and unto Miriam: 'Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting.' And they three came out. 5And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. 6AndHesaid: 'Hear now My words, if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make My- self known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream. 7My servant Moses is not so, he is trusted in all My house; 8with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even mani- festly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?' 9And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed. 10And when the cloud was removed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam; and, behold, she was leprous. llAnd Aaron said unto Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. 12Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half^ consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.' 13And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying. 'Heal her now, 0 God, I beseech Thee.'
14And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.' 15And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days; and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. 16And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
» That is, The graves of lust.
NUMBERS nV» there is wood therein, or not. ^ And "j Q And the LORD spoke unto Moses, xt^ saying: 2'Send thou men, that be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time they may spy out the land of Canaan, was the time of the first-ripe grapes. — which I give unto the children of 21So they went up, and spied put the Israel; of every tribe of their fathers land from the wilderness of Zin unto shall ye send a man, every one a Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.
prince among them/ 8And Moses MAnd they went up into the South, sent them from the wilderness of and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Paran according to the commandment of the LORD; all of them men who Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was were heads of the children of Israel.
built seven years before Zoan in 4And these were their names: of the Egypt. — ^And they came unto the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son valley of Eshcol, and cut down from of Zaccur. *0f the tribe of Simeon, thence a branch with one cluster of Shaphat the son of Hori. 6Of the grapes, and they bore it upon a pole tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 70f the tribe of Issachar, between two; they took also of the pomegranates, and of the figs." — ^That Igal the son of Joseph. 80f the tribe place was called the valley of aEshcol, of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
because of the cluster which the 90f the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the children of Israel cut down from son of Raphu. 100f the tribe of thence, — ^And they returned from Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
spying out the land at the end of 110f the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the forty days. ^And they went and came tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the Susi. 120f the tribe of Dan, Ammiel congregation of the children of Israel, the son of Gemalli. 130f the tribe of unto the wilderness of Paran, to Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
Kadesh; and brought back word unto 140f the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the them, and unto all the congregation, son\)f Vophsi. 150f the tribe of Gad, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Geuel the son of Machi. "These are 27And they told him, and said: 'We the names of the men that Moses sent came unto the land whither thou to spy out the land. And Moses sentest us, and surely it fiWeth with called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
milk and honey; and this is the fruit 17And Moses sent them to spy out the of it. 28Howbeit the people that dwell Land of Canaan, and said unto them: in the land are fierce, and the cities 'Get you up here into the South, are fortified, and very great; and and go up into the mountains; 18and moreover we saw the children of see the land, what it is; and the Anak there. 29Amalek dwelleth in people that dwelleth therein, whether the land of the South; and the Hittite, they are strong or weak, whether they and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, are few or many; 19and what the land dwell in the mountains; and the Cais that they dwell in, whether it is naanite dwelleth by the sea, and along good or bad; and what cities they are by the side of the Jordan.' 30And that they dwell in, whether in camps, Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, or in strongholds; 20and what the land and said: 'We should go up at once, is, whether it is fat or lean, whether and possess it; for we are well able to » That is, a cluster.
NUMBERS overcome it.' ^But the men that went up with him said: 'We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.' 32And they spread an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof j and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. ^And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in then1 sight/ •| A And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: 'Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness! 3And where- fore doth the LOKD bring us unto this lajad, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?' 4And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.' 6Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes. 7And they spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 8If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey. 90nly rebel not against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us; fear them, not.' 10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones, when the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
nAnd the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long will this people despise Me? and how long will they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? WI will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they/ 13And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear—for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them — "they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; 15now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which ( have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying: 16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto ^ them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness. 17And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying: 18The LORD is ^ slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. "Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the NUMBERS greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.' 20And the LORD said: 'I have par- doned according to thy word. aBut in very deed, as I live— and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD — ^surely all those men that have seen My glory, and My signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to proof these ten times, and have not heark- ened to My voice; ^surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it. MBut 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 Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the Vale; to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
^And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 27<How long shall I bear with this evil congrega- tion, that keep murmuring against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they keep murmuring against Me. ^ay unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine sars, so will I do to you: 29your car- Basses shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, ye that have murmured against Me; ^surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up My band that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephiin- aeh, and Joshua the son of Nun. JlBut your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wil- derness. ^And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. ^After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My displeasure. ^1 the LORD have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die/ ^Aitd the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who, when they returned, made all the congregation to mur- mur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, ^even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD. ^But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land. 39And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly. *°And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying: 'Lo, we are 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, seeing it shall not prosper? ^o not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down be- fore your enemies. ^For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; forasmuch as ye are turned back from following the LORD, and NUMBERS the LORD will not be with, you/ ^But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. ^Then the Amalekite and the Ca- naanite, who dwelt in that hilL-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.
1 £ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying. 2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 3and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or as a freewill-offering, or in your appointed seasons, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; *then shall he that bringeth his offering present unto the LORD a meal-pffering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil; *and wine for the drink-off ering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 60r for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil; 7and for the drink-offering thou shalt present the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 8And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for peace-offerings unto the LORD; *then shall there be presented with the bullock a meal-onering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil. 10And thou shalt present for the drink- offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. uThus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids. "According to the num- ber that ye may prepare, so shall ye do for every one according to their number. 13A11 that are home-born shall do these tilings after this man- ner, in presenting an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 14And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you, throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. 15As for the congregation, there shall be one statute both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations; as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 160ne law and one ordinance shall be both for you, and for the stranger that so- journeth with you.
17And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 19then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall set apart a portion for a gift unto the LORD. 200f the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart. 210f the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.
when ye shall err, and not observe 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 NUMBERS gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; ^hen it shall be, if it be done in error by the congregation, it being hid from their eyes, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt- offering, for 'a sweet savour unto the LORD— with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, ac- cording to the ordinance — and one he- goat for a sin-offenng. ^And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their error. ^And all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stran- ger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done in error.
27And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering* 28And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth through er,ror, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven, ^both he that is home-born among the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them: ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught in error. 80But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31Because 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.
while the children of Israel in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sab- bath 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 had not been declared what should be done to him. ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'The man shall surely be 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.
37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 38'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue. 39And 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 go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray- 40that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God. ^1 am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.7 rnp rnp ~J £ Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; 2and they rose up in face of Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty men; they were princes of the congregation, the elect men of the assembly, men of renown, sand they assembled themselves to- gether against Moses and against NUMBERS Aaron, and said unto them: cYe take too much upon you, seeing al] the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; wherefore then lift ye up your- selves above the assembly of the LORD?' 4And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face. 6And he spoke unto Korah and unto all his company, saying: fln the morning the LORD will show who are His, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto Him; even him whom He may choose will He ^cause to come near unto Hun. 6This do: take you cen- sers, Korah, and all his company; 7and put fire therein, and put incense upon 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.' 8And Moses said unto Korah: 'Hear now, ye sons of Levi: 9is 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 congre- gation to minister unto them; 10and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also? ^Therefore thou and all thy company that are gathered together against the LORD —; and as to Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?' ^And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and^they said: 'We will not come up; ^s it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us? "Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.' 15And 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.' 16And Moses said unto Korah: 'Be thou and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow; 17and take ye every man his fire-pan, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his fire-pan, two hundred and fifty fire-pans; thou also, and Aaron, each his fire-pan.' 18And they took every man his fire-pan, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. 19And Korah assembled all the congrega- tion against them unto the door of the tent of meeting; and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the con- 20And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2l' Separate yourselves from among this congrega- tion, that I may consume them in a moment/ ^And they fell upon their faces, and said: fO God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?'
the LORD spoke unto Moses, sayng: w Speak unto the congrega- tion, saying: Get you up from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.' 26And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked rasa, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be swept away in all their sins.'
NUMBERS they got them up from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. 28And Moses said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind. 29If these men die the common death of all ^ men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LOBD hath not sent me. 30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.' 31And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground did cleave asunder that was un- der them. 32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. ^So they, and all that apper- tained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. MAnd all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.' 36And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
•| H- And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2' Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the fire-pans out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are become holy; Seven the fire-pans of these men who have sinned at the cost of then- lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar— for they are become holy, because they were offered before the LoRD-*-that they may be a sign unto the children of Israel.' 4And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, *to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no common man, that is not of the seed of Aaron, draw near to burn incense before the LORD; that he fare not as Korah, and as his company; as the LORD spoke unto him by the hand of