Bible (King James)/Numbers

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==Chapter 1==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the
second month, in the second year after they were come out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go
forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by
their armies.
 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one
head of the house of his fathers.
 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you:
of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of
Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the
tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by
their names:
 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first
day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
by their polls.
 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls,
every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, those that were
numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by
their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon,
were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad,
were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah,
were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of
their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan,
were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher,
were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each
one was for the house of his fathers.
 So were all those that were numbered of the children of
Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the
sum of them among the children of Israel:
 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of
testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all
things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and
all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and
shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall
take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the
Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh
shall be put to death.
 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man
by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout
their hosts.
 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the
children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of
the tabernacle of testimony.
 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so did they.
==Chapter 2==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own
standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off
about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they
of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their
armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of
the children of Judah.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of
Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of
the children of Issachar.
 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
and four thousand and four hundred.
 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be
captain of the children of Zebulun.
 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
and seven thousand and four hundred.
 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred
thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four
hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their armies: and the captain of the children of
Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty
and six thousand and five hundred.
 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and
the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
and nine thousand and three hundred.
 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad
shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred
thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and
fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in
the second rank.
 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with
the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they
encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by
their standards.
 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of
Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
thousand and five hundred.
 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of
the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of
Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred
thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their
armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by
their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and
the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son
of Ocran.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
and one thousand and five hundred.
 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of
Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
and three thousand and four hundred.
 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred
thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They
shall go hindmost with their standards.
 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel
by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of
the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so
they set forward, every one after their families, according to
the house of their fathers.
==Chapter 3==
 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day
that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the
firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which
were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's
office.
 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered
strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and
they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron
the priest, that they may minister unto him.
 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do
the service of the tabernacle.
 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to
do the service of the tabernacle.
 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons:
they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait
on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh
shall be put to death.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the
children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth
the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites
shall be mine;
 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I
smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto
me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall
they be: I am the LORD.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
saying,
 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers,
by their families: every male from a month old and upward
shalt thou number them.
 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as
he was commanded.
 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari.
 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their
families; Libni, and Shimei.
 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar,
Hebron, and Uzziel.
 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levites according to the house
of their fathers.
 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of
the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of
all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that
were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the
tabernacle westward.
 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites
shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the
congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the
covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of
the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round
about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family
of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the
family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the
Kohathites.
 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary.
 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of
the tabernacle southward.
 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the
candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary
wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service
thereof.
 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over
the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that
keep the charge of the sanctuary.
 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of
the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number
of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six
thousand and two hundred.
 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the
side of the tabernacle northward.
 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall
be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the
pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels
thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
and their pins, and their cords.
 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east,
even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall
be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the
stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron
numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their
families, all the males from a month old and upward, were
twenty and two thousand.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the
males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward,
and take the number of their names.
 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead
of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the
cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the
cattle of the children of Israel.
 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the
firstborn among the children of Israel.
 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a
month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them,
were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and
thirteen.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of
their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and
threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of
Israel, which are more than the Levites;
 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after
the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel
is twenty gerahs:)
 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of
them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and
above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money;
a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary:
 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron
and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the
LORD commanded Moses.
==Chapter 4==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of
Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,
all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle
of the congregation.
 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his
sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover
the ark of testimony with it:
 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and
shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in
the staves thereof.
 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of
blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the
bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread
shall be thereon:
 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover
the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in
the staves thereof.
 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick
of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister unto it:
 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a
covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,
and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put
to the staves thereof:
 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith
they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of
blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and
shall put them on a bar:
 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread
a purple cloth thereon:
 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith
they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and
the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and
they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and
put to the staves of it.
 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the
sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp
is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come
to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they
die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and
the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the
oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is,
in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites
from among the Levites:
 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when
they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons
shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to
his burden:
 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are
covered, lest they die.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the
houses of their fathers, by their families;
 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt
thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to
do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to
serve, and for burdens:
 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering
of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging
for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of
the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the
altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of
their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they
serve.
 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the
service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens,
and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in
charge all their burdens.
 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in
the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be
under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their
families, by the house of their fathers;
 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old
shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the
service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their
service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of
the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof,
and sockets thereof,
 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the
instruments of the charge of their burden.
 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari,
according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the
congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered
the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the
house of their fathers,
 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation:
 And those that were numbered of them by their families were
two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
 These were they that were numbered of the families of the
Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to
the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon,
throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation,
 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their
families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and
six hundred and thirty.
 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons
of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of
the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to
the commandment of the LORD.
 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their
fathers,
 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation,
 Even those that were numbered of them after their families,
were three thousand and two hundred.
 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons
of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and
Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families,
and after the house of their fathers,
 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the
service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and
five hundred and fourscore,
 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by
the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and
according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
==Chapter 5==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp
every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever
is defiled by the dead:
 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall
ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst
whereof I dwell.
 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without
the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of
Israel.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall
commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the
LORD, and that person be guilty;
 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he
shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and
add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him
against whom he hath trespassed.
 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass
unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to
the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
atonement shall be made for him.
 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any
man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes
of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the
manner;
 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of
his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled:
 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he
shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah
of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an
offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the
LORD:
 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and
of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put it into the water:
 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in
her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest
shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the
curse:
 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the
woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not
gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband,
be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband,
and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee
beside thine husband:
 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD
make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD
doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And
the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he
shall blot them out with the bitter water:
 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that
causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall
enter into her, and become bitter.
 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and
offer it upon the altar:
 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the
memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward
shall cause the woman to drink the water.
 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall
come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass
against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse
shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall
swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse
among her people.
 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall
be free, and shall conceive seed.
 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to
another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the
LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
shall bear her iniquity.
==Chapter 6==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of
a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and
shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink,
neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
grapes, or dried.
 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is
made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor
come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which
he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and
shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
come at no dead body.
 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die:
because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled
the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in
the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave
it.
 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young
pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation:
 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for
that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that
same day.
 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his
separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be
lost, because his separation was defiled.
 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation:
 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of
the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one
ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering,
and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled
with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil,
and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall
offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest
shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the
hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire
which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and
one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened
wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite,
after the hair of his separation is shaven:
 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the
LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and
heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his
offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that
his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he
must do after the law of his separation.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye
shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto
thee:
 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I
will bless them.
==Chapter 7==
 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the
tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all
the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels
thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their
fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over
them that were numbered, offered:
 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered
wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and
for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
tabernacle.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto
the Levites, to every man according to his service.
 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the
Levites.
 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
according to their service:
 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of
Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service
of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear
upon their shoulders.
 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day
that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering
before the altar.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering,
each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the
son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof
was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of
Issachar, did offer:
 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun, did offer:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
children of Reuben, did offer:
 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of
the children of Simeon, did offer:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
children of Gad, offered:
 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
children of Ephraim, offered:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince
of the children of Manasseh:
 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
children of Benjamin, offered:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
children of Dan, offered:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
children of Asher, offered:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the
children of Naphtali, offered:
 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was
anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver,
twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels,
each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand
and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten
shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the
gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the
rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their
meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering
twelve.
 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were
twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty,
the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of
the altar, after that it was anointed.
 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one
speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the
ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake
unto him.
==Chapter 8==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the
lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the
candlestick.
 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against
the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the
shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work:
according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so
he made the candlestick.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and
cleanse them.
 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle
water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their
flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves
clean.
 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering,
even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock
shalt thou take for a sin offering.
 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the
children of Israel together:
 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the
children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an
offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the
service of the LORD.
 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an
atonement for the Levites.
 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his
sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children
of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse
them, and offer them for an offering.
 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of
Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of
the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them
unto me.
 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both
man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the
land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the
children of Israel.
 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his
sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of
the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation,
and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that
there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the
children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children
of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD
commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of
Israel unto them.
 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes;
and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and
Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the
tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his
sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so did they unto them.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and
five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon
the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of
the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service.
Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
==Chapter 9==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the first month of the second year after they were come out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his
appointed season.
 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it
in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and
according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
keep the passover.
 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body
of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day:
and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body
of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an
offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel?
 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what
the LORD will command concerning you.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you
or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead
body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the
passover unto the LORD.
 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep
it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any
bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover
they shall keep it.
 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and
forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be
cut off from among his people: because he brought not the
offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall
bear his sin.
 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the
passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the
passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do:
ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for
him that was born in the land.
 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud
covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and
at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until the morning.
 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the
appearance of fire by night.
 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then
after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place
where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched
their tents.
 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel
journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as
long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in
their tents.
 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days,
then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and
journeyed not.
 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the
tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they
abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the
LORD they journeyed.
 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the
morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then
they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the
cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the
cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the
children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not:
but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and
at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the
charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand
of Moses.
==Chapter 10==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou
make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the
assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall
assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which
are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves
unto thee.
 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east
parts shall go forward.
 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie
on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an
alarm for their journeys.
 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall
blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the
trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever
throughout your generations.
 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that
oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets;
and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye
shall be saved from your enemies.
 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and
in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the
trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of
your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial
before your God: I am the LORD your God.
 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month,
in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the
tabernacle of the testimony.
 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the
wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of
Paran.
 And they first took their journey according to the commandment
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the
children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host
was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was
Eliab the son of Helon.
 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and
the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according
to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was
Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the
other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
forward according to their armies: and over his host was
Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was
Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set
forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout
their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was
Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was
Ahira the son of Enan.
 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according
to their armies, when they set forward.
 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite,
Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of
which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us,
and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good
concerning Israel.
 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine
own land, and to my kindred.
 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou
knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou
mayest be to us instead of eyes.
 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that
what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do
unto thee.
 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days'
journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before
them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place
for them.
 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went
out of the camp.
 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses
said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and
let them that hate thee flee before thee.
 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many
thousands of Israel.
==Chapter 11==
 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and
the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of
the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the
uttermost parts of the camp.
 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto
the LORD, the fire was quenched.
 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire
of the LORD burnt among them.
 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and
the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall
give us flesh to eat?
 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and
the garlick:
 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all,
beside this manna, before our eyes.
 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as
the colour of bdellium.
 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in
mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made
cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh
oil.
 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna
fell upon it.
 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families,
every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD
was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted
thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy
sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that
thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a
nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which
thou swarest unto their fathers?
 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for
they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too
heavy for me.
 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of
hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see
my wretchedness.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of
the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of
the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with
thee.
 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take
of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them;
and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that
thou bear it not thyself alone.
 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to
morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears
of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it
was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you
flesh, and ye shall eat.
 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
ten days, nor twenty days;
 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised
the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
Why came we forth out of Egypt?
 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh,
that they may eat a whole month.
 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice
them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together
for them, to suffice them?
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short?
thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto
thee or not.
 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD,
and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and
set them round about the tabernacle.
 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the
seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit
rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the
one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit
rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but
went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the
camp.
 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and
Medad do prophesy in the camp.
 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his
young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God
that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD
would put his spirit upon them!
 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails
from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a
day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on
the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two
cubits high upon the face of the earth.
 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and
all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that
gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all
abroad for themselves round about the camp.
 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was
chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people,
and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because
there they buried the people that lusted.
 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth;
and abode at Hazeroth.
==Chapter 12==
 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the
Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an
Ethiopian woman.
 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath
he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were
upon the face of the earth.)
 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and
unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the
congregation. And they three came out.
 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood
in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam:
and they both came forth.
 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among
you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision,
and will speak unto him in a dream.
 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not
in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he
behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?
 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he
departed.
 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold,
Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon
Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay
not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and
wherein we have sinned.
 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed
when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I
beseech thee.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in
her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be
shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
received in again.
 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the
people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
the wilderness of Paran.
==Chapter 13==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which
I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their
fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the
wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children
of Israel.
 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua
the son of Zaccur.
 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh,
Gaddi the son of Susi.
 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the
land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said
unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the
mountain:
 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth
therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or
bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in
tents, or in strong holds;
 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there
be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring
of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the
firstripe grapes.
 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of
Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now
Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from
thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it
between two upon a staff; and they brought of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster
of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of
Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto
all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither
thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey;
and this is the fruit of it.
 Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land, and
the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the
children of Anak there.
 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the
Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the
mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the
coast of Jordan.
 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go
up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
it.
 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go
up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had
searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth
up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in
it are men of a great stature.
 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of
the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and
so we were in their sight.
==Chapter 14==
 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night.
 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them,
Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
we had died in this wilderness!
 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall
by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a
prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let
us return into Egypt.
 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an
exceeding good land.
 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and
honey.
 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people
of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is
departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the
glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation before all the children of Israel.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people
provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for
all the signs which I have shewed among them?
 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear
it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from
among them;)
 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for
they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that
thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth
over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a
pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the
nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the
land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in
the wilderness.
 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great,
according as thou hast spoken, saying,
 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving
iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation.
 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according
unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven
this people, from Egypt even until now.
 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the
glory of the LORD.
 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their
fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way
of the Red sea.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which
murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children
of Israel, which they murmur against me.
 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have
spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward which have murmured against me.
 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have
despised.
 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness.
 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of
promise.
 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by bringing up a slander upon the land,
 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land, died by the plague before the LORD.
 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of the men that went to search the land, lived
still.
 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel:
and the people mourned greatly.
 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into
the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go
up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have
sinned.
 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment
of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not
smitten before your enemies.
 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,
and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away
from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out
of the camp.
 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt
in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto
Hormah.
==Chapter 15==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto
you,
 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill
offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour
unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a
meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
part of an hin of oil.
 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering
shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for
one lamb.
 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth
deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an
hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for
a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the
LORD:
 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three
tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,
for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for
a lamb, or a kid.
 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do
to every one according to their number.
 All that are born of the country shall do these things after
this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you
in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and
also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance
for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger
be before the LORD.
 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger
that sojourneth with you.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
come into the land whither I bring you,
 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land,
ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an
heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the
threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an
heave offering in your generations.
 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments,
which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of
Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and
henceforward among your generations;
 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without
the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation
shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a
sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his
drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the
goats for a sin offering.
 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their
offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their
sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children
of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing
all the people were in ignorance.
 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a
she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that
sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the
LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven
him.
 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance,
both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and
for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be
born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the
LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken
his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his
iniquity shall be upon him.
 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto
Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what
should be done to him.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to
death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones
without the camp.
 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make
them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their
generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders
a ribband of blue:
 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon
it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do
them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy
unto your God.
 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
==Chapter 16==
 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of
Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous
in the congregation, men of renown:
 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you,
seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and
the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves
above the congregation of the LORD?
 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even
to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and
will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath
chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD
to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth
choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons
of Levi.
 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel
hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring
you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the
LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto
them?
 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the
sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered
together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur
against him?
 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab:
which said, We will not come up:
 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land
that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the
wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over
us?
 Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth
with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and
vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will
not come up.
 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not
thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them,
neither have I hurt one of them.
 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before
the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and
bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and
fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and
laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of
the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may
consume them in a moment.
 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of
the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be
wroth with all the congregation?
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the
tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the
elders of Israel followed him.
 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray
you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of
theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and
stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their
sons, and their little children.
 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent
me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own
mind.
 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath
not sent me.
 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her
mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them,
and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand
that these men have provoked the LORD.
 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under
them:
 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and
all their goods.
 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into
the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished
from among the congregation.
 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of
them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two
hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take
up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire
yonder; for they are hallowed.
 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them
make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they
offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and
they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they
that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates
for a covering of the altar:
 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no
stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to
offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as
his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye
have killed the people of the LORD.
 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered
against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the
tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered
it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume
them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein
from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto
the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is
wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of
the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the
people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the
people.
 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague
was stayed.
 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of
Korah.
 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
==Chapter 17==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of
them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all
their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for
one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the
congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall
choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the
murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur
against you.
 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of
their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one,
according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the
rod of Aaron was among their rods.
 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle
of witness.
 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the
house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed
blossoms, and yielded almonds.
 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto
all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every
man his rod.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before
the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and
thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they
die not.
 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold,
we die, we perish, we all perish.
 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the
LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
==Chapter 18==
 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy
father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the
iniquity of your priesthood.
 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy
father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto
thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee
shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the
sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the
tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the
tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge
of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the
children of Israel.
 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from
among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift
for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 Therefore, thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's
office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and
ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as
a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be
put to death.
 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee
the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things
of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by
reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for
ever.
 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the
fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of
theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass
offering of theirs which they shall render unto me, shall be
most holy for thee and for thy sons.
 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat
it: it shall be holy unto thee.
 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all
the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given
them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with
thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy
house shall eat of it.
 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of
the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto
the LORD, them have I given thee.
 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall
bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean
in thine house shall eat of it.
 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they
bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be
thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely
redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou
redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty
gerahs.
 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or
the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy:
thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn
their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour
unto the LORD.
 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and
as the right shoulder are thine.
 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children
of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons
and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a
covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy
seed with thee.
 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance
in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I
am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of
Israel.
 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth
in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they
serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the
tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be
a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the
children of Israel they have no inheritance.
 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as
an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites
to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the
children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take
of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you
from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an
heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the
tithe.
 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as
though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the
fulness of the winepress.
 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of
all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel;
and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron
the priest.
 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of
the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part
thereof out of it.
 Therefore, thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the
best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the
Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the
increase of the winepress.
 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households:
for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of
the congregation.
 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved
from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy
things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
==Chapter 19==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no
blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may
bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her
before his face:
 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his
finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her
flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,
and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his
flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and
the priest shall be unclean until the even.
 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and
bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the
heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and
it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of
Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for
sin.
 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto
the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth
among them, for a statute for ever.
 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days.
 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the
seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself
the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and
purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD;
and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water
of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean;
his uncleanness is yet upon him.
 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come
into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean
seven days.
 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it,
is unclean.
 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the
open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave,
shall be unclean seven days.
 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the
burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall
be put thereto in a vessel:
 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water,
and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and
upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a
bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the
third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he
shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and shall be clean at even.
 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify
himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the
LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon
him; he is unclean.
 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that
sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and
he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean
until even.
 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean;
and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
==Chapter 20==
 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people
abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered
themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God
that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into
this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to
bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or
of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any
water to drink.
 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they
fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto
them.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and
Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their
eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring
forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the
congregation and their beasts drink.
 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded
him.
 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before
the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we
fetch you water out of this rock?
 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the
rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their beasts also.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed
me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land
which I have given them.
 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel
strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail
that hath befallen us:
 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in
Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
fathers:
 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent
an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold,
we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not
pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither
will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the
king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the
left, until we have passed thy borders.
 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come
out against thee with the sword.
 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the
high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I
will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go
through on my feet.
 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out
against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
wherefore Israel turned away from him.
 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the
coast of the land of Edom, saying,
 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not
enter into the land which I have given unto the children of
Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of
Meribah.
 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
Hor:
 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his
son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall
die there.
 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into
mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon
Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount:
and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they
mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
==Chapter 21==
 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south,
heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he
fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt
indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly
destroy their cities.
 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered
up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their
cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea,
to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was
much discouraged because of the way.
 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore
have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our
soul loatheth this light bread.
 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
 Therefore, the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray
unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And
Moses prayed for the people.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and
set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one
that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and
it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he
beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in
the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of
Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the
coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What
he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the
dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof
the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I
will give them water.
 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto
it:
 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged
it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And
from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab,
to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
saying,
 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the
fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters
of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way,
until we be past thy borders.
 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border:
but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out
against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and
fought against Israel.
 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed
his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of
Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the
cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages
thereof.
 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites,
who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all
his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon,
let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city
of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the
high places of Arnon.
 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he
hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into
captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and
we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto
Medeba.
 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages
thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the
king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people,
to the battle at Edrei.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have
delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land;
and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until
there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
==Chapter 22==
 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the
plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to
the Amorites.
 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were
many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of
Israel.
 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this
company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh
up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was
king of the Moabites at that time.
 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to
Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of
his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people
come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth,
and they abide over against me:
 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for
they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that
we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land:
for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom
thou cursest is cursed.
 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with
the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto
Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring
you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the
princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with
thee?
 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth
the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I
shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou
shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes
of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to
give me leave to go with you.
 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and
said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable
than they.
 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the
son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from
coming unto me:
 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do
whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee,
curse me this people.
 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If
Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or
more.
 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that
I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the
men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the
word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
went with the princes of Moab.
 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of
the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he
was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and
his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of
the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to
turn her into the way.
 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a
wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself
unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and
he smote her again.
 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow
place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to
the left.
 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down
under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the
ass with a staff.
 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto
Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me
these three times?
 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I
would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill
thee.
 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which
thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I
ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel
of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his
hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou
smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to
withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times:
unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain
thee, and saved her alive.
 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for
I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now
therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men:
but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou
shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet
him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon,
which is in the utmost coast.
 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee
to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able
indeed to promote thee to honour?
 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I
now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God
putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to
the princes that were with him.
 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and
brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he
might see the utmost part of the people.
==Chapter 23==
 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam
offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I
will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and
whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to a high place.
 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared
seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock
and a ram.
 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return
unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt
sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab
hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east,
saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I
defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I
behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be
reckoned among the nations.
 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth
part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let
my last end be like his!
 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I
took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
blessed them altogether.
 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that
which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto
another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt
see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all:
and curse me them from thence.
 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a
ram on every altar.
 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering,
while I meet the LORD yonder.
 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt
offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and
hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?
or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath
blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen
perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the
shout of a king is among them.
 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength
of an unicorn.
 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there
any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall
be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up
himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of
the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor
bless them at all.
 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee,
saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring
thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that
thou mayest curse me them from thence.
 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh
toward Jeshimon.
 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a
ram on every altar.
==Chapter 24==
 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel,
he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but
he set his face toward the wilderness.
 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in
his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God
came upon him.
 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the
vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his
eyes open:
 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O
Israel!
 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the
river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath
planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall
be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and
his kingdom shall be exalted.
 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his
enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through
with his arrows.
 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who
shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and
cursed is he that curseth thee.
 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his
hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to
curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed
them these three times.
 Therefore, now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote
thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back
from honour.
 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers
which thou sentest unto me, saying,
 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either
good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that
will I speak?
 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I
will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in
the latter days.
 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the
knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the
Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not
nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
and destroy all the children of Sheth.
 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a
possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall
destroy him that remaineth of the city.
 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end
shall be that he perish for ever.
 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and
said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest
in a rock.
 Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall
carry thee away captive.
 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live
when God doeth this!
 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall
afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall
perish for ever.
 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and
Balak also went his way.
==Chapter 25==
 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods:
and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the
LORD was kindled against Israel.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the
people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that
the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one
his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought
unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and
took a javelin in his hand;
 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust
both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through
her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel.
 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while
he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the
children of Israel in my jealousy.
 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the
covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous
for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was
slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu,
a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of
a chief house in Midian.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have
beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of
Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
==Chapter 26==
 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto
Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their
fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains
of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward;
as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which
went forth out of the land of Egypt.
 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben;
Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu,
the family of the Palluites:
 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family
of the Carmites.
 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were
numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven
hundred and thirty.
 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is
that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation,
who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of
Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together
with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire
devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family
of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of
Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of
the Shaulites.
 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two
thousand and two hundred.
 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the
family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the
Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the
Erites:
 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of
the Arelites.
 These are the families of the children of Gad according to
those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five
hundred.
 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan.
 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah,
the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the
Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
 These are the families of Judah according to those that were
numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five
hundred.
 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the
family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the
family of the Shimronites.
 These are the families of Issachar according to those that
were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three
hundred.
 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the
family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites:
of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those
that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five
hundred.
 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and
Ephraim.
 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family
of the Gileadites.
 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the
Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem,
the family of the Shechemites:
 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher,
the family of the Hepherites.
 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters:
and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were
numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the
family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of
the Eranites.
 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to
those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and
five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their
families.
 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family
of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of
Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the
family of the Huphamites.
 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family
of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they
that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and
six hundred.
 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the
family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after
their families.
 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that
were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and
four hundred.
 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the
family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites:
of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites:
of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those
that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand
and four hundred.
 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the
family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family
of the Shillemites.
 These are the families of Naphtali according to their
families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and
five thousand and four hundred.
 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred
thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance
according to the number of names.
 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou
shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his
inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of
him.
 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to
the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided
between many and few.
 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after
their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of
Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of
the Merarites.
 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the
Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the
Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of
Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto
Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire
before the LORD.
 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three
thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were
not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was
no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of
Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and
Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of
Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the
wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
==Chapter 27==
 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the
son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the
names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah,
and Tirzah.
 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest,
and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the
company of them that gathered themselves together against the
LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had
no sons.
 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his
family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a
possession among the brethren of our father.
 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely
give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's
brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father
to pass unto them.
 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance
to pass unto his daughter.
 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
unto his brethren.
 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance
unto his father's brethren.
 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his
family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children
of Israel.
 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto
thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin,
in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water
before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in
the wilderness of Zin.
 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man
over the congregation,
 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them,
and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that
the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.
 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun,
a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the
congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask
counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at
his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come
in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all
the congregation.
 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua,
and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation:
 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
==Chapter 28==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My
offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a
sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in
their due season.
 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by
fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the
first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt
offering.
 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other
lamb shalt thou offer at even;
 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering,
mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount
Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the
LORD.
 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an
hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the
strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat
offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof,
thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without
spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering,
mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the
continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt
offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven
lambs of the first year without spot;
 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled
with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a
meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet
savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a
bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth
part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of
every month throughout the months of the year.
 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD
shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his
drink offering.
 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover
of the LORD.
 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven
days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no
manner of servile work therein:
 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt
offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and
seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without
blemish:
 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil:
three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth
deals for a ram;
 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb,
throughout the seven lambs:
 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,
which is for a continual burnt offering.
 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven
days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual
burnt offering, and his drink offering.
 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye
shall do no servile work.
 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have
an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto
the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the
first year;
 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth
deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven
lambs;
 And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and
his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish)
and their drink offerings.
==Chapter 29==
 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye
shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto
the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the
first year without blemish:
 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil,
three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a
ram,
 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an
atonement for you:
 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering,
and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their
drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet
savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an
holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall
not do any work therein:
 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet
savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the
first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil,
three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one
ram,
 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin
offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and
the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an
holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall
keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two
rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be
without blemish:
 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil,
three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks,
two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks,
two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and
their drink offerings.
 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs
of the first year without blemish;
 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish:
 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
lambs of the first year without spot:
 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish:
 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish:
 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
to their number, after the manner:
 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do
no servile work therein:
 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven
lambs of the first year without blemish:
 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock,
for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their
number, after the manner:
 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts,
beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt
offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink
offerings, and for your peace offerings.
 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that
the LORD commanded Moses.
==Chapter 30==
 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the
children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD
hath commanded.
 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his
soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do
according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a
bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath
bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her;
then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she
hath bound her soul shall stand.
 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not
any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her
soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her
father disallowed her.
 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered
ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day
that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds
wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it;
then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she
uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none
effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced,
wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against
her.
 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by
a bond with an oath;
 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and
disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every
bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he
heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips
concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall
not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall
forgive her.
 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day
to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds,
which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his
peace at her in the day that he heard them.
 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath
heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses,
between a man and his wife, between the father and his
daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
==Chapter 31==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward
shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of
yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, shall ye send to the war.
 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe,
them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war,
with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his
hand.
 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded
Moses; and they slew all the males.
 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them
that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and
Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they
slew with the sword.
 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian
captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all
their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all
their goodly castles, with fire.
 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and
of beasts.
 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil,
unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation
of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of
Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which
came from the battle.
 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the
matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation
of the LORD.
 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying
with him, keep alive for yourselves.
 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath
killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain,
purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and
on the seventh day.
 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins,
and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to
the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
commanded Moses;
 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin,
and the lead,
 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go
through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall
be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth
not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye
shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of
the congregation:
 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the
war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the
congregation:
 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went
out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons,
and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest,
for an heave offering of the LORD.
 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one
portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses,
and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto
the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
LORD.
 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war
had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and
five thousand sheep,
 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
 And threescore and one thousand asses,
 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had
not known man by lying with him.
 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to
war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty
thousand and five hundred sheep:
 And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
threescore and fifteen.
 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the
LORD's tribute was threescore and twelve.
 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which
the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD's
tribute was thirty and two persons.
 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave
offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from
the men that warred,
 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three
hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and
five hundred sheep,
 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
 And sixteen thousand persons;)
 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion
of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the
Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the
captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near
unto Moses:
 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of
the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh
not one man of us.
 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every
man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets,
rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our
souls before the LORD.
 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even
all wrought jewels.
 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the
LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains
of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the
tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the
children of Israel before the LORD.
==Chapter 32==
 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of
Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a
place for cattle;
 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake
unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of
the congregation, saying,
 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation
of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let
this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and
bring us not over Jordan.
 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of
Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of
Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given
them?
 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to
see the land.
 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel,
that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given
them.
 And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware,
saying,
 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not
wholly followed me:
 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the
son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
 And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made
them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the
generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was
consumed.
 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an
increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the
LORD toward Israel.
 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little
ones:
 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of
Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our
little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the
inhabitants of the land.
 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of
Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or
forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side
Jordan eastward.
 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will
go armed before the LORD to war,
 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD,
until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye
shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before
Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the
LORD.
 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the
LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your
sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto
Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,
shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war,
before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of
the children of Israel:
 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man
armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be
subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead
for a possession:
 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we
do.
 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of
Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side
Jordan may be ours.
 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to
the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh
the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,
and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the
cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country
round about.
 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for
sheep.
 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kirjathaim,
 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and
Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they
builded.
 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead,
and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he
dwelt therein.
 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns
thereof, and called them Havothjair.
 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and
called it Nobah, after his own name.
==Chapter 33==
 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went
forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the
hand of Moses and Aaron.
 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys
by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys
according to their goings out.
 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the
passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians.
 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD
had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed
judgments.
 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched
in Succoth.
 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is
in the edge of the wilderness.
 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth,
which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through
the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim
were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm
trees; and they pitched there.
 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the
wilderness of Sin.
 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and
encamped in Dophkah.
 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where
was no water for the people to drink.
 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness
of Sinai.
 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
Kibrothhattaavah.
 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at
Hazeroth.
 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.
 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah.
 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan.
 And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad.
 And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.
 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the
wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the
edge of the land of Edom.
 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment
of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
first day of the fifth month.
 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when
he died in mount Hor.
 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the
land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ijeabarim, in the
border of Moab.
 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibongad.
 And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in
Almondiblathaim.
 And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in
the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto
Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
near Jericho, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all
their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high
places:
 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell
therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among
your families: and to the more ye shall give the more
inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less
inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place
where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers
ye shall inherit.
 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye
let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in
your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
 Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I
thought to do unto them.
==Chapter 34==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall
fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with
the coasts thereof:)
 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin
along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the
outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof
shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to
Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river
of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great
sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye
shall point out for you mount Hor:
 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the
entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall
be to Zedad:
 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of
it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to
Shepham:
 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the
east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall
reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of
it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the
coasts thereof round about.
 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is
the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD
commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house
of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad
according to the house of their fathers, have received their
inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received
their inheritance:
 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their
inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward
the sunrising.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land
unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the
land by inheritance.
 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah,
Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of
Ammihud.
 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the
son of Jogli.
 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the
children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel
the son of Shiphtan.
 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar,
Paltiel the son of Azzan.
 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud
the son of Shelomi.
 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali,
Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the
inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
==Chapter 35==
 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
near Jericho, saying,
 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the
Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell
in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the
cities round about them.
 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of
them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for
all their beasts.
 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the
Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a
thousand cubits round about.
 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side
two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand
cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the
north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the
midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites
there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint
for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye
shall add forty and two cities.
 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be
forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession
of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall
give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few:
every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according
to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for
you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any
person at unawares.
 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger;
that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the
congregation in judgment.
 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye
have for refuge.
 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three
cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be
cities of refuge.
 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of
Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among
them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee
thither.
 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he
die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may
die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely
be put to death.
 Or if he smite him with a hand weapon of wood, wherewith he
may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall
surely be put to death.
 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he
meeteth him, he shall slay him.
 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of
wait, that he die;
 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that
smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer:
the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth
him.
 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast
upon him any thing without laying of wait,
 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not,
and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy,
neither sought his harm:
 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the
revenger of blood according to these judgments:
 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand
of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore
him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he
shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was
anointed with the holy oil.
 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of
the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the
city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer;
he shall not be guilty of blood:
 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge
until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the
high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his
possession.
 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death
by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify
against any person to cause him to die.
 Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put
to death.
 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the
city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the
land, until the death of the priest.
 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein
I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
==Chapter 36==
 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before
Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the
children of Israel:
 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for
an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord
was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes
of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be
taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to
the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so
shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then
shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the
tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance
be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our
fathers.
 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the
word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath
said well.
 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the
daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they
think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father
shall they marry.
 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove
from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel
shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his
fathers.
 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any
tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the
family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel
may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another
tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel
shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad:
 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's
brothers' sons:
 And they were married into the families of the sons of
Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in
the tribe of the family of their father.
 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in
the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.