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      <div class="mt2">The Fourth Book of Moses, </div>
      <div class="mt3">Commonly Called </div>
      <div class="mt">Numbers  </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 1</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</span></a> spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: </div>
      <div class="p">Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Of the children of Joseph: </div>
      <div class="p">Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. </div>
      <div class="p">Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house.  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;  <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>even all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.  <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.  <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;  <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.  <span class="verse" id="V51">51 </span>When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.  <span class="verse" id="V52">52 </span>The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.  <span class="verse" id="V53">53 </span>But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V54">54 </span>Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 2</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>“The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>“All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>“All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>“On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>“Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>“The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>“All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 3</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“Behold,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</span></a> I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as he was commanded. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. </div>
      <div class="p">These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>The prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup"> + 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.</span></a> </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,  <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel<a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</span></a> of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs<a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.</span></a>):  <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;  <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels,<a href="#FN5" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or about 30 pounds.</span></a> after the shekel of the sanctuary:  <span class="verse" id="V51">51 </span>and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 4</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>“They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lamp stand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>“As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers’ houses,  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,  <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>All those who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,  <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,  <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 5</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the middle of which I dwell.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Every man’s holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">or, seed</span></a> </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>“ ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 6</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>“ ‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“ ‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God <a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></a> is on his head.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>“ ‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without defect for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, and one ram without defect for peace offerings,  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them, </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you. </div>
      <div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Yahweh make his face to shine on you, </div>
      <div class="q2">and be gracious to you. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Yahweh lift up his face toward you, </div>
      <div class="q2">and give you peace.’ </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>“So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 7</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted:  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>and his offering was: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</span></a> </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>He offered for his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN5" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN6" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN7" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V51">51 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN8" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V52">52 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V53">53 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V54">54 </span>On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh  <span class="verse" id="V55">55 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V56">56 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V57">57 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN9" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V58">58 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V59">59 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V60">60 </span>On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin  <span class="verse" id="V61">61 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V62">62 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V63">63 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN10" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V64">64 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V65">65 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V66">66 </span>On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan  <span class="verse" id="V67">67 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V68">68 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V69">69 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN11" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V70">70 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V71">71 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V72">72 </span>On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher  <span class="verse" id="V73">73 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V74">74 </span>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V75">75 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN12" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V76">76 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V77">77 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V78">78 </span>On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali  <span class="verse" id="V79">79 </span>gave his offering: </div>
      <div class="p">one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, </div>
      <div class="p">one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V80">80 </span>one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V81">81 </span>one young bull, </div>
      <div class="p">one ram, </div>
      <div class="p">one male lamb a year old, for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN13" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V82">82 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V83">83 </span>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V84">84 </span>This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;  <span class="verse" id="V85">85 </span>each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;  <span class="verse" id="V86">86 </span>the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;  <span class="verse" id="V87">87 </span>all the cattle for the <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN14" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;  <span class="verse" id="V88">88 </span>and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V89">89 </span>When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him. </div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lamp stand. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>“This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 9</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season—according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>“Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>“ ‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t travel.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 10</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your <span class="w">ascensions|ascension</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>He said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 11</div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>The name of that place was called Taberah,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Taberah means “burning” </span></a> because Yahweh’s fire burned among them. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?” ’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</span></a> above the surface of the earth.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; <a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels</span></a> and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,<a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”</span></a> because there they buried the people who lusted. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 12</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” </div>
      <div class="p">The three of them came out.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 13</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>These were their names: </div>
      <div class="m">Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. </div>
      <div class="m"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>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!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>There we saw the Nephilim,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">or, giants</span></a> the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim.<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">or, giants</span></a> We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 14</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>They said to one another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. </div>
      <div class="p">Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the middle of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Now please let the power of the Lord<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></a> be great, according as you have spoken, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">or, seed</span></a> shall possess it.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?  <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 15</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock;  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, with the <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“ ‘Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah<a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>When you prepare a bull for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN5" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh;  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah<a href="#FN6" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“ ‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN7" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its meal offering, and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>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 to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>“ ‘If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes<a href="#FN8" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">or, tassels (Hebrew tzitzit)</span></a> in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe <a href="#FN9" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">or, tassel</span></a> of each border a cord of blue:  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>and it shall be to you for a fringe,<a href="#FN10" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">or, tassel</span></a> that you may look on it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 16</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>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 some men.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company;  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you murmur against him?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. </div>
      <div class="p">Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></a>; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. <a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></a> The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>“Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the offspring<a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">or, seed</span></a> of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, They looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and Yahweh’s glory appeared.  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. Behold, the plague has begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.  <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.  <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 17</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.”  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 18</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>They shall keep your commands, and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“I have given to you all the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>“Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</span></a> of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.</span></a> </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring<a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">or, seed</span></a> with you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.’ </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’ ” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 19</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>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 evening.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the middle of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 20</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: </div>
      <div class="p">“Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us;  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be taken, and shall die there.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 21</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of brass, he lived. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Then Israel sang this song: </div>
      <div class="q">“Spring up, well! Sing to it, </div>
      <div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>the well, which the princes dug, </div>
      <div class="q2">which the nobles of the people dug, </div>
      <div class="q">with the scepter, and with their poles.” </div>
      <div class="p">From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>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 to the Arnon.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, </div>
      <div class="q">“Come to Heshbon. </div>
      <div class="q2">Let the city of Sihon be built and established; </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, </div>
      <div class="q2">a flame from the city of Sihon. </div>
      <div class="q">It has devoured Ar of Moab, </div>
      <div class="q2">The lords of the high places of the Arnon. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Woe to you, Moab! </div>
      <div class="q2">You are undone, people of Chemosh! </div>
      <div class="q">He has given his sons as fugitives, </div>
      <div class="q2">and his daughters into captivity, </div>
      <div class="q2">to Sihon king of the Amorites. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>We have shot at them. </div>
      <div class="q2">Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. </div>
      <div class="q">We have laid waste even to Nophah, </div>
      <div class="q2">Which reaches to Medeba.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 22</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” </div>
      <div class="p">Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>He sent messengers to 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 a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Then Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” </div>
      <div class="p">He said, “No.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>The donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” </div>
      <div class="p">So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 23</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” </div>
      <div class="p">He went to a bare height.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, he, and all the princes of Moab.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>He took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“From Aram has Balak brought me, </div>
      <div class="q2">the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. </div>
      <div class="q">Come, curse Jacob for me. </div>
      <div class="q2">Come, defy Israel. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? </div>
      <div class="q2">How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied? </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>For from the top of the rocks I see him. </div>
      <div class="q2">From the hills I see him. </div>
      <div class="q">Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, </div>
      <div class="q2">and shall not be listed among the nations. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Who can count the dust of Jacob, </div>
      <div class="q2">or count the fourth part of Israel? </div>
      <div class="q">Let me die the death of the righteous! </div>
      <div class="q2">Let my last end be like his!” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>He said to Balak, “Stand here by your <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, while I meet over there.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>He took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“Rise up, Balak, and hear! </div>
      <div class="q2">Listen to me, you son of Zippor. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>God is not a man, that he should lie, </div>
      <div class="q2">nor the son of man, that he should repent. </div>
      <div class="q">Has he said, and will he not do it? </div>
      <div class="q2">Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Behold, I have received a command to bless. </div>
      <div class="q2">He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. </div>
      <div class="q2">Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. </div>
      <div class="q">Yahweh his God is with him. </div>
      <div class="q2">The shout of a king is among them. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>God brings them out of Egypt. </div>
      <div class="q2">He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; </div>
      <div class="q2">Neither is there any divination with Israel. </div>
      <div class="q">Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, </div>
      <div class="q2">‘What has God done!’ </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Behold, the people rises up as a lioness. </div>
      <div class="q2">As a lion he lifts himself up. </div>
      <div class="q">He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, </div>
      <div class="q2">and drinks the blood of the slain.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 24</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>He took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“Balaam the son of Beor says, </div>
      <div class="q2">the man whose eyes are open says; </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>he says, who hears the words of God, </div>
      <div class="q2">who sees the vision of the Almighty, </div>
      <div class="q2">falling down, and having his eyes open: </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>How goodly are your tents, Jacob, </div>
      <div class="q2">and your tents, Israel! </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>As valleys they are spread out, </div>
      <div class="q2">as gardens by the riverside, </div>
      <div class="q2">as aloes which Yahweh has planted, </div>
      <div class="q2">as cedar trees beside the waters. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Water shall flow from his buckets. </div>
      <div class="q2">His seed shall be in many waters. </div>
      <div class="q">His king shall be higher than Agag. </div>
      <div class="q2">His kingdom shall be exalted. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>God brings him out of Egypt. </div>
      <div class="q2">He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. </div>
      <div class="q">He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, </div>
      <div class="q2">shall break their bones in pieces, </div>
      <div class="q2">and pierce them with his arrows. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>He couched, he lay down as a lion, </div>
      <div class="q2">as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? </div>
      <div class="q">Everyone who blesses you is blessed. </div>
      <div class="q2">Everyone who curses you is cursed.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>He took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“Balaam the son of Beor says, </div>
      <div class="q2">the man whose eyes are open says; </div>
      <div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>he says, who hears the words of God, </div>
      <div class="q2">knows the knowledge of the Most High, </div>
      <div class="q2">and who sees the vision of the Almighty, </div>
      <div class="q2">Falling down, and having his eyes open: </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>I see him, but not now. </div>
      <div class="q2">I see him, but not near. </div>
      <div class="q">A star will come out of Jacob. </div>
      <div class="q2">A scepter will rise out of Israel, </div>
      <div class="q">and shall strike through the corners of Moab, </div>
      <div class="q2">and break down all the sons of Sheth. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Edom shall be a possession. </div>
      <div class="q2">Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, </div>
      <div class="q2">while Israel does valiantly. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, </div>
      <div class="q2">and shall destroy the remnant from the city.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“Amalek was the first of the nations, </div>
      <div class="q2">But his latter end shall come to destruction.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“Your dwelling place is strong. </div>
      <div class="q2">Your nest is set in the rock. </div>
      <div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, </div>
      <div class="q2">until Asshur carries you away captive.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>He took up his parable, and said, </div>
      <div class="q">“Alas, who shall live when God does this? </div>
      <div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. </div>
      <div class="q">They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. </div>
      <div class="q2">He also shall come to destruction.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 25</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>It shall be to him, and to his offspring<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">or, seed</span></a> after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“Harass the Midianites, and strike them,  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 26</div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” </div>
      <div class="p">These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>The sons of Pallu: Eliab.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh,  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>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;  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>The sons 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;  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>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.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>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;  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>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.  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.  <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.  <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.  <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.  <span class="verse" id="V51">51 </span>These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V52">52 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V53">53 </span>“To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.  <span class="verse" id="V54">54 </span>To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.  <span class="verse" id="V55">55 </span>Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.  <span class="verse" id="V56">56 </span>According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V57">57 </span>These are those who were counted 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.  <span class="verse" id="V58">58 </span>These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.  <span class="verse" id="V59">59 </span>The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.  <span class="verse" id="V60">60 </span>To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.  <span class="verse" id="V61">61 </span>Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V62">62 </span>Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V63">63 </span>These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  <span class="verse" id="V64">64 </span>But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.  <span class="verse" id="V65">65 </span>For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. </div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then 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 came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>He laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by Moses. </div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening;  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>with one tenth of an ephah<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>It is a continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>“ ‘On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah<a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>this is the <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN5" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> of every Sabbath, besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN6" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“ ‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN7" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>and three tenths of an ephah<a href="#FN8" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</span></a> of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN9" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN10" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> of every month throughout the months of the year.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>One male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN11" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>“ ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>but you shall offer an offering made by fire, an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN12" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>You shall offer these besides the <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN13" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> of the morning, which is for a continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN14" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN15" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its drink offering.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>“ ‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>but you shall offer an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN16" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>one male goat, to make atonement for you.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN17" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect. </div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“ ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>You shall offer an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>besides the <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>but you shall offer an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; all without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs:  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN5" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>You shall offer an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN6" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN7" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, its meal offering, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“ ‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN8" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, with its meal offering and their drink offerings. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>“ ‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN9" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>“ ‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN10" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, its meal offering, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>“ ‘On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN11" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>“ ‘On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN12" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>“ ‘On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN13" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, its meal offering, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>“ ‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no regular work;  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>but you shall offer an <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN14" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual <span class="w">ascension</span><a href="#FN15" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, with its meal offering, and its drink offering. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>“ ‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your <span class="w">ascensions|ascension</span><a href="#FN16" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a>, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 30</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>“Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth,  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>“If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn’t disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 31</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.”  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>“Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>and sixty-one thousand donkeys,  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.  <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,  <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,  <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>and sixteen thousand persons),  <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle; as Yahweh commanded Moses. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.  <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V51">51 </span>Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.  <span class="verse" id="V52">52 </span>All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or about 368.5 pounds.</span></a>  <span class="verse" id="V53">53 </span>The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.  <span class="verse" id="V54">54 </span>Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 32</div>
      <div class="p">&#13;
 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>For when they went up to 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 Yahweh had given them.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed Yahweh completely.’  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight, was consumed. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-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, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>Atrothshophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.  <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 33</div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their goings out.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them. Yahweh also executed judgments on their gods.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.  <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.  <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.  <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.  <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.  <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.  <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.  <span class="verse" id="V36">36 </span>They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.  <span class="verse" id="V37">37 </span>They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.  <span class="verse" id="V38">38 </span>Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.  <span class="verse" id="V39">39 </span>Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.  <span class="verse" id="V40">40 </span>The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V41">41 </span>They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.  <span class="verse" id="V42">42 </span>They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.  <span class="verse" id="V43">43 </span>They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.  <span class="verse" id="V44">44 </span>They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.  <span class="verse" id="V45">45 </span>They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.  <span class="verse" id="V46">46 </span>They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.  <span class="verse" id="V47">47 </span>They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.  <span class="verse" id="V48">48 </span>They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  <span class="verse" id="V49">49 </span>They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.  <span class="verse" id="V50">50 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V51">51 </span>Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,  <span class="verse" id="V52">52 </span>then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.  <span class="verse" id="V53">53 </span>You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.  <span class="verse" id="V54">54 </span>You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V55">55 </span>“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.  <span class="verse" id="V56">56 </span>It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 34</div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“ ‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>“ ‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.  <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.  <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”  <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 35</div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. You shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>“The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</span></a> around it.  <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.  <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.  <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>“ ‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.  <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.  <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.  <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.  <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,  <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,  <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;  <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.  <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>“ ‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,  <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,  <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>“ ‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>“ ‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.  <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the middle of which I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell in the middle of the children of Israel.’ ” </div>
      <div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 36</div>
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 <span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.  <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.  <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.  <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.  <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.  <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.  <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.  <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’ ” </div>
      <div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:  <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.  <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.  <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. </div>
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