And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the
first day of the second month, in the second year after they were
come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of
the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their
polls;
From twenty years old and upward, all that
are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number
them by their armies.
And with you there shall be a man of every
tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
And these are the names of the men that shall
stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai.
Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim;
Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
These were the renowned of the congregation,
princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in
Israel.
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are
expressed by their names:
And they assembled all the congregation
together on the first day of the second month, and they declared
their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years
old and upward, by their polls.
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered
them in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest
son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of
their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their
polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five
hundred.
Of the children of Simeon, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the
names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three
hundred.
Of the children of Gad, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and
fifty.
Of the children of Judah, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six
hundred.
Of the children of Issachar, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four
hundred.
Of the children of Zebulun, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four
hundred.
Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the
children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by
the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Of the children of Manasseh, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two
hundred.
Of the children of Benjamin, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four
hundred.
Of the children of Dan, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven
hundred.
Of the children of Asher, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five
hundred.
Of the children of Naphtali, throughout
their generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of
the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four
hundred.
These are those that were numbered, which
Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve
men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
So were all those that were numbered of the
children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty
years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in
Israel;
Even all they that were numbered were six
hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and
fifty.
But the Levites after the tribe of their
fathers were not numbered among them.
For the LORD had spoken unto Moses,
saying,
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of
Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of
Israel:
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the
tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over
all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and
all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall
encamp round about the tabernacle.
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the
Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be
pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh
nigh shall be put to death.
And the children of Israel shall pitch their
tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own
standard, throughout their hosts.
But the Levites shall pitch round about the
tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the
congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep
the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
And the children of Israel did according to
all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Every man of the children of Israel shall
pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house:
far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they
pitch.
And on the east side toward the rising of the
sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch
throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be
captain of the children of Judah.
And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
And those that do pitch next unto him shall
be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be
captain of the children of Issachar.
And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son
of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
All that were numbered in the camp of Judah
were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand
and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set
forth.
On the south side shall be the standard of
the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of
the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
And those which pitch by him shall be the
tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of
the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and
fifty.
All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben
were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four
hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set
forth in the second rank.
Then the tabernacle of the congregation
shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the
camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his
place by their standards.
On the west side shall be the standard of
the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of
the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh:
and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the
son of Pedahzur.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain
of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
All that were numbered of the camp of
Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred,
throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third
rank.
The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on
the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of
Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
And those that encamp by him shall be the
tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be
Pagiel the son of Ocran.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain
of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
All they that were numbered in the camp of
Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six
hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
These are those which were numbered of the
children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that
were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
But the Levites were not numbered among the
children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the children of Israel did according to
all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their
standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families,
according to the house of their fathers.
These also are the generations of Aaron and
Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount
Sinai.
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron;
Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the
priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the
priest's office.
And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD,
when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness
of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar
ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their
father.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present
them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
And they shall keep his charge, and the
charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the
congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
And they shall keep all the instruments of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children
of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron
and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children
of Israel.
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons,
and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from
among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that
openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the
Levites shall be mine;
Because all the firstborn are mine; for on
the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I
hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast:
mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Number the children of Levi after the house
of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old
and upward shalt thou number them.
And Moses numbered them according to the
word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
And these were the sons of Levi by their
names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
And these are the names of the sons of
Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
And the sons of Kohath by their families;
Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
And the sons of Merari by their families;
Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according
to the house of their fathers.
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites,
and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the
Gershonites.
Those that were numbered of them, according
to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even
those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five
hundred.
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch
behind the tabernacle westward.
And the chief of the house of the father of
the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the
tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the
tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
And the hangings of the court, and the
curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and
by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service
thereof.
And of Kohath was the family of the
Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the
Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the
families of the Kohathites.
In the number of all the males, from a month
old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the
charge of the sanctuary.
The families of the sons of Kohath shall
pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
And the chief of the house of the father of
the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of
Uzziel.
And their charge shall be the ark, and the
table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the
sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the
service thereof.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the
oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites,
and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of
Merari.
And those that were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males, from a month old and
upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
And the chief of the house of the father of
the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall
pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
And under the custody and charge of the sons
of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars
thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all
the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
And the pillars of the court round about,
and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
But those that encamp before the tabernacle
toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation
eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the
charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel;
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
All that were numbered of the Levites, which
Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout
their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were
twenty and two thousand.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the
firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old
and upward, and take the number of their names.
And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am
the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of
Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings
among the cattle of the children of Israel.
And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded
him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
And all the firstborn males by the number of
names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of
them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and
thirteen.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the
Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I
am the LORD.
And for those that are to be redeemed of the
two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the
children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by
the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them:
(the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the
odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his
sons.
And Moses took the redemption money of them
that were over and above them that were redeemed by the
Levites:
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel
took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
And Moses gave the money of them that were
redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the
LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among
the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their
fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even until
fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in
the tabernacle of the congregation.
This shall be the service of the sons of
Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy
things:
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron
shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering
vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
And shall put thereon the covering of
badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue,
and shall put in the staves thereof.
And upon the table of shewbread they shall
spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons,
and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread
shall be thereon:
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of
scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and
shall put in the staves thereof.
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and
cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs,
and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith
they minister unto it:
And they shall put it and all the vessels
thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon
a bar.
And upon the golden altar they shall spread
a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins,
and shall put to the staves thereof:
And they shall take all the instruments of
ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in
a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins,
and shall put them on a bar:
And they shall take away the ashes from the
altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
And they shall put upon it all the vessels
thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the
fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the
altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins,
and put to the staves of it.
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end
of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as
the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall
come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they
die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
And to the office of Eleazar the son of
Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet
incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and
the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in
the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron
saying,
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of
the Kohathites from among the Levites:
But thus do unto them, that they may live,
and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron
and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service
and to his burden:
But they shall not go in to see when the
holy things are covered, lest they die.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,
throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
From thirty years old and upward until fifty
years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the
service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
This is the service of the families of the
Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
And they shall bear the curtains of the
tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering,
and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and
the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation,
And the hangings of the court, and the
hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the
tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all
the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so
shall they serve.
At the appointment of Aaron and his sons
shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all
their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto
them in charge all their burdens.
This is the service of the families of the
sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their
charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number
them after their families, by the house of their fathers;
From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth
into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
And this is the charge of their burden,
according to all their service in the tabernacle of the
congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof,
and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
And the pillars of the court round about,
and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their
instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall
reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
This is the service of the families of the
sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle
of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the
congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their
families, and after the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
And those that were numbered of them by
their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
These were they that were numbered of the
families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And those that were numbered of the sons of
Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their
fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Even those that were numbered of them,
throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two
thousand and six hundred and thirty.
These are they that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in
the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD.
And those that were numbered of the families
of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of
their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Even those that were numbered of them after
their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
These be those that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
All those that were numbered of the Levites,
whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their
families, and after the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the
ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Even those that were numbered of them, were
eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore,
According to the commandment of the LORD
they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his
service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of
him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Command the children of Israel, that they put
out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and
whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Both male and female shall ye put out,
without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their
camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
And the children of Israel did so, and put
them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the
children of Israel.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man
or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass
against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
Then they shall confess their sin which they
have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal
thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto
him against whom he hath trespassed.
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense
the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD,
even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
atonement shall be made for him.
And every offering of all the holy things of
the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be
his.
And every man's hallowed things shall be
his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass
against him,
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be
hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be
defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken
with the manner;
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him,
and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit
of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she
be not defiled:
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the
priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of
an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an
offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
And the priest shall bring her near, and set
her before the LORD:
And the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the
tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
And the priest shall set the woman before
the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of
memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the
priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the
curse:
And the priest shall charge her by an oath,
and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou
hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy
husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the
curse:
But if thou hast gone aside to another
instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have
lain with thee beside thine husband:
Then the priest shall charge the woman with
an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The
LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD
doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
And this water that causeth the curse shall
go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to
rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
And the priest shall write these curses in a
book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
And he shall cause the woman to drink the
bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
Then the priest shall take the jealousy
offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering
before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
And the priest shall take an handful of the
offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar,
and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
And when he hath made her to drink the
water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and
have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth
the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly
shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a
curse among her people.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be
clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife
goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon
him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman
before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this
law.
Then shall the man be guiltless from
iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to
vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
He shall separate himself from wine and
strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of
strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat
moist grapes, or dried.
All the days of his separation shall he eat
nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the
husk.
All the days of the vow of his separation
there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be
fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he
shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head
grow.
All the days that he separateth himself unto
the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
He shall not make himself unclean for his
father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when
they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his
head.
All the days of his separation he is holy
unto the LORD.
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and
he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave
his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he
shave it.
And on the eighth day he shall bring two
turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
And the priest shall offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement
for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head
that same day.
And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the
days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year
for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be
lost, because his separation was defiled.
And this is the law of the Nazarite, when
the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
And he shall offer his offering unto the
LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt
offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a
sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of
fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread
anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink
offerings.
And the priest shall bring them before the
LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt
offering:
And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice
of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened
bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his
separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in
the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
And the priest shall take the sodden
shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and
one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the
Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
And the priest shall wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the
wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may
drink wine.
This is the law of the Nazarite who hath
vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside
that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed,
so he must do after the law of his separation.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying,
On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto
them,
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and
be gracious unto thee:
The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.
And they shall put my name upon the children
of Israel, and I will bless them.
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had
fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified
it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the
vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
That the princes of Israel, heads of the
house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and
were over them that were numbered, offered:
And they brought their offering before the
LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the
princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
tabernacle.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take it of them, that they may be to do the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give
them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and
gave them unto the Levites.
Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the
sons of Gershon, according to their service:
And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto
the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none:
because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that
they should bear upon their shoulders.
And the princes offered for dedicating of
the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered
their offering before the altar.
And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall
offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of
the altar.
And he that offered his offering the first
day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
And his offering was one silver charger, the
weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar,
prince of Issachar, did offer:
He offered for his offering one silver
charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
On the third day Eliab the son of Helon,
prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur,
prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
His offering was one silver charger of the
weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel,
prince of the children of Gad, offered:
His offering was one silver charger of the
weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
On the seventh day Elishama the son of
Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son
of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
His offering was one silver charger of the
weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni,
prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran,
prince of the children of Asher, offered:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan,
prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
His offering was one silver charger, the
weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin
offering:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
This was the dedication of the altar, in the
day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers
of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
Each charger of silver weighing an hundred
and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels
weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary:
The golden spoons were twelve, full of
incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the
sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty
shekels.
All the oxen for the burnt offering were
twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year
twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin
offering twelve.
And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the
peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the
he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the
dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle
of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of
one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark
of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto
him.
Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou
lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against
the candlestick.
And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps
thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
And this work of the candlestick was of
beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was
beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed
Moses, so he made the candlestick.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the Levites from among the children of
Israel, and cleanse them.
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse
them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all
their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make
themselves clean.
Then let them take a young bullock with his
meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young
bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole
assembly of the children of Israel together:
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the
LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the
Levites:
And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the
LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may
execute the service of the LORD.
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon
the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to
make an atonement for the Levites.
And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron,
and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the
LORD.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from
among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
And after that shall the Levites go in to do
the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt
cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
For they are wholly given unto me from among
the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even
instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I
taken them unto me.
For all the firstborn of the children of
Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every
firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
And I have taken the Levites for all the
firstborn of the children of Israel.
And I have given the Levites as a gift to
Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the
service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel:
that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the
children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
And Moses, and Aaron, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites
according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the
Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
And the Levites were purified, and they
washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before
the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse
them.
And after that went the Levites in to do
their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron,
and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the
Levites, so did they unto them.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites:
from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait
upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
And from the age of fifty years they shall
cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no
more:
But shall minister with their brethren in
the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall
do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their
charge.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after
they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Let the children of Israel also keep the
passover at his appointed season.
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even,
ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the
rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye
keep it.
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
that they should keep the passover.
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth
day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai:
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children
of Israel.
And there were certain men, who were defiled
by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on
that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that
day:
And those men said unto him, We are defiled
by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may
not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel?
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I
will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason
of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the
passover unto the LORD.
The fourteenth day of the second month at
even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs.
They shall leave none of it unto the
morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances
of the passover they shall keep it.
But the man that is clean, and is not in a
journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul
shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the
offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear
his sin.
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you,
and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the
ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so
shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger,
and for him that was born in the land.
And on the day that the tabernacle was
reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the
testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until the morning.
So it was alway: the cloud covered it by
day, and the appearance of fire by night.
And when the cloud was taken up from the
tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and
in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel
pitched their tents.
At the commandment of the LORD the children
of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they
pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested
in their tents.
And when the cloud tarried long upon the
tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge
of the LORD, and journeyed not.
And so it was, when the cloud was a few days
upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they
abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD
they journeyed.
And so it was, when the cloud abode from
even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the
morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night
that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Or whether it were two days, or a month, or
a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining
thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed
not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
At the commandment of the LORD they rested
in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed:
they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by
the hand of Moses.
Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole
piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the
calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
And when they shall blow with them, all the
assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then
the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall
gather themselves unto thee.
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that
lie on the east parts shall go forward.
When ye blow an alarm the second time, then
the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they
shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
But when the congregation is to be gathered
together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall
blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance
for ever throughout your generations.
And if ye go to war in your land against the
enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and
ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Also in the day of your gladness, and in
your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall
blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the
sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a
memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of
the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up
from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
And the children of Israel took their
journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in
the wilderness of Paran.
And they first took their journey according
to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
In the first place went the standard of the
camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over
his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the
sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the
tabernacle.
And the standard of the camp of Reuben set
forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the
son of Shedeur.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the
sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they
came.
And the standard of the camp of the
children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over
his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
And the standard of the camp of the
children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the
camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son
of Ammishaddai.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
Thus were the journeyings of the children
of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of
Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto
the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou
with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good
concerning Israel.
And he said unto him, I will not go; but I
will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee;
forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness,
and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea,
it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same
will we do unto thee.
And they departed from the mount of the
LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD
went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a
resting place for them.
And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by
day, when they went out of the camp.
And it came to pass, when the ark set
forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be
scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
And when it rested, he said, Return, O
LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
And when the people complained, it
displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was
kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed
them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
And the people cried unto Moses; and when
Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
And he called the name of the place Taberah:
because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
And the mixt multitude that was among them
fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and
said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
We remember the fish, which we did eat in
Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick:
But now our soul is dried away: there is
nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the
colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
And the people went about, and gathered it,
and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in
pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of
fresh oil.
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the
night, the manna fell upon it.
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout
their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of
the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore
hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found
favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people
upon me?
Have I conceived all this people? have I
begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy
bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land
which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all
this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we
may eat.
I am not able to bear all this people
alone, because it is too heavy for me.
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I
pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and
let me not see my wretchedness.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto
me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the
elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto
the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with
thee.
And I will come down and talk with thee
there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will
put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with
thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
And say thou unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have
wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to
eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give
you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor
five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
But even a whole month, until it come out
at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye
have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before
him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
And Moses said, The people, among whom I
am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will
give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for
them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered
together for them, to suffice them?
And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's
hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to
pass unto thee or not.
And Moses went out, and told the people the
words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of
the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
And the LORD came down in a cloud, and
spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave
it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the
spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
But there remained two of the men in the
camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other
Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that
were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they
prophesied in the camp.
And there ran a young man, and told Moses,
and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of
Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses,
forbid them.
And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for
my sake? would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and
that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the
elders of Israel.
And there went forth a wind from the LORD,
and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as
it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's
journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two
cubits high upon the face of the earth.
And the people stood up all that day, and
all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails:
he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them
all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
And while the flesh was yet between their
teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against
the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great
plague.
And he called the name of that place
Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that
lusted.
And the people journeyed from
Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses
because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had
married an Ethiopian woman.
And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken
only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard
it.
(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all
the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and
unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle
of the congregation. And they three came out.
And the LORD came down in the pillar of the
cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron
and Miriam: and they both came forth.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be
a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in
a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful
in all mine house.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the
LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak
against my servant Moses?
And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against them; and he departed.
And the cloud departed from off the
tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and
Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I
beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done
foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the
flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's
womb.
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal
her now, O God, I beseech thee.
And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father
had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let
her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
received in again.
And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven
days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in
again.
And afterward the people removed from
Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Send thou men, that they may search the land
of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe
of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among
them.
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD
sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of
the children of Israel.
And these were their names: of the tribe of
Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of
Hori.
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of
Joseph.
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of
Nun.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of
Raphu.
Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of
Sodi.
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the
tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of
Gemalli.
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of
Michael.
Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of
Vophsi.
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of
Machi.
These are the names of the men which Moses
sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun
Jehoshua.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of
Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go
up into the mountain:
And see the land, what it is, and the
people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few
or many;
And what the land is that they dwell in,
whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell
in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
And what the land is, whether it be fat or
lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good
courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the
time of the firstripe grapes.
So they went up, and searched the land from
the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
And they ascended by the south, and came
unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of
Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.)
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and
cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they
bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
The place was called the brook Eshcol,
because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut
down from thence.
And they returned from searching of the
land after forty days.
And they went and came to Moses, and to
Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto
the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto
them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of
the land.
And they told him, and said, We came unto
the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk
and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Nevertheless the people be strong that
dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and
moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the
south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell
in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the
coast of Jordan.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses,
and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well
able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him said, We
be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than
we.
And they brought up an evil report of the
land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying,
The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that
eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw
in it are men of a great stature.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of
Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
And all the congregation lifted up their
voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And all the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said
unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or
would God we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto
this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children
should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into
Egypt?
And they said one to another, Let us make a
captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces
before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of
Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son
of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their
clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to
search it, is an exceeding good land.
If the LORD delight in us, then he will
bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with
milk and honey.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither
fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their
defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them
not.
But all the congregation bade stone them
with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle
of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will
this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe
me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
I will smite them with the pestilence, and
disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and
mightier than they.
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the
Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy
might from among them;)
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of
this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this
people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud
standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in
a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as
one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will
speak, saying,
Because the LORD was not able to bring this
people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath
slain them in the wilderness.
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of
my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great
mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means
clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation.
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of
this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou
hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
And the LORD said, I have pardoned
according to thy word:
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall
be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Because all those men which have seen my
glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness,
and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to
my voice;
Surely they shall not see the land which I
sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked
me see it:
But my servant Caleb, because he had
another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I
bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess
it.
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites
dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
How long shall I bear with this evil
congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings
of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith
the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Your carcases shall fall in this
wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your
whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured
against me.
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
But your little ones, which ye said should
be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which
ye have despised.
But as for you, your carcases, they shall
fall in this wilderness.
And your children shall wander in the
wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your
carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
After the number of the days in which ye
searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye
bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach
of promise.
I the LORD have said, I will surely do it
unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against
me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall
die.
And the men, which Moses sent to search the
land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against
him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Even those men that did bring up the evil
report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the
land, lived still.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the
children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
And they rose up early in the morning, and
gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here,
and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we
have sinned.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye
transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not
prosper.
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you;
that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are
there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are
turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with
you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill
top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses,
departed not out of the camp.
Then the Amalekites came down, and the
Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and
discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which
I give unto you,
And will make an offering by fire unto the
LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a
freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour
unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
Then shall he that offereth his offering
unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour
mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a
drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or
sacrifice, for one lamb.
Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat
offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an
hin of oil.
And for a drink offering thou shalt offer
the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the
LORD.
And when thou preparest a bullock for a
burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace
offerings unto the LORD:
Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat
offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of
oil.
And thou shalt bring for a drink offering
half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or
for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
According to the number that ye shall
prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their
number.
All that are born of the country shall do
these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
And if a stranger sojourn with you, or
whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do,
so he shall do.
One ordinance shall be both for you of the
congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you,
an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the
stranger be before the LORD.
One law and one manner shall be for you,
and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the
bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the
LORD.
Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of
your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of
the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give
unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
And if ye have erred, and not observed all
these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
Even all that the LORD hath commanded you
by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses,
and henceforward among your generations;
Then it shall be, if ought be committed by
ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the
congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his
drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats
for a sin offering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for
all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their
offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin
offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
And it shall be forgiven all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that
sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in
ignorance.
And if any soul sin through ignorance, then
he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin
offering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for
the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance
before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be
forgiven him.
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth
through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
But the soul that doeth ought
presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the
same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from
among his people.
Because he hath despised the word of the
LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be
cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
And while the children of Israel were in
the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the
sabbath day.
And they that found him gathering sticks
brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the
congregation.
And they put him in ward, because it was
not declared what should be done to him.
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall
be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with
stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him
without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid
them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments
throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of
the borders a ribband of blue:
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that
ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD,
and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
That ye may remember, and do all my
commandments, and be holy unto your God.
I am the LORD your God, which brought you
out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your
God.
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of
Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
And they rose up before Moses, with certain
of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the
assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
And they gathered themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too
much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of
them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up
yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his
face:
And he spake unto Korah and unto all his
company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and
who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him
whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all
his company;
And put fire therein, and put incense in
them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom
the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you,
ye sons of Levi.
And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you,
ye sons of Levi:
Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that
the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the
tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to
minister unto them?
And he hath brought thee near to him, and
all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the
priesthood also?
For which cause both thou and all thy
company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron,
that ye murmur against him?
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram,
the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought
us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in
the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over
us?
Moreover thou hast not brought us into a
land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of
fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we
will not come up.
And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the
LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass
from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all
thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to
morrow:
And take every man his censer, and put
incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer,
two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you
his censer.
And they took every man his censer, and put
fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
And Korah gathered all the congregation
against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
Separate yourselves from among this
congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O
God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and
wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get
you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and
Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
And he spake unto the congregation, saying,
Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch
nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
So they gat up from the tabernacle of
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram
came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives,
and their sons, and their little children.
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that
the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done
them of mine own mind.
If these men die the common death of all
men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then
the LORD hath not sent me.
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the
earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain
unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall
understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end
of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was
under them:
And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that
appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
They, and all that appertained to them,
went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and
they perished from among the congregation.
And all Israel that were round about them
fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us
up also.
And there came out a fire from the LORD,
and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered
incense.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter
thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
The censers of these sinners against their
own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the
altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are
hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of
Israel.
And Eleazar the priest took the brasen
censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were
made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
To be a memorial unto the children of
Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come
near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and
as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
But on the morrow all the congregation of
the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron,
saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
And it came to pass, when the congregation
was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked
toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud
covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
And Moses and Aaron came before the
tabernacle of the congregation.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Get you up from among this congregation,
that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their
faces.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer,
and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go
quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for
there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran
into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was
begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an
atonement for the people.
And he stood between the dead and the
living; and the plague was stayed.
Now they that died in the plague were
fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about
the matter of Korah.
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was
stayed.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take
of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers,
of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the
rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of
their fathers.
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle
of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with
you.
And it shall come to pass, that the man's
rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease
from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they
murmur against you.
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each
prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods:
and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD
in the tabernacle of witness.
And it came to pass, that on the morrow
Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of
Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and
bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
And Moses brought out all the rods from
before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked,
and took every man his rod.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's
rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the
rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me,
that they die not.
And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded
him, so did he.
And the children of Israel spake unto
Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the
tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with
dying?
And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy
sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of
the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the
iniquity of your priesthood.
And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi,
the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be
joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons
with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
And they shall keep thy charge, and the
charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the
vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye
also, die.
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep
the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the
service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto
you.
And ye shall keep the charge of the
sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any
more upon the children of Israel.
And I, behold, I have taken your brethren
the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are
given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall
keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within
the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office
unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh
shall be put to death.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I
also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the
hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given
them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance
for ever.
This shall be thine of the most holy things,
reserved from the fire: every oblation of their's, every meat
offering of their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every
trespass offering of their's which they shall render unto me, shall
be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it;
every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
And this is thine; the heave offering of
their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel:
I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters
with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy
house shall eat of it.
All the best of the oil, and all the best
of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they
shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
And whatsoever is first ripe in the land,
which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one
that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
Every thing devoted in Israel shall be
thine.
Every thing that openeth the matrix in all
flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or
beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt
thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou
redeem.
And those that are to be redeemed from a
month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the
money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is
twenty gerahs.
But the firstling of a cow, or the
firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not
redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the
altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as
the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
All the heave offerings of the holy things,
which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given
thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for
ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee
and to thy seed with thee.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt
have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part
among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children
of Israel.
And, behold, I have given the children of
Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service
which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Neither must the children of Israel
henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they
bear sin, and die.
But the Levites shall do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity:
it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that
among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
But the tithes of the children of Israel,
which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given
to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among
the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto
them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I
have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer
up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the
tithe.
And this your heave offering shall be
reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the
threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering
unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children
of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to
Aaron the priest.
Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every
heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the
hallowed part thereof out of it.
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye
have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto
the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the
increase of the winepress.
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and
your households: for it is your reward for your service in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it,
when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye
pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye
die.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying,
This is the ordinance of the law which the
LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no
blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the
priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall
slay her before his face:
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her
blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before
the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight;
her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he
burn:
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and
hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of
the heifer.
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and
he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
And he that burneth her shall wash his
clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be
unclean until the even.
And a man that is clean shall gather up the
ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean
place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of
Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for
sin.
And he that gathereth the ashes of the
heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and
it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
He that toucheth the dead body of any man
shall be unclean seven days.
He shall purify himself with it on the
third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he
purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not
be clean.
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man
that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of
the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the
water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be
unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
This is the law, when a man dieth in a
tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent,
shall be unclean seven days.
And every open vessel, which hath no
covering bound upon it, is unclean.
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain
with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a
man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
And for an unclean person they shall take
of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and
running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and
dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all
the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him
that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon
the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
But the man that shall be unclean, and
shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD:
the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is
unclean.
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto
them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash
his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be
unclean until even.
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth
shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean
until even.
Then came the children of Israel, even the
whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and
the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried
there.
And there was no water for the congregation:
and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake,
saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before
the LORD!
And why have ye brought up the congregation
of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die
there?
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out
of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of
seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there
any water to drink.
And Moses and Aaron went from the presence
of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the
LORD appeared unto them.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly
together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock
before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou
shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give
the congregation and their beasts drink.
And Moses took the rod from before the LORD,
as he commanded him.
And Moses and Aaron gathered the
congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear
now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his
rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and
the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron,
Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the
children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation
into the land which I have given them.
This is the water of Meribah; because the
children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in
them.
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto
the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all
the travail that hath befallen us:
How our fathers went down into Egypt, and
we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and
our fathers:
And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard
our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of
Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of
thy border:
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy
country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the
vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will
go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor
to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass
by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
And the children of Israel said unto him,
We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy
water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything
else, go through on my feet.
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And
Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong
hand.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage
through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
And the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in
mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people:
for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the
water of Meribah.
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring
them up unto mount Hor:
And strip Aaron of his garments, and put
them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his
people, and shall die there.
And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and
they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the
congregation.
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments,
and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top
of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
And when all the congregation saw that
Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the
house of Israel.
And when king Arad the Canaanite, which
dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the
spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them
prisoners.
And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and
said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I
will utterly destroy their cities.
And the LORD hearkened to the voice of
Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed
them and their cities: and he called the name of the place
Hormah.
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way
of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the
people was much discouraged because of the way.
And the people spake against God, and
against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die
in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any
water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the
people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel
died.
Therefore the people came to Moses, and
said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and
against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents
from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a
fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass,
that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall
live.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put
it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten
any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
And the children of Israel set forward, and
pitched in Oboth.
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched
at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the
sunrising.
From thence they removed, and pitched in
the valley of Zared.
From thence they removed, and pitched on
the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out
of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
Wherefore it is said in the book of the
wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of
Arnon,
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth
down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
And from thence they went to Beer: that is
the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O
well; sing ye unto it:
The princes digged the well, the nobles of
the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from
Nahaliel to Bamoth:
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in
the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward
Jeshimon.
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king
of the Amorites, saying,
Let me pass through thy land: we will not
turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of
the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high
way, until we be past thy borders.
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass
through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and
went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz,
and fought against Israel.
And Israel smote him with the edge of the
sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was
strong.
And Israel took all these cities: and
Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in
all the villages thereof.
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king
of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab,
and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say,
Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and
prepared:
For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a
flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the
lords of the high places of Arnon.
Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O
people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his
daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished
even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah,
which reacheth unto Medeba.
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the
Amorites.
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they
took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were
there.
And they turned and went up by the way of
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and
all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not:
for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his
land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
So they smote him, and his sons, and all
his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed
his land.
And the children of Israel set forward, and
pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that
Israel had done to the Amorites.
And Moab was sore afraid of the people,
because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the
children of Israel.
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now
shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox
licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was
king of the Moabites at that time.
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the
son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the
children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a
people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the
earth, and they abide over against me:
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me
this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall
prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of
the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he
whom thou cursest is cursed.
And the elders of Moab and the elders of
Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and
they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
And he said unto them, Lodge here this
night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak
unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men
are these with thee?
And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of
Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
Behold, there is a people come out of
Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me
them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them
out.
And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go
with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are
blessed.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said
unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD
refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they
went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and
more honourable than they.
And they came to Balaam, and said to him,
Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee,
hinder thee from coming unto me:
For I will promote thee unto very great
honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come
therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
And Balaam answered and said unto the
servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver
and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do
less or more.
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also
here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me
more.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said
unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou
do.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
And God's anger was kindled because he
went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary
against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants
were with him.
And the ass saw the angel of the LORD
standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass
turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam
smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
But the angel of the LORD stood in a path
of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that
side.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD,
she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against
the wall: and he smote her again.
And the angel of the LORD went further, and
stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the
right hand or to the left.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD,
she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he
smote the ass with a staff.
And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass,
and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou
hast smitten me these three times?
And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou
hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now
would I kill thee.
And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I
thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto
this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said,
Nay.
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam,
and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword
drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his
face.
And the angel of the LORD said unto him,
Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I
went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before
me:
And the ass saw me, and turned from me
these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I
had slain thee, and saved her alive.
And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD,
I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against
me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back
again.
And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam,
Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee,
that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of
Balak.
And when Balak heard that Balaam was come,
he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border
of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not
earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not
unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come
unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word
that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
And Balaam went with Balak, and they came
unto Kirjathhuzoth.
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent
to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that
Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal,
that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and
Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy
burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to
meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went
to an high place.
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I
have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a
bullock and a ram.
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth,
and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood
by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak
the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of
the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?
or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and
from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and
shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the
number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be like his!
And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou
done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou
hast blessed them altogether.
And he answered and said, Must I not take
heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee,
with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou
shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all:
and curse me them from thence.
And he brought him into the field of
Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a
bullock and a ram on every altar.
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy
burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in
his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
And when he came to him, behold, he stood
by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak
said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise
up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
God is not a man, that he should lie;
neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and
shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it
good?
Behold, I have received commandment to
bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is
with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as
it were the strength of an unicorn.
Surely there is no enchantment against
Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to
this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God
wrought!
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great
lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down
until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse
them at all, nor bless them at all.
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak,
Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must
do?
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray
thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will
please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of
Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven
rams.
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and
offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD
to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for
enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw
Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the
spirit of God came upon him.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam
the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath
said:
He hath said, which heard the words of God,
which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but
having his eyes open:
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy
tabernacles, O Israel!
As the valleys are they spread forth, as
gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the
LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
He shall pour the water out of his buckets,
and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath
as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations
his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through
with his arrows.
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a
great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth
thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
And Balak's anger was kindled against
Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto
Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
altogether blessed them these three times.
Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I
thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath
kept thee back from honour.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not
also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
If Balak would give me his house full of
silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to
do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith,
that will I speak?
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come
therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to
thy people in the latter days.
And he took up his parable, and said,
Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open
hath said:
He hath said, which heard the words of God,
and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of
the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
I shall see him, but not now: I shall
behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and
a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of
Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also
shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do
valiantly.
Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have
dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up
his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his
latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up
his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou
puttest thy nest in a rock.
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted,
until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
And he took up his parable, and said, Alas,
who shall live when God doeth this!
And ships shall come from the coast of
Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he
also shall perish for ever.
And Balaam rose up, and went and returned
to his place: and Balak also went his way.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people
began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
And they called the people unto the
sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to
their gods.
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and
the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the
heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the
sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from
Israel.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel,
Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
And, behold, one of the children of Israel
came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight
of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the
congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
And he went after the man of Israel into the
tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the
woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children
of Israel.
And those that died in the plague were
twenty and four thousand.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of
Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I
consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my
covenant of peace:
And he shall have it, and his seed after
him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was
zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of
Israel.
Now the name of the Israelite that was
slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri,
the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the
Simeonites.
And the name of the Midianitish woman that
was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a
people, and of a chief house in Midian.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
For they vex you with their wiles,
wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the
matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister,
which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
And it came to pass after the plague, that
the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, saying,
Take the sum of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout
their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in
Israel.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with
them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Take the sum of the people, from twenty
years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children
of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the
children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the
Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of
Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
These are the families of the Reubenites:
and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand
and seven hundred and thirty.
And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan,
and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in
the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the
company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what
time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a
sign.
Notwithstanding the children of Korah died
not.
The sons of Simeon after their families: of
Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the
Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of
Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
These are the families of the Simeonites,
twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
The children of Gad after their families:
of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of
the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri,
the family of the Erites:
Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of
Areli, the family of the Arelites.
These are the families of the children of
Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand
and five hundred.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er
and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Judah after their families
were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the
family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the
Hamulites.
These are the families of Judah according
to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen
thousand and five hundred.
Of the sons of Issachar after their
families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family
of the Punites:
Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of
Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
These are the families of Issachar
according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four
thousand and three hundred.
Of the sons of Zebulun after their
families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family
of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
These are the families of the Zebulunites
according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand
and five hundred.
The sons of Joseph after their families
were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the
family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come
the family of the Gileadites.
These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer,
the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the
Helekites:
And of Asriel, the family of the
Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
And of Shemida, the family of the
Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no
sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad
were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
These are the families of Manasseh, and
those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven
hundred.
These are the sons of Ephraim after their
families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher,
the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of
Eran, the family of the Eranites.
These are the families of the sons of
Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and
two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after
their families.
The sons of Benjamin after their families:
of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the
Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites:
of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman:
of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the
Naamites.
These are the sons of Benjamin after their
families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five
thousand and six hundred.
These are the sons of Dan after their
families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the
families of Dan after their families.
All the families of the Shuhamites,
according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and
four thousand and four hundred.
Of the children of Asher after their
families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the
family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family
of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
And the name of the daughter of Asher was
Sarah.
These are the families of the sons of Asher
according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and
three thousand and four hundred.
Of the sons of Naphtali after their
families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the
family of the Gunites:
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of
Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
These are the families of Naphtali
according to their families: and they that were numbered of them
were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
These were the numbered of the children of
Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and
thirty.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Unto these the land shall be divided for an
inheritance according to the number of names.
To many thou shalt give the more
inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to
every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that
were numbered of him.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided
by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they
shall inherit.
According to the lot shall the possession
thereof be divided between many and few.
And these are they that were numbered of
the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the
Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari,
the family of the Merarites.
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
Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed,
the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and
she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered
strange fire before the LORD.
And those that were numbered of them were
twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward:
for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because
there was no inheritance given them among the children of
Israel.
These are they that were numbered by Moses
and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the
plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
But among these there was not a man of them
whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
For the LORD had said of them, They shall
surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them,
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the
son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these
are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Tirzah.
And they stood before Moses, and before
Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the
congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
saying,
Our father died in the wilderness, and he
was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together
against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin,
and had no sons.
Why should the name of our father be done
away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us
therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
And Moses brought their cause before the
LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right:
thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among
their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of
their father to pass unto them.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause
his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall
give his inheritance unto his brethren.
And if he have no brethren, then ye shall
give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
And if his father have no brethren, then ye
shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of
his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up
into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto
the children of Israel.
And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt
be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was
gathered.
For ye rebelled against my commandment in
the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify
me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all
flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Which may go out before them, and which may
go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring
them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which
have no shepherd.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee
Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine
hand upon him;
And set him before Eleazar the priest, and
before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their
sight.
And thou shalt put some of thine honour
upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may
be obedient.
And he shall stand before Eleazar the
priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim
before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word
they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with
him, even all the congregation.
And Moses did as the LORD commanded him:
and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and
before all the congregation:
And he laid his hands upon him, and gave
him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto
them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for
a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their
due season.
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the
offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs
of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt
offering.
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the
morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a
meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten
oil.
It is a continual burnt offering, which was
ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by
fire unto the LORD.
And the drink offering thereof shall be the
fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt
thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink
offering.
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even:
as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering
thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
And on the sabbath day two lambs of the
first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
This is the burnt offering of every
sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
offering.
And in the beginnings of your months ye
shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and
one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
And three tenth deals of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of
flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
And a several tenth deal of flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of
a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
And their drink offerings shall be half an
hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a
ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt
offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering
unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt
offering, and his drink offering.
And in the fourteenth day of the first
month is the passover of the LORD.
And in the fifteenth day of this month is
the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
In the first day shall be an holy
convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire
for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one
ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you
without blemish:
And their meat offering shall be of flour
mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock,
and two tenth deals for a ram;
A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for
every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
And one goat for a sin offering, to make an
atonement for you.
Ye shall offer these beside the burnt
offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt
offering.
After this manner ye shall offer daily,
throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the
continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
And on the seventh day ye shall have an
holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye
bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out,
ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile
work:
But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a
sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven
lambs of the first year;
And their meat offering of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto
one ram,
A several tenth deal unto one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs;
And one kid of the goats, to make an
atonement for you.
Ye shall offer them beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you
without blemish) and their drink offerings.
And in the seventh month, on the first day
of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no
servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a
sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven
lambs of the first year without blemish:
And their meat offering shall be of flour
mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth
deals for a ram,
And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout
the seven lambs:
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering,
to make an atonement for you:
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and
his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat
offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner,
for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
And ye shall have on the tenth day of this
seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls:
ye shall not do any work therein:
But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the
LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven
lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without
blemish:
And their meat offering shall be of flour
mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth
deals to one ram,
A several tenth deal for one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs:
One kid of the goats for a sin offering;
beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt
offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink
offerings.
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh
month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile
work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a
sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen
young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year;
they shall be without blemish:
And their meat offering shall be of flour
mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the
thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two
rams,
And a several tenth deal to each lamb of
the fourteen lambs:
And one kid of the goats for a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering,
and his drink offering.
And on the second day ye shall offer twelve
young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without
spot:
And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall
be according to their number, after the manner:
And one kid of the goats for a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat
offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
And on the third day eleven bullocks, two
rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall
be according to their number, after the manner:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two
rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall
be according to their number, after the manner:
And one kid of the goats for a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering,
and his drink offering.
And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two
rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall
be according to their number, after the manner:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two
rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall
be according to their number, after the manner:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two
rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall
be according to their number, after the manner:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn
assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a
sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one
bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without
blemish:
Their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be
according to their number, after the manner:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
These things ye shall do unto the LORD in
your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for
your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your
drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
And Moses told the children of Israel
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes
concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which
the LORD hath commanded.
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear
an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word,
he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and
bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her
youth;
And her father hear her vow, and her bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his
peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
But if her father disallow her in the day
that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she
hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her,
because her father disallowed her.
And if she had at all an husband, when she
vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her
soul;
And her husband heard it, and held his peace
at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and
her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
But if her husband disallowed her on the day
that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and
that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul,
of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is
divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand
against her.
And if she vowed in her husband's house, or
bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
And her husband heard it, and held his
peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall
stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall
stand.
But if her husband hath utterly made them
void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her
lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall
not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall
forgive her.
Every vow, and every binding oath to
afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may
make it void.
But if her husband altogether hold his
peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or
all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he
held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
But if he shall any ways make them void
after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her
iniquity.
These are the statutes, which the LORD
commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and
his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
Avenge the children of Israel of the
Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm
some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all
the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
So there were delivered out of the thousands
of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for
war.
And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand
of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to
the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his
hand.
And they warred against the Midianites, as
the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside
the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,
and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of
Beor they slew with the sword.
And the children of Israel took all the
women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil
of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their
goods.
And they burnt all their cities wherein
they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
And they took all the spoil, and all the
prey, both of men and of beasts.
And they brought the captives, and the
prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto
the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the
plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all
the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without
the camp.
And Moses was wroth with the officers of
the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, which came from the battle.
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all
the women alive?
Behold, these caused the children of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against
the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the
congregation of the LORD.
Now therefore kill every male among the
little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with
him.
But all the women children, that have not
known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
And do ye abide without the camp seven
days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched
any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third
day, and on the seventh day.
And purify all your raiment, and all that
is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made
of wood.
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of
war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law
which the LORD commanded Moses;
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass,
the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye
shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean:
nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and
all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the
water.
And ye shall wash your clothes on the
seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come
into the camp.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the sum of the prey that was taken,
both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the
chief fathers of the congregation:
And divide the prey into two parts; between
them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and
between all the congregation:
And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men
of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of
the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the
sheep:
Take it of their half, and give it unto
Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
And of the children of Israel's half, thou
shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of
the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give
them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of
the LORD.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the
LORD commanded Moses.
And the booty, being the rest of the prey
which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and
seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
And threescore and twelve thousand
beeves,
And threescore and one thousand asses,
And thirty and two thousand persons in all,
of women that had not known man by lying with him.
And the half, which was the portion of them
that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and
seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six
hundred and threescore and fifteen.
And the beeves were thirty and six
thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and
twelve.
And the asses were thirty thousand and five
hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of
which the LORD's tribute was thirty and two persons.
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the
LORD's heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
And of the children of Israel's half, which
Moses divided from the men that warred,
(Now the half that pertained unto the
congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
And thirty and six thousand beeves,
And thirty thousand asses and five
hundred,
And sixteen thousand persons;)
Even of the children of Israel's half,
Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave
them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of
the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the officers which were over thousands
of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds,
came near unto Moses:
And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have
taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and
there lacketh not one man of us.
We have therefore brought an oblation for
the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains,
and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement
for our souls before the LORD.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the
gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
And all the gold of the offering that they
offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every
man for himself.)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the
gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it
into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the
children of Israel before the LORD.
Now the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the
land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was
a place for cattle;
The children of Gad and the children of
Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and
unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah,
and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Even the country which the LORD smote before
the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants
have cattle:
Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace
in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a
possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and
to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall
ye sit here?
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the
children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD
hath given them?
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from
Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
For when they went up unto the valley of
Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the
children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the
LORD had given them.
And the LORD's anger was kindled the same
time, and he sware, saying,
Surely none of the men that came up out of
Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I
sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have
not wholly followed me:
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed
the LORD.
And the LORD's anger was kindled against
Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years,
until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the
LORD, was consumed.
And, behold, ye are risen up in your
fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the
fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
For if ye turn away from after him, he will
yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all
this people.
And they came near unto him, and said, We
will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our
little ones:
But we ourselves will go ready armed before
the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their
place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because
of the inhabitants of the land.
We will not return unto our houses, until
the children of Israel have inherited every man his
inheritance.
For we will not inherit with them on yonder
side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on
this side Jordan eastward.
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do
this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
And will go all of you armed over Jordan
before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before
him,
And the land be subdued before the LORD:
then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD,
and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before
the LORD.
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have
sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you
out.
Build you cities for your little ones, and
folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your
mouth.
And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord
commandeth.
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and
all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
But thy servants will pass over, every man
armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar
the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel:
And Moses said unto them, If the children
of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan,
every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be
subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for
a possession:
But if they will not pass over with you
armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of
Canaan.
And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants,
so will we do.
We will pass over armed before the LORD
into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on
this side Jordan may be our's.
And Moses gave unto them, even to the
children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the
tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of
the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with
the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country
round about.
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and
Ataroth, and Aroer,
And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and
Jogbehah,
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced
cities: and folds for sheep.
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon,
and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being
changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which
they builded.
And the children of Machir the son of
Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite
which was in it.
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son
of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took
the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the
villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
These are the journeys of the children of
Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies
under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And Moses wrote their goings out according
to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are
their journeys according to their goings out.
And they departed from Rameses in the first
month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after
the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians.
For the Egyptians buried all their
firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods
also the LORD executed judgments.
And the children of Israel removed from
Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched
in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
And they removed from Etham, and turned
again unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched
before Migdol.
And they departed from before Pihahiroth,
and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and
went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in
Marah.
And they removed from Marah, and came unto
Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore
and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
And they removed from Elim, and encamped by
the Red sea.
And they removed from the Red sea, and
encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they took their journey out of the
wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
And they departed from Dophkah, and
encamped in Alush.
And they removed from Alush, and encamped
at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
And they departed from Rephidim, and
pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
And they removed from the desert of Sinai,
and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.
And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah,
and encamped at Hazeroth.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and
pitched in Rithmah.
And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched
at Rimmonparez.
And they departed from Rimmonparez, and
pitched in Libnah.
And they removed from Libnah, and pitched
at Rissah.
And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched
in Kehelathah.
And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched
in mount Shapher.
And they removed from mount Shapher, and
encamped in Haradah.
And they removed from Haradah, and pitched
in Makheloth.
And they removed from Makheloth, and
encamped at Tahath.
And they departed from Tahath, and pitched
at Tarah.
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in
Mithcah.
And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in
Hashmonah.
And they departed from Hashmonah, and
encamped at Moseroth.
And they departed from Moseroth, and
pitched in Benejaakan.
And they removed from Benejaakan, and
encamped at Horhagidgad.
And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched
in Jotbathah.
And they removed from Jotbathah, and
encamped at Ebronah.
And they departed from Ebronah, and
encamped at Eziongaber.
And they removed from Eziongaber, and
pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched
in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor
at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth
year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of
Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and
three years old when he died in mount Hor.
And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in
the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the
children of Israel.
And they departed from mount Hor, and
pitched in Zalmonah.
And they departed from Zalmonah, and
pitched in Punon.
And they departed from Punon, and pitched
in Oboth.
And they departed from Oboth, and pitched
in Ijeabarim, in the border of Moab.
And they departed from Iim, and pitched in
Dibongad.
And they removed from Dibongad, and
encamped in Almondiblathaim.
And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and
pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
And they departed from the mountains of
Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near
Jericho.
And they pitched by Jordan, from
Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains
of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of
Canaan;
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants
of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and
destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their
high places:
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of
the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to
possess it.
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an
inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the
more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less
inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where
his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall
inherit.
But if ye will not drive out the
inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to
pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in
your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land
wherein ye dwell.
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I
shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that
shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan
with the coasts thereof:)
Then your south quarter shall be from the
wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border
shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
And your border shall turn from the south to
the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth
thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to
Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
And the border shall fetch a compass from
Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at
the sea.
And as for the western border, ye shall even
have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west
border.
And this shall be your north border: from
the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
From mount Hor ye shall point out your
border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the
border shall be to Zedad:
And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and
the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your
north border.
And ye shall point out your east border
from Hazarenan to Shepham:
And the coast shall go down from Shepham to
Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and
shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and
the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your
land with the coasts thereof round about.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel,
saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the
LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half
tribe:
For the tribe of the children of Reuben
according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the
children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have
received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have
received their inheritance:
The two tribes and the half tribe have
received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho
eastward, toward the sunrising.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
These are the names of the men which shall
divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of
Nun.
And ye shall take one prince of every
tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
And the names of the men are these: Of the
tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
And of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of
Chislon.
And the prince of the tribe of the children
of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
The prince of the children of Joseph, for
the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of
Ephod.
And the prince of the tribe of the children
of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
And the prince of the tribe of the children
of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
And the prince of the tribe of the children
of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
And the prince of the tribe of the children
of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
And the prince of the tribe of the children
of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
These are they whom the LORD commanded to
divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of
Canaan.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains
of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Command the children of Israel, that they
give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities
to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for
the cities round about them.
And the cities shall they have to dwell in;
and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their
goods, and for all their beasts.
And the suburbs of the cities, which ye
shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city
and outward a thousand cubits round about.
And ye shall measure from without the city
on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two
thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on
the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the
midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
And among the cities which ye shall give
unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye
shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to
them ye shall add forty and two cities.
So all the cities which ye shall give to the
Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with
their suburbs.
And the cities which ye shall give shall be
of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have
many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give
few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according
to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of
Canaan;
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be
cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which
killeth any person at unawares.
And they shall be unto you cities for
refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand
before the congregation in judgment.
And of these cities which ye shall give six
cities shall ye have for refuge.
Ye shall give three cities on this side
Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which
shall be cities of refuge.
These six cities shall be a refuge, both
for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the
sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person
unawares may flee thither.
And if he smite him with an instrument of
iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely
be put to death.
And if he smite him with throwing a stone,
wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of
wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
The revenger of blood himself shall slay
the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at
him by laying of wait, that he die;
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that
he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a
murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he
meeteth him.
But if he thrust him suddenly without
enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of
wait,
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die,
seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his
enemy, neither sought his harm:
Then the congregation shall judge between
the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these
judgments:
And the congregation shall deliver the
slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the
congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither
he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high
priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
But if the slayer shall at any time come
without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was
fled;
And the revenger of blood find him without
the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood
kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
Because he should have remained in the city
of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the
death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of
his possession.
So these things shall be for a statute of
judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer
shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness
shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for
the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be
surely put to death.
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him
that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again
to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye
are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be
cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him
that shed it.
Defile not therefore the land which ye
shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the
children of Israel.
And the chief fathers of the families of the
children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses,
and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of
Israel:
And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to
give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel:
and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
And if they be married to any of the sons of
the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their
inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall
be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received:
so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
And when the jubile of the children of
Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall
their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe
of our fathers.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel
according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of
Joseph hath said well.
This is the thing which the LORD doth
command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them
marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of
their father shall they marry.
So shall not the inheritance of the children
of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children
of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his
fathers.
And every daughter, that possesseth an
inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife
unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the
children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his
fathers.
Neither shall the inheritance remove from
one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the
children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did
the daughters of Zelophehad:
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah,
and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their
father's brothers' sons:
And they were married into the families of
the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
These are the commandments and the
judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near
Jericho.