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1 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Si-nai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying, ²Take you the census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls; ³from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. ⁴And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers’ house. ⁵And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of Reuben: E-li-zur the son of Shed-e-ur. ⁶Of Simeon: She-lu-mi-el the son of Zu-ri-shad-dai. ⁷Of Judah: Na-ash-on the son of Am-min-a-dab. ⁸Of Is-sa-char: Neth-a-neel the son of Zu-ar. ⁹Of Ze-bu-lun: E-li-ab the son of He-lon. ¹⁰Of the children of Joseph: Of E-phra-im: E-li-sha-ma the son of Am-mi-hud. Of Ma-nas-seh: Ga-ma-li-el the son of Pe-dah-zur. ¹¹Of Benjamin: A-bi-dan the son of Gid-e-o-ni. ¹²Of Dan: A-hi-e-zer the son of Am-mi-shad-dai. ¹³Of Asher: Pa-gi-el the son of Oc-ran. ¹⁴Of Gad: E-li-a-saph the son of Deu-el. ¹⁵Of Naph-ta-li: A-hi-ra the son of E-nan. ¹⁶These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

¹⁷And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name: ¹⁸And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. ¹⁹As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Si-nai. ²⁰And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ²¹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. ²²Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ²³those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. ²⁴Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ²⁵those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. ²⁶Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ²⁷those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. ²⁸Of the children of Is-sa-char, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ²⁹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Is-sa-char, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. ³⁰Of the children of Ze-bu-lun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ³¹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ze-bu-lun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. ³²Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of E-phra-im, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ³³those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of E-phra-im, were forty thousand five hundred. ³⁴Of the children of Ma-nas-seh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ³⁵those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ma-nas-seh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. ³⁶Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ³⁷those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. ³⁸Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ³⁹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. ⁴⁰Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ⁴¹those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. ⁴²Of the children of Naph-ta-li, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ⁴³those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naph-ta-li, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house. ⁴⁵So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; ⁴⁶even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

⁴⁷But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸For Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁹Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take the sum of them among the children of Israel; ⁵⁰but appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongs to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall camp round about the tabernacle. ⁵¹And when the tabernacle to go 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 comes near shall be put to death. ⁵²And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts. ⁵³But the Levites shall camp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁵⁴This did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.

2 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²The children of Israel shall camp every man by his own standard, with the signs of their fathers’ houses: over against the tent of meeting shall they camp round about.

³And those that camp on the east side toward the sunrising shall be they of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Na-ash-on the son of Am-min-a-dab. ⁴And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. ⁵And those that camp next to him shall be the tribe of Is-sa-char: and the prince of the children of Is-sa-char shall be Neth-a-neel the son of Zu-ar. ⁶And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. ⁷And the tribe of Ze-bu-lun: and the prince of the children of Ze-bu-lun shall be E-li-ab the son of He-lon. ⁸And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. ⁹All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first. ¹⁰On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be E-li-zur the son of Shed-e-ur. ¹¹And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty-six thousand five hundred. ¹²And those that camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the prince of the children of Simeon shall be She-lu-mi-el the son of Zu-ri-shad-dai. ¹³And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. ¹⁴And the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be E-li-a-saph the son of Re-u-el. ¹⁵And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. ¹⁶All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred thousand and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth second. ¹⁷Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps: as they camp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards. ¹⁸On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of E-phra-im according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of E-phra-im shall be E-li-sha-ma the son of Am-mi-hud. ¹⁹And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred. ²⁰And next to him shall be the tribe of Ma-nas-seh: and the prince of the children of Ma-nas-seh shall be Ga-ma-li-el the son of Pe-dah-zur. ²¹And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. ²²And the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be A-bi-dan the son of Gid-e-o-ni. ²³And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. ²⁴All that were numbered of the camp of E-phra-im were a hundred thousand and eight thousand one hundred, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth third. ²⁵On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be A-hi-e-zer the son of Am-mi-shad-dai. ²⁶And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. ²⁷And those that camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pa-gi-el the son of Oc-ran. ²⁸And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand five hundred. ²⁹And the tribe of Naph-ta-li: and the prince of the children of Naph-ta-li shall be A-hi-ra the son of E-nan. ³⁰And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. ³¹All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set forth hindmost by their standards. ³²These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. ³³But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses. ³⁴This did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

3 Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses in mount Si-nai. ²And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Na-dab the first-born, and A-bi-hu, El-e-a-zar, and Ith-a-mar. ³These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. ⁴And Na-dab and A-bi-hu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Si-nai, and they had no children; and El-e-a-zar and Ith-a-mar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father. ⁵And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁶Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. ⁷And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. ⁸And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. ⁹And you shall give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him on the behalf of the children of Israel. ¹⁰And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. ¹¹And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹²And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that opens the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine: ¹³for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.

¹⁴And Jehovah spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Si-nai, saying, ¹⁵Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number them. ¹⁶And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded. ¹⁷And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Ger-shon, and Ko-hath, and Me-rar-i. ¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Ger-shon by their families: Lib-ni and Shim-e-i. ¹⁹And the sons of Ko-hath by their families: Amram, and Iz-har, He-bron, and Uz-zi-el. ²⁰And the sons of Me-rar-i by their families: Ma-ha-li and Mu-shi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses. ²¹Of Ger-shon was the family of the Lib-nites, and the family of the Shim-e-ites: these are the families of the Ger-shon-ites. ²²Those 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 five hundred. ²³The families of the Ger-shon-ites shall camp behind the tabernacle westward. ²⁴And the prince of the fathers’ house of the Ger-shon-ites shall be E-li-a-saph the son of La-el. ²⁵And the charge of the sons of Ger-shon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, ²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof. ²⁷And of Ko-hath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Iz-har-ites, and the family of the He-bron-ites, and the family of the Uz-zi-e-lites: these are the families of the Ko-hath-ites. ²⁸According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. ²⁹The families of the sons of Ko-hath shall camp on the side of the tabernacle southward. ³⁰And the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Ko-hath-ites shall be E-li-za-phan the son of Uz-zi-el. ³¹And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the screen, and all the service thereof. ³²And El-e-a-zar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary. ³³Of Me-rar-i was the family of the Mah-lites, and the family of the Mu-shites: these are the families of Me-rar-i. ³⁴And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred. ³⁵And the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Me-rar-i was Zu-ri-el the son of Ab-i-hail: they shall camp on the side of the tabernacle northward. ³⁶And the appointed charge of the sons of Me-rar-i shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all the service thereof, ³⁷and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. ³⁸And those that camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. ³⁹All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

⁴⁰And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. ⁴¹And you shall take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel: ⁴²and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel. ⁴³And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. ⁴⁴And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah. ⁴⁶And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are over and above the number of the Levites, ⁴⁷you shall take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs): ⁴⁸and you shall give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. ⁴⁹And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites; ⁵⁰from the first-born of the children of Israel he took the money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: ⁵¹and Moses gave the redemption-money unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

4 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying, ²Take the sum of the sons of Ko-hath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, ³from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. ⁴This is the service of the sons of Ko-hath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things: ⁵when the camp is moved forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it, ⁶and shall put on a covering of sealskin, and shall spread a cloth all of blue over it, and shall put in the staves thereof. ⁷And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put the dishes thereon, and the spoons, and the bowls and the cups wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall be thereon: ⁸and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof. ⁹And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: ¹⁰and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon the frame. ¹¹And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof: ¹²and they shall take all the vessels of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. ¹³And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: ¹⁴and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, the firepans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and put in the staves thereof. ¹⁵And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set to move forward; after that, the sons of Ko-hath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, unless they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Ko-hath in the tent of meeting. ¹⁶And the charge of El-e-a-zar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual meal-offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is therein, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof. ¹⁷And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying, ¹⁸Cut not off the tribe of the families of the Ko-hath-ites from among the Levites; ¹⁹but do this 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; ²⁰but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, unless they die.

²¹And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²²Take the sum of the sons of Ger-shon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families; ²³from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. ²⁴This is the service of the families of the Ger-shon-ites, in serving and in bearing burdens: ²⁵they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above upon it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, ²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatsoever shall be done with them: therein they shall serve. ²⁷All the service of the sons of the Ger-shon-ites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden. ²⁸This is the service of the families of the sons of the Ger-shon-ites in the tent of meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ith-a-mar the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹As for the sons of Me-rar-i, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers’ houses; ³⁰from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shall you number them, every one that enters upon the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting. ³¹And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, ³²and 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 you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden. ³³This is the service of the families of the sons of Me-rar-i, according to all their service, in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ith-a-mar the son of Aaron the priest.

³⁴And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Ko-hath-ites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses, ³⁵from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting: ³⁶and those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷These are they that were numbered of the families of the Ko-hath-ites, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses. ³⁸And those that were numbered of the sons of Ger-shon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses, ³⁹from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁰even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Ger-shon, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah. ⁴²And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Me-rar-i, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, ⁴³from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁴even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred. ⁴⁵These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Me-rar-i, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses. ⁴⁶All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses, ⁴⁷from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁸even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: for this they were numbered of him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

5 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead: ³both male and female shall you put out, without the camp shall you put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell. ⁴And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp; as Jehovah spoke unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. ⁵And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁶Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah, and that soul shall be guilty; ⁷then he shall confess his sin which he has done: and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him in respect of whom he has been guilty. ⁸But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made unto Jehovah shall be the priest’s; besides the ram of the atonement, whereby atonement shall be made for him. ⁹And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his. ¹⁰And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.

¹¹And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, ¹³and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act; ¹⁴and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled: ¹⁵then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an E-phah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. ¹⁶And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah: ¹⁷and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. ¹⁸And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and let the hair of the woman’s head go free, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy: and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that cause the curse. ¹⁹And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that cause the curse. ²⁰But if you have gone aside, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband: ²¹then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Jehovah does make your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; ²²and this water that cause the curse shall go into your bowels, and make your body to swell, and your thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. ²³And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness: ²⁴and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that cause the curse; and the water that cause the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. ²⁵And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before Jehovah, and bring it unto the altar: ²⁶and the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. ²⁷And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that cause the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. ²⁸And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. ²⁹This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes aside, and is defiled; ³⁰or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. ³¹And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.

6 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto Jehovah, ³he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. ⁴All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk. ⁵All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he separates himself unto Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. ⁶All the days that he separates himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body. ⁷He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head. ⁸All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah. ⁹And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. ¹⁰And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting: ¹¹and the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. ¹²And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. ¹³And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tent of meeting: ¹⁴and he shall offer his oblation unto Jehovah, one he-lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings, ¹⁵and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings. ¹⁶And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering: ¹⁷and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall also offer the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ¹⁸And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings. ¹⁹And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven the head of his separation; ²⁰and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink wine. ²¹This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his oblation unto Jehovah for his separation, besides that which he is able to get: according to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.

7 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and sanctified them; ²that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, made an offering. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered: ³and they brought their oblation before Jehovah, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle. ⁴And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁵Take it of them, that they may be used in doing the service of the tent of meeting; and you shall give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. ⁶And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites. ⁷Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Ger-shon, according to their service: ⁸and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Me-rar-i, according unto their service, under the hand of Ith-a-mar the son of Aaron the priest. ⁹But unto the sons of Ko-hath he gave nothing, because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders.

¹⁰And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their oblation before the altar. ¹¹And Jehovah said unto Moses, They shall offer their oblation, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar. ¹²And he that offered his oblation on the first day was Na-ash-on the son of Am-min-a-dab, of the tribe of Judah: ¹³and his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ¹⁴one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ¹⁵one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ¹⁶one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ¹⁷and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Na-ash-on the son of Am-min-a-dab. ¹⁸On the second day Neth-a-neel the son of Zu-ar, prince of Is-sa-char, brought his offering: ¹⁹he offered for his oblation one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ²⁰one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ²¹one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ²²one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ²³and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Neth-a-neel the son of Zu-ar. ²⁴On the third day E-li-ab the son of He-lon, prince of the children of Ze-bu-lun made his offering.: ²⁵his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ²⁶one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ²⁷one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ²⁸one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ²⁹and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of E-li-ab the son of He-lon. ³⁰On the fourth day came E-li-zur the son of Shed-e-ur, prince of the children of Reuben: ³¹his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ³²one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ³³one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ³⁴one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ³⁵and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of E-li-zur the son of Shed-e-ur. ³⁶On the fifth day came She-lu-mi-el the son of Zu-ri-shad-dai, prince of the children of Simeon came: ³⁷his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ³⁸one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ³⁹one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁴⁰one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴¹and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of She-lu-mi-el the son of Zu-ri-shad-dai. ⁴²On the sixth day E-li-a-saph the son of Deu-el, prince of the children of Gad came: ⁴³his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁴⁴one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁴⁵one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁴⁶one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴⁷and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of E-li-a-saph the son of Deu-el. ⁴⁸On the seventh day E-li-sha-ma the son of Am-mi-hud, prince of the children of E-phra-im came: ⁴⁹his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁵⁰one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁵¹one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁵²one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵³and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of E-li-sha-ma the son of Am-mi-hud. ⁵⁴On the eighth day Ga-ma-li-el the son of Pe-dah-zur, prince of the children of Ma-nas-seh came: ⁵⁵his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁵⁶one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁵⁷one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁵⁸one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵⁹and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ga-ma-li-el the son of Pe-dah-zur. ⁶⁰On the ninth day A-bi-dan the son of Gid-e-o-ni, prince of the children of Benjamin came: ⁶¹his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁶²one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁶³one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁶⁴one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁶⁵and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of A-bi-dan the son of Gid-e-o-ni. ⁶⁶On the tenth day A-hi-e-zer the son of Am-mi-shad-dai, prince of the children of Dan came: ⁶⁷his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁶⁸one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁶⁹one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁷⁰one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷¹and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of A-hi-e-zer the son of Am-mi-shad-dai. ⁷²On the eleventh day Pa-gi-el the son of Oc-ran, prince of the children of Asher came: ⁷³his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁷⁴one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁷⁵one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁷⁶one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷⁷and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Pa-gi-el the son of Oc-ran. ⁷⁸On the twelfth day A-hi-ra the son of E-nan, prince of the children of Naph-ta-li came: ⁷⁹his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred a thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ⁸⁰one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; ⁸¹one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; ⁸²one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁸³and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of A-hi-ra the son of E-nan. ⁸⁴This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons; ⁸⁵each silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; ⁸⁶the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons a hundred and twenty shekels; ⁸⁷all the oxen for the burnt-offering twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the he-lambs a year old twelve, and their meal-offering; and the males of the goats for a sin-offering twelve; ⁸⁸and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace-offerings twenty-four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed. ⁸⁹And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke unto him.

8 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Speak unto Aaron, and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick. ³And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in front of the candlestick, as Jehovah commanded Moses. ⁴And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the base thereof, and unto the flowers thereof, it was a beaten work: according unto the pattern which Jehovah had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

⁵And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁶Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. ⁷And this shall you do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. ⁸Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and another young bullock shall you take for a sin-offering. ⁹And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and you shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel: ¹⁰and you shall present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites: ¹¹and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave-offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Jehovah. ¹²And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and then you will offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites. ¹³And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto Jehovah. ¹⁴By this shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine. ¹⁵And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering. ¹⁶For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that opens the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. ¹⁷For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. ¹⁸And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel. ¹⁹And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near unto the sanctuary. ²⁰This did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses as touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them. ²¹And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. ²²And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did unto them. ²³And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²⁴This is that which belongs unto the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting: ²⁵and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more, ²⁶but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. this shall you do unto the Levites touching their charges.

9 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Si-nai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, ²Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. ³In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, you shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall you keep it. ⁴And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. ⁵And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, in the wilderness of Si-nai: according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. ⁶And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: ⁷and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel? ⁸And Moses said to them, Stay here, that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you. ⁹And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover unto Jehovah. ¹¹In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs: ¹²they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. ¹³But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbears to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he did not offered the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. ¹⁴And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the Passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

¹⁵And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. ¹⁶So it was always: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. ¹⁷And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel camped. ¹⁸At the command of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed, and at the command of Jehovah they camped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained camped. ¹⁹And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not. ²⁰And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the command of Jehovah they remained camped, and according to the command of Jehovah they journeyed. ²¹And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. ²²Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained camped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. ²³At the command of Jehovah they camped, and at the command of Jehovah they journeyed: they kept the charge of Jehovah, at the command of Jehovah by Moses.

10 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Make two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. ³And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto you at the door of the tent of meeting. ⁴And if they blow only one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto you. ⁵And when you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. ⁶And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. ⁷But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. ⁸And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations. ⁹And when you go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. ¹⁰Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Jehovah your God.

¹¹And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. ¹²And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Si-nai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Par-an. ¹³And they first took their journey according to the command of Jehovah by Moses. ¹⁴And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Na-ash-on the son of Am-min-a-dab. ¹⁵And over the host of the tribe of the children of Is-sa-char was Neth-a-neel the son of Zu-ar. ¹⁶And over the host of the tribe of the children of Ze-bu-lun was E-li-ab the son of He-lon. ¹⁷And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Ger-shon and the sons of Me-rar-i, who bare the tabernacle, set forward. ¹⁸And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was E-li-zur the son of Shed-e-ur. ¹⁹And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was She-lu-mi-el the son of Zu-ri-shad-dai. ²⁰And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was E-li-a-saph the son of Deu-el. ²¹And the Ko-hath-ites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tabernacle against their coming. ²²And the standard of the camp of the children of E-phra-im set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was E-li-sha-ma the son of Am-mi-hud. ²³And over the host of the tribe of the children of Ma-nas-seh was Ga-ma-li-el the son of Pe-dah-zur. ²⁴And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was A-bi-dan the son of Gid-e-o-ni. ²⁵And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was A-hi-e-zer the son of Am-mi-shad-dai. ²⁶And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pa-gi-el the son of Oc-ran. ²⁷And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naph-ta-li was A-hi-ra the son of E-nan. ²⁸this were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts; and they set forward.

²⁹And Moses said unto Ho-bab, the son of Re-u-el the Mid-i-a-nite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it to you: you come with us, and we will do you good; for Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel. ³⁰And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred. ³¹And he said, Leave us not, I pray you; forasmuch as you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes. ³²And it shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do unto you. ³³And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting-place for them. ³⁴And the cloud of Jehovah was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. ³⁵And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O Jehovah, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you. ³⁶And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.

11 And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. ²And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the fire abated. ³And the name of that place was called Tab-e-rah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.

⁴And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? ⁵We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: ⁶but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon. ⁷And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium. ⁸The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. ⁹And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. ¹⁰And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. ¹¹And Moses said unto Jehovah, why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me? ¹²Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should say unto me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, unto the land which you swore unto their fathers? ¹³From where should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. ¹⁴I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵And if you deal this with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

¹⁶And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. ¹⁷And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone. ¹⁸And say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and you shall eat. ¹⁹you shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, ²⁰but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it becomes loathsome unto you; because that you have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? ²¹And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. ²²Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? ²³And Jehovah said unto Moses, Is Jehovah’s hand waxed short? now shall you see whether my word shall come to pass unto you or not.

²⁴And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. ²⁵And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. ²⁶But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was El-dad, and the name of the other Me-dad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, El-dad and Me-dad do prophesy in the camp. ²⁸And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. ²⁹And Moses said unto him, are you jealous for my sake? I would that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them! ³⁰And Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

³¹And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. ³²And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. ³³While the flesh was yet between their teeth, yet to be chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very great plague. ³⁴And the name of that place was called Kib-roth-hat-ta-a-vah, because there they buried the people that lusted. ³⁵From Kib-roth-hat-ta-a-vah the people journeyed unto Ha-ze-roth; and they abode at Ha-ze-roth.

12 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cu-shi woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cu-shi woman. ²And they said, has Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? has he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it. ³Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.

⁴And Jehovah spoke suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, You three Come out unto the tent of meeting. And they three came out. ⁵And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. ⁶And he said, Now hear my words: if there is a prophet among you, I Jehovah will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. ⁷My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house: ⁸with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? ⁹And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them; and he departed.

¹⁰And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. ¹¹And Aaron said unto Moses, Oh, my lord, lay not, I pray you, sin upon us, for we have done foolishly, and because we have sinned. ¹²Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb. ¹³And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech you. ¹⁴And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again. ¹⁵And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. ¹⁶And afterward the people journeyed from Ha-ze-roth, and camped in the wilderness of Par-an.

13 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Send out men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a prince among them. ³And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Par-an according to the command of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. ⁴And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Sham-mu-a the son of Zac-cur. ⁵Of the tribe of Simeon, Sha-phat the son of Hor-i. ⁶Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh. ⁷Of the tribe of Is-sa-char, I-gal the son of Joseph. ⁸Of the tribe of E-phra-im, Ho-she-a the son of Nun. ⁹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phal-ti the son of Ra-phu. ¹⁰Of the tribe of Ze-bu-lun, Ga-di-el the son of So-di. ¹¹Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Ma-nas-seh, Gad-di the son of Su-si. ¹²Of the tribe of Dan, Am-mi-el the son of Ge-mal-li. ¹³Of the tribe of Asher, Se-thur the son of Michael. ¹⁴Of the tribe of Naph-ta-li, Nah-bi the son of Voph-si. ¹⁵Of the tribe of Gad, Geu-el the son of Ma-chi. ¹⁶These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Ho-she-a the son of Nun Joshua. ¹⁷And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: ¹⁸and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; ¹⁹and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; ²⁰and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

²¹So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Re-hob, to the entrance of Ha-math. ²²And they went up by the South, and came unto He-bron; and A-hi-man, She-shai, and Tal-mai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now He-bron was built seven years before Zo-an in Egypt.) ²³And they came unto the valley of Esh-col, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. ²⁴That place was called the valley of Esh-col, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. ²⁵And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

²⁶And they came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Par-an, to Ka-desh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷And they told him, and said, We came unto the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. ²⁸Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. ²⁹A-mal-ek-ites dwell in the land of the South: and the Hittites, and the Jeb-u-sites, and the Amorites, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanites dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan. ³⁰And 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. ³¹But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. ³²And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

14 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. ²And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! ³And why does Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: would it not be better for us to return into Egypt? ⁴And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. ⁶And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes: ⁷and they spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy out, is an exceedingly good land. ⁸If Jehovah delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which flows with milk and honey. ⁹Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not. ¹⁰But all the congregation said stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.

¹¹And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them? ¹²I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. ¹³And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear of it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them; ¹⁴and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Jehovah, are in the midst of this people; for you Jehovah are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, ¹⁶Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷And now, I pray you, let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, ¹⁸Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. ¹⁹Pardon, I pray you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your lovingkindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

²⁰And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to your word: ²¹but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; ²²because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; ²³surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: ²⁴but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. ²⁵Now the A-mal-ek-ite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn, and you get yourself into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. ²⁶And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²⁷How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. ²⁸Say unto them, As I live, says Jehovah, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: ²⁹your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, ³⁰surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. ³²But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. ³³And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. ³⁴After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation. ³⁵I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

15 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, ³and will make an offering by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor unto Jehovah, of the herd, or of the flock; ⁴then shall he that offers his oblation offer unto Jehovah a meal-offering of a tenth part of an E-phah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil: ⁵and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. ⁶Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an E-phah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil: ⁷and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. ⁸And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings unto Jehovah; ⁹then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an E-phah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil: ¹⁰and you shall offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. ¹¹This shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids. ¹²According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to every one according to their number. ¹³All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. ¹⁴And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; as you do, so he shall do. ¹⁵For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah. ¹⁶One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with you. ¹⁷And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹⁸Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you come into the land where I bring you, ¹⁹then it shall be, that, when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah. ²⁰Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall you heave it. ²¹Of the first of your dough you shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.

²²And when you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah has spoken unto Moses, ²³even all that Jehovah has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; ²⁴then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah, with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin-offering. ²⁵And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, and their sin-offering before Jehovah, for their error: ²⁶and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourns among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. ²⁷And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering. ²⁸And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. ²⁹You shall have one law for him that does anything unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.

³⁰But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹Because he has despised the word of Jehovah, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. ³²And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day. ³³And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. ³⁴And they put him in a ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. ³⁵And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. ³⁶And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

³⁷And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ³⁸Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue: ³⁹and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that you follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the harlot; ⁴⁰that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. ⁴¹I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah your God.

16 Now Kor-ah, the son of Iz-har, the son of Ko-hath, the son of Levi, with Da-than and A-bi-ram, the sons of E-li-ab, and On, the son of Pe-leth, sons of Reuben, took men: ²and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; ³and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, you take too much upon youselves, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them: why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah? ⁴And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: ⁵and he spoke unto Kor-ah and unto all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near unto him. ⁶Do this, Kor-ah and all his company: take censers, ⁷and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before Jehovah to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Jehovah does choose, he shall be holy: you take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi. ⁸And Moses said unto Kor-ah, Hear now, you sons of Levi: ⁹Does it seem but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them; ¹⁰and that he has brought you near, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? And now you seek the priesthood also? ¹¹Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Jehovah: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?

¹²And Moses sent to call Da-than and A-bi-ram, the sons of E-li-ab; and they said, We will not come up: ¹³is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself also a prince over us? ¹⁴Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up. ¹⁵And Moses was very angry, and said unto Jehovah, Respect not their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. ¹⁶And Moses said unto Kor-ah, You and all your company come before Jehovah, you, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow: ¹⁷and take every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring youselves before Jehovah, every man with his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer. ¹⁸And every man took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. ¹⁹And Kor-ah assembled all the congregation against them unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto all the congregation. ²⁰And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²¹Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. ²²And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

²³And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²⁴Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Kor-ah, Da-than, and A-bi-ram. ²⁵And Moses rose up and went unto Da-than and A-bi-ram; and the elders of Israel followed him. ²⁶And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, unless you be consumed in all their sins. ²⁷So they got them up from the tabernacle of Kor-ah, Da-than, and A-bi-ram, on every side: and Da-than and A-bi-ram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. ²⁸And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind. ²⁹If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah has not sent me. ³⁰But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that pertains unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah. ³¹And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them; ³²and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Kor-ah, and all their goods. ³³So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. ³⁴And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, unless the earth swallow us up.

³⁵And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense. ³⁶And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ³⁷Speak unto El-e-a-zar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy, ³⁸even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. ³⁹And El-e-a-zar the priest took the brazen censers, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, ⁴⁰to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Kor-ah, and as his company: as Jehovah spoke unto him by Moses.

⁴¹But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, you have killed the people of Jehovah. ⁴²And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Jehovah appeared. ⁴³And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. ⁴⁴And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵Go out from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. ⁴⁶And Moses said unto Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun. ⁴⁷And Aaron took the censer as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. ⁴⁸And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped. ⁴⁹Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides them that died concerning the matter of Kor-ah. ⁵⁰And Aaron returned to Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stopped.

17 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods: then write every man’s name upon his rod. ³And you shall write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses. ⁴And you shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. ⁵And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel to cease from me, which they murmur against you. ⁶And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, one for each prince, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. ⁷And Moses laid up the rods before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.

⁸And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bare ripe almonds. ⁹And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. ¹⁰And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they die not. ¹¹This Moses did: as Jehovah commanded him, so he did. ¹²And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. ¹³Every one that comes near, that comes near unto the tabernacle of Jehovah, dies: shall we all perish?

18 And Jehovah said unto Aaron, you and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. ²And your brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined unto you, and minister unto you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony. ³And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor you. ⁴And they shall be joined unto you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near unto you. ⁵And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be no more wrath upon the children of Israel. ⁶And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting. ⁷And you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for all that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a gift of service: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

⁸And Jehovah spoke unto Aaron, And I, behold, I have given you the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion for ever. ⁹This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. ¹⁰As the most holy things shall you eat of them; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto you. ¹¹And this is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them unto you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion for ever; every one that is clean in your house shall eat of them. ¹²All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to you have I given them. ¹³The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto Jehovah, shall be your; every one that is clean in your house shall eat of them. ¹⁴Everything devoted in Israel shall be your. ¹⁵Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto Jehovah, both of man and beast shall be your: nevertheless the first-born of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem. ¹⁶And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs). ¹⁷But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah. ¹⁸And the flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be your. ¹⁹All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto Jehovah, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before Jehovah unto you and to your seed with you.

²⁰And Jehovah said unto Aaron, you shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. ²¹And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. ²²And hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, unless they bear sin, and die. ²³But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ²⁴For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering unto Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ²⁵And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²⁶Moreover you shall speak unto the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe. ²⁷And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress. ²⁸Thus you also shall offer a heave-offering unto Jehovah of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of that you shall give Jehovah’s heave-offering to Aaron the priest. ²⁹Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave-offering of Jehovah, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. ³⁰Therefore you shall say unto them, When you heave the best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press. ³¹And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. ³²And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best thereof: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you die not.

19 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein there is no blemish, and upon which never came a yoke. ³And you shall give her unto El-e-a-zar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: ⁴and El-e-a-zar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. ⁵And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: ⁶and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. ⁷Then 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. ⁸And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. ⁹And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering. ¹⁰And he that gathers 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 sojourns among them, for a statute for ever.

¹¹He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: ¹²the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself on the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. ¹³Whoeverever touches a dead person, the body of a man that has died, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. ¹⁴This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one that comes into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁵And every open vessel, which has no covering bound upon it, is unclean. ¹⁶And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open field, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁷And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and with running water shall be put in a vessel: ¹⁸and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: ¹⁹and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. ²⁰But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. ²¹And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkle the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even. ²²And whatsoever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.

20 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Ka-desh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. ²And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. ³And the people argued with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! ⁴And why have you brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? ⁵And why have you 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. ⁶And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto them. ⁷And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁸Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their cattle drink. ⁹And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him. ¹⁰And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock? ¹¹And Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. ¹²And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because you believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. ¹³These are the waters of Mer-i-bah; because the children of Israel argued with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

¹⁴And Moses sent messengers from Ka-desh unto the king of E-dom, this says your brother Israel, you know all the travail that has befallen us: ¹⁵how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: ¹⁶and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Ka-desh, a city in the uttermost of your border. ¹⁷Let us pass, I pray you, through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border. ¹⁸And E-dom said unto him, you shall not pass through me, unless I come out with the sword against you. ¹⁹And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof: only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet. ²⁰And he said, you shall not pass through. And E-dom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. ²¹This E-dom refused to give Israel passage through his border: therefore Israel turned away from him.

²²And they journeyed from Ka-desh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor. ²³And Jehovah spoke unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of E-dom, saying, ²⁴Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Mer-i-bah. ²⁵Take Aaron and El-e-a-zar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor; ²⁶and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon El-e-a-zar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there. ²⁷And Moses did as Jehovah commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. ²⁸And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon El-e-a-zar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mount: and Moses and El-e-a-zar came down from the mount. ²⁹And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

21 And the Canaanite, the king of Ar-ad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of At-har-im; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. ²And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. ³And Jehovah listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hor-mah.

⁴And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of E-dom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. ⁵And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. ⁶And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. ⁷And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah, and against you; pray unto Jehovah, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. ⁸And Jehovah said unto Moses, Make youself a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. ⁹And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

¹⁰And the children of Israel journeyed, and camped in O-both. ¹¹And they journeyed from O-both, and camped at I-je-ab-a-rim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising. ¹²From there they journeyed, and camped in the valley of Zar-ed. ¹³From there they journeyed, and camped on the other side of the Ar-non, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Am-or-ites: for the Ar-non is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Am-or-ites. ¹⁴Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Jehovah, Vah-eb in Su-phah, And the valleys of the Ar-non, ¹⁵And the slope of the valleys That inclines toward the dwelling of Ar, And leans upon the border of Moab. ¹⁶And from there they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. ¹⁷Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well; you sing unto it: ¹⁸The well, which the princes dug, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mat-ta-nah; ¹⁹and from Mat-ta-nah to Na-hal-i-el; and from Na-hal-i-el to Ba-moth; ²⁰and from Ba-moth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pis-gah, which looks down upon the desert.

²¹And Israel sent messengers unto Si-hon king of the Am-or-ites, saying, ²²Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into your field, or into your vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the your wells: we will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border. ²³And Si-hon would not permit Israel to pass through his border: but Si-hon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Ja-haz; and he fought against Israel. ²⁴And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Ar-non unto the Jab-bok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. ²⁵And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Am-or-ites, in Hesh-bon, and in all the towns thereof. ²⁶For Hesh-bon was the city of Si-hon the king of the Am-or-ites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Ar-non. ²⁷Therefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come to Hesh-bon; Let the city of Si-hon be built and established: ²⁸For a fire is gone out of Hesh-bon, A flame from the city of Si-hon: It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Ar-non. ²⁹Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Che-mosh: He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, Unto Si-hon king of the Am-or-ites. ³⁰We have shot at them; Hesh-bon is perished even unto Di-bon, And we have laid waste even unto No-phah, Which reaches unto Me-de-ba. ³¹Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Am-or-ites. ³²And Moses sent to spy out Ja-zer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Am-or-ites that were there. ³³And they turned and went up by the way of Ba-shan: and Og the king of Ba-shan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Ed-re-i. ³⁴And Jehovah said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did unto Si-hon king of the Am-or-ites, who dwelt at Hesh-bon. ³⁵So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none of him left remaining: and they possessed his land.

22 And the children of Israel journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. ²And Balak the son of Zip-por saw all that Israel had done to the Am-or-ites. ³And Moab was greatly afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. ⁴And Moab said unto the elders of Mid-i-an, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zip-por was king of Moab at that time. ⁵And he sent messengers unto Ba-laam the son of Be-or, to Pe-thor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people that have come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me. ⁶Come now therefore, I pray you, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed. ⁷And the elders of Moab and the elders of Mid-i-an departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Ba-laam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak. ⁸And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Jehovah shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Ba-laam. ⁹And God came unto Ba-laam, and said, What men are these with you? ¹⁰And Ba-laam said unto God, Balak the son of Zip-por, king of Moab, has sent unto me, saying, ¹¹Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, covers the face of the earth: now, come and curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out. ¹²And God said unto Ba-laam, you shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed. ¹³And Ba-laam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Return into your land; for Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you. ¹⁴And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Ba-laam refuses to come with us.

¹⁵And Balak yet again sent more princes, and more honorable than they. ¹⁶And they came to Ba-laam, and said to him, this says Balak the son of Zip-por, Let nothing, I pray you, hinder you from coming unto me: ¹⁷for I will promote you unto a very great honor, and whatsoever you say unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray you, curse this people for me. ¹⁸And Ba-laam 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 Jehovah my God, to do less or more. ¹⁹Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night, that I may know what more Jehovah will speak unto me. ²⁰And God came unto Ba-laam at night, and said unto him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, and go with them; but only the word which I speak unto you, that shall you do. ²¹And Ba-laam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

²²And God’s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Jehovah placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. ²³And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Ba-laam struck the ass, to turn her into the way. ²⁴Then the angel of Jehovah stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. ²⁵And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah, and she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Ba-laam’s foot against the wall: and he struck her again. ²⁶And the angel of Jehovah went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. ²⁷And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah, and she lay down under Ba-laam: and Ba-laam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the ass with his staff. ²⁸And Jehovah opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Ba-laam, What have I done unto you, that you have struck me these three times? ²⁹And Ba-laam said unto the ass, Because you have mocked me, I would that there were a sword in my hand, for now I would had killed you. ³⁰And the ass said unto Ba-laam, Am I not your ass, upon which you have ridden all your life long unto this day? was I ever known to do so unto you? and he said, no. ³¹Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Ba-laam, and he saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. ³²And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, why have you struck your ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me: ³³and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely by now I would have slain you, and saved her alive. ³⁴And Ba-laam said unto the angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will return back again. ³⁵And the angel of Jehovah said unto Ba-laam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto you, that you shall speak. So Ba-laam went with the princes of Balak.

³⁶And when Balak heard that Ba-laam was come, he went out to meet him unto the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Ar-non, which is in the utmost part of the border. ³⁷And Balak said unto Ba-laam, Did I not earnestly send unto you to call you? why did you not come unto me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor? ³⁸And Ba-laam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak. ³⁹And Ba-laam went with Balak, and they came unto Kir-jath-hu-zoth. ⁴⁰And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Ba-laam, and to the princes that were with him. ⁴¹And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Ba-laam, and brought him up into the high places of Ba-al; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

23 And Ba-laam said unto Balak, Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me. ²And Balak did as Ba-laam had spoken; and Balak and Ba-laam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. ³And Ba-laam said unto Balak, Stand by your burnt-offering, and I will go: perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height. ⁴And God met Ba-laam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. ⁵And Jehovah put a word in Ba-laam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and this is what you shall speak. ⁶And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.  *** ⁷And he took up his parable, and said, From Ar-am has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, defy Israel. ⁸How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah has not defied? ⁹For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations. ¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his! ¹¹And Balak said unto Ba-laam, What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether. ¹²And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah puts in my mouth?

¹³And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray you, with me unto another place, from where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse them from there for me. ¹⁴And he took him into the field of Zo-phim, to the top of Pis-gah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. ¹⁵And he said unto Balak, Stand here by your burnt-offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder. ¹⁶And Jehovah met Ba-laam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and this you shall speak. ¹⁷And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What has Jehovah spoken? ¹⁸And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen unto me, you son of Zip-por: ¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? ²⁰Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. ²¹He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them. ²²God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox. ²³Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God worked! ²⁴Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, And as a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain. ²⁵And Balak said unto Ba-laam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. ²⁶But Ba-laam answered and said unto Balak, Did I not tell you, saying, All that Jehovah speaks, that must I do? ²⁷And Balak said unto Ba-laam, Come now, I will take you unto another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there. ²⁸And Balak took Ba-laam unto the top of Pe-or, that looks down upon the desert. ²⁹And Ba-laam said unto Balak, Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me. ³⁰And Balak did as Ba-laam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

24 And when Ba-laam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. ²And Ba-laam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him. ³And he took up his parable, and said, Ba-laam the son of Be-or says, And the man whose eye was closed says; ⁴He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open: ⁵How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel! ⁶As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah has planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters. ⁷Water shall flow from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted. ⁸God brings him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up his adversaries the nations, And shall break their bones in pieces, And strike them through with his arrows. ⁹He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesses you, And cursed be every one that curses you.

¹⁰And Balak’s anger was kindled against Ba-laam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said unto Ba-laam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. ¹¹Therefore flee now to your place: I thought to promote you unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah has kept you back from honor. ¹²And Ba-laam said unto Balak, spoke I not also to your messengers that you sent unto me, saying, ¹³If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Jehovah speaks, that will I speak? ¹⁴And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, and I will advise you of what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.

¹⁵And he took up his parable, and said, Ba-laam the son of Be-or says, And the man whose eye was closed says; ¹⁶He says, who hears the words of God, And knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open: ¹⁷I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall strike through the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of tumult. ¹⁸And E-dom shall be a possession, Se-ir also shall be a possession, who were his enemies; While Israel does valiantly. ¹⁹And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from the city. ²⁰And he looked on Am-a-lek, and took up his parable, and said, Am-a-lek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction. ²¹And he looked on the Ke-nites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, And your nest is set in the rock. ²²Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Assh-ur shall carry you away captive. ²³And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this? ²⁴But ships shall come from the coast of Chit-tim, And they shall afflict Assh-ur, and shall afflict E-ber; And he also shall come to destruction. ²⁵And Ba-laam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

25 And Israel abode in Shit-tim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab: ²for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. ³And Israel joined himself unto Ba-al-pe-or: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel. ⁴And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel. ⁵And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay every one his men that have joined themselves unto Ba-al-pe-or.

⁶And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Mid-i-a-ni-tish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. ⁷And when Phin-e-has, the son of El-e-a-zar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; ⁸and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. ⁹And those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. ¹⁰And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹¹Phin-e-has, the son of El-e-a-zar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. ¹²Therefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: ¹³and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. ¹⁴Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Mid-i-a-ni-tish woman, was Zim-ri, the son of Sa-lu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites. ¹⁵And the name of the Mid-i-a-ni-tish woman that was slain was Coz-bi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Mid-i-an.

¹⁶And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹⁷Vex the Mid-i-a-nites, and strike them; ¹⁸for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Pe-or, and in the matter of Coz-bi, the daughter of the prince of Mid-i-an, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Pe-or.

26 And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spoke unto Moses and unto El-e-a-zar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, ²Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel. ³And Moses and El-e-a-zar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁴Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.

⁵Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Ha-noch, the family of the Ha-noch-ites; of Pal-lu, the family of the Pal-lu-ites; ⁶of Hez-ron, the family of the Hez-ron-ites; of Car-mi, the family of the Car-mites. ⁷These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. ⁸And the sons of Pal-lu: E-li-ab. ⁹And the sons of E-li-ab: Nem-u-el, and Da-than, and A-bi-ram. These are that Da-than and A-bi-ram, who were called of the congregation, who argued against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Kor-ah, when they argued against Jehovah, ¹⁰and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Kor-ah, when that company died; that time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. ¹¹Notwithstanding, the sons of Kor-ah died not. ¹²The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nem-u-el, the family of the Nem-u-el-ites; of Ja-min, the family of the Ja-min-ites; of Ja-chin, the family of the Ja-chin-ites; ¹³of Ze-rah, the family of the Zar-hites; of Sha-ul, the family of the Sha-ul-ites. ¹⁴These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred. ¹⁵The sons of Gad after their families: of Ze-phon, the family of the Ze-phon-ites; of Hag-gi, the family of the Hag-gites; of Shu-ni, the family of the Shu-nites; ¹⁶of Oz-ni, the family of the Oz-nites; of E-ri, the family of the E-rites; ¹⁷of Ar-od, the family of the Ar-o-dites; of A-re-li, the family of the A-re-lites. ¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred. ¹⁹The sons of Judah: Er and O-nan; and Er and O-nan died in the land of Canaan. ²⁰And the sons of Judah after their families were: of She-lah, the family of the She-la-nites; of Pe-rez, the family of the Pere-zites; of Ze-rah, the family of the Zar-hites. ²¹And the sons of Pe-rez were: of Hez-ron, the family of the Hez-ron-ites; of Ham-ul, the family of the Ham-ul-ites. ²²These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. ²³The sons of Is-sa-char after their families: of To-la, the family of the To-la-ites; of Pu-a, the family of the Pu-nites; ²⁴of Jash-ub, the family of the Jash-ubites; of Shim-ron, the family of the Shim-ron-ites. ²⁵These are the families of Is-sa-char according to those that were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. ²⁶The sons of Ze-bu-lun after their families: of Se-red, the family of the Sar-dites; of E-lon, the family of the E-lon-ites; of Jah-leel, the family of the Jah-leel-ites. ²⁷These are the families of the Ze-bu-lun-ites according to those that were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred. ²⁸The sons of Joseph after their families: Ma-nas-seh and E-phra-im. ²⁹The sons of Ma-nas-seh: of Ma-chir, the family of the Ma-chir-ites; and Ma-chir begat Gil-e-ad; of Gil-e-ad, the family of the Gil-e-adites. ³⁰These are the sons of Gil-e-ad: of Je-e-zer, the family of the Je-e-zer-ites; of Ke-lek, the family of the Ke-lek-ites; ³¹and of Ash-ri-el, the family of the As-ri-e-lites; and of She-chem, the family of the She-chem-ites; ³²and of She-mi-da, the family of the She-mi-da-ites; and of He-pher, the family of the He-pher-ites. ³³And Ze-loph-e-had the son of He-pher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Ze-loph-e-had were Mah-lah, and Noah, Hog-lah, Mil-cah, and Tir-zah. ³⁴These are the families of Ma-nas-seh; and they that were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. ³⁵These are the sons of E-phra-im after their families: of Shu-the-lah, the family of the Shu-thal-hites; of Be-cher, the family of the Bach-rites; of Ta-han, the family of the Ta-han-ites. ³⁶And these are the sons of Shu-the-lah: of E-ran, the family of the E-ran-ites. ³⁷These are the families of the sons of E-phra-im according to those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families. ³⁸The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Be-la, the family of the Be-la-ites; of Ash-bel, the family of the Ash-bel-ites; of A-hi-ram, the family of the A-hi-ram-ites; ³⁹of Shu-pham, the family of the Shu-pham-ites; of Hu-pham, the family of the Hu-pham-ites. ⁴⁰And the sons of Be-la were Ard and Na-a-man: of Ard, the family of the Ard-ites; of Na-a-man, the family of the Na-a-mites. ⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. ⁴²These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shu-ham, the family of the Shu-ham-ites. These are the families of Dan after their families. ⁴³All the families of the Shu-ham-ites, according to those that were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. ⁴⁴The sons of Asher after their families: of Jim-na, the family of the Jim-nites; of Ish-u-i, the family of the Ish-vites; of Be-ri-ah, the family of the Be-ri-ites. ⁴⁵Of the sons of Be-ri-ah: of He-ber, the family of the He-ber-ites; of Mal-chi-el, the family of the Mal-chi-e-lites. ⁴⁶And the name of the daughter of Asher was Se-rah. ⁴⁷These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. ⁴⁸The sons of Naph-ta-li after their families: of Jah-zeel, the family of the Jah-zeel-ites; of Gu-ni, the family of the Gu-nites; ⁴⁹of Je-zer, the family of the Je-zer-ites; of Shil-lem, the family of the Shil-lem-ites. ⁵⁰These are the families of Naph-ta-li according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. ⁵¹These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

⁵²And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁵³Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to every one according to those that were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given. ⁵⁵Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. ⁵⁶According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.

⁵⁷And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Ger-shon, the family of the Ger-shon-ites; of Ko-hath, the family of the Ko-hath-ites; of Me-rar-i, the family of the Me-rar-ites. ⁵⁸These are the families of Levites: the family of the Lib-nites, the family of the He-bron-ites, the family of the Mah-lites, the family of the Mu-shites, the family of the Kor-a-hites. And Ko-hath begat Amram. ⁵⁹And the name of Amram’s wife was Joch-e-bed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. ⁶⁰And unto Aaron were born Na-dab and A-bi-hu, El-e-a-zar and Ith-a-mar. ⁶¹And Na-dab and A-bi-hu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah. ⁶²And they that were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male 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.

⁶³These are they that were numbered by Moses and El-e-a-zar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Si-nai. ⁶⁵For Jehovah 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 Je-phun-neh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

27 Then drew near the daughters of Ze-loph-e-had, the son of He-pher, the son of Gil-e-ad, the son of Ma-chir, the son of Ma-nas-seh, of the families of Ma-nas-seh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mah-lah, Noah, and Hog-lah, and Mil-cah, and Tir-zah. ²And they stood before Moses, and before El-e-a-zar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, ³Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Kor-ah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons. ⁴Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father. ⁵And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah. ⁶And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ⁷The daughters of Ze-loph-e-had speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. ⁸And you shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. ⁹And if he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. ¹⁰And if he have no brethren, then you shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren. ¹¹And if his father have no brethren, then you 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 and an ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

¹²And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get yourself up into this mountain of Ab-a-rim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. ¹³And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered unto your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered; ¹⁴because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Mer-i-bah of Ka-desh in the wilderness of Zin.)

¹⁵And Moses spoke unto Jehovah, saying, ¹⁶Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, ¹⁷who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Jehovah be not as sheep which have no shepherd. ¹⁸And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom the Spirit is, and lay your hand upon him; ¹⁹and set him before El-e-a-zar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. ²⁰And you shall put of your honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. ²¹And he shall stand before El-e-a-zar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the U-rim before Jehovah: 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. ²²And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before El-e-a-zar the priest, and before all the congregation: ²³and he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as Jehovah spoke by Moses.

28 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My oblation, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor unto me, you shall observe to offer unto me in their due season. ³And you shall say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer unto Jehovah: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering. ⁴The one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer at even; ⁵and the tenth part of an E-phah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. ⁶It is a continual burnt-offering, which was ordained in mount Si-nai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. ⁷And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink-offering of *** strong drink unto Jehovah. ⁸And the other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

⁹And on the Sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an E-phah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof: ¹⁰this is the burnt-offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof. ¹¹And in the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt-offering unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; ¹²and three tenth parts of an E-phah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for each bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for the one ram; ¹³and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering unto every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. ¹⁴And their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt-offering of every month throughout the months of the year. ¹⁵And one he-goat for a sin-offering unto Jehovah; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.

¹⁶And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Jehovah’s Passover. ¹⁷And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ¹⁸In the first day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work; ¹⁹but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt-offering unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be unto you without blemish; ²⁰and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil: three tenth parts shall you offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram; ²¹a tenth part shall you offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; ²²and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. ²³you shall offer these besides the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt-offering. ²⁴After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof. ²⁵And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work. ²⁶Also in the day of the first-fruits, when you offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work; ²⁷but you shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; ²⁸and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, ²⁹a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; ³⁰one he-goat, to make atonement for you. ³¹Besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, you shall offer them (they shall be unto you without blemish), and their drink-offerings.

29 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you. ²And you shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto Jehovah: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; ³and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the ram, ⁴and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; ⁵and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; ⁶besides the burnt-offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering thereof, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings, according unto their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. ⁷And on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner of work; ⁸but you shall offer a burnt-offering unto Jehovah for a sweet savor: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be unto you without blemish; ⁹and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, ¹⁰a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: ¹¹one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings. ¹²And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast unto Jehovah seven days: ¹³and you shall offer a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; ¹⁴and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, ¹⁵and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ¹⁷And on the second day you shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; ¹⁸and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ¹⁹and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings. ²⁰And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; ²¹and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ²²and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ²³And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; ²⁴their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ²⁵and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ²⁶And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; ²⁷and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ²⁸and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ²⁹And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; ³⁰and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ³¹and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offerings thereof. ³²And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; ³³and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ³⁴and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ³⁵On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; ³⁶but you shall offer a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah: one bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; ³⁷their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance: ³⁸and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. ³⁹These you shall offer unto Jehovah in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings. ⁴⁰And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that had Jehovah commanded him.

30 And Moses spoke unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded. ²When a man vows a vow unto Jehovah, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

³Also when a woman vows a vow unto Jehovah, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth, ⁴and her father hears her vow, and her bond wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she has bound her soul shall stand. ⁵But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Jehovah will forgive her, because her father disallowed her. ⁶And if she be married to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she has bound her soul, ⁷and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she has bound her soul shall stand. ⁸But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she has bound her soul: and Jehovah will forgive her. ⁹But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even everything wherewith she has bound her soul, shall stand against her. ¹⁰And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, ¹¹and 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. ¹²But if her husband made them null and void in the day that 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 has made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her. ¹³Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. ¹⁴But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. ¹⁵But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. ¹⁶These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.

31 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Avenge the children of Israel of the Mid-i-a-nites: afterward shall you be gathered unto your people. ³And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, You men that are from among you arm for the war, that they may go against Mid-i-an, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Mid-i-an. ⁴Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war. ⁵So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. ⁶And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phin-e-has the son of El-e-a-zar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

⁷And they warred against Mid-i-an, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they slew every male. ⁸And they slew the kings of Mid-i-an with the rest of their slain: E-vi, and Re-kem, and Zur, and Hur, and Re-ba, the five kings of Mid-i-an: Ba-laam also the son of Be-or they slew with the sword. ⁹And the children of Israel took captive the women of Mid-i-an and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. ¹⁰And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. ¹¹And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast. ¹²And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and unto El-e-a-zar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

¹³And Moses, and El-e-a-zar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. ¹⁴And Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. ¹⁵And Moses said unto them, Have you saved all the women alive? ¹⁶Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Ba-laam, to commit trespasses against Jehovah in the matter of Pe-or, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah. ¹⁷Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him. ¹⁸But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. ¹⁹And make yours camp without the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. ²⁰And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves. ²¹And El-e-a-zar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded Moses: ²²howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ²³everything that may abide the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that abides not the fire you shall make to go through the water. ²⁴And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.

²⁵And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²⁶Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and El-e-a-zar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation; ²⁷and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation. ²⁸And levy a tribute unto Jehovah of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks: ²⁹take it of their half, and give it unto El-e-a-zar the priest, for Jehovah’s heave-offering. ³⁰And of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah. ³¹And Moses and El-e-a-zar the priest did as Jehovah commanded Moses. ³²Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, ³³and sixty and twelve thousand oxen, ³⁴and sixty-one thousand asses, ³⁵and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with him. ³⁶And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: ³⁷and Jehovah’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. ³⁸And the oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Jehovah’s tribute was seventy-two. ³⁹And the asses were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Jehovah’s tribute was sixty-one. ⁴⁰And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Jehovah’s tribute was thirty-two persons. ⁴¹And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah’s heave-offering, unto El-e-a-zar the priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses. ⁴²And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred ⁴³(now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, ⁴⁴and thirty-six thousand oxen, ⁴⁵and thirty thousand five hundred asses, ⁴⁶and sixteen thousand persons), ⁴⁷even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

⁴⁸And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses; ⁴⁹and they said unto Moses, your servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us. ⁵⁰And we have brought Jehovah’s oblation, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah. ⁵¹And Moses and El-e-a-zar the priest took the gold from them, even all worked jewels. ⁵²And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. ⁵³(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) ⁵⁴And Moses and El-e-a-zar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.

32 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Ja-zer, and the land of Gil-e-ad, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; ²the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to El-e-a-zar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, ³At-a-roth, and Di-bon, and Ja-zer, and Nimrah, and Hesh-bon, and El-e-a-leh, and She-bam, and Ne-bo, and Be-on, ⁴the land which Jehovah struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle. ⁵And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given unto your servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan. ⁶And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall you sit here? ⁷And why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them? ⁸This your fathers did, when I sent them from Ka-desh-bar-ne-a to see the land. ⁹For when they went up unto the valley of Esh-col, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them. ¹⁰And Jehovah’s anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying, ¹¹Surely 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: ¹²save Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh the Ke-niz-zite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Jehovah. ¹³And Jehovah’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed. ¹⁴And, behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. ¹⁵For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.

¹⁶And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: ¹⁷but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁸We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. ¹⁹For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. ²⁰And Moses said unto them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war, ²¹and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, ²²and the land is subdued before Jehovah; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Jehovah, and towards Israel; and this land shall be unto you for a possession before Jehovah. ²³But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Jehovah; and be sure your sin will find you out. ²⁴Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth. ²⁵And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying, your servants will do as my lord commands. ²⁶Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gil-e-ad; ²⁷but your servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord says.

²⁸So Moses gave charge concerning them to El-e-a-zar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. ²⁹And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before Jehovah, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gil-e-ad for a possession: ³⁰but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. ³¹And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said unto your servants, so will we do. ³²We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan. ³³And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Ma-nas-seh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Si-hon king of the Am-or-ites, and the kingdom of Og king of Ba-shan, the land, according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about. ³⁴And the children of Gad built Di-bon, and At-a-roth, and A-ro-er, ³⁵and At-roth, Sho-phan, and Ja-zer, and Jog-be-hah, ³⁶and Beth-nim-rah, and Beth-Har-an: fortified cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷And the children of Reuben built Hesh-bon, and El-e-a-leh, and Kir-ja-tha-im, ³⁸and Ne-bo, and Ba-al-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shib-mah: and they gave other names unto the cities which they built. ³⁹And the children of Ma-chir the son of Ma-nas-seh went to Gil-e-ad, and took it, and dispossessed the Am-or-ites that were therein. ⁴⁰And Moses gave Gil-e-ad unto Ma-chir the son of Ma-nas-seh; and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹And Ja-ir the son of Ma-nas-seh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Ha-voth-ja-ir. ⁴²And No-bah went and took Ke-nath, and the villages thereof, and called it No-bah, after his own name.

33 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron. ²And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. ³And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, ⁴while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Jehovah had struck among them: upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments. ⁵And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and camped in Suc-coth. ⁶And they journeyed from Suc-coth, and camped in E-tham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. ⁷And they journeyed from E-tham, and turned back unto Pi-ha-hi-roth, which is before Ba-al-ze-phon: and they camped before Mig-dol. ⁸And they journeyed from before Ha-hi-roth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of E-tham, and camped in Mar-ah. ⁹And they journeyed from Mar-ah, and came unto E-lim: and in E-lim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm-trees; and they camped there. ¹⁰And they journeyed from E-lim, and camped by the Red Sea. ¹¹And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and camped in the wilderness of Sin. ¹²And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and camped in Doph-ksh. ¹³And they journeyed from Doph-ksh, and camped in A-lush. ¹⁴And they journeyed from A-lush, and camped in Reph-dim, where there was no water for the people to drink. ¹⁵And they journeyed from Reph-dim, and camped in the wilderness of Si-nai. ¹⁶And they journeyed from the wilderness of Si-nai, and camped in Kib-roth-hat-ta-a-vah. ¹⁷And they journeyed from Kib-roth-hat-ta-a-vah, and camped in Ha-ze-roth. ¹⁸And they journeyed from Ha-ze-roth, and camped in Rith-mah. ¹⁹And they journeyed from Rith-mah, and camped in Rim-mon-par-ez. ²⁰And they journeyed from Rim-mon-par-ez, and camped in Lib-nah. ²¹And they journeyed from Lib-nah, and camped in Ris-sah. ²²And they journeyed from Ris-sah, and camped in Ke-he-la-thah. ²³And they journeyed from Ke-he-la-thah, and camped in mount Sha-pher. ²⁴And they journeyed from mount Sha-pher, and camped in Ha-ra-dah. ²⁵And they journeyed from Ha-ra-dah, and camped in Mak-he-loth. ²⁶And they journeyed from Mak-he-loth, and camped in Ta-hath. ²⁷And they journeyed from Ta-hath, and camped in Te-rah. ²⁸And they journeyed from Te-rah, and camped in Mith-cah. ²⁹And they journeyed from Mith-cah, and camped in Hash-mo-nah. ³⁰And they journeyed from Hash-mo-nah, and camped in Mo-se-roth. ³¹And they journeyed from Mo-se-roth, and camped in Ben-e-ja-a-kan. ³²And they journeyed from Ben-e-ja-a-kan, and camped in Hor-ha-gid-gad. ³³And they journeyed from Hor-ha-gid-gad, and camped in Jot-ba-thah. ³⁴And they journeyed from Jot-ba-thah, and camped in Eb-ro-nah. ³⁵And they journeyed from Eb-ro-nah, and camped in E-zion-geber. ³⁶And they journeyed from E-zion-geber, and camped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Ka-desh). ³⁷And they journeyed from Ka-desh, and camped in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of E-dom. ³⁸And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. ³⁹And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died in mount Hor. ⁴⁰And the Canaanite, the king of Ar-ad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. ⁴¹And they journeyed from mount Hor, and camped in Zal-mo-nah. ⁴²And they journeyed from Zal-mo-nah, and camped in Pu-non. ⁴³And they journeyed from Pu-non, and camped in O-both. ⁴⁴And they journeyed from O-both, and camped in I-je-ab-a-rim, in the border of Moab. ⁴⁵And they journeyed from I-im, and camped in Di-bon-gad. ⁴⁶And they journeyed from Di-bon-gad, and camped in Al-mon-dib-la-tha-im. ⁴⁷And they journeyed from Al-mon-dib-la-tha-im, and camped in the mountains of Ab-a-rim, before Ne-bo. ⁴⁸And they journeyed from the mountains of Ab-a-rim, and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁴⁹And they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jes-i-moth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰And Jehovah spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁵¹Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵²then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places: ⁵³and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it. ⁵⁴And you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the many you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wheresoever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall you inherit. ⁵⁵But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that you let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein you dwell. ⁵⁶And it shall come to pass, that, as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.

34 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ²Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof), ³then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of E-dom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; ⁴and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Ak-rab-bim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Ka-desh-bar-ne-a; and it shall go forth to Hazar-Ad-dar, and pass along to Az-mon; ⁵and the border shall turn about from Az-mon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea. ⁶And for the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border. ⁷And this shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you mount Hor; ⁸from mount Hor you shall mark out unto the entrance of Ha-math; and the goings out of the border shall be at Ze-dad; ⁹and the border shall go forth to Ziph-ron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-E-nan: this shall be your north border. ¹⁰And you shall mark out your east border from Hazar-E-nan to She-pham; ¹¹and the border shall go down from She-pham to Rib-lah, on the east side of A-in; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chin-ne-reth eastward; ¹²and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about. ¹³And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Jehovah has commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; ¹⁴for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Ma-nas-seh have received, their inheritance: ¹⁵the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

¹⁶And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹⁷These are the names of the men that shall divide the land unto you for inheritance: El-e-a-zar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. ¹⁸And you shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. ¹⁹And these are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh. ²⁰And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, She-mu-el the son of Am-mi-hud. ²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, E-li-dad the son of Chis-lon. ²²And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Buk-ki the son of Jog-li. ²³Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Ma-nas-seh a prince, Han-i-el the son of E-phod. ²⁴And of the tribe of the children of E-phra-im a prince, Ke-mu-el the son of Shiph-tan. ²⁵And of the tribe of the children of Ze-bu-lun a prince, E-li-za-phan the son of Par-nach. ²⁶And of the tribe of the children of Is-sa-char a prince, Phal-ti-el the son of Azzan. ²⁷And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, A-hi-hud the son of She-lo-mi. ²⁸And of the tribe of the children of Naph-ta-li a prince, Pe-dah-el the son of Am-mi-hud. ²⁹These are they whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

35 And Jehovah spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ²Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give unto the Levites. ³And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. ⁴And the suburbs of the cities, which you shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. ⁵And you shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. ⁶And the cities which you shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities. ⁷All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; these shall you give them with their suburbs. ⁸And concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

⁹And Jehovah spoke unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ¹¹then you shall appoint yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that kills any person unwittingly may flee there. ¹²And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer dies not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment. ¹³And the cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. ¹⁴you shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. ¹⁵For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that kills any person unwittingly may flee there. ¹⁶But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷And if he struck him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death. ²⁰And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he that struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him. ²²But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait, ²³or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; ²⁴then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; ²⁵and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, ²⁷and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood, ²⁸because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession. ²⁹And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³⁰whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person so that he die. ³¹Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. ³²And you shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. ³³So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. ³⁴And you shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

36 And the heads of the fathers’ houses of the family of the children of Gil-e-ad, the son of Ma-chir, the son of Ma-nas-seh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the children of Israel: ²and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Ze-loph-e-had our brother unto his daughters. ³And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. ⁴And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.