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Chapter 11. And Jehovah spake unto 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 were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Take ye the sum 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, by their polls;
3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war
in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.
4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his
fathers' house.
5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of
Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of
Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
15 Of Napthtali: Ahira the son of Enan.
16 These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of
the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of
Israel.
17. And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:
18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of
the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and upward, by their polls.
19 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of
Sinai.
20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty
and six thousand and five hundred.
22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by
their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the
number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty
and nine thousand and three hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and
five thousand six hundred and fifty.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were
threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty
and four thousand and four hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty
and seven thousand and four hundred.
32 Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of Ephraim, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able
to go forth to war;
33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty
thousand and five hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were
thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were
thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
39 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were threescore
and two thousand and seven hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
41 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty
and one thousand and five hundred.
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 that were able to go forth to war;
43 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty
and three thousand and four hundred.
44. These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and
the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his
fathers' house.
45 So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their
fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war in Israel;
46 even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three
thousand and five hundred and fifty.
47. But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered
among them.
48 For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
49 Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take
the sum of them among the children of Israel;
50 but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and
over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they
shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall
minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it
down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it
up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his
own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts.
53 But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the
testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of
Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
testimony.
54 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah
commanded Moses, so did they.
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Chapter 21. And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with
the ensigns of their fathers' houses: over against the tent of meeting
shall they encamp round about.
3. And those that encamp on the east side toward the sunrising shall be
they of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts: and
the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and
fourteen thousand and six hundred.
5 And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and
the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.
6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four
thousand and four hundred.
7 [And] the tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun
shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and
seven thousand and four hundred.
9 All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred thousand and
fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their
hosts. They shall set forth first.
10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be
Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six
thousand and five hundred.
12 And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and
the prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai.
13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and
nine thousand and three hundred.
14 And the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be
Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and
five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
16 All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred thousand
and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their
hosts. And they shall set forth second.
17 Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the
Levites in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so shall they set
forward, every man in his place, by their standards.
18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall
be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
thousand and five hundred.
20 And next unto him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of
the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and
two thousand and two hundred.
22 And the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin
shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and
five thousand and four hundred.
24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred thousand
and eight thousand and a hundred, according to their hosts. And they shall
set forth third.
25 On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according
to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai.
26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore
and two thousand and seven hundred.
27 And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Asher: and
the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.
28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one
thousand and five hundred.
29 And the tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali
shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and
three thousand and four hundred.
31 All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and
fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall set forth hindmost by
their standards.
32 These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their
fathers' houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their
hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and
fifty.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as
Jehovah commanded Moses.
34 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah
commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set
forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
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Chapter 31. Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that
Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were
anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
4 And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire
before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and
Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of
Aaron their father.
5 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest,
that they may minister unto him.
7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the
tabernacle.
8 And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the
charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are
wholly given unto him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their
priesthood: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of
Israel instead of all the first-born that openeth the womb among the
children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
13 for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the
first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in
Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.
14. And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15 Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their
families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was
commanded.
17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath,
and Merari.
18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families:
Libni and Shimei.
19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron,
and Uzziel.
20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are
the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the
Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the
males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them
were seven thousand and five hundred.
23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle
westward.
24 And the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be
Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be
the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the
door of the tent of meeting,
26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the
court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the
cords of it for all the service thereof.
27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the
Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the
Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary.
29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the
tabernacle southward.
30 And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites
shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick,
and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister,
and the screen, and all the service thereof.
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes
of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of them that keep the charge of
the sanctuary.
33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the
Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all
the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
35 And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was
Zuriel the son of Abihail: they shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle
northward.
36 And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of
the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the
sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all the service
thereof,
37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their
pins, and their cords.
38 And those that encamp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent
of meeting toward the sunrising, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons,
keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of
Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
39 All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a
month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
40. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the
children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of
their names.
41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all
the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites
instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel:
42 and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among
the children of Israel.
43 And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a
month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and
two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
44 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of
Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the
Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.
46 And for the redemption of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen
of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are over and above [the
number of] the Levites,
47 thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of
the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
48 and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is
redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
49 And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above
them that were redeemed by the Levites;
50 from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money, a
thousand three hundred and threescore and five [shekels], after the shekel
of the sanctuary:
51 and Moses gave the redemption-money unto Aaron and to his sons,
according to the word of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
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Chapter 41. And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by
their families, by their fathers' houses,
3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that
enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting,
[about] the most holy things:
5 when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and
they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the
testimony with it,
6 and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it
a cloth all of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
7 And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and
put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls and the cups
wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall be thereon:
8 and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same
with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof.
9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the
light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, and all the
oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
10 and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of
sealskin, and shall put it upon the frame.
11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover
it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof:
12 and they shall take all the vessels of ministry, wherewith they
minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them
with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple
cloth thereon:
14 and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister about it, the firepans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the
basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a
covering of sealskin, and put in the staves thereof.
15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the
sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set
forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they
shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden
of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
16 And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil
for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual meal-offering, and
the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that
therein is, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof.
17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among
the Levites;
19 but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they
approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and
appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;
20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest
they die.
21. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
22 Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by
their families;
23 from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou
number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in
the tent of meeting.
24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and
in bearing burdens:
25 they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of
meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above upon it,
and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate
of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and
their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatsoever shall
be done with them: therein shall they serve.
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 ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.
28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in
the tent of meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar
the son of Aaron the priest.
29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families,
by their fathers' houses;
30 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou
number them, every one that entereth upon the service, to do the work of
the tent of meeting.
31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service
in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof,
and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,
32 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their
pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their
service: and by name ye shall appoint the instruments of the charge of
their burden.
33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according
to all their service, in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the
son of Aaron the priest.
34. And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the
sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
35 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one
that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting:
36 and those that were numbered of them by their families were two
thousand seven hundred and fifty.
37 These are they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites,
all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.
38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families,
and by their fathers' houses,
39 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one
that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting,
40 even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their
fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Gershon, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah.
42 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by
their families, by their fathers' houses,
43 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one
that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting,
44 even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three
thousand and two hundred.
45 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of
Jehovah by Moses.
46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and
the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers'
houses,
47 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one
that entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens
in the tent of meeting,
48 even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five
hundred and fourscore.
49 According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses,
every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were
they numbered of him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
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Chapter 51. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every
leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the
dead:
3 both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put
them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp;
as Jehovah spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any
sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah, and that soul shall
be guilty;
7 then he shall confess his sin which he hath done: and he shall make
restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fifth part thereof,
and give it unto him in respect of whom he hath been guilty.
8 But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the
guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made unto Jehovah shall be the
priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, whereby atonement shall be made
for him.
9 And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.
10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man
giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's
wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13 and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her
husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness
against her, and she be not taken in the act;
14 and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his
wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and
he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15 then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her
oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour
no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of
jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah:
17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the
dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put
it into the water.
18 And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, 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: and the priest shall have in
his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse.
19 And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman,
If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to
uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of
bitterness that causeth the curse.
20 But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be
defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:
21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse
and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall
away, and thy body to swell;
22 and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and
make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall
say, Amen, Amen.
23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot
them out into the water of bitterness:
24 and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth
the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and
become] bitter.
25 And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before Jehovah, and bring it
unto the altar:
26 and the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the
memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the
woman drink the water.
27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass,
if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that
the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter,
and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman
shall be a curse among her people.
28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free,
and shall conceive seed.
29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband,
goeth aside, and is defiled;
30 or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous of
his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall
execute upon her all this law.
31 And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her
iniquity.
Numbers
Chapter 61. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man
or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate
himself unto Jehovah,
3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any
juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the
grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk.
5 All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon
his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he separateth himself unto
Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head
grow long.
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come
near to a dead body.
7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother,
for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation
unto God is upon his head.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.
9 And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of
his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing,
on the seventh day shall he shave it.
10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young
pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting:
11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a
burnt-offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of
the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
12 And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and
shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former
days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
13 And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation
are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tent of meeting:
14 and he shall offer his oblation unto Jehovah, one he-lamb a year old
without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old without
blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for
peace-offerings,
15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with
oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and
their drink-offerings.
16 And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his
sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:
17 and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto
Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also
the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.
18 And the Nazrite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of
the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation,
and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings.
19 And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one
unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put
them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he hath shaven [the head of] his
separation;
20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah;
this is holy for the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh:
and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
21 This is the law of the Nazirite who voweth, [and of] his oblation unto
Jehovah for his separation, besides that which he is able to get: according
to his vow which he voweth, so he must do after the law of his separation.
22. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall
bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them,
24 Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee:
25 Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
27 So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will
bless them.
Numbers
Chapter 71. And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up
the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the
furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had
anointed them and sanctified them;
2 that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses,
offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were
over them that were numbered:
3 and they brought their oblation before Jehovah, six covered wagons, and
twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox:
and they presented them before the tabernacle.
4 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
5 Take it of them, that they may be [used] in doing the service of the
tent of meeting; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man
according to his service.
6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to
their service:
8 and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari,
according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron
the priest.
9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the
sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders.
10. And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar in the day
that it was anointed, even the princes offered their oblation before the
altar.
11 And Jehovah said unto Moses, They shall offer their oblation, each
prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.
12 And he that offered his oblation the first day was Nahshon the son of
Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
13 and his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a
hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meal-offering;
14 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
15 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
16 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
17 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Nahshon the
son of Amminadab.
18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did
offer:
19 he offered for his oblation one silver platter, the weight whereof was
a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meal-offering;
20 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
21 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
22 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
23 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Nethanel the
son of Zuar.
24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of
Zebulun.:
25 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
26 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
27 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
28 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
29 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliab the son
of Helon.
30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of
Reuben:
31 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
32 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
33 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
34 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
35 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elizur the son
of Shedeur.
36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the
children of Simeon:
37 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
38 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
39 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
40 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
41 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai.
42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of
Gad:
43 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
44 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
45 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
46 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
47 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliasaph the
son of Deuel.
48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children
of Ephraim:
49 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
50 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
51 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
52 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
53 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elishama the
son of Ammihud.
54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children
of Manasseh:
55 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
56 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
57 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
58 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
59 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Gamaliel the
son of Pedahzur.
60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of
Benjamin:
61 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
62 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
63 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
64 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
65 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Abidan the son
of Gideoni.
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
children of Dan:
67 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
68 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
69 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
70 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
71 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai.
72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children
of Asher:
73 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
74 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
75 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
76 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
77 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Pagiel the son
of Ochran.
78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of
Naphtali:
79 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
a thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering;
80 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
81 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering;
82 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
83 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahira the son
of Enan.
84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed,
by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls,
twelve golden spoons;
85 each silver platter [weighing] a hundred and thirty [shekels], and
each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four
hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary;
86 the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, [weighing] ten [shekels]
apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons a
hundred and twenty [shekels];
87 all the oxen for the burnt-offering twelve bullocks, the rams twelve,
the he-lambs a year old twelve, and their meal-offering; and the males of
the goats for a sin-offering twelve;
88 and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace-offerings twenty and four
bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs a year old
sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then
he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was
upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spake
unto him.
Numbers
Chapter 81. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the
seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.
3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof [so as to give light] in
front of the candlestick, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
4 And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the
base thereof, [and] unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work: according
unto the pattern which Jehovah had showed Moses, so he made the
candlestick.
5. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water
of expiation upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their
flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
8 Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour
mingled with oil; and another young bullock shalt thou take for a
sin-offering.
9 And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and thou
shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel:
10 and thou shalt present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of
Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites:
11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave-offering,
on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the
service of Jehovah.
12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks:
and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a
burnt-offering, unto Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites.
13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and
offer them for a wave-offering unto Jehovah.
14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of
Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent
of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a
wave-offering.
16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel;
instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the
children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
17 For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man
and beast: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt
I sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the
children of Israel.
19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from
among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel
in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel;
that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of
Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of
Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that Jehovah commanded Moses
touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
21 And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their
clothes: and Aaron offered them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; and
Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of
meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah had commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
24 This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five
years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work
of the tent of meeting:
25 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the
work, and shall serve no more,
26 but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep
the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites
touching their charges.
Numbers
Chapter 91. And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed
season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in its
appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all
the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the
passover.
5 And they kept the passover in the first [month], on the fourteenth day
of the month, at even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that
Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6 And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body
of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they
came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
7 and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body
of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of
Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?
8 And Moses said unto them, Stay ye, that I may hear what Jehovah will
command concerning you.
9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of
your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a
journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.
11 In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it;
they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
12 they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone
thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to
keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he
offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall
bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover
unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to
the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for
the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.
15. And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the
tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the
tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by
night.
17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after
that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud
abode, there the children of Israel encamped.
18 At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed, and at
the commandment of Jehovah they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon
the tabernacle they remained encamped.
19 And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the
children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not.
20 And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then
according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped, and
according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed.
21 And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the
cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or [if it continued] by
day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud
tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel
remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they
journeyed.
23 At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of
Jehovah they journeyed: they kept the charge of Jehovah, at the commandment
of Jehovah by Moses.
Numbers
Chapter 101. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them:
and thou shalt use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the
journeying of the camps.
3 And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather
themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.
4 And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands
of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
5 And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall
take their journey.
6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the
south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their
journeys.
7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye
shall not sound an alarm.
8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they
shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations.
9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that
oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye
shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from
your enemies.
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the
beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the 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 Jehovah your God.
11. And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the
twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle of the testimony.
12 And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out
of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of
Jehovah by Moses.
14 And in the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of
Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon
the son of Amminadab.
15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
Nethanel the son of Zuar.
16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab
the son of Helon.
17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the
sons of Merari, who bare the tabernacle, set forward.
18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their
hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai.
20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the
son of Deuel.
21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the
others] did set up the tabernacle against their coming.
22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward
according to their hosts: and over his host was Elishama the son of
Ammihud.
23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan
the son of Gideoni.
25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the
rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts: and over
his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the
son of Ochran.
27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira
the son of Enan.
28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their
hosts; and they set forward.
29. And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses'
father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I
will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah
hath spoken good concerning Israel.
30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own
land, and to my kindred.
31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how
we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of
eyes.
32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good
soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
33 And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days' journey;
and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days'
journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
34 And the cloud of Jehovah was over them by day, when they set forward
from the camp.
35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise
up, O Jehovah, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate
thee flee before thee.
36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, unto the ten thousands
of the thousands of Israel.
Numbers
Chapter 111. And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of
Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of
Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the
fire abated.
3 And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of
Jehovah burnt among them.
4. And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the
children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to
eat?
5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna
to look upon.
7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as
the appearance of bdellium.
8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat
it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste
of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon
it.
10 And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every
man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly;
and Moses was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou dealt ill with thy
servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou
layest the burden of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that thou
shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father
carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their
fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep
unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy
for me.
15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I
have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
16. And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders
of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers
over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand
there with thee.
17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the
Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear
the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow,
and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying,
Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore
Jehovah will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten
days, nor twenty days,
20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be
loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you,
and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand
footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a
whole month.
22 Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall
all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
23 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Is Jehovah's hand waxed short? now shalt
thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
24. And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah: and he
gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about
the Tent.
25 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of
the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it
came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but
they did so no more.
26 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad,
and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they
were of them that were written, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and
they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad
do prophesy in the camp.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen
men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
29 And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all
Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon
them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31. And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, 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, round about the camp, and about two
cubits above the face of the earth.
32 And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the
next day, and gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten
homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the
camp.
33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the
anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the
people with a very great plague.
34 And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there
they buried the people that lusted.
35 From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed unto Hazeroth; and they
abode at Hazeroth.
Numbers
Chapter 121. And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman
whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
2 And they said, Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? hath he not
spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it.
3 Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the
face of the earth.
4. And Jehovah spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam,
Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting. And they three came out.
5 And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of
the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I
Jehovah will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak with him
in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
8 with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark
speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye
not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
9 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them; and he departed.
10. And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was
leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she
was leprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Oh, my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon
us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half
consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
13 And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.
14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face,
should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up without the camp
seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
15 And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days: and the people
journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
16 And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the
wilderness of Paran.
Numbers
Chapter 131. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give
unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send
a man, every one a prince among them.
3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of
Israel.
4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of
Zaccur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the
son of Susi.
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16 These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land.
And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them,
Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:
18 and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein,
whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
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;
20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood
therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the
land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
21. So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin
unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
22 And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahaiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was
built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a
branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between
two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster
which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
26. And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to
Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and
showed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou
sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the
fruit of it.
28 Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities
are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak
there.
29 Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the
Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite
dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at
once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up
against the people; for they are stronger than we.
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied
out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have
gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and
all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the
Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in
their sight.
Numbers
Chapter 141. And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the
people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in
the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the
sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for
us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return
into Egypt.
5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of
them that spied out the land, rent their clothes:
7 and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding
good land.
8 If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and
give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land;
for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and
Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of
Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
11. And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and
how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have
wrought among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will
make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
13 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou
broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;
14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard
that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art
seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before
them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which
have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which
he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as
thou hast spoken, saying,
18 Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving
iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear [the guilty],
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and
upon the fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the
greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this
people, from Egypt even until now.
20. And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with
the glory of Jehovah;
22 because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I
wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten
times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath
followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and
his seed shall possess it.
25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow
turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur
against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which
they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in
mine ears, so will I do to you:
29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and
upward, that have murmured against me,
30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that
I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua
the son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring
in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years,
and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the
wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even
forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty
years, and ye shall know my alienation.
35 I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness
they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36. And 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,
37 even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by
the plague before Jehovah.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained
alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
39 And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the
people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of
the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which
Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of
Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?
42 Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down
before your enemies.
43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall
fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Jehovah,
therefore Jehovah will not be with you.
44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, departed not out of the
camp.
45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that
mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.
Numbers
Chapter 151. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come
into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
3 and will make an offering by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, or a
sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set
feasts, to make a sweet savor unto Jehovah, of the herd, or of the flock;
4 then shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto Jehovah a
meal-offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the
fourth part of a hin of oil:
5 and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou
prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts
[of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil:
7 and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of
wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a
sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings unto Jehovah;
9 then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth
parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil:
10 and thou shalt offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
11 Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each
of the he-lambs, or of the kids.
12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every
one according to their number.
13 All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in
offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you
throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor unto Jehovah; as ye do, so he shall do.
15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the
stranger that sojourneth [with you], a statute for ever throughout your
generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah.
16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that
sojourneth with you.
17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come
into the land whither I bring you,
19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall
offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah.
20 Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a
heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye
heave it.
21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering
throughout your generations.
22. And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which
Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,
23 even all that Jehovah hath commanded you by Moses, from the day that
Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of
the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock
for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah, with the
meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the
ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin-offering.
25 And 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 oblation, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah,
and their sin-offering before Jehovah, for their error:
26 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven,
and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the
people it was done unwittingly.
27 And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a
year old for a sin-offering.
28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he
sinneth unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he
shall be forgiven.
29 Ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught unwittingly, for him
that is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that
sojourneth among them.
30. But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be
home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth Jehovah; and that soul shall
be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his
commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon
him.
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a
man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and
Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should
be done to him.
35 And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all
the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him
to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
37. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them
fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and
that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue:
39 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and
remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow
not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the
harlot;
40 that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your
God.
41 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be
your God: I am Jehovah your God.
Numbers
Chapter 161. 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 [men]:
2 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel,
two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly,
men of renown;
3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron,
and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation
are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them: wherefore then lift
ye up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?
4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
5 and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, In the
morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him
to come near unto him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come
near unto him.
6 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
7 and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before Jehovah
to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Jehovah doth choose, he [shall
be] holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi:
9 [seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath
separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to
himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand
before the congregation to minister unto them;
10 and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of
Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also?
11 Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against
Jehovah: and Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?
12. And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they
said, We will not come up:
13 is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing
with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make
thyself also a prince over us?
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and
honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out
the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto Jehovah, Respect not thou
their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one
of them.
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before Jehovah,
thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow:
17 and take ye every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring
ye before Jehovah every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou
also, and Aaron, each his censer.
18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid
incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses
and Aaron.
19 And Korah assembled all the congregation against them unto the door of
the tent of meeting: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto all the
congregation.
20 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume
them in a moment.
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the
spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all
the congregation?
23. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the
tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of
Israel followed him.
26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from
the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be
consumed in all their sins.
27 So they gat them up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram,
on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of
their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me to do
all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited
after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.
30 But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and
swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive
into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.
31 And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground clave asunder that was under them;
32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their
goods.
33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol:
and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for
they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
35. And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and
fifty men that offered the incense.
36 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the
censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are
holy,
38 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let
them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered
them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto
the children of Israel.
39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, which they that were
burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
40 to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no
stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense
before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah
spake unto him by Moses.
41. But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people
of Jehovah.
42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses
and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and,
behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Jehovah appeared.
43 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
44 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a
moment. And they fell upon their faces.
46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take they censer, and put fire therein from
off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the
congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from
Jehovah; the plague is begun.
47 And Aaron took as Moses spake, and ran into the midst of the assembly;
and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the
incense, and made atonement for the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was
stayed.
49 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven
hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting:
and the plague was stayed.
Numbers
Chapter 171. And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each
fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses,
twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi; for there shall
be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony,
where I meet with you.
5 And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose
shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children
of Israel, which they murmur against you.
6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel; and all their princes gave
him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even
twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
7 And Moses laid up the rods before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.
8. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the
testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded,
and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bare ripe almonds.
9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah unto all the
children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
10 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the
testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that
thou mayest make an end of their murmurings against me, that they die not.
11 Thus did Moses: as Jehovah commanded him, so did he.
12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we
perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
13 Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of
Jehovah, dieth: shall we perish all of us?
Numbers
Chapter 181. And Jehovah said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house
with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons
with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father,
bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister
unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the
testimony.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only
they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the
altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of
meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come
nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the
altar; that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the
children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto Jehovah, to do the
service of the tent of meeting.
7 And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for
everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve:
I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8. And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, And I, behold, I have given thee the
charge of my heave-offerings, even all the hallowed things of the children
of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to
thy sons, as a portion for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire:
every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every
sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they
shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
10 As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat
thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
11 And this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the
wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and
to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a portion for ever; every
one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the
grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to thee have
I given them.
13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring
unto Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall
eat thereof.
14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15 Everything that openeth the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto
Jehovah, both of man and beast shall be thine: nevertheless the first-born
of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt
thou redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shalt thou
redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the
firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt
sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an
offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the
right thigh, it shall be thine.
19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of
Israel offer unto Jehovah, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy
daughters with thee, as a portion for ever: it is a covenant of salt for
ever before Jehovah unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20. And Jehovah said unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their
land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them: I am thy portion and
thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
21 And unto 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.
22 And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of
meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they
shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no
inheritance.
24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a
heave-offering unto Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an
inheritance: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance.
25 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye
take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them
for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for
Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.
27 And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were
the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
28 Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering unto Jehovah of all your
tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall
give Jehovah's heave-offering to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of Jehovah,
of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the best thereof
from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the
threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.
31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is
your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it
the best thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children
of Israel, that ye die not.
Numbers
Chapter 191. And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer
without spot, wherein is no blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke.
3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her
forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and
sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh,
and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6 and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast
it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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 even.
8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his
flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and
lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the
congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a
sin-offering.
10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
11. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
12 the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the
seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day,
then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died,
and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that
soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not
sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
14 This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into
the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is
unclean.
16 And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a
sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean
seven days.
17 And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the
sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and
sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons
that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the
dead, or the grave:
19 and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day,
and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at
even.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that
soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath
defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been
sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkleth
the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that toucheth the
water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the
soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Numbers
Chapter 201. And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the
wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and
Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled
themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had
died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
4 And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness,
that we should die there, we and our beasts?
5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in
unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or
of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the
door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces: and the glory of
Jehovah appeared unto them.
7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy
brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth
its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so
thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock,
and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; shall we bring you forth water
out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice:
and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their
cattle.
12 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me,
to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall
not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove
with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.
14. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus
saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen
us:
15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long
time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
16 and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel,
and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in
the uttermost of thy border.
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will not pass through
field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells:
we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right
hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come
out with the sword against thee.
19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go up by the
highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give
the price thereof: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass
through on my feet.
20 And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against
him with much people, and with a strong hand.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore
Israel turned away from him.
22. And they journeyed from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the
whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.
23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of
the land of Edom, saying,
24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into
the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye
rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor;
26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son:
and Aaron shall be gathered [unto his people], and shall die there.
27 And