1:1The LORD spoke to Moshe in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the
second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of
Egypt, saying, 1:2"Take a census of all the
congregation of the children of Yisra'el, by their families, by their
fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by
one; 1:3from twenty years old and upward,
all who are able to go out to war in Yisra'el. You and Aharon shall number
them by their divisions. 1:4With you there shall be a man of
every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house. 1:5These are
the names of the men who shall stand with you:
Of Re'uven: Elitzur the son of
Shede'ur.
1:6Of Shim`on:
Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai.
1:7Of Yehudah:
Nachshon the son of `Amminadav.
1:8Of
Yissakhar: Netan'el the son of Tzu`ar.
1:9Of Zevulun:
Eli'av the son of Chelon.
1:10Of the
children of Yosef:
Of Efrayim: Elishama the son of
`Ammihud.
Of Menasheh: Gamli'el the son of
Pedatzur.
1:11Of
Binyamin: Avidan the son of Gid`oni.
1:12Of Dan:
Achi`ezer the son of `Ammishaddai.
1:13Of Asher:
Pag`i'el the son of `Okhran.
1:14Of Gad:
Elyasaf the son of De`u'el.
1:15Of Naftali:
Achira the son of `Enan."
1:16These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Yisra'el. 1:17Moshe and Aharon took these men who are mentioned by name. 1:18They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one. 1:19As the LORD commanded Moshe, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20The children of Re'uven, Yisra'el's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:21those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Re'uven, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
1:22Of the children of Shim`on, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:23those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Shim`on, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
1:24Of 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 who were able to go out to war; 1:25those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
1:26Of the children of Yehudah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:27those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Yehudah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
1:28Of the children of Yissakhar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:29those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Yissakhar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
1:30Of the children of Zevulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:31those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zevulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 1:32Of the children of Yosef, of the children of Efrayim, their generations, by thir families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:33those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Efrayim, were forty thousand five hundred.
1:34Of the children of Menasheh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:35those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Menasheh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
1:36Of the children of Binyamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:37those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Binyamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
1:38Of 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 who were able to go forth to war; 1:39those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
1:40Of 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 who were able to go forth to war; 1:41those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
1:42Of the children of Naftali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1:43those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naftali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
1:44These are those who were numbered, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered, and the princes of Yisra'el, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house. 1:45So all those who were numbered of the children of Yisra'el by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Yisra'el; 1:46even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 1:47But the Levi'im after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 1:48For the LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 1:49"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Yisra'el; 1:50but appoint the Levi'im over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it. 1:51When the tabernacle is to move, the Levi'im shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levi'im shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 1:52The children of Yisra'el shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions. 1:53But the Levi'im shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Yisra'el: and the Levi'im shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
1:54Thus the children of Yisra'el did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so they did.
2:1The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 2:2"The children of Yisra'el shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the tent of meeting shall they encamp around it."
2:3Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Yehudah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Yehudah shall be Nachshon the son of `Amminadav. 2:4His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
2:5Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Yissakhar: and the prince of the children of Yissakhar shall be Netan'el the son of Tzu`ar. 2:6His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
2:7The tribe of Zevulun: and the prince of the children of Zevulun shall be Eli'av the son of Chelon. 2:8His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
2:9All who were numbered of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
2:10"On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Re'uven according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Re'uven shall be Elitzur the son of Shede'ur. 2:11His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
2:12"Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Shim`on. The prince of the children of Shim`on shall be Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai. 2:13His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
2:14"The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Elyasaf the son of Re`u'el. 2:15His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
2:16"All who were numbered of the camp of Re'uven were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their hosts. They shall set out second.
2:17"Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levi'im in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
2:18"On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Efrayim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Efrayim shall be Elishama the son of `Ammihud. 2:19His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
2:20"Next to him shall be the tribe of Menasheh: and the prince of the children of Menasheh shall be Gamli'el the son of Pedatzur. 2:21His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
2:22"The tribe of Binyamin: and the prince of the children of Binyamin shall be Avidan the son of Gid`oni. 2:23His host, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
2:24"All who were numbered of the camp of Efrayim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
2:25"On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Achi`ezer the son of `Ammishaddai. 2:26His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
2:27"Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pag`i'el the son of `Okhran. 2:28His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
2:29"The tribe of Naftali: and the prince of the children of Naftali shall be Achira the son of `Enan. 2:30His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
2:31"All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."
2:32These are those who were numbered of the children of Yisra'el by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 2:33But the Levi'im were not numbered among the children of Yisra'el; as the LORD commanded Moshe.
2:34Thus the children of Yisra'el did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
3:1Now this is the history of the generations of Aharon and Moshe in the day that the LORD spoke with Moshe in Mount Sinai. 3:2These are the names of the sons of Aharon: Nadav the firstborn, and Avihu, El`azar, and Itamar.
3:3These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the kohanim who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the kohen's office. 3:4Nadav and Avihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. El`azar and Itamar ministered in the kohen's office in the presence of Aharon their father.
3:5The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 3:6"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aharon the kohen, that they may minister to him. 3:7They shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. 3:8They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Yisra'el, to do the service of the tabernacle. 3:9You shall give the Levi'im to Aharon and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el. 3:10You shall appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
3:11The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 3:12"Behold, I have taken the Levi'im from among the children of Yisra'el instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Yisra'el; and the Levi'im shall be mine: 3:13for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Yisra'el, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the LORD."
3:14The LORD spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 3:15"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."
3:16Moshe numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
3:17These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kehat, and Merari.
3:18These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Livni and Shim`i.
3:19The sons of Kehat by their families: `Amram, and Yitzhar, Chevron, and `Uzzi'el.
3:20The sons of Merari by their families: Machli and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levi'im according to their fathers' houses.
3:21Of Gershon was the family of the Livni, and the family of the Shim`i: these are the families of the Gershoni.
3:22Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
3:23The families of the Gershoni shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
3:24The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershoni shall be Elyasaf the son of La'el. 3:25The charge of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 3:26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
3:27Of Kehat was the family of the `Amrami, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Chevroni, and the family of the `Uzzi'eli: these are the families of the Kehati. 3:28According 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.
3:29The families of the sons of Kehat shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. 3:30The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kehati shall be Elitzafan the son of `Uzzi'el. 3:31Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service. 3:32El`azar the son of Aharon the kohen shall be prince of the princes of the Levi'im, with the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.
3:33Of Merari was the family of the Machli, and the family of the Mushi. These are the families of Merari. 3:34Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.
3:35The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Tzuri'el the son of Avichayil. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle. 3:36The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, 3:37the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. 3:38Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moshe, and Aharon and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Yisra'el. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 3:39All who were numbered of the Levi'im, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered at the mitzvah of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
3:40The LORD said to Moshe, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Yisra'el from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 3:41You shall take the Levi'im for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el; and the cattle of the Levi'im instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Yisra'el."
3:42Moshe numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el. 3:43All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
3:44The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 3:45"Take the Levi'im instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el, and the cattle of the Levi'im instead of their cattle; and the Levi'im shall be mine. I am the LORD. 3:46For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Yisra'el, who exceed the number of the Levi'im, 3:47you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs): 3:48and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aharon and to his sons."
3:49Moshe took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levi'im; 3:50from the firstborn of the children of Yisra'el he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 3:51and Moshe gave the redemption money to Aharon and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moshe.
4:1The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 4:2"Take a census of the sons of Kehat from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 4:3from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. 4:4This is the service of the sons of Kehat in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. 4:5When the camp moves forward, Aharon 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, 4:6and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. 4:7On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. 4:8They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. 4:9They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the menorah of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. 4:10They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. 4:11On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. 4:12They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. 4:13They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. 4:14They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
4:15"When Aharon and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kehat shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kehat in the Tent of Meeting.
4:16"The charge of El`azar the son of Aharon the kohen shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."
4:17The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 4:18"Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kehati from among the Levi'im; 4:19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aharon and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; 4:20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."
4:21The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 4:22"Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; 4:23from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. 4:24This is the service of the families of the Gershoni, in serving and in bearing burdens: 4:25they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 4:26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve. 4:27At the mitzvah of Aharon and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershoni, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them in charge all their burden. 4:28This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershoni in the Tent of Meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Itamar the son of Aharon the kohen.
4:29"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; 4:30from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. 4:31This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, 4:32and the pillars of the court around it, 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. 4:33This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Itamar the son of Aharon the kohen."
4:34Moshe and Aharon and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kehati by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 4:35from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting. 4:36Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty. 4:37These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kehati, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered according to the mitzvah of the LORD by Moshe.
4:38Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses, 4:39from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, 4:40even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty. 4:41These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered according to the mitzvah of the LORD. 4:42Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 4:43from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, 4:44even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred. 4:45These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered according to the mitzvah of the LORD by Moshe. 4:46All those who were numbered of the Levi'im, whom Moshe and Aharon and the princes of Yisra'el numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 4:47from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, 4:48even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. 4:49According to the mitzvah of the LORD they were numbered by Moshe, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moshe.
5:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 5:2"Command the children of Yisra'el that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead. 5:3Both male and female shall you put out, outside of the camp shall you put them; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
5:4The children of Yisra'el did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moshe, so did the children of Yisra'el.
5:5The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 5:6"Speak to the children of Yisra'el: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty; 5:7then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty. 5:8But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the LORD shall be the kohen's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. 5:9Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Yisra'el, which they present to the kohen, shall be his. 5:10Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the kohen, it shall be his."
5:11The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 5:12"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him, 5:13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act; 5:14and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled: 5:15then the man shall bring his wife to the kohen, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an efah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. 5:16The kohen shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD; 5:17and the kohen shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the kohen shall take, and put it into the water. 5:18The kohen shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The kohen shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse. 5:19The kohen shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 5:20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:' 5:21then the kohen shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the kohen shall tell the woman, 'The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; 5:22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amein, Amein.'
5:23"The kohen shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. 5:24He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 5:25The kohen shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar. 5:26The kohen shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 5:27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people. 5:28If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
5:29"This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled; 5:30or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the kohen shall execute on her all this law. 5:31The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity."
6:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 6:2"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazir, to separate himself to the LORD, 6:3he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 6:4All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
6:5"All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the LORD. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
6:6"All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body. 6:7He 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 to God is on his head. 6:8All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.
6:9"If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. 6:10On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the kohen, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. 6:11The kohen shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day. 6:12He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
6:13"This is the law of the Nazir: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, 6:14and he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one male 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 shalom offerings, 6:15and a basket of matzah, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings. 6:16The kohen shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering. 6:17He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of shalom offerings to the LORD, with the basket of matzah. The kohen shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering. 6:18The Nazir 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 shalom offerings. 6:19The kohen shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazir, after he has shaved the head of his separation; 6:20and the kohen shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. This is holy for the kohen, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazir may drink wine.
6:21"This is the law of the Nazir who vows, and of his offering to the LORD 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."
6:22The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 6:23"Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Yisra'el.' You shall tell them,
6:24'The LORD bless you, and keep you.
6:25The LORD
make his face to shine on you,
And be gracious to you.
6:26The LORD lift up his face toward
you,
And give you shalom.'
6:27"So they shall put my name on the children of Yisra'el; and I will bless them."
7:1It happened on the day that Moshe had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; 7:2that the princes of Yisra'el, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered: 7:3and they brought their offering before the LORD, 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. 7:4The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 7:5"Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levi'im, to every man according to his service."
7:6Moshe took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levi'im. 7:7He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service: 7:8and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Itamar the son of Aharon the kohen. 7:9But to the sons of Kehat he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
7:10The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar.
7:11The LORD said to Moshe, "They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar."
7:12He who offered his offering the
first day was Nachshon the son of `Amminadav, of the tribe of Yehudah, 7:13and his offering was:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:14one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:15one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:16one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:17and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nachshon the son of
`Amminadav.
7:18On the second day Netan'el the
son of Tzu`ar, prince of Yissakhar, gave his offering. 7:19He offered for his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:20one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:21one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:22one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:23and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Netan'el the son of Tzu`ar.
7:24On the third day Eli'av the son
of Chelon, prince of the children of Zevulun 7:25gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which 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 mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:26one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:27one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:28one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:29and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eli'av the son of
Chelon.
7:30On the fourth day Elitzur the son
of Shede'ur, prince of the children of Re'uven 7:31gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:32one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:33one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:34one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:35and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elitzur the son of
Shede'ur.
7:36On the fifth day Shelumi'el the
son of Tzurishaddai, prince of the children of Shim`on 7:37gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:38one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:39one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:40one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:41and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumi'el the son of
Tzurishaddai.
7:42On the sixth day, Elyasaf the son
of De`u'el, prince of the children of Gad 7:43gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:44one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:45one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:46one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:47and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elyasaf the son of
De`u'el.
7:48On the seventh day Elishama the
son of `Ammihud, prince of the children of Efrayim 7:49gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:50one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:51one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:52one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:53and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of
`Ammihud.
7:54On the eighth day Gamli'el the
son of Pedatzur, prince of the children of Menasheh 7:55gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:56one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:57one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:58one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:59and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamli'el the son of
Pedatzur.
7:60On the ninth day Avidan the son
of Gid`oni, prince of the children of Binyamin 7:61gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:62one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:63one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:64one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:65and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Avidan the son of
Gid`oni.
7:66On the tenth day Achi`ezer the
son of `Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan 7:67gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:68one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:69one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:70one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:71and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Achi`ezer the son of
`Ammishaddai.
7:72On the eleventh day Pag`i'el the
son of `Okhran, prince of the children of Asher 7:73gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:74one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:75one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:76one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:77and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pag`i'el the son of
`Okhran.
7:78On the twelfth day Achira the son
of `Enan, prince of the children of Naftali 7:79gave his
offering:
one silver platter, the weight of
which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;
7:80one golden
spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:81one young
bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;
7:82one male
goat for a sin offering;
7:83and for the
sacrifice of shalom offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Achira the son of
`Enan.
7:84This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Yisra'el: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; 7:85each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; 7:86the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; 7:87all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve; 7:88and all the oxen for the sacrifice of shalom offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.
7:89When Moshe went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two Keruvim: and he spoke to him.
8:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 8:2"Speak to Aharon, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the menorah.'"
8:3Aharon did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the menorah, as the LORD commanded Moshe. 8:4This was the workmanship of the menorah, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moshe, so he made the menorah.
8:5The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 8:6"Take the Levi'im from among the children of Yisra'el, and cleanse them. 8:7Thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. 8:8Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering. 8:9You shall present the Levi'im before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Yisra'el. 8:10You shall present the Levi'im before the LORD. The children of Yisra'el shall lay their hands on the Levi'im, 8:11and Aharon shall offer the Levi'im before the LORD for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD. 8:12The Levi'im shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levi'im. 8:13You shall set the Levi'im before Aharon, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD. 8:14Thus you shall separate the Levi'im from among the children of Yisra'el, and the Levi'im shall be mine.
8:15"After that, the Levi'im shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering. 8:16For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Yisra'el; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Yisra'el, I have taken them to me. 8:17For all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. 8:18I have taken the Levi'im instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el. 8:19I have given the Levi'im as a gift to Aharon and to his sons from among the children of Yisra'el, to do the service of the children of Yisra'el in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Yisra'el; that there be no plague among the children of Yisra'el, when the children of Yisra'el come near to the sanctuary."
8:20Thus did Moshe, and Aharon, and all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the Levi'im. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe concerning the Levi'im, so the children of Yisra'el did to them. 8:21The Levi'im purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aharon offered them for a wave offering before the LORD; and Aharon made atonement for them to cleanse them. 8:22After that, the Levi'im went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aharon, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moshe concerning the Levi'im, so they did to them.
8:23The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 8:24"This is that which belongs to the Levi'im: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; 8:25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more, 8:26but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levi'im concerning their duties."
9:1The LORD spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 9:2"Moreover let the children of Yisra'el keep the Pesach in its appointed season. 9:3On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
9:4Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el, that they should keep the Pesach. 9:5They kept the Pesach in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did. 9:6There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Pesach on that day, and they came before Moshe and before Aharon on that day. 9:7Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Yisra'el?"
9:8Moshe answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."
9:9The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 9:10"Say to the children of Yisra'el, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Pesach to the LORD. 9:11In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with matzah and bitter herbs. 9:12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Pesach they shall keep it. 9:13But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Pesach, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. 9:14If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Pesach to the LORD; according to the statute of the Pesach, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
9:15On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. 9:16So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 9:17Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Yisra'el traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Yisra'el encamped. 9:18At the mitzvah of the LORD, the children of Yisra'el traveled, and at the mitzvah of the LORD they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. 9:19When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Yisra'el kept the charge of the LORD, and didn't travel. 9:20Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the mitzvah of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the mitzvah of the LORD they traveled. 9:21Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled. 9:22Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Yisra'el remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. 9:23At the mitzvah of the LORD they encamped, and at the mitzvah of the LORD they traveled. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the mitzvah of the LORD by Moshe.
10:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 10:2Make you 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. 10:3When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting. 10:4If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Yisra'el, shall gather themselves to you. 10:5When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. 10:6When 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. 10:7But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. 10:8The sons of Aharon, the kohanim, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 10:9When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. 10:10Also 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 the LORD your God. 10:11It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony. 10:12The children of Yisra'el set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. 10:13They first took their journey according to the mitzvah of the LORD by Moshe. 10:14In the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Yehudah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nachshon the son of `Amminadav. 10:15Over the host of the tribe of the children of Yissakhar was Netan'el the son of Tzu`ar. 10:16Over the host of the tribe of the children of Zevulun was Eli'av the son of Chelon. 10:17The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. 10:18The standard of the camp of Re'uven set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elitzur the son of Shede'ur. 10:19Over the host of the tribe of the children of Shim`on was Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai. 10:20Over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Elyasaf the son of De`u'el. 10:21The Kehati set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tent against their coming. 10:22The standard of the camp of the children of Efrayim set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elishama the son of `Ammihud. 10:23Over the host of the tribe of the children of Menasheh was Gamli'el the son of Pedatzur. 10:24Over the host of the tribe of the children of Binyamin was Avidan the son of Gid`oni. 10:25The 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 Achi`ezer the son of `Ammishaddai. 10:26Over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pag`i'el the son of `Okhran. 10:27Over the host of the tribe of the children of Naftali was Achira the son of `Enan. 10:28Thus were the travels of the children of Yisra'el according to their hosts; and they set forward. 10:29Moshe said to Chovav, the son of Re`u'el the Midyanite, Moshe' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Yisra'el. 10:30He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives. 10:31He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes. 10:32It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good the LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to you. 10:33They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them. 10:34The cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. 10:35It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moshe said, Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you. 10:36When it rested, he said, Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Yisra'el.
11:1The people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD: and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. 11:2The people cried to Moshe; and Moshe prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated. 11:3The name of that place was called Tav`erah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 11:4The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Yisra'el also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 11:5We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: 11:6but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on. 11:7The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. 11:8The 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. 11:9When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. 11:10Moshe heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moshe was displeased. 11:11Moshe said to the LORD, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 11:12Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers? 11:13Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 11:14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 11:15If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. 11:16The LORD said to Moshe, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Yisra'el, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. 11:17I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. 11:18Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat. 11:19You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 11:21Moshe 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. 11:22Shall 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? 11:23The LORD said to Moshe, Has the LORD's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not. 11:24Moshe went out, and told the people the words of the LORD: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. 11:25The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. 11:26But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 11:27There ran a young man, and told Moshe, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. 11:28Yehoshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moshe, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moshe, forbid them. 11:29Moshe said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them! 11:30Moshe got him into the camp, he and the elders of Yisra'el. 11:31There went forth a wind from the LORD, 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 surface of the earth. 11:32The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 11:33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. 11:34The name of that place was called Kivrot-Hatta'avah, because there they buried the people who lusted. 11:35From Kivrot-Hatta'avah the people traveled to Chatzerot; and they abode at Chatzerot.
12:1Miryam and Aharon spoke against Moshe because of the Kushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Kushite woman. 12:2They said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only with Moshe? Hasn't he spoken also with us? the LORD heard it. 12:3Now the man Moshe was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth. 12:4The LORD spoke suddenly to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to Miryam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out. 12:5The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miryam; and they both came forth. 12:6He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. 12:7My servant Moshe is not so; he is faithful in all my house: 12:8with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of the LORD shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moshe? 12:9The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. 12:10The cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miryam was leprous, as white as snow: and Aharon looked at Miryam, and, behold, she was leprous. 12:11Aharon said to Moshe, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. 12:12Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. 12:13Moshe cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you. 12:14The LORD said to Moshe, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again. 12:15Miryam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miryam was brought in again. 12:16Afterward the people traveled from Chatzerot, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
13:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 13:2Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Kana`an, which I give to the children of Yisra'el: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them. 13:3Moshe sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the mitzvah of the LORD: all of them men who were heads of the children of Yisra'el. 13:4These were their names: Of the tribe of Re'uven, Shammua the son of Zakkur. 13:5Of the tribe of Shim`on, Shafat the son of Chori. 13:6Of the tribe of Yehudah, Kalev the son of Yefunneh. 13:7Of the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef. 13:8Of the tribe of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 13:9Of the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Rafu. 13:10Of the tribe of Zevulun, Gaddi'el the son of Sodi. 13:11Of the tribe of Yosef, namely, of the tribe of Menasheh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 13:12Of the tribe of Dan, `Ammi'el the son of Gemalli. 13:13Of the tribe of Asher, Setur the son of Mikha'el. 13:14Of the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi. 13:15Of the tribe of Gad, Ge'u'el the son of Makhi. 13:16These are the names of the men who Moshe sent to spy out the land. Moshe called Hoshea the son of Nun Yehoshua. 13:17Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Kana`an, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: 13:18and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 13:19and 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; 13:20and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. 13:21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Tzin to Rechov, to the entrance of Chamat. 13:22They went up by the South, and came to Chevron; and Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now Chevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Egypt.) 13:23They came to the valley of Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 13:24That place was called the valley of Eshkol, because of the cluster which the children of Yisra'el cut down from there. 13:25They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. 13:26They went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land. 13:27They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 13:28However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of `Anak there. 13:29`Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Chittite, and the Yevusi, and the Amori, dwell in the hill-country; and the Kana`ani dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Yarden. 13:30Kalev stilled the people before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 13:31But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 13:32They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Yisra'el, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. 13:33There we saw the Nefilim, the sons of `Anak, who come of the Nefilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
14:1All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 14:2All the children of Yisra'el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! 14:3Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt? 14:4They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 14:5Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra'el. 14:6Yehoshua the son of Nun and Kalev the son of Yefunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: 14:7and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 14:8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 14:9Only don't rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us: don't fear them. 14:10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Yisra'el. 14:11The LORD said to Moshe, 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? 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. 14:13Moshe said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them; 14:14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you LORD are in the midst of this people; for you LORD 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. 14:15Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 14:16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. 14:17Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, 14:18The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation. 14:19Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. 14:20The LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word: 14:21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD; 14:22because all those men who 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; 14:23surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it: 14:24but my servant Kalev, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it. 14:25Now the `Amaleki and the Kana`ani dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf. 14:26The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 14:27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra'el, which they murmur against me. 14:28Tell them, As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: 14:29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 14:30surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Kalev the son of Yefunneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun. 14:31But 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. 14:32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 14:33Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 14:34After 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. 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. 14:36The men, whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, 14:37even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 14:38But Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Yefunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. 14:39Moshe told these words to all the children of Yisra'el: and the people mourned greatly. 14:40They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned. 14:41Moshe said, Why now do you disobey the mitzvah of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper? 14:42Don't go up, for the LORD isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies. 14:43For there the `Amaleki and the Kana`ani are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 14:44But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moshe, didn't depart out of the camp. 14:45Then the `Amaleki came down, and the Kana`ani who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Chormah.
15:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 15:2Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you are come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, 15:3and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, 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 to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; 15:4then shall he who offers his offering offer to the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth part of an efah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil: 15:5and 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. 15:6Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil: 15:7and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to the LORD. 15:8When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings to the LORD; 15:9then shall he offer with the bull a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an efah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: 15:10and you shall offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD. 15:11Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids. 15:12According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number. 15:13All who are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD. 15:14If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do. 15:15For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before the LORD. 15:16One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you. 15:17The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 15:18Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you, 15:19then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering to the LORD. 15:20Of 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. 15:21Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a heave-offering throughout your generations. 15:22When you shall err, and not observe all these mitzvot, which the LORD has spoken to Moshe, 15:23even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moshe, from the day that the LORD gave mitzvah, and onward throughout your generations; 15:24then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin-offering. 15:25The kohen shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their error: 15:26and all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. 15:27If one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin-offering. 15:28The kohen shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. 15:29You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is home-born among the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them. 15:30But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15:31Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his mitzvah, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him. 15:32While the children of Yisra'el were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the day of Shabbat. 15:33Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moshe and Aharon, and to all the congregation. 15:34They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. 15:35The LORD said to Moshe, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp. 15:36All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as the LORD commanded Moshe. 15:37The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 15:38Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and bid those who they make them tzitziyot in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the tzitzit of each border a cord of blue: 15:39and it shall be to you for a tzitzit, that you may look on it, and remember all the mitzvot of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute; 15:40that you may remember and do all my mitzvot, and be holy to your God. 15:41I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
16:1Now Korach, the son of Yitzhar, the son of Kehat, the son of Levi, with Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av, and On, the son of Pelet, sons of Re'uven, took men: 16:2and they rose up before Moshe, with certain of the children of Yisra'el, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; 16:3and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the LORD? 16:4When Moshe heard it, he fell on his face: 16:5and he spoke to Korach and to all his company, saying, In the morning the LORD will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near to him. 16:6This do: take you censers, Korach, and all his company; 16:7and put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD does choose, he shall be holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi. 16:8Moshe said to Korach, Hear now, you sons of Levi: 16:9seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Yisra'el has separated you from the congregation of Yisra'el, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; 16:10and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also? 16:11Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD: and Aharon, what is he who you murmur against him? 16:12Moshe sent to call Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av; and they said, We won't come up: 16:13is 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 needs make yourself also a prince over us? 16:14Moreover you haven't 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 won't come up. 16:15Moshe was very angry, and said to the LORD, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them." 16:16Moshe said to Korach, You and all your company go before the LORD, you, and they, and Aharon, tomorrow: 16:17and take every man his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aharon, each his censer. 16:18They took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moshe and Aharon. 16:19Korach assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of meeting: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation. 16:20The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 16:21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. 16:22They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation? 16:23The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 16:24Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korach, Datan, and Aviram. 16:25Moshe rose up and went to Datan and Aviram; and the elders of Yisra'el followed him. 16:26He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins. 16:27So they got them up from the tent of Korach, Datan, and Aviram, on every side: and Datan and Aviram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. 16:28Moshe said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind. 16:29If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hasn't sent me. 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into She'ol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD. 16:31It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 16:32and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korach, and all their goods. 16:33So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into She'ol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. 16:34All Yisra'el that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. 16:35Fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. 16:36The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 16:37Speak to El`azar the son of Aharon the kohen, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for they are holy, 16:38even 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 the LORD; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Yisra'el. 16:39El`azar the kohen took the brazen censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, 16:40to be a memorial to the children of Yisra'el, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aharon, comes near to burn incense before the LORD; that he not be as Korach, and as his company: as the LORD spoke to him by Moshe. 16:41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD. 16:42It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moshe and against Aharon, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 16:43Moshe and Aharon came to the front of the tent of meeting. 16:44The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 16:45Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. They fell on their faces. 16:46Moshe said to Aharon, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 16:47Aharon took as Moshe 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. 16:48He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 16:49Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korach. 16:50Aharon returned to Moshe to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
17:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 17:2Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's name on his rod. 17:3You shall write Aharon's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses. 17:4You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. 17:5It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Yisra'el, which they murmur against you. 17:6Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aharon was among their rods. 17:7Moshe laid up the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony. 17:8It happened on the next day, that Moshe went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aharon for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. 17:9Moshe brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Yisra'el: and they looked, and took every man his rod. 17:10The LORD said to Moshe, Put back the rod of Aharon 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 not die. 17:11Thus did Moshe: as the LORD commanded him, so did he. 17:12The children of Yisra'el spoke to Moshe, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 17:13Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of the LORD, dies: shall we perish all of us?
18:1The LORD said to Aharon, 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. 18:2Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony. 18:3They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you. 18:4They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you. 18:5You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Yisra'el. 18:6I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levi'im from among the children of Yisra'el: to you they are a gift, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 18:7You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 18:8The LORD spoke to Aharon, I, behold, I have given you the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Yisra'el; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. 18:9This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 18:10As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you. 18:11This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Yisra'el; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. 18:12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD, to you have I given them. 18:13The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. 18:14Everything devoted in Yisra'el shall be yours. 18:15Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem. 18:16Those who 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). 18:17But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD. 18:18The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. 18:19All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Yisra'el offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you. 18:20The LORD said to Aharon, 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 Yisra'el. 18:21To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Yisra'el for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. 18:22Henceforth the children of Yisra'el shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. 18:23But the Levi'im shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Yisra'el they shall have no inheritance. 18:24For the tithe of the children of Yisra'el, which they offer as a heave-offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levi'im for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Yisra'el they shall have no inheritance. 18:25The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 18:26Moreover you shall speak to the Levi'im, and tell them, When you take of the children of Yisra'el the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave-offering of it for the LORD, a tithe of the tithe. 18:27Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. 18:28Thus you also shall offer a heave-offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Yisra'el; and of it you shall give the LORD's heave-offering to Aharon the kohen. 18:29Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it out of it. 18:30Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levi'im as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press. 18:31You 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. 18:32You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Yisra'el, that you not die.
19:1The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 19:2This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Yisra'el, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never came yoke. 19:3You shall give her to El`azar the kohen, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face: 19:4and El`azar the kohen shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 19:5One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 19:6and the kohen shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 19:7Then the kohen shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the kohen shall be unclean until the even. 19:8He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 19:9A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Yisra'el for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering. 19:10He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Yisra'el, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever. 19:11He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: 19:12the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 19:13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Yisra'el: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him. 19:14This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 19:15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. 19:16Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 19:17For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: 19:18and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: 19:19and the clean person shall sprinkle on 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. 19:20But the man who 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 the LORD: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 19:21It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even. 19:22Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
20:1The children of Yisra'el, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Tzin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miryam died there, and was buried there. 20:2There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon. 20:3The people strove with Moshe, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! 20:4Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? 20:5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to 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. 20:6Moshe and Aharon went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. 20:7The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 20:8Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aharon your brother, and speak you to 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. 20:9Moshe took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 20:10Moshe and Aharon gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock? 20:11Moshe lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. 20:12The LORD said to Moshe and Aharon, Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Yisra'el, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. 20:13These are the waters of Merivah; because the children of Yisra'el strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. 20:14Moshe sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Yisra'el, You know all the travail that has happened to us: 20:15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: 20:16and when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border. 20:17Please let us pass 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. 20:18Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you. 20:19The children of Yisra'el said to 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 of it: let me only, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet. 20:20He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. 20:21Thus Edom refused to give Yisra'el passage through his border: why Yisra'el turned away from him. 20:22They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Yisra'el, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. 20:23The LORD spoke to Moshe and Aharon in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, 20:24Aharon shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Yisra'el, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Merivah. 20:25Take Aharon and El`azar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; 20:26and strip Aharon of his garments, and put them on El`azar his son: and Aharon shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there. 20:27Moshe did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 20:28Moshe stripped Aharon of his garments, and put them on El`azar his son; and Aharon died there on the top of the mountain: and Moshe and El`azar came down from the mountain. 20:29When all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead, they wept for Aharon thirty days, even all the house of Yisra'el.
21:1The Kana`ani, the king of `Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Yisra'el came by the way of Atarim; and he fought against Yisra'el, and took some of them captive. 21:2Yisra'el vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 21:3The LORD listened to the voice of Yisra'el, and delivered up the Kana`anim; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Chormah. 21:4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Sea of Suf, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 21:5The people spoke against God, and against Moshe, 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. 21:6The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Yisra'el died. 21:7The people came to Moshe, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. Moshe prayed for the people. 21:8The LORD said to Moshe, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. 21:9Moshe made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. 21:10The children of Yisra'el traveled, and encamped in Ovot. 21:11They traveled from Ovot, and encamped at `Iye-Avarim, in the wilderness which is before Mo'av, toward the sunrise. 21:12From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered. 21:13From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amori: for the Arnon is the border of Mo'av, between Mo'av and the Amori. 21:14Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD,
Vahev in Sufah,
The valleys of the Arnon,
21:15The slope of the valleys
That inclines toward the dwelling of `Ar,
Leans on the border of Mo'av.
21:16From there they traveled to Be'er: that is the well of which the LORD said to Moshe, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
21:17Then sang Yisra'el this song:
Spring up, well; sing you to it:
21:18The well, which the princes dug,
Which the nobles of the people dug,
With the scepter, and with their poles.
From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 21:19and from Mattanah to Nachali'el; and from Nachali'el to Bamot; 21:20and from Bamot to the valley that is in the field of Mo'av, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. 21:21Yisra'el sent messengers to Sichon king of the Amori, saying, 21:22Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border. 21:23Sichon would not allow Yisra'el to pass through his border: but Sichon gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisra'el into the wilderness, and came to Yahatz; and he fought against Yisra'el. 21:24Yisra'el struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Yabbok, even to the children of `Ammon; for the border of the children of `Ammon was strong. 21:25Yisra'el took all these cities: and Yisra'el lived in all the cities of the Amori, in Cheshbon, and in all the towns of it. 21:26For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Amori, who had fought against the former king of Mo'av, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon. 21:27Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
Come you to Cheshbon;
Let the city of Sichon be built and established:
21:28For a fire is gone out of Cheshbon,
A flame from the city of Sichon:
It has devoured `Ar of Mo'av,
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
21:29Woe to you, Mo'av!
You are undone, people of Kemosh:
He has given his sons as fugitives,
His daughters into captivity,
To Sichon king of the Amori.
21:30We have shot at them; Cheshbon is perished even to Divon,
We have laid waste even to Nofach,
Which reaches to Medeva.
21:31Thus Yisra'el lived in the land of the Amori. 21:32Moshe sent to spy out Ya`zer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amori who were there. 21:33They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and `Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edre`i. 21:34The LORD said to Moshe, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Cheshbon. 21:35So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
22:1The children of Yisra'el traveled, and encamped in the plains of Mo'av beyond the Yarden at Yericho. 22:2Balak the son of Tzippor saw all that Yisra'el had done to the Amori. 22:3Mo'av was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Mo'av was distressed because of the children of Yisra'el. 22:4Mo'av said to the elders of Midyan, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Tzippor was king of Mo'av at that time. 22:5He sent messengers to Bil`am the son of Be'or, to Petor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me. 22:6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure 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. 22:7The elders of Mo'av and the elders of Midyan departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Bil`am, and spoke to him the words of Balak. 22:8He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me: and the princes of Mo'av abode with Bil`am. 22:9God came to Bil`am, and said, What men are these with you? 22:10Bil`am said to God, Balak the son of Tzippor, king of Mo'av, has sent to me, saying, 22:11Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out. 22:12God said to Bil`am, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed. 22:13Bil`am rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for the LORD refuses to give me leave to go with you. 22:14The princes of Mo'av rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Bil`am refuses to come with us. 22:15Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they. 22:16They came to Bil`am, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Tzippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me: 22:17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me. 22:18Bil`am answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. 22:19Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak to me more. 22:20God came to Bil`am at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do. 22:21Bil`am rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Mo'av. 22:22God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 22:23The donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Bil`am struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. 22:24Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. 22:25The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Bil`am's foot against the wall: and he struck her again. 22:26The angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. 22:27The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay down under Bil`am: and Bil`am's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff. 22:28The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bil`am, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times? 22:29Bil`am said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you. 22:30The donkey said to Bil`am, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No. 22:31Then the LORD opened the eyes of Bil`am, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. 22:32The angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me: 22:33and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive. 22:34Bil`am said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again. 22:35The angel of the LORD said to Bil`am, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Bil`am went with the princes of Balak. 22:36When Balak heard that Bil`am was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Mo'av, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. 22:37Balak said to Bil`am, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor? 22:38Bil`am said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak. 22:39Bil`am went with Balak, and they came to Kiryat-Chutzot. 22:40Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Bil`am, and to the princes who were with him. 22:41It happened in the morning, that Balak took Bil`am, and brought him up into the high places of Ba`al; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
23:1Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 23:2Balak did as Bil`am had spoken; and Balak and Bil`am offered on every altar a bull and a ram. 23:3Bil`am said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height. 23:4God met Bil`am: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 23:5The LORD put a word in Bil`am's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. 23:6He returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Mo'av. 23:7He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Mo'av from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Ya`akov, Come, defy Yisra'el. 23:8How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied? 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations. 23:10Who can count the dust of Ya`akov, Or number the fourth part of Yisra'el? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his! 23:11Balak said to Bil`am, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether. 23:12He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth? 23:13Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there. 23:14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 23:15He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. 23:16The LORD met Bil`am, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak. 23:17He came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Mo'av with him. Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken? 23:18He took up his parable, and said,
Rise up, Balak, and hear;
Listen to me, you son of Tzippor:
23:19God 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?
23:20Behold, I have received mitzvah to bless:
He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
23:21He has not saw iniquity in Ya`akov;
Neither has he seen perverseness in Yisra'el:
The LORD his God is with him,
The shout of a king is among them.
23:22God brings them forth out of Egypt;
He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
23:23Surely there is no enchantment with Ya`akov;
Neither is there any divination with Yisra'el:
Now shall it be said of Ya`akov and of Yisra'el,
What has God done!
23:24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness,
As a lion does he lift himself up:
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
Drink the blood of the slain.
23:25Balak said to Bil`am, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 23:26But Bil`am answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do? 23:27Balak said to Bil`am, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there. 23:28Balak took Bil`am to the top of Pe`or, that looks down on the desert. 23:29Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 23:30Balak did as Bil`am had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
24:1When Bil`am saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Yisra'el, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 24:2Bil`am lifted up his eyes, and he saw Yisra'el dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. 24:3He took up his parable, and said,
Bil`am the son of Be'or says,
The man whose eye was closed says;
24:4He says, who hears the words of God,
Who sees the vision of Shaddai,
Falling down, and having his eyes open:
24:5How goodly are your tents, Ya`akov,
Your tents, Yisra'el!
24:6As valleys are they spread forth,
As gardens by the river-side,
As lign-aloes which the LORD has planted,
As cedar trees beside the waters.
24:7Water shall flow from his buckets,
His seed shall be in many waters,
His king shall be higher than Agag,
His kingdom shall be exalted.
24:8God brings him forth out of Egypt;
He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox:
He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
Shall break their bones in pieces,
Smite them through with his arrows.
24:9He couched, he lay down as a lion,
As a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Blessed be everyone who blesses you,
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
24:10Balak's anger was kindled against Bil`am, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Bil`am, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. 24:11Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, the LORD has kept you back from honor. 24:12Bil`am said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying, 24:13If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what the LORD speaks, that will I speak? 24:14Now, behold, I go to my people: come, and I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days. 24:15He took up his parable, and said,
Bil`am the son of Be'or says,
The man whose eye was closed says;
24:16He says, who hears the words of God,
Knows the knowledge of the Most High,
Who sees the vision of Shaddai,
Falling down, and having his eyes open:
24:17I see him, but not now;
I see him, but not near:
There shall come forth a star out of Ya`akov,
A scepter shall rise out of Yisra'el,
Shall strike through the corners of Mo'av,
Break down all the sons of tumult.
24:18Edom shall be a possession,
Se`ir also shall be a possession, who were his enemies;
While Yisra'el does valiantly.
24:19Out of Ya`akov shall one have dominion,
Shall destroy the remnant from the city.
24:20He looked at `Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
`Amalek was the first of the nations;
But his latter end shall come to destruction.
24:21He looked at the Keni, and took up his parable, and said,
Strong is your dwelling-place,
Your nest is set in the rock.
24:22Nevertheless Kayin shall be wasted,
Until Ashur shall carry you away captive.
24:23He took up his parable, and said,
Alas, who shall live when God does this?
24:24But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,
They shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict `Ever;
He also shall come to destruction.
24:25Bil`am rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
25:1Yisra'el abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Mo'av: 25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. 25:3Yisra'el joined himself to Ba`al-Pe`or: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Yisra'el. 25:4The LORD said to Moshe, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Yisra'el. 25:5Moshe said to the judges of Yisra'el, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Ba`al-Pe`or.
25:6Behold, one of the children of Yisra'el came and brought to his brothers a Midyanite woman in the sight of Moshe, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. 25:7When Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the kohen, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 25:8and he went after the man of Yisra'el into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra'el, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Yisra'el. 25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. 25:10The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 25:11Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the kohen, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yisra'el, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Yisra'el in my jealousy. 25:12Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of shalom: 25:13and it shall be to 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 Yisra'el. 25:14Now the name of the man of Yisra'el that was slain, who was slain with the Midyanite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Shim`oni. 25:15The name of the Midyanite woman who was slain was Kozbi, the daughter of Tzur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midyan. 25:16The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 25:17Vex the Midyanim, and strike them; 25:18for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Pe`or, and in the matter of Kozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midyan, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Pe`or.
26:1It happened after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moshe and to El`azar the son of Aharon the kohen, saying, 26:2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Yisra'el. 26:3Moshe and El`azar the kohen spoke with them in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying, 26:4Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moshe and the children of Yisra'el, that came forth out of the land of Egypt. 26:5Re'uven, the firstborn of Yisra'el; the sons of Re'uven: of Chanokh, the family of the Chanokhi; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 26:6of Chetzron, the family of the Chetzroni; of Karmi, the family of the Karmi. 26:7These are the families of the Re'uveni; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty. 26:8The sons of Pallu: Eli'av. 26:9The sons of Eli'av: Nemu'el, and Datan, and Aviram. These are that Datan and Aviram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moshe and against Aharon in the company of Korach, when they strove against the LORD, 26:10and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korach, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign. 26:11Notwithstanding, the sons of Korach didn't die. 26:12The sons of Shim`on after their families: of Nemu'el, the family of the Nemu'eli; of Yamin, the family of the Yamini; of Yakhin, the family of the Yakhini; 26:13of Zerach, the family of the Zarchi; of Sha'ul, the family of the Sha'uli. 26:14These are the families of the Shim`oni, twenty-two thousand two hundred. 26:15The sons of Gad after their families: of Tzefon, the family of the Tzefoni; of Chaggi, the family of the Chaggi; of Shuni, the family of the Shuni; 26:16of Ozni, the family of the Ozni; of `Eri, the family of the `Eri; 26:17of Arod, the family of the Arodi; of Ar'eli, the family of the Ar'eli. 26:18These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. 26:19The sons of Yehudah: `Er and Onan; and `Er and Onan died in the land of Kana`an. 26:20The sons of Yehudah after their families were: of Shelach, the family of the Shelani; of Peretz, the family of the Partzi; of Zerach, the family of the Zarchi. 26:21The sons of Peretz were: of Chetzron, the family of the Chetzroni; of Chamul, the family of the Chamuli. 26:22These are the families of Yehudah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. 26:23The sons of Yissakhar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tola`i; of Puvah, the family of the Puni; 26:24of Yashuv, the family of the Yashuvi; of Shimron, the family of the Shimroni. 26:25These are the families of Yissakhar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. 26:26The sons of Zevulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardi; of Elon, the family of the Eloni; of Yachle'el, the family of the Yachle'eli. 26:27These are the families of the Zevuloni according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred. 26:28The sons of Yosef after their families: Menasheh and Efrayim. 26:29The sons of Menasheh: of Makhir, the family of the Makhiri; and Makhir became the father of Gil`ad; of Gil`ad, the family of the Gil`adi. 26:30These are the sons of Gil`ad: of I`ezer, the family of the I`ezri; of Chelek, the family of the Chelki; 26:31and of Asri'el, the family of the Asri'eli; and of Shekhem, the family of the Shikhmi; 26:32and of Shemida, the family of the Shemida`i; and of Chefer, the family of the Chefri. 26:33Tzelohchad the son of Chefer had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Tzelohchad were Mahlach, and No`ah, Choglah, Milkah, and Tirtzah. 26:34These are the families of Menasheh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. 26:35These are the sons of Efrayim after their families: of Shutelach, the family of the Shutelchi; of Bekher, the family of the Bakhri; of Tachan, the family of the Tachani. 26:36These are the sons of Shutelach: of `Eran, the family of the `Erani. 26:37These are the families of the sons of Efrayim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Yosef after their families. 26:38The sons of Binyamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Bal`i; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbeli; of Achiram, the family of the Achirami; 26:39of Shefufam, the family of the Shufami; of Chufam, the family of the Chufami. 26:40The sons of Bela were Ard and Na`aman: of Ard, the family of the Ardi; of Na`aman, the family of the Na`ami. 26:41These are the sons of Binyamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. 26:42These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shucham, the family of the Shuchami. These are the families of Dan after their families. 26:43All the families of the Shuchami, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. 26:44The sons of Asher after their families: of Yimna, the family of the Yimni; of Yishvi, the family of the Yishvi; of Beri`ah, the family of the Beri`i. 26:45Of the sons of Beri`ah: of Chever, the family of the Chevri; of Malki'el, the family of the Malki'eli. 26:46The name of the daughter of Asher was Serach. 26:47These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred. 26:48The sons of Naftali after their families: of Yachtze'el, the family of the Yachtze'eli; of Guni, the family of the Guni; 26:49of Yetzer, the family of the Yitzri; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemi. 26:50These are the families of Naftali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. 26:51These are those who were numbered of the children of Yisra'el, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. 26:52The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 26:53To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. 26:54To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given. 26:55Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. 26:56According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer. 26:57These are those who were numbered of the Levi'im after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershoni; of Kehat, the family of the Kehati; of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 26:58These are the families of Levi: the family of the Livni, the family of the Chevroni, the family of the Machli, the family of the Mushi, the family of the Korchi. Kehat became the father of `Amram. 26:59The name of `Amram's wife was Yokheved, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to `Amram Aharon and Moshe, and Miryam their sister. 26:60To Aharon were born Nadav and Avihu, El`azar and Itamar. 26:61Nadav and Avihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. 26:62Those who 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 Yisra'el, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Yisra'el. 26:63These are those who were numbered by Moshe and El`azar the kohen, who numbered the children of Yisra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho. 26:64But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered by Moshe and Aharon the kohen, who numbered the children of Yisra'el in the wilderness of Sinai. 26:65For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save Kalev the son of Yefunneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.
27:1Then drew near the daughters of Tzelohchad, the son of Chefer, the son of Gil`ad, the son of Makhir, the son of Menasheh, of the families of Menasheh the son of Yosef; and these are the names of his daughters: Machlah, Noach, and Choglah, and Milkah, and Tirtzah. 27:2They stood before Moshe, and before El`azar the kohen, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, 27:3Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korach: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons. 27:4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father. 27:5Moshe brought their cause before the LORD. 27:6The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 27:7The daughters of Tzelohchad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. 27:8You shall speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. 27:9If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. 27:10If he have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 27:11If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Yisra'el a statute and ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moshe. 27:12The LORD said to Moshe, Go up into this mountain of `Avarimen, and see the land which I have given to the children of Yisra'el. 27:13When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aharon your brother was gathered; 27:14because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Tzin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Merivah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Tzin.) 27:15Moshe spoke to the LORD, saying, 27:16Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, 27:17who 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 the LORD not be as sheep which have no shepherd. 27:18The LORD said to Moshe, Take Yehoshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; 27:19and set him before El`azar the kohen, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. 27:20You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el may obey. 27:21He shall stand before El`azar the kohen, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Yisra'el with him, even all the congregation. 27:22Moshe did as the LORD commanded him; and he took Yehoshua, and set him before El`azar the kohen, and before all the congregation: 27:23and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD spoke by Moshe.
28:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 28:2Command the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor to me, shall you observe to offer to me in their due season. 28:3You shall tell them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 28:4The one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer at even; 28:5and the tenth part of an efah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. 28:6It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 28:7The drink-offering of it 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 to the LORD. 28:8The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD. 28:9On the day of Shabbat two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, and the drink-offering of it: 28:10this is the burnt offering of every Shabbat, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering of it. 28:11In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; 28:12and three tenth parts of an efah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 28:13and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal-offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 28:14Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, 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. 28:15One male goat for a sin-offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink-offering of it. 28:16In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD's Pesach. 28:17On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall matzah be eaten. 28:18In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work; 28:19but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; 28:20and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenth parts shall you offer for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram; 28:21a tenth part shall you offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; 28:22and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. 28:23You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 28:24After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink-offering of it. 28:25On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work. 28:26Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal-offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work; 28:27but you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; 28:28and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 28:29a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 28:30one male goat, to make atonement for you. 28:31Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink-offerings.
29:1In 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 to you. 29:2You shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:3and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, 29:4and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 29:5and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; 29:6besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 29:7On 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; 29:8but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a sweet savor: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; 29:9and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 29:10a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: 29:11one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings. 29:12On 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 to the LORD seven days: 29:13and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; 29:14and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, 29:15and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; 29:16and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:17On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:18and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:19and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings. 29:20On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:21and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:22and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:23On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:24their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:25and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:26On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:27and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:28and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:29On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:30and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:31and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offerings of it. 29:32On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:33and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:34and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:35On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; 29:36but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:37their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance: 29:38and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:39These you shall offer to the LORD 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. 29:40Moshe told the children of Yisra'el according to all that the LORD commanded Moshe.
30:1Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Yisra'el, saying, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded. 30:2When a man vows a vow to the LORD, 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. 30:3Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, 30:4and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his shalom at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand. 30:5But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her. 30:6If she be married to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, 30:7and her husband hear it, and hold his shalom at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. 30:8But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and the LORD will forgive her. 30:9But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, even everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her. 30:10If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 30:11and her husband heard it, and held his shalom at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. 30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever 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 the LORD will forgive her. 30:13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 30:14But if her husband altogether hold his shalom at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his shalom at her in the day that he heard them. 30:15But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. 30:16These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moshe, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
31:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 31:2Avenge the children of Yisra'el of the Midyanim: afterward you shall be gathered to your people. 31:3Moshe spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midyan, to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midyan. 31:4Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Yisra'el, shall you send to the war. 31:5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Yisra'el, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 31:6Moshe sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Pinechas the son of El`azar the kohen, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. 31:7They warred against Midyan, as the LORD commanded Moshe; and they killed every male. 31:8They killed the kings of Midyan with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Chur, and Reva, the five kings of Midyan: Bil`am also the son of Be'or they killed with the sword. 31:9The children of Yisra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. 31:10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. 31:11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal. 31:12They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moshe, and to El`azar the kohen, and to the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the camp at the plains of Mo'av, which are by the Yarden at Yericho. 31:13Moshe, and El`azar the kohen, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp. 31:14Moshe 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. 31:15Moshe said to them, Have you saved all the women alive? 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Yisra'el, through the counsel of Bil`am, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Pe`or, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD. 31:17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 31:18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 31:19Encamp you outside of 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. 31:20As 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. 31:21El`azar the kohen said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moshe: 31:22however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 31:23everything 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 doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. 31:24You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp. 31:25The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 31:26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and El`azar the kohen, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation; 31:27and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. 31:28Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks: 31:29take it of their half, and give it to El`azar the kohen, for the LORD's heave-offering. 31:30Of the children of Yisra'el's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them to the Levi'im, who keep the charge of the tent of the LORD. 31:31Moshe and El`azar the kohen did as the LORD commanded Moshe. 31:32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 31:33and seventy-two thousand oxen, 31:34and seventy-one thousand donkeys, 31:35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. 31:36The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: 31:37and the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. 31:38The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was seventy-two. 31:39The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was sixty-one. 31:40The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom the LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons. 31:41Moshe gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave-offering, to El`azar the kohen, as the LORD commanded Moshe. 31:42Of the children of Yisra'el's half, which Moshe divided off from the men who warred 31:43(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, 31:44and thirty-six thousand oxen, 31:45and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, 31:46and sixteen thousand persons), 31:47even of the children of Yisra'el's half, Moshe took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levi'im, who kept the charge of the tent of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moshe. 31:48The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moshe; 31:49and they said to Moshe, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us. 31:50We have brought the LORD's offering, 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 the LORD. 31:51Moshe and El`azar the kohen took the gold of them, even all worked jewels. 31:52All the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. 31:53(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) 31:54Moshe and El`azar the kohen 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 Yisra'el before the LORD.
32:1Now the children of Re'uven and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Ya`zer, and the land of Gil`ad, that behold, the place was a place for cattle; 32:2the children of Gad and the children of Re'uven came and spoke to Moshe, and to El`azar the kohen, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, 32:3`Atrot, and Divon, and Ya`zer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and El`aleh, and Sevam, and Nevo, and Be`on, 32:4the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Yisra'el, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle. 32:5They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Yarden. 32:6Moshe said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Re'uven, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here? 32:7Why discourage you the heart of the children of Yisra'el from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? 32:8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land. 32:9For when they went up to the valley of Eshkol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Yisra'el, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 32:10The LORD's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, 32:11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov; because they have not wholly followed me: 32:12save Kalev the son of Yefunneh the Kenizzi, and Yehoshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed the LORD. 32:13The LORD's anger was kindled against Yisra'el, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed. 32:14Behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Yisra'el. 32:15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. 32:16They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 32:17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Yisra'el, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 32:18We will not return to our houses, until the children of Yisra'el have inherited every man his inheritance. 32:19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Yarden, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Yarden eastward. 32:20Moshe said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war, 32:21and every armed man of you will pass over the Yarden before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, 32:22and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards the LORD, and towards Yisra'el; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the LORD. 32:23But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. 32:24Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth. 32:25The children of Gad and the children of Re'uven spoke to Moshe, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands. 32:26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gil`ad; 32:27but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says. 32:28So Moshe gave charge concerning them to El`azar the kohen, and to Yehoshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Yisra'el. 32:29Moshe said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Re'uven will pass with you over the Yarden, every man who is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gil`ad for a possession: 32:30but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Kana`an. 32:31The children of Gad and the children of Re'uven answered, saying, As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do. 32:32We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Kana`an, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Yarden. 32:33Moshe gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Re'uven, and to the half-tribe of Menasheh the son of Yosef, the kingdom of Sichon king of the Amori, and the kingdom of `Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with their borders, even the cities of the land round about. 32:34The children of Gad built Divon, and `Atrot, and `Aro`er, 32:35and `Atrot-Shofan, and Ya`zer, and Yogbehah, 32:36and Beit-Nimrah, and Beth Charan: fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 32:37The children of Re'uven built Cheshbon, and El`aleh, and Kiryatayim, 32:38and Nevo, and Ba`al-Me`on, (their names being changed), and Sivmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built. 32:39The children of Makhir the son of Menasheh went to Gil`ad, and took it, and dispossessed the Amori who were therein. 32:40Moshe gave Gil`ad to Makhir the son of Menasheh; and he lived therein. 32:41Ya'ir the son of Menasheh went and took the towns of it, and called them Chavvot-Ya'ir. 32:42Novach went and took Kenat, and the villages of it, and called it Novach, after his own name.
33:1These are the journeys of the children of Yisra'el, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moshe and Aharon. 33:2Moshe wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the mitzvah of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 33:3They traveled from Ra`meses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Pesach the children of Yisra'el went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, 33:4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them: on their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 33:5The children of Yisra'el traveled from Ra`meses, and encamped in Sukkot. 33:6They traveled from Sukkot, and encamped in Etam, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 33:7They traveled from Etam, and turned back to Pi-Hachirot, which is before Ba`al-Tzefon: and they encamped before Migdol. 33:8They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etam, and encamped in Marah. 33:9They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there. 33:10They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Sea of Suf. 33:11They traveled from the Sea of Suf, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. 33:12They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dofka. 33:13They traveled from Dofka, and encamped in Alush. 33:14They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Refidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 33:15They traveled from Refidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. 33:16They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kivrot-Hatta'avah. 33:17They traveled from Kivrot-Hatta'avah, and encamped in Chatzerot. 33:18They traveled from Chatzerot, and encamped in Ritmah. 33:19They traveled from Ritmah, and encamped in Rimmon-Peretz. 33:20They traveled from Rimmon-Peretz, and encamped in Livna. 33:21They traveled from Livna, and encamped in Rissah. 33:22They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelatah. 33:23They traveled from Kehelatah, and encamped in Mount Shefer. 33:24They traveled from Mount Shefer, and encamped in Charadah. 33:25They traveled from Charadah, and encamped in Makhelot. 33:26They traveled from Makhelot, and encamped in Tachat. 33:27They traveled from Tachat, and encamped in Terach. 33:28They traveled from Terach, and encamped in Mitkah. 33:29They traveled from Mitkah, and encamped in Chashmonah. 33:30They traveled from Chashmonah, and encamped in Moserot. 33:31They traveled from Moserot, and encamped in Bene-Ya`akan. 33:32They traveled from Bene-Ya`akan, and encamped in Chor-Haggidgad. 33:33They traveled from Chor-Haggidgad, and encamped in Yotvatah. 33:34They traveled from Yotvatah, and encamped in `Avronah. 33:35They traveled from `Avronah, and encamped in `Etzyon-Gever. 33:36They traveled from `Etzyon-Gever, and encamped in the wilderness of Tzin (the same is Kadesh). 33:37They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. 33:38Aharon the kohen went up into Mount Hor at the mitzvah of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Yisra'el were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. 33:39Aharon was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor. 33:40The Kana`ani, the king of `Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Kana`an, heard of the coming of the children of Yisra'el. 33:41They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Tzalmonah. 33:42They traveled from Tzalmonah, and encamped in Punon. 33:43They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Ovot. 33:44They traveled from Ovot, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Mo'av. 33:45They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Divon-Gad. 33:46They traveled from Divon-Gad, and encamped in `Almon at Divlatayim. 33:47They traveled from `Almon at Divlatayim, and encamped in the mountains of `Avarimen, before Nevo. 33:48They traveled from the mountains of `Avarimen, and encamped in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho. 33:49They encamped by the Yarden, from Beth-jeshimoth even to Avel-Hashittim in the plains of Mo'av. 33:50The LORD spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying, 33:51Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you pass over the Yarden into the land of Kana`an, 33:52then 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: 33:53and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for to you have I given the land to possess it. 33:54You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall you inherit. 33:55But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those who 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 in which you dwell. 33:56It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.
34:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 34:2Command the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you come into the land of Kana`an (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Kana`an according to the borders of it), 34:3then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Tzin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 34:4and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of `Akrabbim, and pass along to Tzin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh-Barnea; and it shall go forth to Chatzar-Addar, and pass along to `Atzmon; 34:5and the border shall turn about from `Atzmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. 34:6For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border of it: this shall be your west border. 34:7This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor; 34:8from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Chamat; and the goings out of the border shall be at Tzedad; 34:9and the border shall go forth to Zifron, and the goings out of it shall be at Chatzar-`Enan: this shall be your north border. 34:10You shall mark out your east border from Chatzar-`Enan to Shefam; 34:11and the border shall go down from Shefam to Rivlah, on the east side of `Ayin; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Kinneret eastward; 34:12and the border shall go down to the Yarden, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders of it round about. 34:13Moshe commanded the children of Yisra'el, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; 34:14for the tribe of the children of Re'uven 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 Menasheh have received, their inheritance: 34:15the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Yarden at Yericho eastward, toward the sunrise. 34:16The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 34:17These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: El`azar the kohen, and Yehoshua the son of Nun. 34:18You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. 34:19These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Yehudah, Kalev the son of Yefunneh. 34:20Of the tribe of the children of Shim`on, Shemu'el the son of `Ammihud. 34:21Of the tribe of Binyamin, Elidad the son of Kislon. 34:22Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Yogli. 34:23Of the children of Yosef: of the tribe of the children of Menasheh a prince, Channi'el the son of Efod. 34:24Of the tribe of the children of Efrayim a prince, Kemu'el the son of Shiftan. 34:25Of the tribe of the children of Zevulun a prince, Elitzafan the son of Parnakh. 34:26Of the tribe of the children of Yissakhar a prince, Palti'el the son of `Azzan. 34:27Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Achichud the son of Shelomi. 34:28Of the tribe of the children of Naftali a prince, Pedah'el the son of `Ammihud. 34:29These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Yisra'el in the land of Kana`an.
35:1The LORD spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying, 35:2Command the children of Yisra'el that they give to the Levi'im of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levi'im. 35:3The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals. 35:4The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levi'im, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits round about. 35:5You shall measure outside of 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. 35:6The cities which you shall give to the Levi'im, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities. 35:7All the cities which you shall give to the Levi'im shall be forty-eight cities; them shall you give with their suburbs. 35:8Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Yisra'el, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levi'im. 35:9The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, 35:10Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you pass over the Yarden into the land of Kana`an, 35:11then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. 35:12The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment. 35:13The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. 35:14You shall give three cities beyond the Yarden, and three cities shall you give in the land of Kana`an; they shall be cities of refuge. 35:15For the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. 35:16But 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. 35:17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 35:18Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 35:19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 35:20If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 35:21or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who 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. 35:22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, 35:23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 35:24then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 35:25and 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 kohen gadol, who was anointed with the holy oil. 35:26But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, 35:27and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood, 35:28because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the kohen gadol: but after the death of the kohen gadol the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession. 35:29These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 35:30Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. 35:31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. 35:32You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the kohen. 35:33So you shall not pollute the land in which 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 who shed it. 35:34You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra'el.
36:1The heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the children of Gil`ad, the son of Makhir, the son of Menasheh, of the families of the sons of Yosef, came near, and spoke before Moshe, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Yisra'el: 36:2and they said, the LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Yisra'el: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Tzelohchad our brother to his daughters. 36:3If they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Yisra'el, 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. 36:4When the jubilee of the children of Yisra'el shall be, then will their inheritance be added to 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. 36:5Moshe commanded the children of Yisra'el according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Yosef speaks right. 36:6This is the thing which the LORD does command concerning the daughters of Tzelohchad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. 36:7So shall no inheritance of the children of Yisra'el remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Yisra'el shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 36:8Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Yisra'el, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Yisra'el may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 36:9So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Yisra'el shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance. 36:10Even as the LORD commanded Moshe, so did the daughters of Tzelohchad: 36:11for Machlah, Tirtzah, and Choglah, and Milkah, and Noach, the daughters of Tzelohchad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. 36:12They were married into the families of the sons of Menasheh the son of Yosef; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 36:13These are the mitzvot and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moshe to the children of Yisra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho.
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