6But on the morrow all the congre- gation of the children of Israel mur- mured against Moses and against Aaron, saying: 'Ye have killed the people of the LORD.' 7And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 8And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. 9And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 10'Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.' And they fell upon their faces. uAnd Moses said unto Aaron: 'Take thy fire-pan, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from the LORD: the plague is begun.' ^And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. 13And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
NUMBERS NUMBERS 14Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah. 15And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stayed.
l6And the LOHD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17< Speak unto the children, of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; thou shalt write every man's name upon his rod. 18And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers' houses. 19 And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. 20And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.7 21 And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, ac- cording 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 ia the tent of the testimony. ^And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testi- mony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house 6i Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe 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: 'Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children, | that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.' ^hus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
27And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Behold, we per- ish, we are undone, we are all undone. 28Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, is to die; shall we wholly perish?' 1 Q And the LORD said unto Aaron: •*-u 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee, thou and thy sons with thee be- ing before the tent of the testimony. 3And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent; only they shall not come nigh unto the holy furniture and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye. 4And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, whatsoever the service of the Tent may be; but a common man shall not draw nigh unto you. 6And ye shall keep the charge of the holy things, and the charge of the altar, that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel. 6And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Jsrael; for you they are given as a gift unto the LORD? to do the service of the tent of meeting. 7And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood in everything that pertaineth to the altar, and to that within the veil; and ye shall serve; I give you the priesthood as a service of gift; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'
NUMBERS 8And the LORD spoke unto Aaron: 'And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of My heave-offerings; even of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel unto thee have I given them for a consecrated portion, and to thy sons, as a due for ever. ^This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every guilt-offering of theirs, which they may render unto Me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10In a most holy place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee. uAnd this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of th'e children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof. MAU the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the corn, the first part of them which they give unto the LORD, to thee have I given them. "The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof. 14Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. ^Every thing that openeth the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto the LORD, both of man and beast, shall be thine; howbeit the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the first- ling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. "And their redemption- money — from a month old shalt thou redeem them— shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary — the same is twenty gerahs. 17But the firstling of an ox, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt dash their blood against the altar, and shalt make their fat smoke for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 18And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine. 19AUj 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, as a due for ever; it is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee/ 20And the LORD said unto Aaron: Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them; I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. ^And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inherit- ance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. ^And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. ^But the Levites alone shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, and among the children of Israel they shalliave no inheritance. ^For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they set apart as a gift unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an in- heritance; therefore I have said unto them: Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance/ ^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: *' Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them: When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have^ given you from them for your inheritance> NUMBERS NUMBERS then ye shall set apart of it a gift for the LORD, even a tithe of the tithe. 27And the gift which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing- floor, and as the fulness of the wine- press. 28Thus ye also shall set apart a gift unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall give the gift which is set apart unto the LORD to Aaron the priest. 290ut of all that is given you ye shall' set apart all of that which is due unto the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30Therefore thou shalt say unto them: When ye set apart the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase^ of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31And ye may eat it in every^ place, ye and your house- holds; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, seeing that ye have set apart from it the best thereof; and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not/ npn 1 G And the LORD spoke unto Moses -*-^ and unto Aaron, saying: 2This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. 3And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth without the camp, and she shall be slain before his face. 4And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5And the heifer shall be burnt in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burnt. 6And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scar- let, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of sprinkling; it is a purification from sin. 10And 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. nHe that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days; ^the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall be clean; but if he purify not himself the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean. 13Whoso- ever toucheth the dead, even the body of any man that is dead, and punfieth not himself — he hath defiled the tabernacle of the LORD — that soul shall be cut off from Israel; be- cause the water of sprinkling was not dashed against him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. "This is the law: when a man dieth in a tent, every one that cometh into the tent, and every thing that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven NUMBERS of himself, or a grave, or a shall days. 15And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is imclean. 16And- whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or one that dieth bone of a man, be unclean seven days. 17And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the purification from sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel. 18And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. "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 him- and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 20But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of sprinkling hath not been dashed against him: he is unclean. 21And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them; and he that sprinkleth the water of sprinkling shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until even. ^And what- soever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth him shall be unclean iyH1 even.
OA And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the, people abode in Ka- desh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2And there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD! 4And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle? 5And 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.' 6And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces; and the glory of the LORD ap- peared unto them. 7And the LORD saying: 8'Take Opoke unto Moses, 0<*yjm5. JL«^ the rod, and assemble the congrega- tion, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.7 9And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as He com- manded him. 10And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together be- fore the rock, and he "said unto them: 'Hear now, ye rebels; are we to bring you forth water out of this rock?' uAnd Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. ^And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'Because ye be- lieved not in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this as- sembly into the land which I have given them.' 13These are the waters of aMeribah, where the children of * That is, Strife.
NUMBERS Israel strove with the LORD, and He was sanctified in them.
14 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; 16how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers; Mand when we cried unto the LORD, He heard our voice, and sent an angel, arid brought us forth out of Egypt; and, ^ behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border. 1TLet us pass, I pray thee, through thy land; we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells; we will go along the king's high- way, we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border/ 18And Edom said unto him: 'Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.' 19And the chil- dren of Israel said unto him: 'We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof; let me only pass through on my feet; there is no hurt.' 20And he said: 'Thou shalt not pass through.' And Edom came out against him with much peo- ple, and with a strong hand. ^Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him.
^And they journeyed from" Kadesh; and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor. ^And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, say- ing: **' 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 waters of Menbah. 25Take Aaron and Elea- zar 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 otie there.' 27And Moses did as the LORD commanded; and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. 29And when all the con was dead, days, even Cation saw that Aaron "wept for Aaron thirty the house of Israel 0 1 And the Canaanite, the king of ^ x Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 2And 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.' 3And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Ca- naanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called aHormah.
4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Bed Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient because of the way. 6And the people spoke against God, and against Moses: 'Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wil- derness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loath- eth this light bread.' 6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, * That is, Utter destruction.
NUMBERS and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses, and said: 'We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that He take away the ser- pents from us. * And Moses prayed for the people. 8And 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 seeth it, shall live/ 9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived. 10And the children of Israel joumeyed, and pitched in Oboth. uAnd they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilder- ness which is in front of Moab, toward the sunrising. 12From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered. 13From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites. — For Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amo- rites; "wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, And the valleys of Arnon,' 15And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the seat of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab. — 16And from thence to aBeer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.' 17Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well— sing ye unto it — 18The well, which the princes digged, Which thenoblesof the peopledelved, With the sceptre, and with their And from the wilderness to Mat- tanah; 19and from Mattanah to Na- haliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying: ^'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.' ^And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and \tent out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel. MAnd Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the 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 towns 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 the Arnon. 27Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbp£!
Come ye to Heshbp£!
Let the city of Sihon be built and established!
28For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of Arnon.
29Woe to thee, Moab! Thou art undone, 0 people of Chemosh; He hath given his sons as fugitives, » That is, A well.
NUMBERS And his daughters into captivity, Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
30We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Which reacheth unto Medeba. 31Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. ^And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns 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 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, who dwelt at Heshbon/ 35So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land. OO And the children of Israel jour- neyed, and pitched in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Am- orites. 3And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was overcome with dread because of the children of Israel. 4And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this" multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.' — And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. — 5And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying: 'Behold, there is ai people come out from Egypt; behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me. 6Comc now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me; perad venture I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed/ 7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak. 8And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. 9Ajid God came unto Balaam, and said: 'What men are these with thee?' 10And Balaam said unto God: 'Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me [}saying] uBehold the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth; now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out/ ^And God said unto Balaam: 'Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed/ 13And Balaam rose up in the morn- £, and said unto the princes of Ba- L: 'Get you into your land; for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you/ 14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said: 'Balaam refuseth to come with us/ 15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16And they came to Ba- [aam, and said to him: 'Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor: Let noth- ing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me; 17for I will promote