to the LORD a meal offering of
one tenth of an efah\FTNT{†}{{\FR 15:4 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of fine flour mixed with one fourth
of a hin\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 15:4 }{\FT{A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.}}} of oil.

\VS{5}You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the
burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths
of an efah\FTNT{§}{{\FR 15:6 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of fine flour mixed with the third
part of a hin of oil;

\VS{7}and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine,
of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

\VS{8}When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish
a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD,

\VS{9}then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an efah\FTNT{†}{{\FR 15:9 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of fine flour mixed with half a hin
of oil;

\VS{10}and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

\VS{11}Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs,
or of the young goats.

\VS{12}According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone
according to their number.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way,
in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

\VS{14}If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you
throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD,
as you do, so he shall do.

\VS{15}For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger
who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner
shall be before the LORD.

\VS{16}One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives
as a foreigner with you.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{17}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{18}“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the
land where I bring you,

\VS{19}then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer
up a wave offering to the LORD.

\VS{20}Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering.
As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.

\VS{21}Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the LORD a wave offering throughout
your generations.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which
the LORD has spoken to Moses—

\VS{23}even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the
LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—

\VS{24}then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant
aroma to the LORD, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one
male goat for a sin offering.

\VS{25}The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children
of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering
made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.

\VS{26}All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well
as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.


\par }{\PP \VS{27}“ ‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female
goat a year old for a sin offering.

\VS{28}The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly
before the LORD. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

\VS{29}You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who
is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.


\par }{\PP \VS{30}“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he
is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

\VS{31}Because he has despised the LORD’s word, and has broken his commandment,
that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{32}While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found
a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

\VS{33}Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and
to all the congregation.

\VS{34}They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be
done to him.


\par }{\PP \VS{35}The LORD said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death.
All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

\VS{36}All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death
with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{37}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{38}“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves
fringes\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 15:38 }{\FT{or, tzitziot (Hebrew צִיצִ֛ת)}}} on the borders of their garments throughout their generations,
and that they put on the fringe\FTNT{§}{{\FR 15:38 }{\FT{or, tassel}}} of each border a cord of blue.

\VS{39}It shall be to you for a fringe,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 15:39 }{\FT{or, tassel}}} that you may see it, and remember all the LORD’s commandments, and do them;
and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

\VS{40}so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your
God.

\VS{41}I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God: I am the LORD your God.”



\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi,
with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.

\VS{2}They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred
fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

\VS{3}They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said
to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the
LORD is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above the LORD’s assembly?”


\par }{\PP \VS{4}When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.

\VS{5}He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, the LORD will show
who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he
will cause to come near to him.

\VS{6}Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,

\VS{7}put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow. It shall
be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”


\par }{\PP \VS{8}Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!

\VS{9}Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the
congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the LORD’s tabernacle, and
to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

\VS{10}and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi
with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?

\VS{11}Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against the LORD!
What is Aaron that you complain against him?”


\par }{\PP \VS{12}Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and
they said, “We won’t come up!

\VS{13}Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with
milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

\VS{14}Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey,
nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come
up.”


\par }{\PP \VS{15}Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, “Don’t respect their
offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before the
LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

\VS{17}Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before
the LORD his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”


\par }{\PP \VS{18}They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense
on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

\VS{19}Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent
of Meeting.

\par }{\PP The LORD’s glory appeared to all the congregation.

\VS{20}The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

\VS{21}“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them
in a moment!”


\par }{\PP \VS{22}They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits
of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”


\par }{\PP \VS{23}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{24}“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram!’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{25}Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders
of Israel followed him.

\VS{26}He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of
these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”


\par }{\PP \VS{27}So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram,
on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their
sons, and their little ones.


\par }{\PP \VS{28}Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me
to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

\VS{29}If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what
all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me.

\VS{30}But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows
them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 16:30 }{\FT{Sheol is the place of the dead.}}} then you shall understand that these men have despised
the LORD.”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was
under them split apart.

\VS{32}The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all
of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

\VS{33}So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 16:33 }{\FT{Sheol is the place of the dead.}}} The earth closed on them, and they perished from among
the assembly.

\VS{34}All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest
the earth swallow us up!”

\VS{35}Fire came out from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered
the incense.


\par }{\PP \VS{36}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{37}“Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers
out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,

\VS{38}even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be
beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the LORD. Therefore they
are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”


\par }{\PP \VS{39}Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were
burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

\VS{40}to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who
isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before the LORD, that he not be as Korah
and as his company; as the LORD spoke to him by Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{41}But on the next day all the congregation of the children of
Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”


\par }{\PP \VS{42}When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against
Aaron, they looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and the LORD’s glory appeared.

\VS{43}Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{44}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{45}“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
They fell on their faces.


\par }{\PP \VS{46}Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar
in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath
has gone out from the LORD! The plague has begun.”


\par }{\PP \VS{47}Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly.
The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

\VS{48}He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

\VS{49}Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, in
addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.

\VS{50}Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague
was stopped.



\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’
house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on
his rod.

\VS{3}You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each
head of their fathers’ houses.

\VS{4}You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet
with you.

\VS{5}It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will
make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave
him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aaron’s rod
was among their rods.

\VS{7}Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the Tent of the Testimony.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and
behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

\VS{9}Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of
Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}The LORD said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the
covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their
complaining against me, that they not die.”

\VS{11}Moses did so. As the LORD commanded him, so he did.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish!
We are undone! We are all undone!

\VS{13}Everyone who keeps approaching the LORD’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”



\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house
with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity
of your priesthood.

\VS{2}Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near
with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be
before the Tent of the Testimony.

\VS{3}They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall
not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.

\VS{4}They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting,
for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the
altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

\VS{6}Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children
of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{7}You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the
altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift.
The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”


\par }{\PP \VS{8}The LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the
command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to
you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

\VS{9}This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of
theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering
of theirs, which they shall give to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

\VS{10}You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it.
It shall be holy to you.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}“This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all
the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters
with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}“I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of
the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD.

\VS{13}The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the
LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

\VS{15}Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD,
both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and
you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

\VS{16}You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according
to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel\FTNT{†}{{\FR 18:16 }{\FT{A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.}}} of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty
gerahs.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 18:16 }{\FT{A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.}}}


\par }{\PP \VS{17}“But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn
of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and
shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

\VS{18}Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh,
it shall be yours.

\VS{19}All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer
to the LORD, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a
covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your offspring with you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{20}The LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their
land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the
children of Israel.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe
in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent
of Meeting.

\VS{22}Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting,
lest they bear sin, and die.

\VS{23}But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall
bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of
Israel, they shall have no inheritance.

\VS{24}For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering
to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the
children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{25}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{26}“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of
the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall
offer up a wave offering of it for the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

\VS{27}Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain
of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.

\VS{28}Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to the LORD of all your tithes,
which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the LORD’s wave offering to Aaron
the priest.

\VS{29}Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to the LORD, of
all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’


\par }{\PP \VS{30}“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from
it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase
of the wine press.

\VS{31}You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in
return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{32}You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best.
You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’ ”



\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

\VS{2}“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the children
of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.

\VS{3}You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of
the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.

\VS{4}Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle
her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.

\VS{5}One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood,
with her dung, shall he burn.

\VS{6}The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the
middle of the burning of the heifer.

\VS{7}Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water,
and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

\VS{8}He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water,
and shall be unclean until the evening.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and
lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children
of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.

\VS{10}He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner
among them, for a statute forever.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven
days.

\VS{12}He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day
he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be
clean.

\VS{13}Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t
purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the
water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes
into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

\VS{15}Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword,
or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning
of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.

\VS{18}A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on
the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain,
or the dead, or the grave.

\VS{19}The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the
seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water,
and shall be clean at evening.

\VS{20}But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul
shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water
for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

\VS{21}It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity
shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the
soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”



\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into
the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried
there.

\VS{2}There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron.

\VS{3}The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died
when our brothers died before the LORD!

\VS{4}Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should
die there, we and our animals?

\VS{5}Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place?
It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD’s glory appeared to them.

\VS{7}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{8}“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother,
and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out
of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”


\par }{\PP \VS{9}Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

\VS{10}Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said
to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

\VS{11}Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water
came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe
in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly
into the land which I have given them.”


\par }{\PP \VS{13}These are the waters of Meribah;\FTNT{†}{{\FR 20:13 }{\FT{“Meribah” means “quarreling”.}}} because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and
he was sanctified in them.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:

\par }{\PP “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

\VS{15}how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time.
The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.

\VS{16}When we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought
us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through
field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s
highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”


\par }{\PP \VS{18}Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come
out with the sword against you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{19}The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway;
and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing
anything else, pass through on my feet.”


\par }{\PP \VS{20}He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against
him with many people, and with a strong hand.

\VS{21}Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned
away from him.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even
the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

\VS{23}The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land
of Edom, saying,

\VS{24}“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land
which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

\VS{25}Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;

\VS{26}and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall
be gathered, and shall die there.”


\par }{\PP \VS{27}Moses did as the LORD commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor
in the sight of all the congregation.

\VS{28}Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron
died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

\VS{29}When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty
days, even all the house of Israel.



\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard
that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

\VS{2}Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this
people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

\VS{3}The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites;
and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 21:3 }{\FT{“Hormah” means “destruction”.}}}


\par }{\PP \VS{4}They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Sea of Suf, to
go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

\VS{5}The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up
out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes
this disgusting food!”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}The LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the
people. Many people of Israel died.

\VS{7}The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken
against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed
for the people.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}The LORD said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on
a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

\VS{9}Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten
any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

\VS{11}They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which
is before Moab, toward the sunrise.

\VS{12}From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.

\VS{13}From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which
is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.

\VS{14}Therefore it is said in
{\BK{The Book of the Wars of the LORD}}, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

\VS{15}the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on
the border of Moab.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which
the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”


\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then Israel sang this song:

\par }{\Q “Spring up, well! Sing to it,


\par }{\QB \VS{18}the well, which the princes dug,

\par }{\QB which the nobles of the people dug,

\par }{\QB with the scepter, and with their poles.”

\par }{\PP From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

\VS{19}and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

\VS{20}and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of
Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

\VS{21}Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

\VS{22}“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard.
We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your
border.”


\par }{\PP \VS{23}Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but
Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz.
He fought against Israel.

\VS{24}Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from
the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.

\VS{25}Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites,
in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

\VS{26}For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought
against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

\VS{27}Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,

\par }{\Q “Come to Heshbon.

\par }{\QB Let the city of Sihon be built and established;


\par }{\Q \VS{28}for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,

\par }{\QB a flame from the city of Sihon.

\par }{\Q It has devoured Ar of Moab,

\par }{\QB The lords of the high places of the Arnon.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}Woe to you, Moab!

\par }{\QB You are undone, people of Chemosh!

\par }{\Q He has given his sons as fugitives,

\par }{\QB and his daughters into captivity,

\par }{\QB to Sihon king of the Amorites.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}We have shot at them.

\par }{\QB Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.

\par }{\Q We have laid waste even to Nophah,

\par }{\QB Which reaches to Medeba.”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

\VS{32}Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites
who were there.

\VS{33}They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went
out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


\par }{\PP \VS{34}The LORD said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered
him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of
the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”


\par }{\PP \VS{35}So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until
there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.



\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of
Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

\VS{2}Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

\VS{3}Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed
because of the children of Israel.

\VS{4}Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that
is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.”

\par }{\PP Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

\VS{5}He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River,
to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out
of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

\VS{6}Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty
for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for
I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”


\par }{\PP \VS{7}The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you
word again, as the LORD shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”


\par }{\PP \VS{10}Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab,
has said to me,

\VS{11}‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the
earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them
out.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{12}God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not
curse the people, for they are blessed.”


\par }{\PP \VS{13}Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak,
“Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{14}The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said,
“Balaam refuses to come with us.”


\par }{\PP \VS{15}Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.

\VS{16}They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please
let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

\VS{17}for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I
will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{18}Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give
me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

\VS{19}Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else
the LORD will speak to me.”


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


\par }{\PP \VS{21}Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went
with the princes of Moab.

\VS{22}God’s anger burned because he went; and the LORD’s angel placed himself in
the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

\VS{23}The donkey saw the LORD’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn
in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey,
to turn her into the path.

\VS{24}Then the LORD’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall
being on this side, and a wall on that side.

\VS{25}The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and
crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.


\par }{\PP \VS{26}The LORD’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place,
where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

\VS{27}The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s
anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.


\par }{\PP \VS{28}The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam,
“What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”


\par }{\PP \VS{29}Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish
there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”


\par }{\PP \VS{30}The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you
have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?”

\par }{\PP He said, “No.”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the LORD’s
angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

\VS{32}The LORD’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three
times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

\VS{33}The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she
had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”


\par }{\PP \VS{34}Balaam said to the LORD’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t
know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”


\par }{\PP \VS{35}The LORD’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but you shall
only speak the word that I shall speak to you.”

\par }{\PP So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

\VS{36}When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City
of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

\VS{37}Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why
didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”


\par }{\PP \VS{38}Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now
any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth.”


\par }{\PP \VS{39}Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.

\VS{40}Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes
who were with him.

\VS{41}In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places
of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.



\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare
here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”


\par }{\PP \VS{2}Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on
every altar a bull and a ram.

\VS{3}Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps
the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”

\par }{\PP He went to a bare height.

\VS{4}God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and
I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”


\par }{\PP \VS{5}The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak,
and thus you shall speak.”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering,
he, and all the princes of Moab.

\VS{7}He took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “From Aram has Balak brought me,

\par }{\QB the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.

\par }{\Q Come, curse Jacob for me.

\par }{\QB Come, defy Israel.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?

\par }{\QB How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For from the top of the rocks I see him.

\par }{\QB From the hills I see him.

\par }{\Q Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,

\par }{\QB and shall not be listed among the nations.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Who can count the dust of Jacob,

\par }{\QB or count the fourth part of Israel?

\par }{\Q Let me die the death of the righteous!

\par }{\QB Let my last end be like his!”


\par }{\PP \VS{11}Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you
to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”


\par }{\PP \VS{12}He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which
the LORD puts in my mouth?”


\par }{\PP \VS{13}Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where
you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for
me.”


\par }{\PP \VS{14}He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,
and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

\VS{15}He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over
there.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
“Return to Balak, and say this.”


\par }{\PP \VS{17}He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering,
and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”


\par }{\PP \VS{18}He took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “Rise up, Balak, and hear!

\par }{\QB Listen to me, you son of Zippor.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}God is not a man, that he should lie,

\par }{\QB nor a son of man, that he should repent.

\par }{\Q Has he said, and he won’t do it?

\par }{\QB Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Behold, I have received a command to bless.

\par }{\QB He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.

\par }{\QB Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.

\par }{\Q The LORD his God is with him.

\par }{\QB The shout of a king is among them.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}God brings them out of Egypt.

\par }{\QB He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;

\par }{\QB neither is there any divination with Israel.

\par }{\Q Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,

\par }{\QB ‘What has God done!’


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.

\par }{\QB As a lion he lifts himself up.

\par }{\Q He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,

\par }{\QB and drinks the blood of the slain.”


\par }{\PP \VS{25}Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all.”


\par }{\PP \VS{26}But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All
that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”


\par }{\PP \VS{27}Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another
place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”


\par }{\PP \VS{28}Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the
desert.

\VS{29}Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven
bulls and seven rams for me here.”


\par }{\PP \VS{30}Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram
on every altar.



\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn’t
go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

\VS{2}Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes;
and the Spirit of God came on him.

\VS{3}He took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “Balaam the son of Beor says,

\par }{\QB the man whose eyes are open says;


\par }{\Q \VS{4}he says, who hears the words of God,

\par }{\QB who sees the vision of the Almighty,

\par }{\QB falling down, and having his eyes open:


\par }{\Q \VS{5}How goodly are your tents, Jacob,

\par }{\QB and your dwellings, Israel!


\par }{\Q \VS{6}As valleys they are spread out,

\par }{\QB as gardens by the riverside,

\par }{\QB as aloes which the LORD has planted,

\par }{\QB as cedar trees beside the waters.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Water shall flow from his buckets.

\par }{\QB His seed shall be in many waters.

\par }{\Q His king shall be higher than Agag.

\par }{\QB His kingdom shall be exalted.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}God brings him out of Egypt.

\par }{\QB He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

\par }{\Q He shall consume the nations his adversaries,

\par }{\QB shall break their bones in pieces,

\par }{\QB and pierce them with his arrows.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}He couched, he lay down as a lion,

\par }{\QB as a lioness;

\par }{\QB who shall rouse him up?

\par }{\Q Everyone who blesses you is blessed.

\par }{\QB Everyone who curses you is cursed.”


\par }{\PP \VS{10}Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands
together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed
them these three times.

\VS{11}Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor;
but, behold, the LORD has kept you back from honor.”


\par }{\PP \VS{12}Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom
you sent to me, saying,

\VS{13}‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond
the LORD’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what the LORD says’?

\VS{14}Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people
shall do to your people in the latter days.”


\par }{\PP \VS{15}He took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “Balaam the son of Beor says,

\par }{\QB the man whose eyes are open says;


\par }{\QB \VS{16}he says, who hears the words of God,

\par }{\QB knows the knowledge of the Most High,

\par }{\QB and who sees the vision of the Almighty,

\par }{\QB falling down, and having his eyes open:


\par }{\Q \VS{17}I see him, but not now.

\par }{\QB I see him, but not near.

\par }{\Q A star will come out of Jacob.

\par }{\QB A scepter will rise out of Israel,

\par }{\Q and shall strike through the corners of Moab,

\par }{\QB and crush all the sons of Sheth.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Edom shall be a possession.

\par }{\QB Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession,

\par }{\QB while Israel does valiantly.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,

\par }{\QB and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”


\par }{\PP \VS{20}He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “Amalek was the first of the nations,

\par }{\QB but his latter end shall come to destruction.”


\par }{\PP \VS{21}He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “Your dwelling place is strong.

\par }{\QB Your nest is set in the rock.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,

\par }{\QB until Asshur carries you away captive.”


\par }{\PP \VS{23}He took up his parable, and said,

\par }{\Q “Alas, who shall live when God does this?


\par }{\QB \VS{24}But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.

\par }{\Q They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.

\par }{\QB He also shall come to destruction.”


\par }{\PP \VS{25}Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak
also went his way.



\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute
with the daughters of Moab;

\VS{2}for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate
and bowed down to their gods.

\VS{3}Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.

\VS{4}The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up
to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”


\par }{\PP \VS{5}Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who
have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his
brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

\VS{7}When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he
rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

\VS{8}He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children
of Israel.

\VS{9}Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{11}“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my
wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I
didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

\VS{12}Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.

\VS{13}It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting
priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{14}Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain
with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.

\VS{15}The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of
Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{17}“Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

\VS{18}for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in
the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister,
who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”



\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After the plague, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son
of Aaron the priest, saying,

\VS{2}“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty
years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

\VS{3}Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho, saying,

\VS{4}“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses
and the children of Israel.”

\par }{\PP These are those who came out of the land of Egypt.

\VS{5}Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family
of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

\VS{6}of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

\VS{7}These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them
were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

\VS{8}The son of Pallu: Eliab.

\VS{9}The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram
who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah
when they rebelled against the LORD;

\VS{10}and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah
when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

\VS{11}Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.

\VS{12}The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites;
of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

\VS{13}of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

\VS{14}These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

\VS{15}The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites;
of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

\VS{16}of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

\VS{17}of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

\VS{18}These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted
of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

\VS{19}The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

\VS{20}The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the
Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

\VS{21}The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul,
the family of the Hamulites.

\VS{22}These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them,
seventy-six thousand five hundred.

\VS{23}The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites;
of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

\VS{24}of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

\VS{25}These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of
them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

\VS{26}The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites;
of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

\VS{27}These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted
of them, sixty thousand five hundred.

\VS{28}The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

\VS{29}The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir
became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

\VS{30}These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek,
the family of the Helekites;

\VS{31}and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the
Shechemites;

\VS{32}and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the
Hepherites.

\VS{33}Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of
the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

\VS{34}These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two
thousand seven hundred.

\VS{35}These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family
of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

\VS{36}These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

\VS{37}These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were
counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

\VS{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;

\VS{39}of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the
Huphamites.

\VS{40}The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman,
the family of the Naamites.

\VS{41}These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted
of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

\VS{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.

\VS{43}All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of
them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

\VS{44}The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites;
of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.

\VS{45}Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel,
the family of the Malchielites.

\VS{46}The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

\VS{47}These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted
of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

\VS{48}The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the
Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

\VS{49}of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

\VS{50}These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those
who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

\VS{51}These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one
thousand seven hundred thirty.


\par }{\PP \VS{52}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{53}“To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number
of names.

\VS{54}To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall
give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance
be given.

\VS{55}Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names
of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

\VS{56}According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more
and the fewer.”


\par }{\PP \VS{57}These are those who were counted of the Levites after their
families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari,
the family of the Merarites.

\VS{58}These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of
the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites.
Kohath became the father of Amram.

\VS{59}The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born
to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

\VS{60}To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

\VS{61}Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

\VS{62}Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from
a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance
given them among the children of Israel.

\VS{63}These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted
the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

\VS{64}But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and
Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

\VS{65}For the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.”
There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.



\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near.
These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

\VS{2}They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes
and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

\VS{3}“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who
gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He
had no sons.

\VS{4}Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because
he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”


\par }{\PP \VS{5}Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

\VS{6}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{7}“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession
of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass
to them.

\VS{8}You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has
no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

\VS{9}If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

\VS{10}If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s
brothers.

\VS{11}If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his
kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance
for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{12}The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim,
and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

\VS{13}When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron
your brother was gathered;

\VS{14}because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in
the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of
Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)


\par }{\PP \VS{15}Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

\VS{16}“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the
congregation,

\VS{17}who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may
lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which
have no shepherd.”


\par }{\PP \VS{18}The LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in
whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

\VS{19}Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission
him in their sight.

\VS{20}You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children
of Israel may obey.

\VS{21}He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the
judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in,
both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”


\par }{\PP \VS{22}Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua, and set
him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.

\VS{23}He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the LORD spoke by Moses.



\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering,
my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’

\VS{3}You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer
to the LORD: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.

\VS{4}You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other
lamb at evening,

\VS{5}with one tenth of an efah\FTNT{†}{{\FR 28:5 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of fine flour for a meal offering,
mixed with the fourth part of a hin\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 28:5 }{\FT{A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.}}} of beaten oil.

\VS{6}It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant
aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

\VS{7}Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin\FTNT{§}{{\FR 28:7 }{\FT{One hin is about 6.5 liters, so 1/4 hin is about 1.6 liters or 1.7 quarts.}}} for each
lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD in the holy place.

\VS{8}The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning,
and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ ‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old
without defect, and two tenths of an efah\FTNT{†}{{\FR 28:9 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of fine flour for a meal offering
mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

\VS{10}this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, in addition to the continual
burnt offering and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ ‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt
offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,

\VS{12}and three tenths of an efah\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 28:12 }{\FT{1 efah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel}}} of fine flour for a meal offering
mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for
the one ram;

\VS{13}and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every
lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

\VS{14}Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part
of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month
throughout the months of the year.

\VS{15}Also, one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered in addition
to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is
the LORD’s Passover.

\VS{17}On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall
be eaten for seven days.

\VS{18}In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,

\VS{19}but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD:
two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,

\VS{20}with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three
tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.

\VS{21}You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

\VS{22}and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

\VS{23}You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which
is for a continual burnt offering.

\VS{24}In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt
offering and its drink offering.

\VS{25}On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular
work.


\par }{\PP \VS{26}“ ‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new
meal offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular
work;

\VS{27}but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: two
young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;

\VS{28}and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each
bull, two tenths for the one ram,

\VS{29}one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

\VS{30}and one male goat, to make atonement for you.

\VS{31}Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer
them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.



\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“ ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall
have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 29:1 }or, trumpets}
to you.

\VS{2}You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young
bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

\VS{3}and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull,
two tenths for the ram,

\VS{4}and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

\VS{5}and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

\VS{6}in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and
the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance,
for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

\VS{8}but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one
young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;

\VS{9}and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull,
two tenths for the one ram,

\VS{10}one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

\VS{11}one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement,
and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}“ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a
holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.

\VS{13}You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;

\VS{14}and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every
bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,

\VS{15}and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

\VS{16}and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt
offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}“ ‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two
rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

\VS{18}and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the
rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

\VS{19}and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt
offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.


\par }{\PP \VS{20}“ ‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without defect;

\VS{21}and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the
rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

\VS{22}and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}“ ‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without defect;

\VS{24}their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

\VS{25}and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt
offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{26}“ ‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without defect;

\VS{27}and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the
rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

\VS{28}and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt
offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}“ ‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without defect;

\VS{30}and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the
rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

\VS{31}and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt
offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.


\par }{\PP \VS{32}“ ‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without defect;

\VS{33}and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the
rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

\VS{34}and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt
offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{35}“ ‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall
do no regular work;

\VS{36}but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant
aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

\VS{37}their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram,
and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance,

\VS{38}and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt
offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.


\par }{\PP \VS{39}“ ‘You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts—in addition
to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings,
and your peace offerings.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{40}Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the
LORD commanded Moses.



\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel,
saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

\VS{2}When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with
a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


\par }{\PP \VS{3}“Also, when a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by
a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

\VS{4}and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul,
and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has
bound her soul shall stand.

\VS{5}But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or
of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her
father has forbidden her.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash
utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,

\VS{7}and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears
it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

\VS{8}But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void
her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The LORD
will forgive her.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything
with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a
bond with an oath,

\VS{11}and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her,
then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.

\VS{12}But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them,
then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall
not stand. Her husband has made them void. The LORD will forgive her.

\VS{13}Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish
it, or her husband may make it void.

\VS{14}But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes
all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to
her in the day that he heard them.

\VS{15}But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall
bear her iniquity.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between
a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.



\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered
to your people.”


\par }{\PP \VS{3}Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for
war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

\VS{4}You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, to the war.”

\VS{5}So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every
tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

\VS{6}Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the
son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 31:6 }or, trumpets}
for the alarm in his hand.

\VS{7}They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every
male.

\VS{8}They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur,
Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

\VS{9}The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones;
and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

\VS{10}All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments,
they burned with fire.

\VS{11}They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.

\VS{12}They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to
Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab,
which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

\VS{13}Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went
out to meet them outside of the camp.

\VS{14}Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands
and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

\VS{15}Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?

\VS{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 so the plague was among the congregation
of the LORD.

\VS{17}Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman
who has known man by lying with him.

\VS{18}But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for
yourselves.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed
any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day,
you and your captives.

\VS{20}You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work
of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”


\par }{\PP \VS{21}Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle,
“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses.

\VS{22}However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the
lead,

\VS{23}everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the
fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t
withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

\VS{24}You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward
you shall come into the camp.”


\par }{\PP \VS{25}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{26}“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar
the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;

\VS{27}and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who
went out to battle, and all the congregation.

\VS{28}Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one
soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

\VS{29}Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s
wave offering.

\VS{30}Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty,
of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them
to the Levites, who perform the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle.”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{32}Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

\VS{33}seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

\VS{34}sixty-one thousand donkeys,

\VS{35}and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man
by lying with him.

\VS{36}The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number
three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;

\VS{37}and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

\VS{38}The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two.

\VS{39}The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute
was sixty-one.

\VS{40}The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two
persons.

\VS{41}Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the
priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

\VS{42}Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who
fought

\VS{43}(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep,

\VS{44}thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

\VS{45}thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

\VS{46}and sixteen thousand persons),

\VS{47}even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every
fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle,
as the LORD commanded Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{48}The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains
of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

\VS{49}They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who
are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

\VS{50}We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments,
armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the
LORD.”


\par }{\PP \VS{51}Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked
jewels.

\VS{52}All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the
captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 31:52 }{\FT{A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or
about 368.5 pounds.}}}

\VS{53}The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

\VS{54}Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and
of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before
the LORD.



\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was
a place for livestock.

\VS{2}Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses,
and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

\VS{3}“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

\VS{4}the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land
for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”

\VS{5}They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to
your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben,
“Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

\VS{7}Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into
the land which the LORD has given them?

\VS{8}Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

\VS{9}For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged
the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

\VS{10}The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

\VS{11}‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly
followed me,

\VS{12}except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun,
because they have followed the LORD completely.’

\VS{13}The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and
forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the LORD’s sight was
consumed.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase
of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

\VS{15}For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the
wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here
for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;

\VS{17}but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel,
until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because
of the inhabitants of the land.

\VS{18}We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received
their inheritance.

\VS{19}For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond,
because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”


\par }{\PP \VS{20}Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will
arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

\VS{21}and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the LORD
until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

\VS{22}and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return,
and be clear of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the
LORD.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against
the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

\VS{24}Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that
which has proceeded out of your mouth.”


\par }{\PP \VS{25}The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses,
saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

\VS{26}Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there
in the cities of Gilead;

\VS{27}but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before
the LORD to battle, as my lord says.”


\par }{\PP \VS{28}So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and
to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of
Israel.

\VS{29}Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will
pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued
before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

\VS{30}but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions
among you in the land of Canaan.”


\par }{\PP \VS{31}The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying,
“As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.

\VS{32}We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the
possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”


\par }{\PP \VS{33}Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of
the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even
the cities of the surrounding land.

\VS{34}The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

\VS{35}Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

\VS{36}Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.

\VS{37}The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

\VS{38}Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other
names to the cities which they built.

\VS{39}The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed
the Amorites who were therein.

\VS{40}Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

\VS{41}Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth
Jair.

\VS{42}Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his
own name.



\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went
out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

\VS{2}Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the
LORD. These are their journeys according to their starting points.

\VS{3}They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the
first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the
sight of all the Egyptians,

\VS{4}while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck
among them. The LORD also executed judgments on their gods.

\VS{5}The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

\VS{6}They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of
the wilderness.

\VS{7}They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal
Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.

\VS{8}They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea
into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

\VS{9}They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs
of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

\VS{10}They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Sea of Suf.

\VS{11}They traveled from the Sea of Suf, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

\VS{12}They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

\VS{13}They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

\VS{14}They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water
for the people to drink.

\VS{15}They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

\VS{16}They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

\VS{17}They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.

\VS{18}They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.

\VS{19}They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.

\VS{20}They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.

\VS{21}They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.

\VS{22}They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.

\VS{23}They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.

\VS{24}They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.

\VS{25}They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.

\VS{26}They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.

\VS{27}They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.

\VS{28}They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

\VS{29}They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.

\VS{30}They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.

\VS{31}They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.

\VS{32}They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.

\VS{33}They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.

\VS{34}They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.

\VS{35}They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.

\VS{36}They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness
of Zin.

\VS{37}They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the
land of Edom.

\VS{38}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 had come out of the land of Egypt, in the
fifth month, on the first day of the month.

\VS{39}Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.

\VS{40}The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan,
heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

\VS{41}They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.

\VS{42}They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.

\VS{43}They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.

\VS{44}They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.

\VS{45}They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.

\VS{46}They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.

\VS{47}They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim,
before Nebo.

\VS{48}They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

\VS{49}They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in
the plains of Moab.

\VS{50}The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

\VS{51}Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan
into the land of Canaan,

\VS{52}then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you,
destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

\VS{53}You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given
the land to you to possess it.

\VS{54}You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger
groups you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever
the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.


\par }{\PP \VS{55}“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides.
They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

\VS{56}It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”



\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{2}“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land
of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according
to its borders),

\VS{3}then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side
of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.

\VS{4}Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass
along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar,
and pass along to Azmon.

\VS{5}The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall
end at the sea.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}“ ‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its
border. This shall be your west border.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall
mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.

\VS{8}From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border
shall pass by Zedad.

\VS{9}Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall
be your north border.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ ‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

\VS{11}The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain.
The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.

\VS{12}The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall
be your land according to its borders around it.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{13}Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the
land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the
half-tribe;

\VS{14}for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses,
the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have
received their inheritance.

\VS{15}The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond
the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”


\par }{\PP \VS{16}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{17}“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance:
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

\VS{18}You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

\VS{19}These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

\VS{20}Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

\VS{21}Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

\VS{22}Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

\VS{23}Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince,
Hanniel the son of Ephod.

\VS{24}Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

\VS{25}Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

\VS{26}Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

\VS{27}Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

\VS{28}Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

\VS{29}These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children
of Israel in the land of Canaan.



\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying,

\VS{2}“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out
of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.

\VS{3}They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their
livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.


\par }{\PP \VS{4}“The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the
Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits\FTNT{†}{{\FR 35:4 }{\FT{A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about
18 inches or 46 centimeters.}}} around it.

\VS{5}You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits,
and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north
side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be
the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give
forty-two cities.

\VS{7}All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities
together with their pasture lands.

\VS{8}Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children
of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according
to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”

\VS{9}The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

\VS{10}“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the
Jordan into the land of Canaan,

\VS{11}then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you,
that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

\VS{12}The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer
not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

\VS{13}The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

\VS{14}You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities
in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.

\VS{15}These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger,
and for the foreigner living among them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ ‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he
died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

\VS{17}If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he
died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

\VS{18}Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may
die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

\VS{19}The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets
him, he shall put him to death.

\VS{20}If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in
wait, so that he died,

\VS{21}or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck
him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death
when he meets him.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled
on him anything without lying in wait,

\VS{23}or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on
him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,

\VS{24}then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of
blood according to these ordinances.

\VS{25}The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger
of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell
therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.


\par }{\PP \VS{26}“ ‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border
of his city of refuge where he flees,

\VS{27}and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge,
and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,

\VS{28}because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of
the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of
his possession.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}“ ‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.


\par }{\PP \VS{30}“ ‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based
on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.


\par }{\PP \VS{31}“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer
who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.


\par }{\PP \VS{32}“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city
of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.


\par }{\PP \VS{33}“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood
pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the
blood of him who shed it.

\VS{34}You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, the
LORD, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”



\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children
of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and
spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.

\VS{2}They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by
lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad
our brother to his daughters.

\VS{3}If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children
of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be
added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot
of our inheritance.

\VS{4}When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will
be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken
away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”


\par }{\PP \VS{5}Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the LORD’s
word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right.

\VS{6}This is the thing which the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,
saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe
of their father.

\VS{7}So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe;
for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

\VS{8}Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of
Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may
each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

\VS{9}So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes
of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’ ”


\par }{\PP \VS{10}The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses:

\VS{11}for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.

\VS{12}They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph.
Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD
commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


\par }