15:1 1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, 2 which I am giving you, 3 15:3 and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord, 15:4 then the one who presents his offering to the Lord must bring 4 a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of olive oil. 5 15:5 You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering 6 with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb. 7 15:6 Or for a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil, 15:7 and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:8 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord, 15:9 then a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil must be presented 8 with the young bull, 15:10 and you must present as the drink offering half a hin of wine with the fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:11 This is what is to be done 9 for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats. 15:12 You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.
15:13 “‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:14 If a resident foreigner is living 10 with you – or whoever is among you 11 in future generations 12 – and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it. 13 15:15 One statute must apply 14 to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent 15 statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike 16 before the Lord. 15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”
15:17 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you 17 15:19 and you eat 18 some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering 19 to the Lord. 15:20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour 20 as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up. 15:21 You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.
15:22 21 “‘If you 22 sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses – 15:23 all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority 23 of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations – 15:24 then if anything is done unintentionally 24 without the knowledge of 25 the community, the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering – for a pleasing aroma to the Lord – along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering, and one male goat for a purification offering. 15:25 And the priest is to make atonement 26 for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, 27 because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their unintentional offense. 15:26 And the whole community 28 of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.
15:27 “‘If any person 29 sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering. 15:28 And the priest must make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally – when he sins unintentionally before the Lord – to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 15:29 You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.
15:30 “‘But the person 30 who acts defiantly, 31 whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults 32 the Lord. 33 That person 34 must be cut off 35 from among his people. 15:31 Because he has despised 36 the word of the Lord and has broken 37 his commandment, that person 38 must be completely cut off. 39 His iniquity will be on him.’” 40
15:32 When the Israelites were 41 in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 42 15:33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community. 15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him. 15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone 43 him with stones outside the camp.” 15:36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, 44 just as the Lord commanded Moses.
15:37 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make 45 tassels 46 for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread 47 on the tassel of the corners. 15:39 You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow 48 after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness. 49 15:40 Thus 50 you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God. 15:41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”
1:1 52 Now the Lord 53 spoke 54 to Moses in the tent of meeting 55 in the wilderness 56 of Sinai 57 on the first day of the second month of the second year after 58 the Israelites 59 departed from the land of Egypt. 60 He said: 61 1:2 “Take a census 62 of the entire 63 Israelite community 64 by their clans and families, 65 counting the name of every individual male. 66 1:3 You and Aaron are to number 67 all in Israel who can serve in the army, 68 those who are 69 twenty years old or older, 70 by their divisions. 71 1:4 And to help you 72 there is to be a man from each 73 tribe, each man 74 the head 75 of his family. 76 1:5 Now these are the names of the men who are to help 77 you:
from 78 Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
1:6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; 79
1:7 from Judah, Nahshon 80 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; 81
1:15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
1:16 These were the ones chosen 82 from the community, leaders 83 of their ancestral tribes. 84 They were the heads of the thousands 85 of Israel.
1:17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name, 1:18 and they assembled 86 the entire community together on the first day of the second month. 87 Then the people recorded their ancestry 88 by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed 89 by name individually, 1:19 just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20 And they were as follows:
The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. 1:21 Those of them who were numbered 90 from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500. 91
1:22 From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them 92 twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. 1:23 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.
1:24 93 From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:25 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.
1:26 From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:27 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.
1:28 From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:29 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.
1:30 From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:31 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.
1:32 From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:33 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500. 1:34 From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:35 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
1:36 From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:37 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
1:38 From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:39 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
1:40 From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:41 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
1:42 From 94 the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:43 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.
1:44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered 95 along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom 96 was from his own family. 1:45 All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered 97 according to their families. 1:46 And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
1:47 But 98 the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, 99 were not numbered 100 among them. 1:48 The Lord had said to Moses, 101 1:49 “Only the tribe of Levi 102 you must not number 103 or count 104 with 105 the other Israelites. 1:50 But appoint 106 the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, 107 over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry 108 the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they 109 must attend to it and camp around it. 110 1:51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, 111 the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, 112 the Levites must set it up. 113 Any unauthorized person 114 who approaches it must be killed.
1:52 “The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard. 1:53 But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord’s anger 115 will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care 116 of the tabernacle of the testimony.”
1:54 The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses 117 – that is what they did.
2:1 118 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron: 2:2 “Every one 119 of the Israelites must camp 120 under his standard with the emblems of his family; 121 they must camp at some distance 122 around the tent of meeting. 123
2:3 “Now those who will be camping 124 on the east, toward the sunrise, 125 are the divisions 126 of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is 127 Nahshon son of Amminadab. 2:4 Those numbered in his division 128 are 74,600. 2:5 Those who will be camping next to them 129 are the tribe of Issachar. The leader of the people of Issachar is Nethanel son of Zuar. 2:6 Those numbered in his division are 54,400. 2:7 Next will be 130 the tribe of Zebulun. The leader of the people of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon. 2:8 Those numbered in his division are 57,400. 2:9 All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel 131 at the front.
2:10 “On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. 132 The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur. 2:11 Those numbered in his division are 46,500. 2:12 Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the people of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. 2:13 Those numbered in his division are 59,300. 2:14 Next will be 133 the tribe of Gad. The leader of the people of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel. 134 2:15 Those numbered in his division are 45,650. 2:16 All those numbered of the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, are 151,450. They will travel second.
2:17 “Then the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place 135 under his standard.
2:18 “On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud. 2:19 Those numbered in his division are 40,500. 2:20 Next to them will be the tribe of Manasseh. The leader of the people of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. 2:21 Those numbered in his division are 32,200. 2:22 Next will be 136 the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the people of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni. 2:23 Those numbered in his division are 35,400. 2:24 All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.
2:25 “On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan, under their standards. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 2:26 Those numbered in his division are 62,700. 2:27 Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Asher. The leader of the people of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran. 2:28 Those numbered in his division are 41,500. 2:29 Next will be 137 the tribe of Naphtali. The leader of the people of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan. 2:30 Those numbered in his division are 53,400. 2:31 All those numbered of the camp of Dan are 157,600. They will travel last, under their standards.”
2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. 138 All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550. 2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.
2:34 So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way 139 they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.
3:1 140 Now these are the records 141 of Aaron and Moses when 142 the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 3:2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed 143 priests, whom he consecrated 144 to minister as priests. 145
3:4 Nadab and Abihu died 146 before the Lord 147 when they offered 148 strange 149 fire 150 before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. 151 So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests 152 in the presence of 153 Aaron their father.
3:5 The Lord spoke to Moses: 3:6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, 154 and present 155 them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. 156 3:7 They are responsible for his needs 157 and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending 158 to the service of the tabernacle. 3:8 And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve 159 in the tabernacle. 3:9 You are to assign 160 the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively 161 to him out of all 162 the Israelites. 3:10 So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; 163 but the unauthorized person 164 who comes near must be put to death.”
3:11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 3:12 “Look, 165 I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of 166 every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me, 3:13 because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed 167 all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord.” 168
3:14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai: 3:15 “Number the Levites by their clans 169 and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” 170 3:16 So Moses numbered them according to the word 171 of the Lord, just as he had been commanded. 172
3:17 These were the sons 173 of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
3:18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 3:19 The sons of Kohath by their families were: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3:20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.
3:21 From Gershon came the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites. 3:22 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500. 3:23 The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west. 3:24 Now the leader 174 of the clan 175 of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
3:25 And 176 the responsibilities of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 3:26 the hangings of the courtyard, 177 the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard that surrounded the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, plus all the service connected with these things. 178
3:27 From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites. 179 3:28 Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care 180 of the sanctuary. 3:29 The families of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle. 3:30 Now the leader of the clan of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
3:31 Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, 181 the curtain, and all their service. 182 3:32 Now the head of all the Levitical leaders 183 was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible 184 for the sanctuary.
3:33 From Merari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were 185 the families of Merari. 3:34 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200. 3:35 Now the leader of the clan of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
3:36 The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, 186 3:37 and the pillars of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, their pegs, and their ropes.
3:38 But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, 187 and his sons. They were responsible for the needs 188 of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death. 3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word 189 of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000. 190
3:40 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take 191 the number of their names. 3:41 And take 192 the Levites for me – I am the Lord – instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.” 3:42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him. 3:43 And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.
3:44 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 3:45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the Lord. 3:46 And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, 3:47 collect 193 five shekels for each 194 one individually; you are to collect 195 this amount 196 in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs). 197 3:48 And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”
3:49 So Moses took the redemption money 198 from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites. 3:50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. 3:51 Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
4:1 199 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 4:2 “Take a census 200 of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans, 4:3 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company 201 to do the work in the tent of meeting. 4:4 This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things. 202 4:5 When it is time for the camp to journey, 203 Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it. 4:6 Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather 204 and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.
4:7 “On the table of the presence 205 they must spread a blue 206 cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually. 4:8 They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
4:9 “They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it. 4:10 Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam. 207
4:11 “They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles. 4:12 Then they must take all the utensils of the service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a carrying beam. 4:13 Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar 208 and spread a purple cloth over it. 4:14 Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there – the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar – and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles. 209
4:15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished 210 covering 211 the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then 212 the Kohathites will come to carry them; 213 but they must not touch 214 any 215 holy thing, or they will die. 216 These are the responsibilities 217 of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.
4:16 “The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has 218 the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with 219 all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.” 220
4:17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 4:18 “Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off 221 from among the Levites; 4:19 but in order that they will live 222 and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint 223 each man 224 to his service and his responsibility. 4:20 But the Kohathites 225 are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”
4:21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 4:22 “Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families. 4:23 You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting. 4:24 This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve 226 and carry it. 4:25 They must carry the curtains for the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is over it, the curtains for the entrance of the tent of meeting, 4:26 the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, 227 which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve. 228
4:27 “All the service of the Gershonites, whether 229 carrying loads 230 or for any of their work, will be at the direction of 231 Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks 232 as their responsibility. 4:28 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites concerning the tent of meeting. Their responsibilities will be under the authority 233 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 234
4:29 “As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans. 4:30 You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting. 4:31 This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames 235 of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, 4:32 and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry. 236 4:33 This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans, 4:35 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting; 4:36 and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750. 4:37 These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
4:38 Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans, 4:39 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting – 4:40 those of them numbered by their families, by their clans, were 2,630. 4:41 These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.
4:42 Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans, 4:43 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting – 4:44 those of them numbered by their families were 3,200. 4:45 These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans, 4:47 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying 237 relating to the tent of meeting – 4:48 those of them numbered were 8,580. 4:49 According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, 238 by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. 239 Thus were they numbered by him, 240 as the Lord had commanded Moses.
5:1 241 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 5:2 “Command the Israelites to expel 242 from the camp every leper, 243 everyone who has a discharge, 244 and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse. 245 5:3 You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that 246 they will not defile their camps, among which I live.” 5:4 So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken 247 to Moses, so the Israelites did.
5:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 5:6 “Tell the Israelites, ‘When 248 a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, 249 thereby breaking faith 250 with the Lord, and that person is found guilty, 251 5:7 then he must confess 252 his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation, 253 add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged. 254 5:8 But if the individual has no close relative 255 to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the Lord 256 for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him. 5:9 Every offering 257 of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his. 5:10 Every man’s holy things 258 will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”
5:11 259 The Lord spoke to Moses: 5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him, 5:13 and a man has sexual relations 260 with her 261 without her husband knowing it, 262 and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since 263 there was no witness against her, nor was she caught – 5:14 and if jealous feelings 264 come over him and he becomes suspicious 265 of his wife, when she is defiled; 266 or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled – 5:15 then 267 the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion, 268 a grain offering for remembering, 269 for bringing 270 iniquity to remembrance.
5:16 “‘Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand 271 before the Lord. 5:17 The priest will then take holy water 272 in a pottery jar, and take some 273 of the dust 274 that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water. 5:18 Then the priest will have the woman stand before the Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. 275 5:19 Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, “If no other 276 man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. 277 5:20 But if you 278 have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….” 279 5:21 Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse 280 and will say 281 to the her, “The Lord make you an attested curse 282 among your people, 283 if the Lord makes 284 your thigh fall away 285 and your abdomen swell; 286 5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go 287 into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” 288 Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” 289
5:23 “‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water. 290 5:24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness. 5:25 The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. 5:26 Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. 5:27 When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness – her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 5:28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects 291 and will be able to bear children.
5:29 “‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, 292 when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 5:30 or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her. 5:31 Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences 293 of her iniquity.’” 294
6:1 295 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 6:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When either a man or a woman 296 takes a special vow, 297 to take a vow 298 as a Nazirite, 299 to separate 300 himself to the Lord, 6:3 he must separate 301 himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar 302 made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice 303 of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. 304 6:4 All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed 305 to skin. 306
6:5 “‘All the days of the vow 307 of his separation no razor may be used on his head 308 until the time 309 is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, 310 and he must let 311 the locks of hair on his head grow long.
6:6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact 312 a dead body. 313 6:7 He must not defile himself even 314 for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, 315 because the separation 316 for 317 his God is on his head. 6:8 All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.
6:9 “‘If anyone dies very suddenly 318 beside him and he defiles 319 his consecrated head, 320 then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it. 6:10 On the eighth day he is to bring 321 two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting. 6:11 Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering 322 and the other 323 as a burnt offering, 324 and make atonement 325 for him, because of his transgression 326 in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate 327 his head on that day. 6:12 He must rededicate 328 to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, 329 but the former days will not be counted 330 because his separation 331 was defiled.
6:13 “‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he must be brought 332 to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 6:14 and he must present his offering 333 to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish for a purification offering, one ram without blemish for a peace offering, 334 6:15 and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their 335 grain offering and their drink offerings. 336
6:16 “‘Then the priest must present all these 337 before the Lord and offer 338 his purification offering and his burnt offering. 6:17 Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering 339 to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
6:18 “‘Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head 340 at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire 341 where the peace offering is burning. 342 6:19 And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head; 343 6:20 then the priest must wave them as a wave offering 344 before the Lord; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. 345 After this the Nazirite may drink 346 wine.’
6:21 “This is the law 347 of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord his offering according to his separation, as well as whatever else he can provide. 348 Thus he must fulfill 349 his vow that he makes, according to the law of his separation.”
6:22 350 The Lord spoke to Moses: 6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the way 351 you are to bless 352 the Israelites. Say 353 to them:
6:24 “The Lord bless you 354 and protect 355 you;
6:25 The Lord make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious to you; 356
6:26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you 357
and give you peace.”’
6:27 So they will put my name 358 on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
7:1 359 When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle, 360 he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. 7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, 361 made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising 362 the numbering. 7:3 They brought 363 their offering before the Lord, six covered carts 364 and twelve oxen – one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.
7:4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 7:5 “Receive these gifts 365 from them, that they may be 366 used in doing the work 367 of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man 368 as his service requires.” 369
7:6 So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. 7:7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required; 7:8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority 370 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 7:9 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried 371 on their shoulders, was their responsibility. 372
7:10 The leaders offered 373 gifts 374 for 375 the dedication 376 of the altar when it was anointed. 377 And the leaders presented 378 their offering before the altar. 7:11 For the Lord said to Moses, “They must present their offering, one leader for each day, 379 for the dedication of the altar.”
7:12 The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah. 380 7:13 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels, 381 and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:14 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:15 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:16 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.
7:18 On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering. 7:19 He offered for his offering one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:20 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:21 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:22 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.
7:24 On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites, presented an offering. 382 7:25 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:26 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:27 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:28 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the Reubenites, presented an offering. 7:31 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:32 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:33 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:34 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the Simeonites, presented an offering. 7:37 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:38 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels; 7:39 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:40 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Sheloumiel son of Zurishaddai.
7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the Gadites, presented an offering. 7:43 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:44 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels; 7:45 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:46 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the Ephraimites, presented an offering. 7:49 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:50 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:51 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:52 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.
7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the Manassehites, presented an offering. 7:55 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:56 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:57 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:58 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of the Benjaminites, presented an offering. 7:61 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:62 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:63 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:64 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Amishaddai, leader of the Danites, presented an offering. 7:67 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:68 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:69 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:70 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Amishaddai.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of the Asherites, presented an offering. 7:73 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:74 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:75 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:76 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the Naphtalites, presented an offering. 7:79 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:80 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels; 7:81 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:82 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.
7:84 This was the dedication for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver sprinkling bowls, and twelve gold pans. 7:85 Each silver platter weighed 130 shekels, and each silver sprinkling bowl weighed 70 shekels. All the silver of the vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. 7:86 The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed 10 shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel; all the gold of the pans weighed 120 shekels. 7:87 All the animals for the burnt offering were 12 young bulls, 12 rams, 12 male lambs in their first year, with their grain offering, and 12 male goats for a purification offering. 7:88 All the animals for the sacrifice for the peace offering were 24 young bulls, 60 rams, 60 male goats, and 60 lambs in their first year. These were the dedication offerings for the altar after it was anointed. 383
7:89 Now when Moses went into 384 the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, 385 he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid 386 that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. 387 Thus he spoke to him.
8:1 388 The Lord spoke to Moses: 8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up 389 the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light 390 in front of the lampstand.’”
8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses. 8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: 391 It was beaten work in gold; 392 from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
8:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 8:6 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify 393 them. 8:7 And do this 394 to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification 395 on them; then have them shave 396 all their body 397 and wash 398 their clothes, and so purify themselves. 399 8:8 Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take a second young bull for a purification offering. 400 8:9 You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites. 8:10 Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites; 401 8:11 and Aaron is to offer 402 the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work 403 of the Lord. 8:12 When 404 the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer 405 the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, 406 to make atonement for the Levites. 8:13 You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron 407 and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. 8:14 And so 408 you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
8:15 “After this, the Levites will go in 409 to do the work 410 of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them 411 and offer them like a wave offering. 412 8:16 For they are entirely given 413 to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of 414 all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites. 8:17 For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed 415 all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself. 8:18 So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites. 8:19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.” 416
8:20 So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them. 8:21 The Levites purified themselves 417 and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them. 8:22 After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.
8:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 8:24 “This is what pertains to the Levites: 418 At the age of twenty-five years 419 and upward one may begin to join the company 420 in the work of the tent of meeting, 8:25 and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work. 8:26 They may assist 421 their colleagues 422 in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish 423 the Levites regarding their duties.”
9:1 424 The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out 425 of the land of Egypt:
9:2 “The Israelites are to observe 426 the Passover 427 at its appointed time. 428 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, 429 you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep 430 it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.” 431 9:4 So Moses instructed 432 the Israelites to observe 433 the Passover. 9:5 And they observed the Passover 434 on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.
9:6 It happened that some men 435 who were ceremonially defiled 436 by the dead body of a man 437 could not keep 438 the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” 9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain 439 here and I will hear 440 what the Lord will command concerning you.”
9:9 The Lord spoke to Moses: 9:10 “Tell the Israelites, ‘If any 441 of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may 442 observe the Passover to the Lord. 9:11 They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month 443 at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs. 9:12 They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.
9:13 But 444 the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails 445 to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. 446 Because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin. 447 9:14 If a resident foreigner lives 448 among you and wants to keep 449 the Passover to the Lord, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have 450 the same 451 statute for the resident foreigner 452 and for the one who was born in the land.’”
9:15 453 On 454 the day that the tabernacle was set up, 455 the cloud 456 covered the tabernacle – the tent of the testimony 457 – and from evening until morning there was 458 a fiery appearance 459 over the tabernacle. 9:16 This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, 460 and there was a fiery appearance by night. 9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up 461 from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place 462 the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp. 9:18 At the commandment 463 of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp; as long as 464 the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp. 9:19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions 465 of the Lord and did not journey.
9:20 When 466 the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, 467 they remained camped according to the Lord’s commandment, 468 and according to the Lord’s commandment they would journey. 9:21 And when 469 the cloud remained only 470 from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up 471 the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled. 9:22 Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, 472 that the cloud prolonged its stay 473 over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; 474 but when it was taken up, they traveled on. 9:23 At the commandment of the Lord they camped, and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the Lord according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority 475 of Moses.
10:1 476 The Lord spoke to Moses: 10:2 “Make 477 two trumpets of silver; you are to make 478 them from a single hammered piece. 479 You will use them 480 for assembling the community and for directing the traveling of the camps. 10:3 When 481 they blow 482 them both, all the community must come 483 to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
10:4 “But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you. 484 10:5 When you blow an alarm, 485 then the camps that are located 486 on the east side must begin to travel. 487 10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. 488 An alarm must be sounded 489 for their journeys. 10:7 But when you assemble the community, 490 you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm. 491 10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations. 10:9 If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes 492 you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved 493 from your enemies.
10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as 494 on your appointed festivals or 495 at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may 496 become 497 a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
10:11 498 On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony. 499 10:12 So the Israelites set out 500 on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
10:13 This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment 501 of the Lord, by the authority 502 of Moses.
10:14 The standard 503 of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.
10:15 Over the company of the tribe of Issacharites was Nathanel son of Zuar, 10:16 and over the company of the tribe of the Zebulunites was Elion son of Helon. 10:17 Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.
10:18 The standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their companies; over his company was Elizur son of Shedeur. 10:19 Over the company of the tribe of the Simeonites was Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, 10:20 and over the company of the tribe of the Gadites was Eliasaph son of Deuel. 10:21 And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; 504 the tabernacle was to be set up 505 before they arrived. 506 10:22 And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud. 10:23 Over the company of the tribe of the Manassehites was Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, 10:24 and over the company of the tribe of Benjaminites was Abidan son of Gideoni.
10:25 The standard of the camp of the Danites set out, which was the rear guard 507 of all the camps by their companies; over his company was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 10:26 Over the company of the tribe of the Asherites was Pagiel son of Ocran, 10:27 and over the company of the tribe of the Naphtalites was Ahira son of Enan. 10:28 These were the traveling arrangements 508 of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled. 509
10:29 510 Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, 511 “We are journeying to the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, 512 for the Lord has promised good things 513 for Israel.” 10:30 But Hobab 514 said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.” 10:31 Moses 515 said, “Do not leave us, 516 because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide. 517 10:32 And if you come with us, it is certain 518 that whatever good things the Lord will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”
10:33 So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; 519 and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them. 10:34 520 And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they traveled 521 from the camp. 10:35 And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!” 10:36 And when it came to rest he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel!” 522
11:1 523 When the people complained, 524 it displeased 525 the Lord. When the Lord heard 526 it, his anger burned, 527 and so 528 the fire of the Lord 529 burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp. 11:2 When the people cried to Moses, he 530 prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out. 531 11:3 So he called the name of that place Taberah 532 because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
11:4 533 Now the mixed multitude 534 who were among them craved more desirable foods, 535 and so the Israelites wept again 536 and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 537 11:5 We remember 538 the fish we used to eat 539 freely 540 in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 11:6 But now we 541 are dried up, 542 and there is nothing at all before us 543 except this manna!” 11:7 (Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. 11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. 544 11:9 And when the dew came down 545 on the camp in the night, the manna fell 546 with it.)
11:10 547 Moses heard the people weeping 548 throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased. 549 11:11 And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted 550 your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that 551 you lay the burden of this entire people on me? 11:12 Did I conceive this entire people? 552 Did I give birth to 553 them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father 554 bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers? 11:13 From where shall I get 555 meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’ 556 11:14 I am not able to bear this entire people alone, 557 because it 558 is too heavy for me! 11:15 But if you are going to deal 559 with me like this, then kill me immediately. 560 If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.” 561
11:16 562 The Lord said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials 563 over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you. 11:17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it 564 all by yourself.
11:18 “And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves 565 for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing 566 of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, 567 for life 568 was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat. 11:19 You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20 but a whole month, 569 until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, 570 because you have despised 571 the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why 572 did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
11:21 Moses said, “The people around me 573 are 600,000 on foot; 574 but you say, ‘I will give them meat, 575 that they may eat 576 for a whole month.’ 11:22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” 11:23 And the Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s hand shortened? 577 Now you will see whether my word to you will come true 578 or not!”
11:24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle. 11:25 And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses 579 and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, 580 they prophesied, 581 but did not do so again. 582
11:26 But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration, 583 but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp. 11:27 And a 584 young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” 11:28 Joshua son of Nun, the servant 585 of Moses, one of his choice young men, 586 said, 587 “My lord Moses, stop them!” 588 11:29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? 589 I wish that 590 all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!” 11:30 Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.
11:31 Now a wind 591 went out 592 from the Lord and brought quail 593 from the sea, and let them fall 594 near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet 595 high on the surface of the ground. 11:32 And the people stayed up 596 all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, 597 and they spread them out 598 for themselves all around the camp. 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, 599 the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
11:34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, 600 because there they buried the people that craved different food. 601 11:35 The people traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.
12:1 602 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against 603 Moses because of the Cushite 604 woman he had married 605 (for he had married an Ethiopian woman). 12:2 They 606 said, “Has the Lord only 607 spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” 608 And the Lord heard it. 609
12:3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, 610 more so than any man on the face of the earth.)
12:4 The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: “The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went. 12:5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.
12:6 The Lord 611 said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, 612 I the Lord 613 will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream. 12:7 My servant 614 Moses is not like this; he is faithful 615 in all my house. 12:8 With him I will speak face to face, 616 openly, 617 and not in riddles; and he will see the form 618 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 departed. 12:10 When 619 the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became 620 leprous 621 as snow. Then Aaron looked at 622 Miriam, and she was leprous!
12:11 So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, 623 please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned! 12:12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its 624 mother’s womb!”
12:13 Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.” 625 12:14 The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had only spit 626 in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”
12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in. 627 12:16 After that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
13:1 628 The Lord spoke 629 to Moses: 13:2 “Send out men to investigate 630 the land of Canaan, which I am giving 631 to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, 632 each one a leader among them.” 13:3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command 633 of the Lord. All of them were leaders 634 of the Israelites.
13:4 Now these were 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; 13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; 13:9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; 13:10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; 13:11 from the tribe 635 of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; 13:12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; 13:13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; 13:14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi; 13:15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua. 636
13:17 When Moses sent 637 them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, 638 and then go up into the hill country 13:18 and see 639 what the land is like, 640 and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many, 13:19 and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities, 13:20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, 641 and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year 642 for the first ripe grapes. 643
13:21 So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, 644 at the entrance of Hamath. 645 13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they 646 came 647 to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, 648 descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan 649 in Egypt.) 13:23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff 650 between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs. 13:24 That place was called 651 the Eshcol Valley, 652 because of the cluster 653 of grapes that the Israelites cut from there. 13:25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
13:26 They came back 654 to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. 655 They reported 656 to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land. 13:27 They told Moses, 657 “We went to the land where you sent us. 658 It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, 659 and this is its fruit. 13:28 But 660 the inhabitants 661 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 land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks 662 of the Jordan.” 663
13:30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up 664 and occupy it, 665 for we are well able to conquer it.” 666 13:31 But the men 667 who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!” 13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging 668 report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through 669 to investigate is a land that devours 670 its inhabitants. 671 All the people we saw there 672 are of great stature. 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim 673 there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves 674 and to them.” 675
14:1 676 Then all the community raised a loud cry, 677 and the people wept 678 that night. 14:2 And all the Israelites murmured 679 against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died 680 in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished 681 in this wilderness! 14:3 Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 14:4 So they said to one another, 682 “Let’s appoint 683 a leader 684 and return 685 to Egypt.”
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground 686 before the whole assembled community 687 of the Israelites. 14:6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments. 14:7 They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly 688 good land. 14:8 If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us – a land that is flowing with milk and honey. 689 14:9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. 690 Their protection 691 has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!”
14:10 However, the whole community threatened to stone them. 692 But 693 the glory 694 of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent 695 of meeting.
14:11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise 696 me, and how long will they not believe 697 in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them? 14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, 698 and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
14:13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear 699 it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them – 14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants 700 of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, 701 that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night. 14:15 If you kill 702 this entire people at once, 703 then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 14:16 ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’ 14:17 So now, let the power of my Lord 704 be great, just as you have said, 14:18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, 705 forgiving iniquity and transgression, 706 but by no means clearing 707 the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’ 708 14:19 Please forgive 709 the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, 710 just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”
14:20 Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked. 711 14:21 But truly, as I live, 712 all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord. 14:22 For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted 713 me now these ten times, 714 and have not obeyed me, 715 14:23 they will by no means 716 see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it. 14:24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants 717 will possess it. 14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) 718 Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
14:26 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 14:27 “How long must I bear 719 with this evil congregation 720 that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me. 14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, 721 says 722 the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 723 14:29 Your dead bodies 724 will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 14:30 You will by no means enter into the land where 725 I swore 726 to settle 727 you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 14:31 But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, 728 and they will enjoy 729 the land that you have despised. 14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, 14:33 and your children will wander 730 in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, 731 until your dead bodies lie finished 732 in the wilderness. 14:34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for 733 your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. 734 14:35 I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
14:36 The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing 735 an evil report about the land, 14:37 those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord. 14:38 But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among 736 the men who went to investigate the land, lived. 14:39 When Moses told 737 these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned 738 greatly.
14:40 And early 739 in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, 740 saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, 741 for we have sinned.” 742 14:41 But Moses said, “Why 743 are you now transgressing the commandment 744 of the Lord? It will not succeed! 14:42 Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be 745 defeated before your enemies. 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”
14:44 But they dared 746 to go up to the crest of the hill, although 747 neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp. 14:45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped 748 down and attacked them 749 as far as Hormah. 750
15:1 751 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, 752 which I am giving you, 753 15:3 and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord, 15:4 then the one who presents his offering to the Lord must bring 754 a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of olive oil. 755 15:5 You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering 756 with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb. 757 15:6 Or for a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil, 15:7 and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:8 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord, 15:9 then a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil must be presented 758 with the young bull, 15:10 and you must present as the drink offering half a hin of wine with the fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:11 This is what is to be done 759 for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats. 15:12 You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.
15:13 “‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:14 If a resident foreigner is living 760 with you – or whoever is among you 761 in future generations 762 – and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it. 763 15:15 One statute must apply 764 to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent 765 statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike 766 before the Lord. 15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”
15:17 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you 767 15:19 and you eat 768 some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering 769 to the Lord. 15:20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour 770 as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up. 15:21 You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.
15:22 771 “‘If you 772 sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses – 15:23 all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority 773 of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations – 15:24 then if anything is done unintentionally 774 without the knowledge of 775 the community, the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering – for a pleasing aroma to the Lord – along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering, and one male goat for a purification offering. 15:25 And the priest is to make atonement 776 for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, 777 because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their unintentional offense. 15:26 And the whole community 778 of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.
15:27 “‘If any person 779 sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering. 15:28 And the priest must make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally – when he sins unintentionally before the Lord – to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 15:29 You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.
15:30 “‘But the person 780 who acts defiantly, 781 whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults 782 the Lord. 783 That person 784 must be cut off 785 from among his people. 15:31 Because he has despised 786 the word of the Lord and has broken 787 his commandment, that person 788 must be completely cut off. 789 His iniquity will be on him.’” 790
15:32 When the Israelites were 791 in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 792 15:33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community. 15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him. 15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone 793 him with stones outside the camp.” 15:36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, 794 just as the Lord commanded Moses.
15:37 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make 795 tassels 796 for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread 797 on the tassel of the corners. 15:39 You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow 798 after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness. 799 15:40 Thus 800 you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God. 15:41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”
16:1 801 Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, 802 took men 803 16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders 804 of the community, chosen from the assembly, 805 famous men. 806 16:3 And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, 807 seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?”
16:4 When Moses heard it he fell down with his face to the ground. 808 16:5 Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person 809 to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him. 16:6 Do this, Korah, you and all your company: 810 Take censers, 16:7 put fire in them, and set incense on them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!” 16:8 Moses said to Korah, “Listen now, you sons of Levi! 16:9 Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the community to minister to them? 16:10 He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek 811 the priesthood also? 16:11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?” 812 16:12 Then Moses summoned 813 Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up. 814 16:13 Is it a small thing 815 that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, 816 to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince 817 over us? 16:14 Moreover, 818 you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind 819 these men? We will not come up.”
16:15 Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect 820 for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”
16:16 Then Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company present yourselves before the Lord – you and they, and Aaron – tomorrow. 16:17 And each of you 821 take his censer, put 822 incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the Lord: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron – each of you with his censer.” 16:18 So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. 16:19 When 823 Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.
16:20 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 16:21 “Separate yourselves 824 from among this community, 825 that I may consume them in an instant.” 16:22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground 826 and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, 827 will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?” 828
16:23 So the Lord spoke to Moses: 16:24 “Tell the community: ‘Get away 829 from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’” 16:25 Then Moses got up 830 and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him. 16:26 And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked 831 men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because 832 of all their sins.” 833 16:27 So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves 834 in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers. 16:28 Then Moses said, “This is how 835 you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. 836 16:29 If these men die a natural death, 837 or if they share the fate 838 of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. 16:30 But if the Lord does something entirely new, 839 and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up 840 along with all that they have, and they 841 go down alive to the grave, 842 then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!”
16:31 When he had finished 843 speaking 844 all these words, the ground that was under them split open, 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods. 16:33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community. 16:34 All the Israelites 845 who were around them fled at their cry, 846 for they said, “What if 847 the earth swallows us too?” 16:35 Then a fire 848 went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.
16:36 (17:1) 849 The Lord spoke to Moses: 16:37 “Tell 850 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up 851 the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire 852 at a distance. 16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, 853 they must be made 854 into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.” 16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar. 16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of 855 Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority 856 of Moses. 16:41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!” 857 16:42 When the community assembled 858 against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and 859 the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. 16:43 Then Moses and Aaron stood before the tent of meeting.
16:44 The Lord spoke to Moses: 16:45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 860 16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord – the plague has begun!” 16:47 So Aaron did 861 as Moses commanded 862 and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people. 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped. 16:49 Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah. 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.
17:1 863 The Lord spoke to Moses: 17:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, 864 one from every tribal leader, 865 twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff. 17:3 You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe. 866 17:4 You must place them 867 in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant 868 where I meet with you. 17:5 And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”
17:6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, 869 according to their tribes 870 – twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs. 17:7 Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony. 871
17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and 872 the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! 873 17:9 So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites. They looked at them, 874 and each man took his staff.
17:10 The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end 875 before me, that they will not die.” 876 17:11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him – this is what he did.
17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! 877 We perish, we all perish! 17:13 (17:28) 878 Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?” 879
18:1 880 The Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your tribe 881 with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, 882 and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
18:2 “Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join 883 with you and minister to you while 884 you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. 18:3 They must be responsible to care for you and to care for the entire tabernacle. However, they must not come near the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die. 18:4 They must join 885 with you, and they will be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, but no unauthorized person 886 may approach you. 18:5 You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be 887 no more wrath on the Israelites. 18:6 I myself have chosen 888 your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the Lord, to perform the duties 889 of the tent of meeting. 18:7 But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service; but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”
18:8 The Lord spoke to Aaron, “See, I have given you the responsibility for my raised offerings; I have given all the holy things of the Israelites to you as your priestly portion 890 and to your sons as a perpetual ordinance. 18:9 Of all the most holy offerings reserved 891 from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons. 18:10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
18:11 “And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.
18:12 “All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the Lord, I have given to you. 892 18:13 And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.
18:14 “Everything devoted 893 in Israel will be yours. 18:15 The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, 894 and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem. 18:16 And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs). 18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash 895 their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 18:18 And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours. 18:19 All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt 896 forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you.”
18:20 The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property 897 among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites. 18:21 See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform – the service of the tent of meeting. 18:22 No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin 898 and die. 18:23 But the Levites must perform the service 899 of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. 900 It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites 901 have no inheritance. 902 18:24 But I have given 903 to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered 904 to the Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
18:25 The Lord spoke to Moses: 18:26 “You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up 905 from it as a raised offering to the Lord a tenth of the tithe. 18:27 And your raised offering will be credited 906 to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine 907 from the winepress. 18:28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest. 18:29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due 908 the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’ 909
18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, 910 ‘When you offer up 911 the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress. 18:31 And you may 912 eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting. 18:32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’” 913
19:1 914 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 19:2 “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded: ‘Instruct 915 the Israelites to bring 916 you a red 917 heifer 918 without blemish, which has no defect 919 and has never carried a yoke. 19:3 You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him. 920 19:4 Eleazar the priest is to take 921 some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times 922 directly in front of the tent of meeting. 19:5 Then the heifer must be burned 923 in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned. 924 19:6 And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, 925 and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. 926 19:7 Then the priest must wash 927 his clothes and bathe himself 928 in water, and afterward he may come 929 into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening. 19:8 The one who burns it 930 must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
19:9 “‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept 931 for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification 932 – it is a purification for sin. 933 19:10 The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.
19:11 “‘Whoever touches 934 the corpse 935 of any person 936 will be ceremonially unclean 937 seven days. 19:12 He must purify himself 938 with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean. 19:13 Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. And that person must be cut off from Israel, 939 because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.
19:14 “‘This is the law: When a man dies 940 in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days. 19:15 And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean. 19:16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, 941 or the body of someone who died of natural causes, 942 or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. 943
19:17 “‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take 944 some of the ashes of the heifer 945 burnt for purification from sin and pour 946 fresh running 947 water over them in a vessel. 19:18 Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave. 19:19 And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, 948 and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening. 19:20 But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.
19:21 “‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles 949 the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening. 950 19:22 And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”
19:1 951 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
1:1 952 Now the Lord 953 spoke 954 to Moses in the tent of meeting 955 in the wilderness 956 of Sinai 957 on the first day of the second month of the second year after 958 the Israelites 959 departed from the land of Egypt. 960 He said: 961 1:2 “Take a census 962 of the entire 963 Israelite community 964 by their clans and families, 965 counting the name of every individual male. 966 1:3 You and Aaron are to number 967 all in Israel who can serve in the army, 968 those who are 969 twenty years old or older, 970 by their divisions. 971 1:4 And to help you 972 there is to be a man from each 973 tribe, each man 974 the head 975 of his family. 976 1:5 Now these are the names of the men who are to help 977 you:
from 978 Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
1:6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; 979
1:7 from Judah, Nahshon 980 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; 981
1:15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
1:16 These were the ones chosen 982 from the community, leaders 983 of their ancestral tribes. 984 They were the heads of the thousands 985 of Israel.
1:17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name, 1:18 and they assembled 986 the entire community together on the first day of the second month. 987 Then the people recorded their ancestry 988 by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed 989 by name individually, 1:19 just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20 And they were as follows:
The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. 1:21 Those of them who were numbered 990 from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500. 991
1:22 From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them 992 twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. 1:23 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.
1:24 993 From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:25 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.
1:26 From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:27 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.
1:28 From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:29 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.
1:30 From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:31 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.
1:32 From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:33 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500. 1:34 From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:35 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
1:36 From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:37 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
1:38 From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:39 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
1:40 From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:41 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
1:42 From 994 the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:43 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.
1:44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered 995 along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom 996 was from his own family. 1:45 All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered 997 according to their families. 1:46 And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
1:47 But 998 the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, 999 were not numbered 1000 among them. 1:48 The Lord had said to Moses, 1001 1:49 “Only the tribe of Levi 1002 you must not number 1003 or count 1004 with 1005 the other Israelites. 1:50 But appoint 1006 the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, 1007 over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry 1008 the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they 1009 must attend to it and camp around it. 1010 1:51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, 1011 the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, 1012 the Levites must set it up. 1013 Any unauthorized person 1014 who approaches it must be killed.
1:52 “The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard. 1:53 But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord’s anger 1015 will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care 1016 of the tabernacle of the testimony.”
1:54 The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses 1017 – that is what they did.
2:1 1018 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron: 2:2 “Every one 1019 of the Israelites must camp 1020 under his standard with the emblems of his family; 1021 they must camp at some distance 1022 around the tent of meeting. 1023
2:3 “Now those who will be camping 1024 on the east, toward the sunrise, 1025 are the divisions 1026 of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is 1027 Nahshon son of Amminadab. 2:4 Those numbered in his division 1028 are 74,600. 2:5 Those who will be camping next to them 1029 are the tribe of Issachar. The leader of the people of Issachar is Nethanel son of Zuar. 2:6 Those numbered in his division are 54,400. 2:7 Next will be 1030 the tribe of Zebulun. The leader of the people of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon. 2:8 Those numbered in his division are 57,400. 2:9 All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel 1031 at the front.
2:10 “On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. 1032 The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur. 2:11 Those numbered in his division are 46,500. 2:12 Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the people of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. 2:13 Those numbered in his division are 59,300. 2:14 Next will be 1033 the tribe of Gad. The leader of the people of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel. 1034 2:15 Those numbered in his division are 45,650. 2:16 All those numbered of the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, are 151,450. They will travel second.
2:17 “Then the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place 1035 under his standard.
2:18 “On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud. 2:19 Those numbered in his division are 40,500. 2:20 Next to them will be the tribe of Manasseh. The leader of the people of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. 2:21 Those numbered in his division are 32,200. 2:22 Next will be 1036 the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the people of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni. 2:23 Those numbered in his division are 35,400. 2:24 All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.
2:25 “On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan, under their standards. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 2:26 Those numbered in his division are 62,700. 2:27 Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Asher. The leader of the people of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran. 2:28 Those numbered in his division are 41,500. 2:29 Next will be 1037 the tribe of Naphtali. The leader of the people of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan. 2:30 Those numbered in his division are 53,400. 2:31 All those numbered of the camp of Dan are 157,600. They will travel last, under their standards.”
2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. 1038 All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550. 2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.
2:34 So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way 1039 they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.
3:1 1040 Now these are the records 1041 of Aaron and Moses when 1042 the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 3:2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed 1043 priests, whom he consecrated 1044 to minister as priests. 1045
3:4 Nadab and Abihu died 1046 before the Lord 1047 when they offered 1048 strange 1049 fire 1050 before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. 1051 So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests 1052 in the presence of 1053 Aaron their father.
3:5 The Lord spoke to Moses: 3:6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, 1054 and present 1055 them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. 1056 3:7 They are responsible for his needs 1057 and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending 1058 to the service of the tabernacle. 3:8 And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve 1059 in the tabernacle. 3:9 You are to assign 1060 the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively 1061 to him out of all 1062 the Israelites. 3:10 So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; 1063 but the unauthorized person 1064 who comes near must be put to death.”
3:11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 3:12 “Look, 1065 I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of 1066 every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me, 3:13 because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed 1067 all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord.” 1068
3:14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai: 3:15 “Number the Levites by their clans 1069 and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” 1070 3:16 So Moses numbered them according to the word 1071 of the Lord, just as he had been commanded. 1072
3:17 These were the sons 1073 of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
3:18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 3:19 The sons of Kohath by their families were: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3:20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.
3:21 From Gershon came the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites. 3:22 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500. 3:23 The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west. 3:24 Now the leader 1074 of the clan 1075 of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
3:25 And 1076 the responsibilities of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 3:26 the hangings of the courtyard, 1077 the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard that surrounded the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, plus all the service connected with these things. 1078
3:27 From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites. 1079 3:28 Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care 1080 of the sanctuary. 3:29 The families of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle. 3:30 Now the leader of the clan of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
3:31 Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, 1081 the curtain, and all their service. 1082 3:32 Now the head of all the Levitical leaders 1083 was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible 1084 for the sanctuary.
3:33 From Merari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were 1085 the families of Merari. 3:34 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200. 3:35 Now the leader of the clan of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
3:36 The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, 1086 3:37 and the pillars of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, their pegs, and their ropes.
3:38 But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, 1087 and his sons. They were responsible for the needs 1088 of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death. 3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word 1089 of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000. 1090
3:40 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take 1091 the number of their names. 3:41 And take 1092 the Levites for me – I am the Lord – instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.” 3:42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him. 3:43 And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.
3:44 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 3:45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the Lord. 3:46 And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, 3:47 collect 1093 five shekels for each 1094 one individually; you are to collect 1095 this amount 1096 in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs). 1097 3:48 And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”
3:49 So Moses took the redemption money 1098 from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites. 3:50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. 3:51 Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
4:1 1099 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 4:2 “Take a census 1100 of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans, 4:3 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company 1101 to do the work in the tent of meeting. 4:4 This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things. 1102 4:5 When it is time for the camp to journey, 1103 Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it. 4:6 Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather 1104 and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.
4:7 “On the table of the presence 1105 they must spread a blue 1106 cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually. 4:8 They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
4:9 “They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it. 4:10 Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam. 1107
4:11 “They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles. 4:12 Then they must take all the utensils of the service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a carrying beam. 4:13 Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar 1108 and spread a purple cloth over it. 4:14 Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there – the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar – and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles. 1109
4:15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished 1110 covering 1111 the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then 1112 the Kohathites will come to carry them; 1113 but they must not touch 1114 any 1115 holy thing, or they will die. 1116 These are the responsibilities 1117 of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.
4:16 “The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has 1118 the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with 1119 all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.” 1120
4:17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 4:18 “Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off 1121 from among the Levites; 4:19 but in order that they will live 1122 and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint 1123 each man 1124 to his service and his responsibility. 4:20 But the Kohathites 1125 are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”
4:21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 4:22 “Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families. 4:23 You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting. 4:24 This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve 1126 and carry it. 4:25 They must carry the curtains for the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is over it, the curtains for the entrance of the tent of meeting, 4:26 the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, 1127 which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve. 1128
4:27 “All the service of the Gershonites, whether 1129 carrying loads 1130 or for any of their work, will be at the direction of 1131 Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks 1132 as their responsibility. 4:28 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites concerning the tent of meeting. Their responsibilities will be under the authority 1133 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 1134
4:29 “As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans. 4:30 You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting. 4:31 This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames 1135 of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, 4:32 and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry. 1136 4:33 This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans, 4:35 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting; 4:36 and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750. 4:37 These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
4:38 Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans, 4:39 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting – 4:40 those of them numbered by their families, by their clans, were 2,630. 4:41 These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.
4:42 Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans, 4:43 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting – 4:44 those of them numbered by their families were 3,200. 4:45 These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans, 4:47 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying 1137 relating to the tent of meeting – 4:48 those of them numbered were 8,580. 4:49 According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, 1138 by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. 1139 Thus were they numbered by him, 1140 as the Lord had commanded Moses.
5:1 1141 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 5:2 “Command the Israelites to expel 1142 from the camp every leper, 1143 everyone who has a discharge, 1144 and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse. 1145 5:3 You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that 1146 they will not defile their camps, among which I live.” 5:4 So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken 1147 to Moses, so the Israelites did.
5:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 5:6 “Tell the Israelites, ‘When 1148 a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, 1149 thereby breaking faith 1150 with the Lord, and that person is found guilty, 1151 5:7 then he must confess 1152 his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation, 1153 add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged. 1154 5:8 But if the individual has no close relative 1155 to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the Lord 1156 for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him. 5:9 Every offering 1157 of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his. 5:10 Every man’s holy things 1158 will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”
5:11 1159 The Lord spoke to Moses: 5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him, 5:13 and a man has sexual relations 1160 with her 1161 without her husband knowing it, 1162 and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since 1163 there was no witness against her, nor was she caught – 5:14 and if jealous feelings 1164 come over him and he becomes suspicious 1165 of his wife, when she is defiled; 1166 or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled – 5:15 then 1167 the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion, 1168 a grain offering for remembering, 1169 for bringing 1170 iniquity to remembrance.
5:16 “‘Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand 1171 before the Lord. 5:17 The priest will then take holy water 1172 in a pottery jar, and take some 1173 of the dust 1174 that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water. 5:18 Then the priest will have the woman stand before the Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. 1175 5:19 Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, “If no other 1176 man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. 1177 5:20 But if you 1178 have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….” 1179 5:21 Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse 1180 and will say 1181 to the her, “The Lord make you an attested curse 1182 among your people, 1183 if the Lord makes 1184 your thigh fall away 1185 and your abdomen swell; 1186 5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go 1187 into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” 1188 Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.” 1189
5:23 “‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water. 1190 5:24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness. 5:25 The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. 5:26 Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. 5:27 When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness – her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 5:28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects 1191 and will be able to bear children.
5:29 “‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, 1192 when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 5:30 or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her. 5:31 Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences 1193 of her iniquity.’” 1194
6:1 1195 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 6:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When either a man or a woman 1196 takes a special vow, 1197 to take a vow 1198 as a Nazirite, 1199 to separate 1200 himself to the Lord, 6:3 he must separate 1201 himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar 1202 made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice 1203 of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. 1204 6:4 All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed 1205 to skin. 1206
6:5 “‘All the days of the vow 1207 of his separation no razor may be used on his head 1208 until the time 1209 is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, 1210 and he must let 1211 the locks of hair on his head grow long.
6:6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact 1212 a dead body. 1213 6:7 He must not defile himself even 1214 for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, 1215 because the separation 1216 for 1217 his God is on his head. 6:8 All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.
6:9 “‘If anyone dies very suddenly 1218 beside him and he defiles 1219 his consecrated head, 1220 then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it. 6:10 On the eighth day he is to bring 1221 two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting. 6:11 Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering 1222 and the other 1223 as a burnt offering, 1224 and make atonement 1225 for him, because of his transgression 1226 in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate 1227 his head on that day. 6:12 He must rededicate 1228 to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, 1229 but the former days will not be counted 1230 because his separation 1231 was defiled.
6:13 “‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he must be brought 1232 to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 6:14 and he must present his offering 1233 to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish for a purification offering, one ram without blemish for a peace offering, 1234 6:15 and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their 1235 grain offering and their drink offerings. 1236
6:16 “‘Then the priest must present all these 1237 before the Lord and offer 1238 his purification offering and his burnt offering. 6:17 Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering 1239 to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
6:18 “‘Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head 1240 at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire 1241 where the peace offering is burning. 1242 6:19 And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head; 1243 6:20 then the priest must wave them as a wave offering 1244 before the Lord; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. 1245 After this the Nazirite may drink 1246 wine.’
6:21 “This is the law 1247 of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord his offering according to his separation, as well as whatever else he can provide. 1248 Thus he must fulfill 1249 his vow that he makes, according to the law of his separation.”
6:22 1250 The Lord spoke to Moses: 6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the way 1251 you are to bless 1252 the Israelites. Say 1253 to them:
6:24 “The Lord bless you 1254 and protect 1255 you;
6:25 The Lord make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious to you; 1256
6:26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you 1257
and give you peace.”’
6:27 So they will put my name 1258 on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
7:1 1259 When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle, 1260 he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. 7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, 1261 made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising 1262 the numbering. 7:3 They brought 1263 their offering before the Lord, six covered carts 1264 and twelve oxen – one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.
7:4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 7:5 “Receive these gifts 1265 from them, that they may be 1266 used in doing the work 1267 of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man 1268 as his service requires.” 1269
7:6 So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. 7:7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required; 7:8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority 1270 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 7:9 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried 1271 on their shoulders, was their responsibility. 1272
7:10 The leaders offered 1273 gifts 1274 for 1275 the dedication 1276 of the altar when it was anointed. 1277 And the leaders presented 1278 their offering before the altar. 7:11 For the Lord said to Moses, “They must present their offering, one leader for each day, 1279 for the dedication of the altar.”
7:12 The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah. 1280 7:13 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels, 1281 and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:14 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:15 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:16 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.
7:18 On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering. 7:19 He offered for his offering one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:20 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:21 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:22 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.
7:24 On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites, presented an offering. 1282 7:25 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:26 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:27 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:28 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the Reubenites, presented an offering. 7:31 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:32 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:33 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:34 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the Simeonites, presented an offering. 7:37 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:38 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels; 7:39 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:40 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Sheloumiel son of Zurishaddai.
7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the Gadites, presented an offering. 7:43 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:44 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels; 7:45 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:46 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the Ephraimites, presented an offering. 7:49 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:50 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:51 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:52 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.
7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the Manassehites, presented an offering. 7:55 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:56 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:57 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:58 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of the Benjaminites, presented an offering. 7:61 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:62 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:63 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:64 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Amishaddai, leader of the Danites, presented an offering. 7:67 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:68 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:69 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:70 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Amishaddai.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of the Asherites, presented an offering. 7:73 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:74 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense; 7:75 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:76 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the Naphtalites, presented an offering. 7:79 His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering; 7:80 one gold pan weighing 10 shekels; 7:81 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering; 7:82 one male goat for a purification offering; 7:83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.
7:84 This was the dedication for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver sprinkling bowls, and twelve gold pans. 7:85 Each silver platter weighed 130 shekels, and each silver sprinkling bowl weighed 70 shekels. All the silver of the vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. 7:86 The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed 10 shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel; all the gold of the pans weighed 120 shekels. 7:87 All the animals for the burnt offering were 12 young bulls, 12 rams, 12 male lambs in their first year, with their grain offering, and 12 male goats for a purification offering. 7:88 All the animals for the sacrifice for the peace offering were 24 young bulls, 60 rams, 60 male goats, and 60 lambs in their first year. These were the dedication offerings for the altar after it was anointed. 1283
7:89 Now when Moses went into 1284 the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, 1285 he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid 1286 that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. 1287 Thus he spoke to him.
8:1 1288 The Lord spoke to Moses: 8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up 1289 the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light 1290 in front of the lampstand.’”
8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses. 8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: 1291 It was beaten work in gold; 1292 from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
8:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 8:6 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify 1293 them. 8:7 And do this 1294 to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification 1295 on them; then have them shave 1296 all their body 1297 and wash 1298 their clothes, and so purify themselves. 1299 8:8 Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take a second young bull for a purification offering. 1300 8:9 You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites. 8:10 Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites; 1301 8:11 and Aaron is to offer 1302 the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work 1303 of the Lord. 8:12 When 1304 the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer 1305 the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, 1306 to make atonement for the Levites. 8:13 You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron 1307 and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. 8:14 And so 1308 you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
8:15 “After this, the Levites will go in 1309 to do the work 1310 of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them 1311 and offer them like a wave offering. 1312 8:16 For they are entirely given 1313 to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of 1314 all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites. 8:17 For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed 1315 all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself. 8:18 So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites. 8:19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.” 1316
8:20 So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them. 8:21 The Levites purified themselves 1317 and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them. 8:22 After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.
8:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 8:24 “This is what pertains to the Levites: 1318 At the age of twenty-five years 1319 and upward one may begin to join the company 1320 in the work of the tent of meeting, 8:25 and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work. 8:26 They may assist 1321 their colleagues 1322 in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish 1323 the Levites regarding their duties.”
9:1 1324 The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out 1325 of the land of Egypt:
9:2 “The Israelites are to observe 1326 the Passover 1327 at its appointed time. 1328 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, 1329 you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep 1330 it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.” 1331 9:4 So Moses instructed 1332 the Israelites to observe 1333 the Passover. 9:5 And they observed the Passover 1334 on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.
9:6 It happened that some men 1335 who were ceremonially defiled 1336 by the dead body of a man 1337 could not keep 1338 the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” 9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain 1339 here and I will hear 1340 what the Lord will command concerning you.”
9:9 The Lord spoke to Moses: 9:10 “Tell the Israelites, ‘If any 1341 of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may 1342 observe the Passover to the Lord. 9:11 They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month 1343 at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs. 9:12 They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.
9:13 But 1344 the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails 1345 to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. 1346 Because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin. 1347 9:14 If a resident foreigner lives 1348 among you and wants to keep 1349 the Passover to the Lord, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have 1350 the same 1351 statute for the resident foreigner 1352 and for the one who was born in the land.’”
9:15 1353 On 1354 the day that the tabernacle was set up, 1355 the cloud 1356 covered the tabernacle – the tent of the testimony 1357 – and from evening until morning there was 1358 a fiery appearance 1359 over the tabernacle. 9:16 This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, 1360 and there was a fiery appearance by night. 9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up 1361 from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place 1362 the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp. 9:18 At the commandment 1363 of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp; as long as 1364 the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp. 9:19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions 1365 of the Lord and did not journey.
9:20 When 1366 the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, 1367 they remained camped according to the Lord’s commandment, 1368 and according to the Lord’s commandment they would journey. 9:21 And when 1369 the cloud remained only 1370 from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up 1371 the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled. 9:22 Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, 1372 that the cloud prolonged its stay 1373 over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; 1374 but when it was taken up, they traveled on. 9:23 At the commandment of the Lord they camped, and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the Lord according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority 1375 of Moses.
10:1 1376 The Lord spoke to Moses: 10:2 “Make 1377 two trumpets of silver; you are to make 1378 them from a single hammered piece. 1379 You will use them 1380 for assembling the community and for directing the traveling of the camps. 10:3 When 1381 they blow 1382 them both, all the community must come 1383 to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
10:4 “But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you. 1384 10:5 When you blow an alarm, 1385 then the camps that are located 1386 on the east side must begin to travel. 1387 10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. 1388 An alarm must be sounded 1389 for their journeys. 10:7 But when you assemble the community, 1390 you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm. 1391 10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations. 10:9 If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes 1392 you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved 1393 from your enemies.
10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as 1394 on your appointed festivals or 1395 at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may 1396 become 1397 a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
10:11 1398 On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony. 1399 10:12 So the Israelites set out 1400 on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
10:13 This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment 1401 of the Lord, by the authority 1402 of Moses.
10:14 The standard 1403 of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.
10:15 Over the company of the tribe of Issacharites was Nathanel son of Zuar, 10:16 and over the company of the tribe of the Zebulunites was Elion son of Helon. 10:17 Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.
10:18 The standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their companies; over his company was Elizur son of Shedeur. 10:19 Over the company of the tribe of the Simeonites was Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, 10:20 and over the company of the tribe of the Gadites was Eliasaph son of Deuel. 10:21 And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; 1404 the tabernacle was to be set up 1405 before they arrived. 1406 10:22 And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud. 10:23 Over the company of the tribe of the Manassehites was Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, 10:24 and over the company of the tribe of Benjaminites was Abidan son of Gideoni.
10:25 The standard of the camp of the Danites set out, which was the rear guard 1407 of all the camps by their companies; over his company was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 10:26 Over the company of the tribe of the Asherites was Pagiel son of Ocran, 10:27 and over the company of the tribe of the Naphtalites was Ahira son of Enan. 10:28 These were the traveling arrangements 1408 of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled. 1409
10:29 1410 Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, 1411 “We are journeying to the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, 1412 for the Lord has promised good things 1413 for Israel.” 10:30 But Hobab 1414 said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.” 10:31 Moses 1415 said, “Do not leave us, 1416 because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide. 1417 10:32 And if you come with us, it is certain 1418 that whatever good things the Lord will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”
10:33 So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; 1419 and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them. 10:34 1420 And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they traveled 1421 from the camp. 10:35 And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!” 10:36 And when it came to rest he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel!” 1422
11:1 1423 When the people complained, 1424 it displeased 1425 the Lord. When the Lord heard 1426 it, his anger burned, 1427 and so 1428 the fire of the Lord 1429 burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp. 11:2 When the people cried to Moses, he 1430 prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out. 1431 11:3 So he called the name of that place Taberah 1432 because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
11:4 1433 Now the mixed multitude 1434 who were among them craved more desirable foods, 1435 and so the Israelites wept again 1436 and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 1437 11:5 We remember 1438 the fish we used to eat 1439 freely 1440 in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 11:6 But now we 1441 are dried up, 1442 and there is nothing at all before us 1443 except this manna!” 11:7 (Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. 11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. 1444 11:9 And when the dew came down 1445 on the camp in the night, the manna fell 1446 with it.)
11:10 1447 Moses heard the people weeping 1448 throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased. 1449 11:11 And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted 1450 your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that 1451 you lay the burden of this entire people on me? 11:12 Did I conceive this entire people? 1452 Did I give birth to 1453 them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father 1454 bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers? 11:13 From where shall I get 1455 meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’ 1456 11:14 I am not able to bear this entire people alone, 1457 because it 1458 is too heavy for me! 11:15 But if you are going to deal 1459 with me like this, then kill me immediately. 1460 If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.” 1461
11:16 1462 The Lord said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials 1463 over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you. 11:17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it 1464 all by yourself.
11:18 “And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves 1465 for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing 1466 of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, 1467 for life 1468 was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat. 11:19 You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20 but a whole month, 1469 until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, 1470 because you have despised 1471 the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why 1472 did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
11:21 Moses said, “The people around me 1473 are 600,000 on foot; 1474 but you say, ‘I will give them meat, 1475 that they may eat 1476 for a whole month.’ 11:22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” 11:23 And the Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s hand shortened? 1477 Now you will see whether my word to you will come true 1478 or not!”
11:24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle. 11:25 And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses 1479 and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, 1480 they prophesied, 1481 but did not do so again. 1482
11:26 But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration, 1483 but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp. 11:27 And a 1484 young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” 11:28 Joshua son of Nun, the servant 1485 of Moses, one of his choice young men, 1486 said, 1487 “My lord Moses, stop them!” 1488 11:29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? 1489 I wish that 1490 all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!” 11:30 Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.
11:31 Now a wind 1491 went out 1492 from the Lord and brought quail 1493 from the sea, and let them fall 1494 near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet 1495 high on the surface of the ground. 11:32 And the people stayed up 1496 all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, 1497 and they spread them out 1498 for themselves all around the camp. 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, 1499 the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
11:34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, 1500 because there they buried the people that craved different food. 1501 11:35 The people traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.
12:1 1502 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against 1503 Moses because of the Cushite 1504 woman he had married 1505 (for he had married an Ethiopian woman). 12:2 They 1506 said, “Has the Lord only 1507 spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” 1508 And the Lord heard it. 1509
12:3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, 1510 more so than any man on the face of the earth.)
12:4 The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: “The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went. 12:5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.
12:6 The Lord 1511 said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, 1512 I the Lord 1513 will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream. 12:7 My servant 1514 Moses is not like this; he is faithful 1515 in all my house. 12:8 With him I will speak face to face, 1516 openly, 1517 and not in riddles; and he will see the form 1518 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 departed. 12:10 When 1519 the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became 1520 leprous 1521 as snow. Then Aaron looked at 1522 Miriam, and she was leprous!
12:11 So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, 1523 please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned! 12:12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its 1524 mother’s womb!”
12:13 Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.” 1525 12:14 The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had only spit 1526 in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”
12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in. 1527 12:16 After that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
13:1 1528 The Lord spoke 1529 to Moses: 13:2 “Send out men to investigate 1530 the land of Canaan, which I am giving 1531 to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, 1532 each one a leader among them.” 13:3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command 1533 of the Lord. All of them were leaders 1534 of the Israelites.
13:4 Now these were 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; 13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; 13:9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; 13:10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; 13:11 from the tribe 1535 of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; 13:12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; 13:13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; 13:14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi; 13:15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua. 1536
13:17 When Moses sent 1537 them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, 1538 and then go up into the hill country 13:18 and see 1539 what the land is like, 1540 and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many, 13:19 and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities, 13:20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, 1541 and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year 1542 for the first ripe grapes. 1543
13:21 So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, 1544 at the entrance of Hamath. 1545 13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they 1546 came 1547 to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, 1548 descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan 1549 in Egypt.) 13:23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff 1550 between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs. 13:24 That place was called 1551 the Eshcol Valley, 1552 because of the cluster 1553 of grapes that the Israelites cut from there. 13:25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
13:26 They came back 1554 to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. 1555 They reported 1556 to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land. 13:27 They told Moses, 1557 “We went to the land where you sent us. 1558 It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, 1559 and this is its fruit. 13:28 But 1560 the inhabitants 1561 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 land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks 1562 of the Jordan.” 1563
13:30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up 1564 and occupy it, 1565 for we are well able to conquer it.” 1566 13:31 But the men 1567 who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!” 13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging 1568 report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through 1569 to investigate is a land that devours 1570 its inhabitants. 1571 All the people we saw there 1572 are of great stature. 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim 1573 there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves 1574 and to them.” 1575
14:1 1576 Then all the community raised a loud cry, 1577 and the people wept 1578 that night. 14:2 And all the Israelites murmured 1579 against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died 1580 in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished 1581 in this wilderness! 14:3 Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 14:4 So they said to one another, 1582 “Let’s appoint 1583 a leader 1584 and return 1585 to Egypt.”
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground 1586 before the whole assembled community 1587 of the Israelites. 14:6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments. 14:7 They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly 1588 good land. 14:8 If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us – a land that is flowing with milk and honey. 1589 14:9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. 1590 Their protection 1591 has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!”
14:10 However, the whole community threatened to stone them. 1592 But 1593 the glory 1594 of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent 1595 of meeting.
14:11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise 1596 me, and how long will they not believe 1597 in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them? 14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, 1598 and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
14:13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear 1599 it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them – 14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants 1600 of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, 1601 that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night. 14:15 If you kill 1602 this entire people at once, 1603 then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 14:16 ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’ 14:17 So now, let the power of my Lord 1604 be great, just as you have said, 14:18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, 1605 forgiving iniquity and transgression, 1606 but by no means clearing 1607 the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’ 1608 14:19 Please forgive 1609 the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, 1610 just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”
14:20 Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked. 1611 14:21 But truly, as I live, 1612 all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord. 14:22 For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted 1613 me now these ten times, 1614 and have not obeyed me, 1615 14:23 they will by no means 1616 see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it. 14:24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants 1617 will possess it. 14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) 1618 Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
14:26 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 14:27 “How long must I bear 1619 with this evil congregation 1620 that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me. 14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, 1621 says 1622 the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 1623 14:29 Your dead bodies 1624 will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 14:30 You will by no means enter into the land where 1625 I swore 1626 to settle 1627 you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 14:31 But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, 1628 and they will enjoy 1629 the land that you have despised. 14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, 14:33 and your children will wander 1630 in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, 1631 until your dead bodies lie finished 1632 in the wilderness. 14:34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for 1633 your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. 1634 14:35 I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
14:36 The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing 1635 an evil report about the land, 14:37 those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord. 14:38 But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among 1636 the men who went to investigate the land, lived. 14:39 When Moses told 1637 these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned 1638 greatly.
14:40 And early 1639 in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, 1640 saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, 1641 for we have sinned.” 1642 14:41 But Moses said, “Why 1643 are you now transgressing the commandment 1644 of the Lord? It will not succeed! 14:42 Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be 1645 defeated before your enemies. 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”
14:44 But they dared 1646 to go up to the crest of the hill, although 1647 neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp. 14:45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped 1648 down and attacked them 1649 as far as Hormah. 1650
15:1 1651 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, 1652 which I am giving you, 1653 15:3 and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord, 15:4 then the one who presents his offering to the Lord must bring 1654 a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of olive oil. 1655 15:5 You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering 1656 with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb. 1657 15:6 Or for a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil, 15:7 and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:8 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord, 15:9 then a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil must be presented 1658 with the young bull, 15:10 and you must present as the drink offering half a hin of wine with the fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:11 This is what is to be done 1659 for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats. 15:12 You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.
15:13 “‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 15:14 If a resident foreigner is living 1660 with you – or whoever is among you 1661 in future generations 1662 – and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it. 1663 15:15 One statute must apply 1664 to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent 1665 statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike 1666 before the Lord. 15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”
15:17 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you 1667 15:19 and you eat 1668 some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering 1669 to the Lord. 15:20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour 1670 as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up. 15:21 You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.
15:22 1671 “‘If you 1672 sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses – 15:23 all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority 1673 of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations – 15:24 then if anything is done unintentionally 1674 without the knowledge of 1675 the community, the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering – for a pleasing aroma to the Lord – along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering, and one male goat for a purification offering. 15:25 And the priest is to make atonement 1676 for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, 1677 because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their unintentional offense. 15:26 And the whole community 1678 of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.
15:27 “‘If any person 1679 sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering. 15:28 And the priest must make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally – when he sins unintentionally before the Lord – to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 15:29 You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.
15:30 “‘But the person 1680 who acts defiantly, 1681 whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults 1682 the Lord. 1683 That person 1684 must be cut off 1685 from among his people. 15:31 Because he has despised 1686 the word of the Lord and has broken 1687 his commandment, that person 1688 must be completely cut off. 1689 His iniquity will be on him.’” 1690
15:32 When the Israelites were 1691 in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 1692 15:33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community. 15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him. 15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone 1693 him with stones outside the camp.” 15:36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, 1694 just as the Lord commanded Moses.
15:37 The Lord spoke to Moses: 15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make 1695 tassels 1696 for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread 1697 on the tassel of the corners. 15:39 You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow 1698 after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness. 1699 15:40 Thus 1700 you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God. 15:41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”
16:1 1701 Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, 1702 took men 1703 16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders 1704 of the community, chosen from the assembly, 1705 famous men. 1706 16:3 And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, 1707 seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?”
16:4 When Moses heard it he fell down with his face to the ground. 1708 16:5 Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person 1709 to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him. 16:6 Do this, Korah, you and all your company: 1710 Take censers, 16:7 put fire in them, and set incense on them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!” 16:8 Moses said to Korah, “Listen now, you sons of Levi! 16:9 Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the community to minister to them? 16:10 He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek 1711 the priesthood also? 16:11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?” 1712 16:12 Then Moses summoned 1713 Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up. 1714 16:13 Is it a small thing 1715 that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, 1716 to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince 1717 over us? 16:14 Moreover, 1718 you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind 1719 these men? We will not come up.”
16:15 Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect 1720 for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”
16:16 Then Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company present yourselves before the Lord – you and they, and Aaron – tomorrow. 16:17 And each of you 1721 take his censer, put 1722 incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the Lord: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron – each of you with his censer.” 16:18 So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. 16:19 When 1723 Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.
16:20 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 16:21 “Separate yourselves 1724 from among this community, 1725 that I may consume them in an instant.” 16:22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground 1726 and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, 1727 will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?” 1728
16:23 So the Lord spoke to Moses: 16:24 “Tell the community: ‘Get away 1729 from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’” 16:25 Then Moses got up 1730 and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him. 16:26 And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked 1731 men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because 1732 of all their sins.” 1733 16:27 So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves 1734 in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers. 16:28 Then Moses said, “This is how 1735 you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. 1736 16:29 If these men die a natural death, 1737 or if they share the fate 1738 of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. 16:30 But if the Lord does something entirely new, 1739 and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up 1740 along with all that they have, and they 1741 go down alive to the grave, 1742 then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!”
16:31 When he had finished 1743 speaking 1744 all these words, the ground that was under them split open, 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods. 16:33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community. 16:34 All the Israelites 1745 who were around them fled at their cry, 1746 for they said, “What if 1747 the earth swallows us too?” 16:35 Then a fire 1748 went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.
16:36 (17:1) 1749 The Lord spoke to Moses: 16:37 “Tell 1750 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up 1751 the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire 1752 at a distance. 16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, 1753 they must be made 1754 into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.” 16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar. 16:40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of 1755 Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority 1756 of Moses. 16:41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!” 1757 16:42 When the community assembled 1758 against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and 1759 the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. 16:43 Then Moses and Aaron stood before the tent of meeting.
16:44 The Lord spoke to Moses: 16:45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 1760 16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord – the plague has begun!” 16:47 So Aaron did 1761 as Moses commanded 1762 and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people. 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped. 16:49 Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah. 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.
17:1 1763 The Lord spoke to Moses: 17:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, 1764 one from every tribal leader, 1765 twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff. 17:3 You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe. 1766 17:4 You must place them 1767 in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant 1768 where I meet with you. 17:5 And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”
17:6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, 1769 according to their tribes 1770 – twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs. 17:7 Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony. 1771
17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and 1772 the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! 1773 17:9 So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites. They looked at them, 1774 and each man took his staff.
17:10 The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end 1775 before me, that they will not die.” 1776 17:11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him – this is what he did.
17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! 1777 We perish, we all perish! 17:13 (17:28) 1778 Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?” 1779
18:1 1780 The Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your tribe 1781 with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, 1782 and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
18:2 “Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join 1783 with you and minister to you while 1784 you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. 18:3 They must be responsible to care for you and to care for the entire tabernacle. However, they must not come near the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die. 18:4 They must join 1785 with you, and they will be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, but no unauthorized person 1786 may approach you. 18:5 You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be 1787 no more wrath on the Israelites. 18:6 I myself have chosen 1788 your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the Lord, to perform the duties 1789 of the tent of meeting. 18:7 But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service; but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”
18:8 The Lord spoke to Aaron, “See, I have given you the responsibility for my raised offerings; I have given all the holy things of the Israelites to you as your priestly portion 1790 and to your sons as a perpetual ordinance. 18:9 Of all the most holy offerings reserved 1791 from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons. 18:10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
18:11 “And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.
18:12 “All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the Lord, I have given to you. 1792 18:13 And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.
18:14 “Everything devoted 1793 in Israel will be yours. 18:15 The firstborn of every womb which they present to the Lord, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, 1794 and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem. 18:16 And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs). 18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash 1795 their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 18:18 And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours. 18:19 All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt 1796 forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you.”
18:20 The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property 1797 among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites. 18:21 See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform – the service of the tent of meeting. 18:22 No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin 1798 and die. 18:23 But the Levites must perform the service 1799 of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. 1800 It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites 1801 have no inheritance. 1802 18:24 But I have given 1803 to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered 1804 to the Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
18:25 The Lord spoke to Moses: 18:26 “You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up 1805 from it as a raised offering to the Lord a tenth of the tithe. 18:27 And your raised offering will be credited 1806 to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine 1807 from the winepress. 18:28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest. 18:29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due 1808 the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’ 1809
18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, 1810 ‘When you offer up 1811 the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress. 18:31 And you may 1812 eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting. 18:32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’” 1813
19:1 1814 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 19:2 “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded: ‘Instruct 1815 the Israelites to bring 1816 you a red 1817 heifer 1818 without blemish, which has no defect 1819 and has never carried a yoke. 19:3 You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him. 1820 19:4 Eleazar the priest is to take 1821 some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times 1822 directly in front of the tent of meeting. 19:5 Then the heifer must be burned 1823 in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned. 1824 19:6 And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, 1825 and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. 1826 19:7 Then the priest must wash 1827 his clothes and bathe himself 1828 in water, and afterward he may come 1829 into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening. 19:8 The one who burns it 1830 must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
19:9 “‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept 1831 for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification 1832 – it is a purification for sin. 1833 19:10 The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.
19:11 “‘Whoever touches 1834 the corpse 1835 of any person 1836 will be ceremonially unclean 1837 seven days. 19:12 He must purify himself 1838 with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean. 19:13 Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. And that person must be cut off from Israel, 1839 because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.
19:14 “‘This is the law: When a man dies 1840 in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days. 19:15 And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean. 19:16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, 1841 or the body of someone who died of natural causes, 1842 or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. 1843
19:17 “‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take 1844 some of the ashes of the heifer 1845 burnt for purification from sin and pour 1846 fresh running 1847 water over them in a vessel. 19:18 Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave. 19:19 And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, 1848 and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening. 19:20 But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.
19:21 “‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles 1849 the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening. 1850 19:22 And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”
20:1 1851 Then the entire community of Israel 1852 entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, 1853 and the people stayed in Kadesh. 1854 Miriam died and was buried there. 1855
20:2 And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron. 20:3 The people contended 1856 with Moses, saying, 1857 “If only 1858 we had died when our brothers died before the Lord! 20:4 Why 1859 have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that 1860 we and our cattle should die here? 20:5 Why 1861 have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to 1862 this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”
20:6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. 20:7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 20:8 “Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak 1863 to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth 1864 its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”
20:9 So Moses took the staff from before the Lord, just as he commanded him. 20:10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them, “Listen, you rebels, 1865 must we bring 1866 water out of this rock for you?” 20:11 Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.
20:12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough 1867 to show me as holy 1868 before 1869 the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.” 1870
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained 1871 among them.
20:14 1872 Moses 1873 sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: 1874 “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardships we have experienced, 1875 20:15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, 1876 and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. 1877 20:16 So when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, 1878 and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now 1879 we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country. 1880 20:17 Please let us pass through 1881 your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; 1882 we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’” 1883
20:18 But Edom said to him, “You will not pass through me, 1884 or I will come out against 1885 you with the sword.” 20:19 Then the Israelites said to him, “We will go along the highway, and if we 1886 or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”
20:20 But he said, “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them 1887 with a large and powerful force. 1888 20:21 So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.
20:22 So the entire company of Israelites 1889 traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. 1890 20:23 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom. He said: 20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, 1891 for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you 1892 rebelled against my word 1893 at the waters of Meribah. 20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up on Mount Hor. 20:26 Remove Aaron’s priestly garments 1894 and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors 1895 and will die there.”
20:27 So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight 1896 of the whole community. 20:28 And Moses removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 20:29 When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
21:1 1897 When the Canaanite king of Arad 1898 who lived in the Negev 1899 heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.
21:2 So Israel made a vow 1900 to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver 1901 this people into our 1902 hand, then we will utterly destroy 1903 their cities.” 21:3 The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, 1904 and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called 1905 Hormah.
21:4 Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, 1906 to go around the land of Edom, but the people 1907 became impatient along the way. 21:5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we 1908 detest this worthless 1909 food.”
21:6 So the Lord sent poisonous 1910 snakes 1911 among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died. 21:7 Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he would take away 1912 the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
21:8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks 1913 at it, he will live.” 21:9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived. 1914
21:10 1915 The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth. 21:11 Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, 1916 in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side. 1917 21:12 From there they moved on and camped in the valley of Zered. 21:13 From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the regions 1918 of the Amorites, for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 21:14 This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord,
“Waheb in Suphah 1919 and the wadis,
the Arnon 21:15 and the slope of the valleys 1920
that extends to the dwelling of Ar, 1921
and falls off at the border of Moab.”
21:16 And from there they traveled 1922 to Beer; 1923 that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.” 21:17 Then Israel sang 1924 this song:
“Spring up, O well, sing to it!
21:18 The well which the princes 1925 dug,
which the leaders of the people opened
with their scepters and their staffs.”
And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness. 1926
21:21 1927 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, 1928
21:22 “Let us 1929 pass through your land; 1930 we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.” 21:23 But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he 1931 gathered all his forces 1932 together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When 1933 he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel. 21:24 But the Israelites 1934 defeated him in battle 1935 and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strongly defended. 21:25 So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 1936 21:26 For Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites. Now he had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all of his land from his control, 1937 as far as the Arnon. 21:27 That is why those who speak in proverbs 1938 say,
“Come to Heshbon, let it be built.
Let the city of Sihon be established! 1939
21:28 For fire went out from Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has consumed Ar of Moab
and the lords 1940 of the high places of Arnon.
21:29 Woe to you, Moab.
You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! 1941
He has made his sons fugitives,
and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.
21:30 We have overpowered them; 1942
Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.
We have shattered them as far as Nophah,
which 1943 reaches to Medeba.”
21:31 So the Israelites 1944 lived in the land of the Amorites. 21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter 1945 Jaazer, and they captured its villages 1946 and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
21:33 Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces 1947 marched out against them to do battle at Edrei. 21:34 And the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand. You will do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. 21:35 So they defeated Og, 1948 his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, 1949 and they possessed his land.
22:1 1950 The Israelites traveled on 1951 and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River 1952 across from Jericho. 1953 22:2 Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites. 22:3 And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.
22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “Now this mass of people 1954 will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time. 22:5 And he sent messengers to Balaam 1955 son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River 1956 in the land of Amaw, 1957 to summon him, saying, “Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face 1958 of the earth, and they are settling next to me. 22:6 So 1959 now, please come and curse this nation 1960 for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them 1961 and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, 1962 and whoever you curse is cursed.”
22:7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported 1963 to him the words of Balak. 22:8 He replied to them, “Stay 1964 here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the Lord may speak to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 22:9 And God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?” 22:10 Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying, 22:11 “Look, a nation has come out 1965 of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Come now and put a curse on them for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them 1966 and drive them out.” 1967 22:12 But God said to Balaam, “You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, 1968 for they are blessed.” 1969
22:13 So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, 1970 for the Lord has refused to permit me to go 1971 with you.” 22:14 So the princes of Moab departed 1972 and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
22:15 Balak again sent princes, 1973 more numerous and more distinguished than the first. 1974 22:16 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming 1975 to me. 22:17 For I will honor you greatly, 1976 and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”
22:18 Balaam replied 1977 to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment 1978 of the Lord my God 1979 to do less or more. 22:19 Now therefore, please stay 1980 the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.” 1981 22:20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.” 22:21 So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
22:22 Then God’s anger was kindled 1982 because he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose 1983 him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him. 22:23 And the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with 1984 his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.
22:24 Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path 1985 among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side. 1986 22:25 And when the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again. 1987
22:26 Then the angel of the Lord went farther, 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, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.
22:28 Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?” 22:29 And Balaam said to the donkey, “You have made me look stupid; I wish 1988 there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.” 22:30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am not I your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted 1989 to treat you this way?” 1990 And he said, “No.” 22:31 Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground. 1991 22:32 The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing 1992 is perverse before me. 1993 22:33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If 1994 she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.” 22:34 Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. 1995 So now, if it is evil in your sight, 1996 I will go back home.” 1997 22:35 But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you may only speak 1998 the word that I will speak to you.” 1999 So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory. 22:37 Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send again and again 2000 to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?” 2001 22:38 Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able 2002 to speak 2003 just anything? I must speak 2004 only the word that God puts in my mouth.” 22:39 So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth. 22:40 And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some 2005 to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him. 22:41 Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. 2006 From there he saw the extent of the nation.
23:1 2007 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” 23:2 So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each 2008 altar a bull and a ram. 23:3 Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself 2009 by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me 2010 I will tell you.” 2011 Then he went to a deserted height. 2012
23:4 Then God met Balaam, who 2013 said to him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.” 23:5 Then the Lord put a message 2014 in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.” 2015
23:6 So he returned to him, and he was still 2016 standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab. 23:7 Then Balaam 2017 uttered 2018 his oracle, saying,
“Balak, the king of Moab, brought me 2019 from Aram,
out of the mountains of the east, saying,
‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel.’ 2020
23:8 How 2021 can I curse 2022 one whom God has not cursed,
or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?
23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see them; 2023
from the hills I watch them. 2024
Indeed, a nation that lives alone,
and it will not be reckoned 2025 among the nations.
23:10 Who 2026 can count 2027 the dust 2028 of Jacob,
Or number 2029 the fourth part of Israel?
Let me 2030 die the death of the upright, 2031
and let the end of my life 2032 be like theirs.” 2033
23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary 2034 you have only blessed them!” 2035 23:12 Balaam replied, 2036 “Must I not be careful 2037 to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?” 2038 23:13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
23:14 So Balak brought Balaam 2039 to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, 2040 where 2041 he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 23:15 And Balaam 2042 said to Balak, “Station yourself here 2043 by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there. 23:16 Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message 2044 in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.” 23:17 When Balaam 2045 came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
23:18 Balaam 2046 uttered 2047 his oracle, and said,
“Rise up, 2048 Balak, and hear;
Listen to me, son of Zippor:
23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a human being, 2049 that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? 2050
23:20 Indeed, I have received a command 2051 to bless;
he has blessed, 2052 and I cannot reverse it. 2053
23:21 He 2054 has not looked on iniquity in Jacob, 2055
nor has he seen trouble 2056 in Israel.
The Lord their God is with them;
his acclamation 2057 as king is among them.
23:22 God brought them 2058 out of Egypt.
They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull. 2059
23:23 For there is no spell against 2060 Jacob,
nor is there any divination against Israel.
At this time 2061 it must be said 2062 of Jacob
and of Israel, ‘Look at 2063 what God has done!’
23:24 Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness,
and like a lion raises himself up;
they will not lie down until they eat their 2064 prey,
and drink the blood of the slain.” 2065
23:25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all 2066 nor bless them at all!” 2067 23:26 But Balaam replied 2068 to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, 2069 I must do’?”
23:27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God 2070 to let you curse them for me from there.” 2071 23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness. 2072 23:29 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.” 23:30 So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
24:1 2073 When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, 2074 he did not go as at the other times 2075 to seek for omens, 2076 but he set his face 2077 toward the wilderness. 24:2 When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe; 2078 and the Spirit of God came upon him. 24:3 Then he uttered this oracle: 2079
“The oracle 2080 of Balaam son of Beor;
the oracle of the man whose eyes are open; 2081
24:4 the oracle of the one who hears the words of God,
who sees a vision from the Almighty,
although falling flat on the ground 2082 with eyes open: 2083
24:5 ‘How 2084 beautiful are your tents, O Jacob,
and your dwelling places, O Israel!
24:6 They are like 2085 valleys 2086 stretched forth,
like gardens by the river’s side,
like aloes 2087 that the Lord has planted,
and like cedar trees beside the waters.
24:7 He will pour the water out of his buckets, 2088
and their descendants will be like abundant 2089 water; 2090
their king will be greater than Agag, 2091
and their kingdom will be exalted.
24:8 God brought them out of Egypt.
They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;
they will devour hostile people 2092
and will break their bones
and will pierce them through with arrows.
24:9 They crouch and lie down like a lion,
and as a lioness, 2093 who can stir him?
Blessed is the one who blesses you,
and cursed is the one who curses you!’”
24:10 Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. 2094 Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless 2095 them these three times! 24:11 So now, go back where you came from! 2096 I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”
24:12 Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, 24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond 2097 the commandment 2098 of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, 2099 but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’? 24:14 And now, I am about to go 2100 back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.” 2101
24:15 Then he uttered this oracle: 2102
“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor;
the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
24:16 the oracle of the one who hears the words of God,
and who knows the knowledge of the Most High,
who sees a vision from the Almighty,
although falling flat on the ground with eyes open:
24:17 ‘I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not close at hand. 2103
A star 2104 will march forth 2105 out of Jacob,
and a scepter 2106 will rise out of Israel.
He will crush the skulls 2107 of Moab,
and the heads 2108 of all the sons of Sheth. 2109
24:18 Edom will be a possession,
Seir, 2110 his enemies, will also be a possession;
but Israel will act valiantly.
24:19 A ruler will be established from Jacob;
he will destroy the remains of the city.’” 2111
24:20 Then Balaam 2112 looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: 2113
“Amalek was the first 2114 of the nations,
but his end will be that he will perish.”
24:21 Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle:
“Your dwelling place seems strong,
and your nest 2115 is set on a rocky cliff.
24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. 2116
How long will Asshur take you away captive?”
24:23 Then he uttered this oracle:
“O, who will survive when God does this! 2117
24:24 Ships will come from the coast of Kittim, 2118
and will afflict Asshur, 2119 and will afflict Eber,
and he will also perish forever.” 2120
24:25 Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, 2121 and Balak also went his way.
25:1 2122 When 2123 Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality 2124 with the daughters of Moab. 25:2 These women invited 2125 the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 2126 25:3 When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, 2127 the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel.
25:4 The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders 2128 of the people, and hang them up 2129 before the Lord in broad daylight, 2130 so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.” 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you must execute those of his men 2131 who were joined to Baal-peor.”
25:6 Just then 2132 one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers 2133 a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of 2134 the whole community of the Israelites, while they 2135 were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, 2136 he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand, 25:8 and went after the Israelite man into the tent 2137 and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. 2138 So the plague was stopped from the Israelites. 2139 25:9 Those that died in the plague were 24,000.
25:10 The Lord spoke to Moses: 25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal 2140 for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal. 2141 25:12 Therefore, announce: 2142 ‘I am going to give 2143 to him my covenant of peace. 2144 25:13 So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, 2145 and has made atonement 2146 for the Israelites.’”
25:14 Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed – the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman – was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan 2147 of the Simeonites. 25:15 The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader 2148 over the people of a clan of Midian. 2149
25:16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 25:17 “Bring trouble 2150 to the Midianites, and destroy them, 25:18 because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived 2151 you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, 2152 their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”
26:1 2153 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, 2154 26:2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, 2155 everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” 2156 26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River 2157 across from Jericho. 2158 They said, 26:4 “Number the people 2159 from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”
26:5 Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from 2160 Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 26:6 from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 26:7 These were the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered of them were 43,730. 2161 26:8 Pallu’s descendant 2162 was Eliab. 26:9 Eliab’s descendants were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram who as leaders of the community rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers 2163 of Korah when they rebelled against the Lord. 26:10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning. 26:11 But the descendants of Korah did not die.
26:12 The Simeonites by their families: from Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; from Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; from Jakin, the family of the Jakinites; 26:13 from Zerah, 2164 the family of the Zerahites; and from Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. 26:14 These were the families of the Simeonites, 22,200. 2165
26:15 The Gadites by their families: from Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; from Haggi, the family of the Haggites; from Shuni, the family of the Shunites; 26:16 from Ozni, 2166 the family of the Oznites; from Eri, 2167 the family of the Erites; 26:17 from Arod, 2168 the family of the Arodites, and from Areli, the family of the Arelites. 26:18 These were the families of the Gadites according to those numbered of them, 40,500. 2169
26:19 The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 26:20 And the Judahites by their families were: from Shelah, the family of the Shelahites; from Perez, the family of the Perezites; and from Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. 26:21 And the Perezites were: from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Hamul, 2170 the family of the Hamulites. 26:22 These were the families of Judah according to those numbered of them, 76,500. 2171
26:23 The Issacharites by their families: from Tola, the family of the Tolaites; from Puah, the family of the Puites; 26:24 from Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; and from Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 26:25 These were the families of Issachar, according to those numbered of them, 64,300. 2172
26:26 The Zebulunites by their families: from Sered, the family of the Sardites; from Elon, the family of the Elonites; from Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 26:27 These were the families of the Zebulunites, according to those numbered of them, 60,500. 2173
26:28 The descendants of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. 26:29 The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites (now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. 26:30 These were the Gileadites: from Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; from Helek, the family of the Helekites; 26:31 from Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; from Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 26:32 from Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; from Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 26:33 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 26:34 These were the families of Manasseh; those numbered of them were 52,700. 2174
26:35 These are the Ephraimites by their families: from Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; from Beker, the family of the Bekerites; from Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. 26:36 Now these were the Shuthelahites: from Eran, the family of the Eranites. 26:37 These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. 2175 These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.
26:38 The Benjaminites by their families: from Bela, the family of the Belaites; from Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; from Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 26:39 from Shupham, 2176 the family of the Shuphamites; from Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. 26:40 The descendants of Bela were Ard 2177 and Naaman. From Ard, 2178 the family of the Ardites; from Naaman, the family of the Naamanites. 26:41 These are the Benjaminites, according to their families, and according to those numbered of them, 45,600. 2179
26:42 These are the Danites by their families: from Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These were the families of Dan, according to their families. 26:43 All the families of the Shuhahites according to those numbered of them were 64,400. 2180
26:44 The Asherites by their families: from Imnah, the family of the Imnahites; from Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; from Beriah, the family of the Beriahites. 26:45 From the Beriahites: from Heber, the family of the Heberites; from Malkiel, the family of the Malkielites. 26:46 Now the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. 2181 26:47 These are the families of the Asherites, according to those numbered of them, 53,400. 2182
26:48 The Naphtalites by their families: from Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; from Guni, the family of the Gunites; 26:49 from Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; from Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. 26:50 These were the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those numbered of them were 45,400. 2183
26:51 These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730. 2184
26:52 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 26:53 “To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names. 26:54 To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, 2185 and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. 2186 To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. 2187 26:55 The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes. 26:56 Their inheritance must be apportioned 2188 by lot among the larger and smaller groups.
26:57 And these are the Levites who were numbered according to their families: from Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; from Merari, the family of the Merarites. 26:58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram. 26:59 Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born 2189 to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister. 26:60 And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 26:61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire 2190 before the Lord. 26:62 Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
26:63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho. 2191 26:64 But there was not a man among these who had been 2192 among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai. 26:65 For the Lord had said of them, “They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
27:1 2193 Then the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh, 2194 the son Joseph came forward. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 27:2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, 27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although 2195 he was not part of 2196 the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died for his own sin, 2197 and he had no sons. 27:4 Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession 2198 among the relatives 2199 of our father.”
27:5 So Moses brought their case before the Lord. 27:6 The Lord said to Moses: 27:7 “The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. 2200 You must indeed 2201 give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer 2202 the inheritance of their father to them. 27:8 And you must tell the Israelites, ‘If a man dies 2203 and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter; 27:9 and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers; 27:10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers; 27:11 and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, 2204 as the Lord commanded Moses.’”
27:12 2205 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, 2206 and see 2207 the land I have given 2208 to the Israelites. 27:13 When you have seen it, you will be gathered 2209 to your ancestors, 2210 as Aaron your brother was gathered to his ancestors. 2211 27:14 For 2212 in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you 2213 rebelled against my command 2214 to show me as holy 2215 before their eyes over the water – the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”
27:15 Then Moses spoke to the Lord: 27:16 “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, 2216 appoint 2217 a man over the community, 27:17 who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, 2218 and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that 2219 the community of the Lord may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”
27:18 The Lord replied 2220 to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit, 2221 and lay your hand on him; 2222 27:19 set him 2223 before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community, and commission 2224 him publicly. 2225 27:20 Then you must delegate 2226 some of your authority 2227 to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient. 2228 27:21 And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who 2229 will seek counsel 2230 for him before the Lord by the decision of the Urim. 2231 At his command 2232 they will go out, and at his command they will come in, he and all the Israelites with him, the whole community.”
27:22 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set 2233 him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community. 27:23 He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the Lord commanded, 2234 by the authority 2235 of Moses.
28:1 2236 The Lord spoke to Moses: 28:2 “Command the Israelites: 2237 ‘With regard to my offering, 2238 be sure to offer 2239 my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’ 2240 28:3 You will say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you must offer to the Lord: two unblemished lambs one year old each day for a continual 2241 burnt offering. 28:4 The first lamb you must offer in the morning, and the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon, 2242 28:5 with one-tenth of an ephah 2243 of finely ground flour as a grain offering mixed with one quarter of a hin 2244 of pressed olive oil. 28:6 It is a continual burnt offering that was instituted on Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
28:7 “‘And its drink offering must be one quarter of a hin for each lamb. 2245 You must pour out the strong drink 2246 as a drink offering to the Lord in the holy place. 28:8 And the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon; just as you offered the grain offering and drink offering in the morning, 2247 you must offer it as an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
28:9 “‘On the Sabbath day, you must offer 2248 two unblemished lambs a year old, and two-tenths of an ephah 2249 of finely ground flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with its drink offering. 28:10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, 2250 besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
28:11 “‘On the first day of each month 2251 you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old, 28:12 with three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each bull, and two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for the ram, 28:13 and one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 28:14 For their drink offerings, include 2252 half a hin of wine with each bull, one-third of a hin for the ram, and one-fourth of a hin for each lamb. This is the burnt offering for each month 2253 throughout the months of the year. 28:15 And one male goat 2254 must be offered to the Lord as a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
28:16 “‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord’s Passover. 28:17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the festival. For seven days bread made without yeast must be eaten. 28:18 And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work 2255 on it.
28:19 “‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished. 2256 28:20 And their grain offering is to be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil. For each bull you must offer three-tenths of an ephah, and two-tenths for the ram. 28:21 For each of the seven lambs you are to offer one-tenth of an ephah, 28:22 as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you. 28:23 You must offer these in addition to the burnt offering in the morning which is for a continual burnt offering. 28:24 In this manner you must offer daily throughout the seven days the food of the sacrifice made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord. It is to be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. 28:25 On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.
28:26 “‘Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work. 28:27 But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old, 28:28 with their grain offering of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram, 28:29 with one-tenth for each of the seven lambs, 28:30 as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you. 28:31 You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering – they must be unblemished.
29:1 “‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you. 29:2 You must offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old without blemish.
29:3 “‘Their grain offering is to be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths of an ephah for the ram, 29:4 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs, 29:5 with one male goat for a purification offering to make an atonement for you; 29:6 this is in addition to the monthly burnt offering and its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings as prescribed, as a sweet aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord.
29:7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves; 2257 you must not do any work on it. 29:8 But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish. 2258 29:9 Their grain offering must be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, 29:10 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs, 29:11 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the purification offering for atonement and the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.
29:12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the Lord for seven days. 29:13 You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish. 29:14 Their grain offering must be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah for each of the two rams, 29:15 and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs, 29:16 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:17 “‘On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish, 29:18 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:19 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.
29:20 “‘On the third day you must offer 2259 eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish, 29:21 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:22 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:23 “‘On the fourth day you must offer ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish, 29:24 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:25 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:26 “‘On the fifth day you must offer nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish, 29:27 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:28 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:29 “‘On the sixth day you must offer eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish, 29:30 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:31 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:32 “‘On the seventh day you must offer seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish, 29:33 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:34 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:35 “‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it. 29:36 But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish, 29:37 and with their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 29:38 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
29:39 “‘These things you must present to the Lord at your appointed times, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, as your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’” 29:40 (30:1) 2260 So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him. 2261