Book of Numbers

Numbers

1:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the meeting tent, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of Egypt, saying,
1:2 “Count all the assembly of the Israelites by their clans and families, recording the name of every male head by head.
1:3 You and Aaron must register those who are twenty years old or more by their military divisions — everyone in Israel who can go to war.
1:4 You will be assisted by one man from each tribe, each one the head of his family.
1:5 These are the names of the men who will stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
1:6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
1:7 from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
1:8 from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
1:9 from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
1:10 from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
1:11 from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
1:12 from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
1:13 from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
1:14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
1:15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.
1:16 These were the appointed leaders of the tribes of Israel, heads of their ancestral houses, the chiefs of the clans of Israel.
1:17 Moses and Aaron took these men, who had been named,
1:18 and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole community, who registered themselves by clans, by ancestral houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
1:19 as the LORD had commanded Moses. He counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20 The descendants of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:21 Those enrolled of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
1:22 Of the descendants of Simeon, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, those who were counted according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:23 Those enrolled of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
1:24 Of the descendants of Gad, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:25 Those enrolled of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
1:26 Of the descendants of Judah, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:27 Those enrolled of the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
1:28 Of the descendants of Issachar, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:29 Those enrolled of the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
1:30 Of the descendants of Zebulun, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:31 Those enrolled of the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
1:32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the descendants of Ephraim, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:33 Those enrolled of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.
1:34 Of the descendants of Manasseh, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:35 Those enrolled of the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
1:36 Of the descendants of Benjamin, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:37 Those enrolled of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
1:38 Of the descendants of Dan, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:39 Those enrolled of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
1:40 Of the descendants of Asher, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:41 Those enrolled of the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.
1:42 Of the descendants of Naphtali, their lineage, by their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
1:43 Those enrolled of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
1:44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his ancestral house.
1:45 So all those counted of the Israelites, by their ancestral houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war in Israel,
1:46 were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
1:47 But the Levites were not counted among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
1:48 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
1:49 “Do not count the tribe of Levi, nor take a census of them with the Israelites.
1:50 But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the covenant, and over all its furnishings, and over everything that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and encamp around it.
1:51 When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. Anyone else who approaches shall be put to death.
1:52 The Israelites shall pitch their tents, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, throughout their divisions.
1:53 But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the covenant, so that wrath may not be upon the congregation of the Israelites; and the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the covenant.
1:54 The Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and they set out, each one in their family group, according to their ancestral houses.
2:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2:2 “Each man of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, with the insignia of their father’s house; they shall camp some distance from the tent of meeting.
2:3 On the east side, toward the sunrise, those of the standard of the camp of Judah shall camp according to their divisions: and Nahshon son of Amminadab shall be the leader of the children of Judah.
2:4 His division, and those that were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
2:5 Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethanel son of Zuar shall be the leader of the children of Issachar.
2:6 His division, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
2:7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab son of Helon shall be the leader of the children of Zebulun.
2:8 His division, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
2:9 All those numbered in the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. These shall set out first.
2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions: and Elizur son of Shedeur shall be the leader of the children of Reuben.
2:11 His division, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
2:12 And those who camp by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai shall be the leader of the children of Simeon.
2:13 His division, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
2:14 Then for the tribe of Gad: Eliasaph, son of Reuel, shall be their leader.
2:15 The total of his troops, those enrolled, shall be forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
2:16 All counted in the camp of Reuben amount to one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, in their divisions. They shall march second.
2:17 Next, the tent of meeting shall set out, with the Levite camp in the centre of the other camps. As they encamp, so they shall march, each in position under their standards.
2:18 On the western flank, the standard of Ephraim’s camp shall be positioned according to their divisions: Elishama, son of Ammihud, shall lead Ephraim’s descendants.
2:19 Their troops, those counted, shall be forty thousand five hundred.
2:20 Beside them, the tribe of Manasseh: Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, shall lead Manasseh’s descendants.
2:21 The total of his troops, those enrolled, shall be thirty-two thousand two hundred.
2:22 Next, the tribe of Benjamin: Abidan, son of Gideoni, shall be their leader.
2:23 Their troops, those counted, shall be thirty-five thousand four hundred.
2:24 All counted in the camp of Ephraim shall be one hundred and eight thousand one hundred, in their divisions. They shall march third.
2:25 On the northern side, the standard of Dan’s camp shall be positioned according to their divisions: Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai, shall lead Dan’s descendants.
2:26 Their troops, those enrolled, shall be sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
2:27 Those encamping beside him shall include the tribe of Asher: Pagiel, son of Ocran, shall lead Asher’s descendants.
2:28 Their troops, those counted, shall be forty-one thousand five hundred.
2:29 Next, the tribe of Naphtali: Ahira, son of Enan, shall be their leader.
2:30 Their troops, those counted, shall be fifty-three thousand four hundred.
2:31 All counted in the camp of Dan shall be one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall march last, under their standards.
2:32 These are those counted from the children of Israel by their ancestral houses; all those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are six hundred thousand three thousand five hundred and fifty.
2:33 However, the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
2:34 Thus the children of Israel did, according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. So they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, each one with their family, according to their ancestral houses.
3:1 These are also the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
3:2 And these are the names of Aaron’s sons: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3:3 These are the names of Aaron’s sons, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.
3:4 Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai. They had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence of Aaron, their father.
3:5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
3:6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
3:7 They shall perform duties for him and for the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
3:8 They shall care for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and attend to the duties for the children of Israel, by performing the service of the tabernacle.
3:9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the children of Israel.
3:10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons to attend to their priesthood; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.”
3:11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
3:12 “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in place of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore, the Levites shall be mine,
3:13 because all the firstborn are mine. On the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine: I am the LORD.”
3:14 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
3:15 “Count the children of Levi by their ancestral houses and families. Every male from a month old and upward you shall number.”
3:16 So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
3:17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
3:19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
3:20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their ancestral houses.
3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimites; these were the families of the Gershonites.
3:22 Their number, counting every male from a month old and upward, was seven thousand five hundred.
3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall camp behind the tabernacle westward.
3:24 The leader of the ancestral house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
3:25 The duties of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall include the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance of the tent of meeting,
3:26 the hangings of the court, the curtain for the entrance of the court which is beside the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all its service.
3:27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.
3:28 In the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping guard over the sanctuary.
3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall camp on the side of the tabernacle southward.
3:30 The leader of the ancestral house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
3:31 Their duties shall include the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister, the curtain, and all the service connected with these.
3:32 Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, shall be chief over the leaders of the Levites, with oversight of those who keep guard over the sanctuary.
3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari.
3:34 Their number, counting every male from a month old and upward, was six thousand two hundred.
3:35 The leader of the ancestral house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail; they shall camp on the side of the tabernacle northward.
3:36 The appointed duties of the sons of Merari include the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, pillars, bases, and all their accessories; all the service related to these,
3:37 as well as the pillars of the surrounding court, their bases, pegs, and cords.
3:38 Those camping before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, Aaron, and his sons, guarding the sanctuary on behalf of the children of Israel; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.
3:39 All those numbered among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
3:40 The LORD said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take a census of their names.
3:41 You shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel.”
3:42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded him.
3:43 The total number of firstborn males, by the count of names from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
3:44 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 3:45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
3:45 Opt for the Levites in lieu of all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites’ livestock instead of theirs; the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
3:46 For the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three firstborn Israelites exceeding the number of Levites,
3:47 you shall collect five shekels per head, using the sanctuary shekel as a standard (the shekel equals twenty gerahs):
3:48 and give the collected sum, designated for redeeming the excess firstborn, to Aaron and his sons.
3:49 Moses collected the redemption money for those firstborn exceeding the redeemed by the Levites:
3:50 from the firstborn of the Israelites he gathered a total of one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the sanctuary shekel:
3:51 and Moses handed over the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, as commanded by the LORD.
4:1 The LORD instructed Moses and Aaron,
4:2 “Count the Kohathites from the Levites by their clans and families,
4:3 from thirty to fifty years old—all those eligible to serve in the work of the Tabernacle.
4:4 The service of the Kohathites in the Tabernacle will be the most sacred tasks:
4:5 When the camp moves, Aaron and his sons will take down the veil of the sanctuary and cover the Ark of the Covenant with it:
4:6 They will place a covering of hides over it, cover that with a cloth entirely of blue, and insert the carrying poles.
4:7 On the Table of Presence they will spread a blue cloth, set the plates, ladles, jars, and bowls on it, and place the regular bread on it:
4:8 They will then cover these with a scarlet cloth, overlay it with a hide covering, and insert the carrying poles.
4:9 They will take a blue cloth to cover the lampstand of light, along with its lamps, tongs, snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels:
4:10 They will then encase it and all its accessories in a hide covering and place it on a carrying frame.
4:11 They shall spread a blue cloth over the gold altar, cover it with a hide covering, and insert its poles:
4:12 All the utensils used in the sanctuary service will be placed in a blue cloth, covered with a hide covering, and put on a carrying frame:
4:13 They will remove the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it:
4:14 They will then place all the altar utensils on it—the fire pans, meat forks, shovels, basins, and all the altar’s equipment—cover them with a hide covering, and insert the poles.
4:15 After Aaron and his sons finish covering the sanctuary and all its sacred furnishings when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites will come to carry them, but they must not touch the sacred objects, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites in the Tent of Meeting.
4:16 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest will oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, the anointing oil, the entire Tabernacle and everything in it, including the sanctuary and its furnishings.
4:17 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
4:18 “Do not cut off the tribe of the Kohathites from among the Levites,
4:19 but assign them their duties carefully so they may live and not die when they approach the most sacred objects. Aaron and his sons will enter and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.
4:20 But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die.”
4:21 The LORD also said to Moses,
4:22 “Take a census of the Gershonites by their families and clans,
4:23 counting all the men from thirty to fifty years old—those who will serve in the Tent of Meeting.
4:24 This will be the duty of the Gershonite clans in their service and carrying burdens:
4:25 They are to carry the curtains of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, its covering, the hide covering over it, the screen for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
4:26 the hangings of the courtyard, the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard surrounding the Tabernacle and altar, their ropes, and all the equipment related to their use.
4:27 Aaron and his sons will direct all their service. You are to assign to all the Gershonites their responsibilities for all they are to carry.
4:28 This is the service of the Gershonite clans in the Tent of Meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
4:29 Count the Merarites by their clans and families,
4:30 counting all the men from thirty to fifty years old—those who will work in the Tent of Meeting.
4:31 This will be their duty as they serve at the Tabernacle: they are to carry the frames of the Tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, bases,
4:32 and all its equipment, as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, pegs, ropes, and all their accessories.
4:33 This is the service of the Merarite clans in their work at the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
4:34 Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community counted the Kohathites by their clans and families,
4:35 counting all the men from thirty to fifty years old eligible for service in the Tent of Meeting.
4:36 The total number in their clans was two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
4:37 This was the total of all those in the Kohathite clans who served in the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD’s command through Moses.
4:38 The number of Gershonites counted by their clans and families,
4:39 counting all the men from thirty to fifty years old eligible for service in the Tent of Meeting,
4:40 was two thousand six hundred and thirty.
4:41 This was the total of those counted in the Gershonite clans, all who served in the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD’s command.
4:42 The number of Merarite clans counted by their families and clans,
4:43 counting all the men from thirty to fifty years old eligible for service in the Tent of Meeting,
4:44 was three thousand two hundred.
4:45 This was the total of those counted in the Merarite clans, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the LORD’s command through Moses.
4:46 All the Levites whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel counted by their clans and families,
4:47 counting all the men from thirty to fifty years old eligible for service in the work and carrying loads in the Tent of Meeting,
4:48 was eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
4:49 According to the LORD’s command, they were counted by Moses, each according to his work and the loads he carried. They were counted as the LORD commanded Moses.
5:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5:2 “Instruct the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone with a discharge, and anyone who is unclean because of a corpse.
5:3 Send away both male and female; put them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
5:4 The Israelites did just that; they sent them outside the camp as the LORD had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.
5:5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5:6 “Tell the Israelites: When a man or woman commits any of the common human sins, thereby acting unfaithfully against the LORD, and that person is guilty,
5:7 they must confess the sin they have committed, and the person must make full restitution for the wrong done, add a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the person they have wronged.
5:8 If the wronged person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made, the restitution for the wrong must go to the LORD and be given to the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.
5:9 All the sacred donations the Israelites bring to the priest will belong to him.
5:10 Each person’s sacred donations are his own, but what he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”
5:11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
5:13 and a man has sexual relations with her and it is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
5:14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife, whether she is impure or not,
5:15 he is to bring her to the priest and bring an offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He must not pour oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
5:16 The priest shall bring her forward and present her before the LORD.
5:17 The priest shall take holy water in a clay jar and add to it dust from the floor of the tabernacle.
5:18 The priest shall then position the woman before the LORD, uncover her head, and place the memorial offering, the jealousy offering, in her hands. He shall hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
5:19 The priest shall put her under oath, saying to her, “If no other man has been with you and you have not strayed unfaithfully from your husband, be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.
5:20 But if you have strayed from your husband and become defiled by another man”:
5:21 The priest shall then put the woman under the oath of the curse and say, “May the LORD make you an object of cursing and an oath among your people when the LORD causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.
5:22 May this water that induces the curse enter your body, causing the abdomen to swell and the thigh to waste away.” And the woman shall respond, “Amen, amen.”
5:23 The priest shall then write these curses in a book and wash them off into the bitter water.
5:24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water shall enter her, becoming bitter.
5:25 The priest shall take the jealousy offering from the woman’s hand, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
5:26 He shall take a handful of the offering, its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar. After that, he shall make the woman drink the water.
5:27 If she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that induces the curse will enter into her and become bitter, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
5:28 If the woman has not defiled herself but is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
5:29 This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself;
5:30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he becomes jealous of his wife; he shall then present her before the LORD, and the priest shall apply this entire law to her.
5:31 The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.
6:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If a man or woman takes the special vow of a Nazirite, dedicating themselves to the LORD:
6:3 He must abstain from wine and other fermented drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or other fermented drink, nor consume grapes in any form.
6:4 Throughout the period of his Nazirite vow, he must not eat anything derived from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
6:5 For the entire duration of his vow, no razor shall touch his head. He must remain holy until the period of his dedication to the LORD is over; he must let his hair grow long.
6:6 During the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor may be used on his head until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD. He shall be holy and shall let the locks of his hair grow long.
6:7 Throughout the period of his separation, he must not come near a dead body.
6:8 Throughout the period of his Nazirite vow, he is consecrated to the LORD.
6:9 “If someone dies suddenly in his presence, thus defiling the hair he has dedicated, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
6:10 On the eighth day, he is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
6:11 The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him, because he sinned by coming into contact with the dead body. He must then reconsecrate his head that same day.
6:12 He must rededicate himself to the LORD for the same period of his separation and bring a year-old lamb as a guilt offering. The previous days do not count because his separation was defiled.
6:13 “This is the law of the Nazirite: When the period of his separation is over, he is to be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
6:14 There he shall present his offerings to the LORD: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, and a ram without defect for a fellowship offering,
6:15 along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil.
6:16 The priest shall present them before the LORD and offer the sin and burnt offerings.
6:17 He is to present the ram as a fellowship offering to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also offer his grain offering and drink offering.
6:18 Then the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. He is to take the hair from his consecrated head and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offerings.
6:19 “After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair of his consecration, the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened wafer and put them in the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair.
6:20 The priest shall then wave them before the LORD as a wave offering; they are holy and belong to the priest, along with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
6:21 “This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford. He must fulfill the vow he has made, according to the law of the Nazirite.”
6:22 The LORD said to Moses,
6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:
6:24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
6:25 the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;
6:26 the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.'”
6:27 “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
7:1 When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, as well as the altar and all its utensils; he anointed and consecrated them.
7:2 The leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestral tribes, who were the leaders of the tribes and over those who were numbered, made an offering.
7:3 They brought as their gifts before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen—an ox from each leader and a cart from every two. These they presented before the tabernacle.
7:4 The LORD said to Moses, “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting. Give them to the Levites, each man according to his work.”
7:5 So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.
7:6 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their work required,
7:7 and four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
7:8 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the sacred things they were to carry on their shoulders.
7:9 The leaders also offered dedication gifts for the altar when it was anointed. The leaders brought their offerings before the altar.
7:10 For the LORD had said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to bring his offering for the dedication of the altar.”
7:11 The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah.
7:12 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
7:13 one gold pan weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
7:14 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
7:15 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:16 and for the fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.
7:17 For a peace offering, Nahshon son of Amminadab presented two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five yearling lambs.
7:18 On the following day, Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, made his offering.
7:19 His gift was a silver platter weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, by the sanctuary weight, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
7:20 He also offered a gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense.
7:21 His burnt offering comprised one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb.
7:22 A male goat was presented for a sin offering.
7:23 And for a peace offering, he brought two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five yearling lambs.
7:24 On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, leader of Zebulun, made his offering.
7:25 He presented a silver platter weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, by the sanctuary weight, both laden with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
7:26 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, filled with incense.
7:27 His burnt offering included one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb.
7:28 A male goat for a sin offering.
7:29 And for a peace offering: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five yearling lambs.
7:30 On the fourth day, Elizur, Shedeur’s son and Reuben’s tribal leader, presented his offering:
7:31 It comprised a silver dish weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, by the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:32 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:33 A young bull, a ram, and a yearling lamb for a burnt offering;
7:34 A goat for a sin offering;
7:35 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five yearling lambs: this was Elizur, son of Shedeur’s contribution.
7:36 On the fifth day, Shelumiel, Zurishaddai’s son and Simeon’s tribal leader, presented his offering:
7:37 His offering included a silver dish weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, by the sanctuary shekel, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:38 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, laden with incense;
7:39 A young bull, a ram, and a yearling lamb for a burnt offering;
7:40 A goat for a sin offering;
7:41 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five yearling lambs: this was Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai’s contribution.
7:42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of Gad’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:43 His gift was a silver dish weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:44 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:45 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:46 A goat for a sin offering;
7:47 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Eliasaph son of Deuel’s offering.
7:48 On the seventh day, Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of Ephraim’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:49 His gift was a silver dish of 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:50 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:51 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:52 A goat for a sin offering;
7:53 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Elishama son of Ammihud’s offering.
7:54 On the eighth day, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of Manasseh’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:55 His gift was a silver dish of 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:56 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:57 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:58 A goat for a sin offering;
7:59 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Gamaliel son of Pedahzur’s offering.
7:60 On the ninth day, Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of Benjamin’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:61 His gift was a silver dish of 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:62 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:63 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:64 A goat for a sin offering;
7:65 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Abidan son of Gideoni’s offering.
7:66 On the tenth day, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of Dan’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:67 His gift was a silver dish of 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:68 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:69 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:70 A goat for a sin offering;
7:71 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai’s offering.
7:72 On the eleventh day, Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of Asher’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:73 His gift was a silver dish of 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:74 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:75 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:76 A goat for a sin offering;
7:77 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Pagiel son of Ocran’s offering.
7:78 On the twelfth day, Ahira son of Enan, leader of Naphtali’s descendants, brought his offering:
7:79 His gift was a silver dish of 130 shekels and a silver bowl of 70 shekels, as per the sanctuary standard, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
7:80 A gold ladle of 10 shekels, brimming with incense;
7:81 A young bull, a ram, and a year-old lamb for a burnt offering;
7:82 A goat for a sin offering;
7:83 And for a fellowship offering, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old lambs. This was Ahira son of Enan’s offering.
7:84 This marked the altar’s dedication on the day it was anointed by the princes of Israel: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
7:85 Each silver dish weighed 130 shekels and each bowl 70; the total weight of the silver vessels was 2,400 shekels, by the sanctuary standard;
7:86 The twelve golden ladles, filled with incense, each weighed 10 shekels, by the sanctuary standard; the total gold of the ladles was 120 shekels.
7:87 For the burnt offering: twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve year-old lambs, with their grain offering; and twelve goats for the sin offering.
7:88 For the fellowship offering: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty year-old lambs. This marked the altar’s dedication following its anointing.
7:89 When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he heard a voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant, between the two cherubim.
8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8:2 “Tell Aaron, when you light the lamps, the seven lamps should illuminate the area in front of the lampstand.”
8:3 Aaron did so; he lit the lamps to face the front of the lampstand, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8:4 This lampstand was made of hammered gold, from its base to its flowers; it was crafted according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.
8:5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8:6 “Separate the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.
8:7 Here is how you should purify them: Sprinkle purifying water on them, have them shave their entire body, and wash their clothes. Then they will be clean.
8:8 Have them take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; take another bull for a sin offering.
8:9 Bring the Levites to the front of the Tent of Meeting and assemble the entire Israelite community.
8:10 Bring the Levites before the LORD; the Israelites shall lay their hands on them.
8:11 Aaron shall present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, so they may perform the service of the LORD.
8:12 The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites.
8:13 Present the Levites before Aaron and his sons and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
8:14 Thus you shall set apart the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be mine.
8:15 Afterward, the Levites may enter to serve at the Tent of Meeting. You shall purify them and offer them as a wave offering.
8:16 For they are wholly dedicated to me from among the Israelites. Instead of every firstborn, I have taken them for myself.
8:17 For every firstborn among the Israelites, both human and animal, is mine. When I struck down every firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.
8:18 I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites.
8:19 I have assigned the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement for them, so no plague strikes the Israelites when they come near the sanctuary.
8:20 Moses, Aaron, and the whole Israelite community did with the Levites just as the LORD commanded Moses.
8:21 The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Aaron then presented them as an offering to the LORD, making atonement for them to purify them.
8:22 After this, the Levites went to serve at the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and his sons. They followed the LORD’s command given through Moses regarding the Levites.
8:23 The LORD spoke to Moses:
8:24 “This applies to the Levites: men from 25 years old and upwards shall come to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
8:25 At 50 years, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer.
8:26 They may assist their fellow Levites at the Tent of Meeting by keeping guard, but they shall not perform the work. This is how you are to assign duties to the Levites.”
9:1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt:
9:2 “Let the Israelites observe the Passover at its appointed time.
9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and all its rules.”
9:4 Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover.
9:5 They observed the Passover in the wilderness of Sinai, in the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So the Israelites did.
9:6 But some men who were unclean because of contact with a dead body could not observe the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron that day
9:7 and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of contact with a dead body. Why should we be deprived of presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”
9:8 Moses replied, “Wait, and I will hear what the LORD commands concerning you.”
9:9 The LORD spoke to Moses:
9:10 “Speak to the Israelites: If any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are on a journey far away, still observe the Passover for the LORD.
9:11 They shall observe it in the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs,
9:12 leaving none of it until morning, nor breaking any of its bones. According to all the statutes for the Passover, they shall observe it.
9:13 But anyone who is clean and not on a journey, yet neglects to observe the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
9:14 And if a stranger sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, he shall do so according to the Passover statute and its rules. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native-born.”
9:15 On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and in the evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.
9:16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.
9:17 Whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, the Israelites would set out; and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
9:18 At the LORD’s command, the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command, they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.
9:19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle for a long time, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.
9:20 Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the LORD’s command, they would camp, and at the LORD’s command, they would set out.
9:21 Sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. When the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out; or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted, they set out.
9:22 Whether it was two days, a month, or longer, while the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained in camp and did not set out; but when it lifted, they set out.
9:23 At the LORD’s command, they camped, and at the LORD’s command, they set out. They kept the LORD’s charge, following the command of the LORD through Moses.
10:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10:2 “Make two silver trumpets. You shall make them of hammered work, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.
10:3 When both are blown, the whole community shall assemble before you at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
10:4 But if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather to you.
10:5 When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side shall set out.
10:6 When you blow an alarm a second time, the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown for their journeys.
10:7 But when the assembly is to be gathered, you shall blow a signal, not an alarm.
10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets, and they shall be for you as a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
10:9 When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
10:10 On the day of your gladness, your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”
10:11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
10:12 The Israelites set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
10:13 They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses.
10:14 The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
10:15 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.
10:16 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
10:17 Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.
10:18 The standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
10:19 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
10:20 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
10:21 Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
10:22 The standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
10:23 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
10:24 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
10:25 Then the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as the rear guard for all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
10:26 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.
10:27 Over the host of the tribe of the people of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
10:28 Such were the order of march of the Israelites by their companies when they set out.
10:29 Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.”
10:30 But he said to him, “I will not go; I will return to my own land and to my kindred.”
10:31 And he said, “Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.
10:32 And if you do go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you.”
10:33 They journeyed from the mountain of the LORD, travelling for three days. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them during these three days to find a resting place for them.
10:34 The cloud of the LORD was above them by day when they set out from the camp.
10:35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, LORD! May your enemies be scattered; may those who hate you flee before you.”
10:36 And when it came to rest, he would say, “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
11:1 The people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
11:2 The people cried out to Moses, and when he prayed to the LORD, the fire died down.
11:3 So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.
11:4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!
11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
11:6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
11:7 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
11:8 The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
11:9 When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
11:10 Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.
11:11 He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
11:12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?
11:13 Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
11:14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.
11:15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
11:16 The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
11:17 I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.
11:18 Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.
11:19 You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,
11:20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’
11:21 But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’
11:22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
11:23 The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
11:24 So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent.
11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.
11:26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.
11:27 A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
11:28 Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
11:29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
11:30 Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
11:31 Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp, as far as a day’s walk in any direction.
11:32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.
11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
11:34 Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
11:35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.
12:1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.
12:2 “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this.
12:3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
12:4 At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.
12:5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward,
12:6 he said, “Listen to my words: When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.
12:7 But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.
12:8 With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
12:9 The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.
12:10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,
12:11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
12:12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”
12:13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “Please, God, heal her!”
12:14 The LORD replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.”
12:15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
12:16 Afterward the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.
13:1 The LORD said to Moses,
13:2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”
13:3 So at the LORD’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
13:4 These are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
13:5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; 13:6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
13:6 Representing the tribe of Judah, Caleb, son of Jephunneh.
13:7 From the tribe of Issachar, Igal, son of Joseph.
13:8 For the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea, son of Nun.
13:9 Representing Benjamin, Palti, son of Raphu.
13:10 From the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, son of Sodi.
13:11 For the tribe of Joseph, specifically from Manasseh, Gaddi, son of Susi.
13:12 Representing Dan, Ammiel, son of Gemalli.
13:13 From the tribe of Asher, Sethur, son of Michael.
13:14 For Naphtali, Nahbi, son of Vophsi.
13:15 Representing Gad, Geuel, son of Machi.
13:16 These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. Moses renamed Oshea, son of Nun, to Jehoshua.
13:17 Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan with these instructions: “Head south and then into the highlands.
13:18 Observe the land—what it is like, and the people living there—whether they are strong or weak, few or many.
13:19 Examine the type of land they live in—is it good or bad? And what about their towns—are they camps or fortified cities?
13:20 Also, check the land’s fertility and whether there are trees in it or not. Be bold and bring back samples of the land’s produce.” It was the time of the first ripe grapes.
13:21 So they went up and explored the land from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
13:22 They went up through the Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
13:23 When they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes, which two of them carried on a pole, along with some pomegranates and figs.
13:24 That place was named the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there.
13:25 After forty days, they returned from exploring the land.
13:26 They went to Moses, Aaron, and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. They reported to them and the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
13:27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it flows with milk and honey; here is its fruit.
13:28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
13:29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”
13:30 Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “Let’s go up at once and take possession of it; we are certainly able to conquer it.”
13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
13:32 And they spread a negative report about the land they had explored, telling the Israelites, “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are of great stature.
13:33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
14:1 That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.
14:2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!
14:3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
14:4 And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there.
14:6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes
14:7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.
14:8 If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
14:9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
14:10 But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.
14:11 The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?
14:12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”
14:13 Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.
14:14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
14:15 If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say,
14:16 ‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
14:17 “Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared:
14:18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’
14:19 “In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”
14:20 The LORD replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked.
14:21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth,
14:22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times—
14:23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.
14:24 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.
14:25 Now the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys. Tomorrow, turn around and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
14:26 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
14:27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.
14:28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:
14:29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
14:30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
14:31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
14:32 But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
14:33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
14:34 For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.”
14:36 So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it—
14:37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
14:38 However, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had scouted the land, remained alive.
14:39 When Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people were deeply grieved.
14:40 Early the next morning, they rose and ascended to the top of the mountain, declaring, “Here we are, ready to go up to the place the LORD promised, for we have sinned.”
14:41 But Moses questioned, “Why are you now disobeying the LORD’s command? This will not succeed.
14:42 Do not go up, for the LORD is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Since you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
14:44 Yet they presumptuously ascended to the mountaintop, though neither the ark of the LORD’s covenant nor Moses left the camp.
14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them, chasing them as far as Hormah.
15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land where you will live, which I am giving you,
15:3 and you make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, a freewill offering, or in your festivals, to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD, from the herd or flock,
15:4 the person who presents his offering to the LORD shall also offer a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil.
15:5 With each lamb for a burnt offering or sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
15:6 For a ram, you shall prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.
15:7 And for a drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
15:8 When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering, or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or a peace offering to the LORD,
15:9 you shall present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with half a hin of oil.
15:10 You shall also offer half a hin of wine as a drink offering. This is a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
15:11 Each bull or ram, each lamb or young goat, is to be prepared in this manner.
15:12 Do this for each one, for as many as you prepare.
15:13 Every native-born Israelite must do these things in this way when presenting a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
15:14 If a foreigner resides with you or anyone is living among you in future generations and presents a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, as you do, so shall he do.
15:15 There is to be one law for you, whether a foreigner or a native-born; you shall have one law for anyone who does wrong unintentionally.
15:16 One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
15:17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come to the land to which I am taking you
15:19 and you eat the food of the land, present a portion as an offering to the LORD.
15:20 Present a cake from the first of your ground meal and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.
15:21 Throughout the generations to come you are to give this offering to the LORD from the first of your ground meal.
15:22 Now if you unintentionally fail to keep any of these commands the LORD gave Moses—
15:23 any of the LORD’s commands to you through him, from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—
15:24 and if this is done unintentionally without the community being aware of it, then the whole community is to offer a young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, along with its prescribed grain offering and drink offering, and a male goat for a sin offering.
15:25 The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional and they have brought to the LORD for their wrong an offering made by fire and a sin offering.
15:26 The whole Israelite community and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people were involved in the unintentional wrong.
15:27 And if one person sins unintentionally, he must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.
15:28 The priest is to make atonement before the LORD for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made for them, they will be forgiven.
15:29 You are to have one law for anyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
15:30 But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD and must be cut off from the people of Israel.
15:31 Because they have despised the LORD’s word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.”
15:32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
15:33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly,
15:34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.
15:35 Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.”
15:36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
15:37 The LORD said to Moses,
15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
15:39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.
15:40 Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God.
15:41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God.’”
16:1 Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—became insolent
16:2 and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.
16:3 They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”
16:4 When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.
16:5 Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.
16:6 You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers
16:7 and tomorrow put fire and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”
16:8 Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you Levites!
16:9 Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the LORD’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?
16:10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.
16:11 It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”
16:12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, “We will not come!
16:13 Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!
16:14 Moreover, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like slaves? No, we will not come!”
16:15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”
16:16 Moses instructed Korah, “You and your followers are to present yourselves before the LORD tomorrow, you and they, as well as Aaron.
16:17 Each man take his censer and put incense in them, bringing before the LORD two hundred and fifty censers; you and Aaron each with your censer.”
16:18 So each man took his censer, put fire in them, laid incense on them, and stood at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.
16:19 Korah assembled the entire congregation against them at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole assembly.
16:20 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
16:21 “Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.”
16:22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will you be angry with the entire congregation?”
16:23 The LORD said to Moses,
16:24 “Tell the assembly to move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.”
16:25 Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
16:26 He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
16:27 So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.
16:28 Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:
16:29 If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the LORD has not sent me.
16:30 But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
16:31 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
16:33 They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
16:34 At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
16:35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
16:36 The LORD said to Moses,
16:37 “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers from the smoldering remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy—
16:38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the LORD and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.”
16:39 So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
16:40 as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.
16:41 The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the LORD’s people,” they said.
16:42 But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the Tent of Meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.
16:43 Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting,
16:44 and the LORD said to Moses,
16:45 “Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.” And they fell facedown.
16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started.”
16:47 So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.
16:48 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.
16:49 But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.
16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, for the plague had stopped.
17:1 The LORD said to Moses,
17:2 “Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. Write the name of each man on his staff.
17:3 On the staff of Levi write Aaron’s name, for there must be one staff for the head of each ancestral tribe.
17:4 Place them in the Tent of Meeting in front of the ark of the covenant law, where I meet with you.
17:5 The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites.”
17:6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders gave him twelve staffs, one for the leader of each of their ancestral tribes, and Aaron’s staff was among them.
17:7 Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the covenant law.
17:8 The next day Moses entered the tent and saw that Aaron’s staff, which represented the tribe of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
17:9 Then Moses brought out all the staffs from the LORD’s presence to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each of the leaders took his own staff.
17:10 The LORD said to Moses, “Put back Aaron’s staff in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”
17:11 Moses did just as the LORD commanded him.
17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We will die! We are lost, we are all lost!
17:13 Anyone who even comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to die?”
18:1 The LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.
18:2 Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.
18:3 They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.
18:4 They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.
18:5 You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.
18:6 I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to do the work at the tent of meeting.
18:7 But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.”
18:8 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “I myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion, your perpetual share.
18:9 You are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings, sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part is for you and your sons.
18:10 Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.
18:11 This also is yours: the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given all these to you, your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
18:12 I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the LORD as the firstfruits of their harvest.
18:13 All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
18:14 Everything in Israel that is devoted to the LORD is yours.
18:15 “Every firstborn of the womb among all flesh, which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, shall belong to you. However, you must redeem every firstborn of humans, and also the firstborn of unclean animals.
18:16 You are to redeem those that are to be redeemed from a month old, according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
18:17 But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as an offering made by fire, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
18:18 Their flesh shall be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.
18:19 All the sacred gifts that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you, your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; it is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring with you.”
18:20 The LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.
18:21 “Behold, I have given to the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, the service of the tent of meeting.
18:22 The Israelites must no longer come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.
18:23 But the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, and among the Israelites they shall have no inheritance.
18:24 For the tithe of the Israelites, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the Israelites they shall have no inheritance.'”
18:25 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
18:26 “Speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.
18:27 And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
18:28 So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and from it you shall give the LORD’s contribution to Aaron the priest.
18:29 Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.’
18:30 Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor and as produce of the winepress.
18:31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the tent of meeting.
18:32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy gifts of the Israelites, lest you die.'”
19:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
19:2 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish and on which a yoke has never come.
19:3 You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
19:4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
19:5 The heifer shall be burned in his sight; its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
19:6 The priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.
19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean until evening.
19:8 The one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water; he shall be unclean until evening.
19:9 A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them outside the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the Israelites; it is a sin offering.
19:10 The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. This shall be a perpetual statute for the Israelites and for the alien residing among them.
19:11 “Whoever touches a human corpse shall be unclean seven days.
19:12 He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.
19:13 Anyone who touches the dead body of any human being and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; such a person shall be cut off from Israel. Since the water for impurity was not dashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.
19:14 This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.
19:15 Every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
19:16 Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
19:17 For the unclean person they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel;
19:18 then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone, or the one who was killed, or the one who died naturally, or the grave.
19:19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.
19:20 But the person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, for he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.
19:21 It shall be a perpetual statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
19:22 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.
20:1 The Israelites, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there.
20:2 Now there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
20:3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!
20:4 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
20:5 Why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; there is not even water to drink.”
20:6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. The glory of the LORD appeared to them.
20:7 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
20:8 “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. Thus you shall bring water out of the rock for them; thus you shall provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
20:9 So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he had commanded him.
20:10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Listen, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”
20:11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank.
20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you shall not bring this assembly into the land I have given them.”
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and by which he showed himself holy among them.
20:14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying, “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardships that have befallen us:
20:15 how our ancestors went down to Egypt, where we lived a long time; and the Egyptians oppressed us and our ancestors.
20:16 But when we cried out to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel who brought us out of Egypt. Now we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
20:17 Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from any well; we will go along the King’s Highway, not turning aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
20:18 But Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through, or we will come out with the sword against you.”
20:19 The Israelites said to him, “We will stay on the highway; and if we drink of your water, we and our livestock, then we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; just let us pass through on foot.”
20:20 But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against them with a large force, heavily armed.
20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through its territory; so Israel turned away from it.
20:22 They set out from Kadesh, and the Israelites, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
20:23 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,
20:24 “Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land that I have given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
20:25 Take Aaron and his son Eleazar, and bring them up Mount Hor;
20:26 strip Aaron of his vestments and put them on his son Eleazar. But Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there.”
20:27 Moses did as the LORD had commanded; they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation.
20:28 Moses stripped Aaron of his vestments and put them on his son Eleazar; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
20:29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
21:1 When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.
21:2 Then Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns.”
21:3 The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and handed over the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.
21:4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way.
21:5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”
21:6 Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.
21:7 The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
21:8 And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.”
21:9 So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
21:10 The Israelites set out, and camped in Oboth.
21:11 They set out from Oboth, and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness bordering Moab to the east.
21:12 From there they set out, and camped in the Wadi Zered.
21:13 From there they set out, and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the boundary of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis. The Arnon
21:15 and the slopes of the wadis that extend to the seat of Ar, and lie along the border of Moab.”
21:16 From there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
21:17 Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it!
21:18 The well that the leaders sank, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, with the staff.” From the wilderness to Mattanah,
21:19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that overlooks the wasteland.
21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,
21:22 “Let me pass through your land; we will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of any well; we will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
21:23 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel to the wilderness; he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21:24 Israel put him to the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites; for the boundary of the Ammonites was strong.
21:25 Israel took all these towns, and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
21:26 For Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites; he had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
21:27 Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.
21:28 For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed up the heights of the Arnon.
21:29 Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.
21:30 So their posterity perished from Heshbon to Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Medeba.”
21:31 Thus Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
21:32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they captured its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
21:33 Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan; and King Og of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
21:34 But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him; for I have given him into your hand, with all his people, and all his land. You shall do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.”
21:35 So they killed him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left; and they took possession of his land.
22:1 The Israelites set out, and camped in the plains of Moab across the Jordan from Jericho.
22:2 Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
22:3 Moab was terrified because there were so many people. Moab was overcome with dread because of the Israelites.
22:4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Now Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
22:5 He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is on the Euphrates, in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying, “A people has come out of Egypt; they have spread over the face of the earth, and they have settled next to me.
22:6 Come now, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land; for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”
22:7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and gave him Balak’s message.
22:8 He said to them, “Stay here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, just as the LORD speaks to me”; so the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.
22:9 God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”
22:10 Balaam said to God, “King Balak son of Zippor of Moab, has sent me this message:
22:11 ‘A people has come out of Egypt and has spread over the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.'”
22:12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
22:13 So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the officials of Balak, “Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
22:14 So the officials of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
22:15 Once again Balak sent officials, more numerous and more distinguished than these.
22:16 They came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Do not let anything hinder you from coming to me;
22:17 for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.'”
22:18 But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Although Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
22:19 You remain here, as well, overnight, that I may learn what more the LORD may say to me.”
22:20 That night God came to Balaam and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them; but do only what I tell you to do.”
22:21 So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the officials of Moab.
22:22 God’s anger was kindled because he was going, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the road as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.
22:23 The donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand; so the donkey turned off the road, and went into the field; and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn it back onto the road.
22:24 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.
22:25 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it scraped against the wall, and scraped Balaam’s foot against the wall; so he struck it again.
22:26 Then the angel of the LORD went ahead, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.
22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it lay down under Balaam; and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
22:28 Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
22:29 Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me! I wish I had a sword in my hand! I would kill you right now!”
22:30 But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I been in the habit of treating you this way?” And he said, “No.”
22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed down, falling on his face.
22:32 The angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.
22:33 The donkey saw me, and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let it live.”
22:34 Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know you were standing in my way. Now, if my going displeases you, I will head back.”
22:35 The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you may only speak the words I tell you to speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
22:36 When Balak heard Balaam had come, he went out to meet him in a city of Moab near the Arnon border.
22:37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I urgently ask you to come? Why didn’t you come to me? Can’t I really honour you?”
22:38 Balaam replied, “Look, I have come to you now. Do I have any power to say anything except what God puts in my mouth? That is what I must speak.”
22:39 So Balaam went with Balak and came to Kiriath-huzoth.
22:40 Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep and gave some to Balaam and the princes with him.
22:41 The next day Balak took Balaam up into the high places of Baal so he could see the outskirts of the people.
23:1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven oxen and seven rams for me.”
23:2 Balak did as Balaam instructed and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
23:3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay by your offering while I go. Perhaps the Lord will come and meet me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.” So Balaam went to a high place.
23:4 God met Balaam, who said, “I have prepared seven altars and offered a bull and ram on each.”
23:5 The Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak this.”
23:6 So Balaam returned and found Balak standing by his offering with all the princes of Moab.
23:7 Then Balaam proclaimed his message: “Balak, king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the eastern mountains, saying, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, denounce Israel.’
23:8 But how can I curse those God has not cursed? How can I denounce those the Lord has not denounced?
23:9 From the mountain peaks I see Israel dwelling alone, not counted among the nations.
23:10 Who can count Jacob’s dust or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like theirs!”
23:11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them fully!”
23:12 Balaam replied, “Shouldn’t I be careful to only speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”
23:13 Then Balak said, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts, not all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
23:14 So Balak took Balaam to the field of Zophim, on the Pisgah summit. He built seven altars and offered a bull and ram on each altar.
23:15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay by your offering while I meet the Lord over there.”
23:16 The Lord met Balaam and gave him a message, saying, “Go tell Balak this.”
23:17 So Balaam returned and found Balak still standing by his offering with the princes of Moab. Balak asked, “What did the Lord say?”
23:18 Balaam proclaimed his message: “Rise up, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor:
23:19 God is not human, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not fulfilled?
23:20 I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
23:21 He has seen no misfortune in Jacob; no perversity in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; the shout of a king is among them.
23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox.
23:23 There is no sorcery against Jacob or divination against Israel. It will be said of them, ‘Look what God has done!’
23:24 Israel rises like a lioness, like a lion rousing itself. They will not rest until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
23:25 Then Balak said to Balaam, “If you won’t curse them, at least don’t bless them!”
23:26 But Balaam replied, “Didn’t I tell you I must do whatever the Lord says?”
23:27 Again Balak said, “Please come with me to another place. Perhaps it will please God for you to curse them for me from there.”
23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the Peor summit overlooking the wasteland.
23:29 Balaam told Balak, “Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”
23:30 Balak did as Balaam instructed and offered a bull and ram on each altar.
24:1 Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he no longer tried to use divination as before. Instead, he turned toward the desert
24:2 and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. The Spirit of God came upon him,
24:3 and he proclaimed his message: “This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eyes see clearly,
24:4 the message of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
24:5 How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel!
24:6 They spread out like valleys, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by the Lord, like cedars beside the waters.
24:7 Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water. Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.
24:8 God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. They will devour hostile nations, break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with arrows.
24:9 Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse them? May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!”
24:10 Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times.
24:11 Now leave at once and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded.”
24:12 Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell the messengers you sent me,
24:13 ‘Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not do anything beyond the command of the Lord, good or bad, of my own will. I must only speak what the Lord says’?
24:14 Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you of what this people will do to your people in days to come.”
24:15 Then he proclaimed his message: “This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eyes see clearly,
24:16 the message of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
24:17 I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the sons of Sheth.
24:18 Edom will be conquered; Seir, his enemy, will be conquered, but Israel will grow strong.
24:19 A ruler will come out of Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
24:20 Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his message: “Amalek was first among the nations, but its end will be utter destruction.”
24:21 Then he saw the Kenites and proclaimed his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest set in a rock;
24:22 yet you Kenites will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
24:23 Then he proclaimed his message: “Ah, who can live when God does this?
24:24 Ships will come from the shores of Kittim; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will come to ruin.”
24:25 Then Balaam got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.
25:1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
25:2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods.
25:3 So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord’s anger burned against them.
25:4 The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
25:5 So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”
25:6 Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand
25:8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both the Israelite and the woman, right through her stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
25:10 The Lord said to Moses,
25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.
25:12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him.
25:13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
25:14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
25:15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
25:16 The Lord said to Moses,
25:17 “Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them.
25:18 They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”
26:1 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest,
26:2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel.”
26:3 So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said,
26:4 “Take a census of the men twenty years old or more, as the Lord commanded Moses.” These were the Israelites who came out of Egypt:
26:5 The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were: through Hanok, the Hanokite clan; through Pallu, the Palluite clan;
26:6 through Hezron, the Hezronite clan; through Karmi, the Karmite clan.
26:7 These were the clans of Reuben; those numbered were 43,730.
26:8 The son of Pallu was Eliab,
26:9 and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. The same Dathan and Abiram were the community officials who rebelled against Moses and Aaron and were among Korah’s followers when they rebelled against the Lord.
26:10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign.
26:11 The line of Korah, however, did not die out.
26:12 The descendants of Simeon by their clans were: through Nemuel, the Nemuelite clan; through Jamin, the Jaminite clan; through Jakin, the Jakinite clan;
26:13 through Zerah, the Zerahite clan; through Shaul, the Shaulite clan.
26:14 These were the clans of Simeon; those numbered were 22,200.
26:15 The descendants of Gad by their clans were: through Zephon, the Zephonite clan; through Haggi, the Haggite clan; through Shuni, the Shunite clan;
26:16 through Ozni, the Oznite clan; through Eri, the Erite clan;
26:17 through Arodi, the Arodite clan; through Areli, the Arelite clan.
26:18 These were the clans of Gad; those numbered were 40,500.
26:19 The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
26:20 The descendants of Judah by their clans were: from Shelah, the Shelanite clan; from Perez, the Perezite clan; from Zerah, the Zerahite clan.
26:21 The descendants of Perez were: from Hezron, the Hezronite clan; from Hamul, the Hamulite clan.
26:22 These were the clans of Judah, and those registered numbered 76,500.
26:23 The descendants of Issachar by their clans were: from Tola, the Tolaite clan; from Puah, the Puite clan;
26:24 from Jashub, the Jashubite clan; from Shimron, the Shimronite clan.
26:25 These were the clans of Issachar, and those registered numbered 64,300.
26:26 The descendants of Zebulun by their clans were: from Sered, the Seredite clan; from Elon, the Elonite clan; from Jahleel, the Jahleelite clan.
26:27 These were the clans of Zebulun, and those registered numbered 60,500.
26:28 The descendants of Joseph by their clans were Manasseh and Ephraim.
26:29 The descendants of Manasseh were: from Makir, the Makirite clan. Makir was the father of Gilead; from Gilead came the Gileadite clan.
26:30 These were the descendants of Gilead: from Iezer, the Iezerite clan; from Helek, the Helekite clan;
26:31 from Asriel, the Asrielite clan; from Shechem, the Shechemite clan;
26:32 from Shemida, the Shemidaite clan; from Hepher, the Hepherite clan.
26:33 Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons—only daughters. The names of Zelophehad’s daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.
26:34 These were the clans of Manasseh, and those registered numbered 52,700.
26:35 These were the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: from Shuthelah, the Shuthelahite clan; from Beker, the Bekerite clan; from Tahan, the Tahanite clan.
26:36 These were the descendants of Shuthelah: from Eran, the Eranite clan.
26:37 These were the clans of Ephraim, and those registered numbered 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their clans.
26:38 These were the descendants of Benjamin by their clans: from Bela, the Belaite clan; from Ashbel, the Ashbelite clan; from Ahiram, the Ahiramite clan;
26:39 from Shupham, the Shuphamite clan; from Hupham, the Huphamite clan.
26:40 The descendants of Bela through Ard and Naaman were: from Ard, the Ardite clan; from Naaman, the Naamite clan.
26:41 These were the clans of Benjamin, and those registered numbered 45,600.
26:42 These were the descendants of Dan by their clans: from Shuham, the Shuhamite clan. These were the clans of Dan.
26:43 All the Shuhamite clans numbered 64,400.
26:44 The descendants of Asher by their clans were: from Imnah, the Imnite clan; from Ishvi, the Ishvite clan; from Beriah, the Beriite clan.
26:45 The descendants of Beriah were: from Heber, the Heberite clan; from Malkiel, the Malkielite clan.
26:46 Asher also had a daughter named Serah.
26:47 These were the clans of Asher, and those registered numbered 53,400.
26:48 The descendants of Naphtali by their clans were: from Jahzeel, the Jahzeelite clan; from Guni, the Gunite clan;
26:49 from Jezer, the Jezerite clan; from Shillem, the Shillemite clan.
26:50 These were the clans of Naphtali, and those registered numbered 45,400.
26:51 The total number registered among the Israelite community was 601,730.
26:52 Then the Lord said to Moses,
26:53 “The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names.
26:54 Increase the inheritance for a large tribe, and decrease it for a small one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.
26:55 Be sure that the land is distributed by lot. What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe.
26:56 Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”
26:57 These were the Levites who were registered: from Gershon, the Gershonite clan; from Kohath, the Kohathite clan; from Merari, the Merarite clan.
26:58 These also were Levite clans: the Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Kohath was the forefather of Amram,
26:59 and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a descendant of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. Amram and Jochebed were the parents of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.
26:60 Aaron was the father of Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
26:61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorised fire before the Lord.
26:62 The men from the Levite clans who were one month old or more numbered 23,000. They were not registered with the other Israelites, because they were not given an inheritance of land among them.
26:63 These are the ones registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.
26:64 Among these Israelites, not one of those registered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai remained.
26:65 For the Lord had said that they would all die in the wilderness. Not one was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
27:1 Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. Their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. They approached
27:2 Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the entire Israelite community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness without leaving any sons. He was not among Korah’s followers, who rebelled against the Lord, but he died for his own sin. Why should his name be removed from his family because he had no sons?
27:4 Give us property among our father’s relatives.”
27:5 So Moses brought their case before the Lord,
27:6 and the Lord answered him,
27:7 “The plea of Zelophehad’s daughters is justified. You must give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
27:8 Tell the Israelites: If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter.
27:9 If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
27:10 If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
27:11 If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, so that his property will remain within his ancestral tribe. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, just as the Lord has commanded Moses.”
27:12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land I have given the Israelites.
27:13 After you have seen it, you will also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.
27:14 For when the community rebelled at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, you disobeyed my command to show my holiness through them by means of the water.”
27:15 Moses appealed to the Lord,
27:16 “May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all, appoint someone over this community
27:17 who will lead them out and bring them in, so the Lord’s community will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
27:18 The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.
27:19 Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.
27:20 Confer some of your authority on him so that the entire Israelite community will obey him.
27:21 He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the Lord by the decision of the Urim. At his command they will go out and at his command they will come in, both he and all the Israelites with him, the entire community.”
27:22 Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community,
27:23 laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as the Lord had instructed through Moses.
28:1 The Lord said to Moses,
28:2 “Give this command to the Israelites: Be sure to present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, my fire offerings, my pleasing aroma, and the daily offerings at their designated times.
28:3 Tell them: This is the fire offering you are to present to the Lord: For a regular burnt offering, two unblemished year-old male lambs each day, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
28:4 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at twilight,
28:5 along with two quarts of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with a quart of pure oil from crushed olives.
28:6 It is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
28:7 The drink offering that accompanies it is to be a quart with each lamb. Pour out the offering of beer to the Lord in the sanctuary area.
28:8 Offer the second lamb at twilight, along with the same kind of grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
28:9 On the Sabbath day present two unblemished year-old male lambs, four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and its drink offering.
28:10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.”
28:11 At the beginning of each month present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—
28:12 with six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull, four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the ram,
28:13 and two quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb. It is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering presented to the Lord.
28:14 Their drink offerings are to be half a quart of wine with each bull, a third of a quart with the ram, and a quarter of a quart with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be offered at each new moon throughout the year.
28:15 And one male goat is to be presented as a sin offering to the Lord, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering.
28:16 The fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord’s Passover.
28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month there will be a festival; unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days.
28:18 On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any ordinary work.
28:19 Present a fire offering, a burnt offering, to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. Your animals are to be unblemished.
28:20 The grain offering with them is to be of fine flour mixed with oil; offer six quarts with each bull and four quarts with the ram.
28:21 Offer two quarts with each of the seven lambs
28:22 and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
28:23 Offer these with the morning burnt offering that is part of the regular burnt offering.
28:24 You will offer the same food each day for seven days as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.
28:25 On the seventh day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.
28:26 On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the Lord during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any ordinary work.
28:27 Present a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old,
28:28 with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,
28:29 and two quarts with each of the seven lambs,
28:30 along with one male goat to make atonement for yourselves.
28:31 Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Your animals are to be unblemished.
29:1 You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you must not do any ordinary work. It will be a day of trumpet blasts for you.
29:2 Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—
29:3 with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,
29:4 and two quarts with each of the seven lambs.
29:5 Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
29:6 These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are as pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
29:7 You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial; you must not do any work.
29:8 Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. Be sure they are unblemished.
29:9 Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,
29:10 Offer two quarts with each of the seven lambs,
29:11 along with one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.
29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.
29:13 Offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.
29:14 With each of the thirteen bulls offer a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil, with four quarts with each of the two rams,
29:15 and with each of the fourteen lambs offer two quarts of fine flour mixed with oil.
29:16 Also offer one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
29:17 On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect,
29:18 with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams and lambs, according to the number specified.
29:19 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
29:20 On the third day offer eleven bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect,
29:21 with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams and lambs, according to the number specified.
29:22 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
29:23 On the fourth day offer ten bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect,
29:24 with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams and lambs according to the number specified.
29:25 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
29:26 On the fifth day offer nine bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect,
29:27 with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams and lambs, according to the number specified.
29:28 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
29:29 On the sixth day offer eight bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect,
29:30 with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams and lambs, according to the number specified.
29:31 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
29:32 On the seventh day offer seven bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect,
29:33 with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams and lambs, according to the number specified.
29:34 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
29:35 On the eighth day hold an assembly and do no regular work.
29:36 Present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.
29:37 With the bull, the ram and the lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.
29:38 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
29:39 “In addition to what you vow and your freewill offerings, offer these to the Lord at your appointed festivals.
29:40 Moses told the Israelites all that the Lord commanded him.
30:1 Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: This is what the Lord commands:
30:2 When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
30:3 “When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or obligates herself by a pledge
30:4 and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand.
30:5 But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her.
30:6 “If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself
30:7 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
30:8 But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the Lord will release her.
30:9 “Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.
30:10 “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath
30:11 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
30:12 But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the Lord will release her.
30:13 Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself.
30:14 But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.
30:15 If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.”
30:16 These are the regulations the Lord gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living at home.
31:1 The Lord said to Moses,
31:2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
31:3 So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the Lord’s vengeance on them.
31:4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.”
31:5 So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.
31:6 Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
31:7 They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man.
31:8 Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
31:9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.
31:10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps.
31:11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,
31:12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
31:13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
31:15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.
31:16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people.
31:17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,
31:18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
31:19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.
31:20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”
31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the Lord gave Moses:
31:22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead
31:23 and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.
31:24 On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.”
31:25 The Lord said to Moses,
31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured.
31:27 Divide the spoils equally between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community.
31:28 From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the Lord one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donkeys or sheep.
31:29 Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord’s part.
31:30 From the Israelites’ half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.”
31:31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
31:32 The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep,
31:33 72,000 cattle,
31:34 61,000 donkeys
31:35 and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.
31:36 The half share of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep,
31:37 of which the tribute for the Lord was 675;
31:38 36,000 cattle, of which the tribute for the Lord was 72;
31:39 30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute for the Lord was 61;
31:40 16,000 people, of whom the tribute for the Lord was 32.
31:41 Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as the Lord’s part, as the Lord commanded Moses.
31:42 The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men—
31:43 the community’s half—was 337,500 sheep,
31:44 36,000 cattle,
31:45 30,500 donkeys
31:46 and 16,000 people.
31:47 From the Israelites’ half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the Lord commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.
31:48 Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—went to Moses
31:49 and said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.
31:50 So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”
31:51 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold—all the crafted articles.
31:52 All the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds that Moses and Eleazar presented as a gift to the Lord weighed 16,750 shekels.
31:53 Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.
31:54 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.
32:1 The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock.
32:2 So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said,
32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon—
32:4 the land the Lord subdued before the people of Israel—are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock.
32:5 If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?
32:7 Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the Lord has given them?
32:8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land.
32:9 After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them.
32:10 The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath:
32:11 ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
32:12 not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’
32:13 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
32:14 “And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.
32:15 If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
32:16 Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.
32:17 But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
32:18 We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance.
32:19 We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
32:20 Then Moses said to them, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle
32:21 and if all of you who are armed cross over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven his enemies out before him—
32:22 then when the land is subdued before the Lord, you may return and be free from your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the Lord.
32:23 “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.
32:24 Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
32:25 The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “We your servants will do as our lord commands.
32:26 Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
32:27 But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight before the Lord, just as our lord says.”
32:28 Then Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes.
32:29 He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the Lord, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.
32:30 But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”
32:31 The Gadites and Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has said.
32:32 We will cross over before the Lord into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”
32:33 Then Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the whole land with its cities and the territory around them.
32:34 The Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
32:35 Atroth Shophan, Jaazer, Jogbehah,
32:36 Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and built pens for their flocks.
32:37 And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh and Kiriathaim,
32:38 as well as Nebo and Baal Meon (these names were changed) and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.
32:39 The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there.
32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there.
32:41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.
32:42 And Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah after himself.
33:1 Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
33:2 At the Lord’s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages:
33:3 The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
33:4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them; for the Lord had brought judgment on their gods.
33:5 The Israelites left Rameses and camped at Sukkoth.
33:6 They left Sukkoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.
33:7 They left Etham, turned back to Pi Hahiroth, to the east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol.
33:8 They left Pi Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert, and when they had traveled for three days in the Desert of Etham, they camped at Marah.
33:9 They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
33:10 They left Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
33:11 They left the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
33:12 They left the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
33:13 They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
33:14 They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
33:15 They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.
33:16 They left the Desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
33:17 They left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
33:18 They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
33:19 They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
33:20 They left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
33:21 They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
33:22 They left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
33:23 They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
33:24 They left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
33:25 They left Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
33:26 They left Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
33:27 They left Tahath and camped at Terah.
33:28 They left Terah and camped at Mithkah.
33:29 They left Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
33:30 They left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
33:31 They left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
33:32 They left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad.
33:33 They left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
33:34 They left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
33:35 They left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
33:36 They left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.
33:37 They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the border of Edom.
33:38 At the Lord’s command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.
33:39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
33:40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
33:41 They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
33:42 They left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
33:43 They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
33:44 They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.
33:45 They left Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad.
33:46 They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.
33:47 They left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.
33:48 They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
33:49 There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.
33:50 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the Lord said to Moses,
33:51 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
33:52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
33:53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
33:54 Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.
33:55 “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
33:56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.'”
34:1 The Lord said to Moses,
34:2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:
34:3 “‘Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea,
34:4 cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon,
34:5 where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.
34:6 “‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
34:7 “‘For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor
34:8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,
34:9 continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
34:10 “‘For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
34:11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.
34:12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. “‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.'”
34:13 Moses commanded the Israelites: “Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The Lord has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes,
34:14 because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
34:15 These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
34:16 The Lord said to Moses,
34:17 “These are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
34:18 And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land.
34:19 These are their names:
Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah;
34:20 Shemuel son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Simeon;
34:21 Elidad son of Kislon, from the tribe of Benjamin;
34:22 Bukki son of Jogli, the leader from the tribe of Dan;
34:23 Hanniel son of Ephod, the leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;
34:24 Kemuel son of Shiphtan, the leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;
34:25 Elizaphan son of Parnak, the leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
34:26 Paltiel son of Azzan, the leader from the tribe of Issachar;
34:27 Ahihud son of Shelomi, the leader from the tribe of Asher;
34:28 Pedahel son of Ammihud, the leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”
34:29 These are the men the Lord commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
35:1 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,
35:2 “Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns.
35:3 Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.
35:4 “The pasturelands around the towns that you give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the town wall.
35:5 Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west and two thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.
35:6 “Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.
35:7 In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.
35:8 The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.”
35:9 Then the Lord said to Moses:
35:10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
35:11 select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.
35:12 They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.
35:13 These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge.
35:14 Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.
35:15 These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.
35:16 “‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.
35:17 Or if anyone is holding a stone that could kill, and strikes someone so that he dies, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.
35:18 Or if anyone is holding a wooden object that could kill, and strikes someone so that he dies, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.
35:19 The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when they meet, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.
35:20 If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die
35:21 or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.
35:22 “‘But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally
35:23 or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended,
35:24 the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.
35:25 The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
35:26 “‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled
35:27 and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.
35:28 The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.
35:29 “‘This is to have the force of law for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.
35:30 “‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
35:31 “‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.
35:32 “‘Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.
35:33 “‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
35:34 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites.'”
36:1 The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families.
36:2 They said, “When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
36:3 Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.
36:4 When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”
36:5 Then at the Lord’s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: “What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right.
36:6 This is what the Lord commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father’s tribal clan.
36:7 No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors.
36:8 Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father’s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors.
36:9 No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.”
36:10 So Zelophehad’s daughters did as the Lord commanded Moses.
36:11 Zelophehad’s daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah—married their cousins on their father’s side.
36:12 They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father’s tribe and clan.
36:13 These are the commands and regulations the Lord gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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