Yahweh
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, “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; from twenty years
old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron
shall number them by their divisions. With you there shall be a man of
every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house. These are the names of the men who
shall stand with you:
Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Of Simeon: Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai.
Of Judah: Nahshon the son
of Amminadab.
Of Issachar: Nethanel the
son of Zuar.
Of Zebulun: Eliab the son
of Helon.
Of the children of Joseph:
Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Of Benjamin: Abidan the
son of Gideoni.
Of Dan: Ahiezer the son
of Ammishaddai.
Of Asher: Pagiel the son
of Ochran.
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son
of Deuel.
Of Naphtali: Ahira the
son of Enan.”
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. Moses and Aaron took these men
who are mentioned by name. 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. As Yahweh
commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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; those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five
hundred.
Of the children of
Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one
by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to
go out to war; those who
were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand
three hundred.
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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
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; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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 forth to war; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
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 forth to war; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
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 forth to war; those who were numbered of them,
of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
These are those who
were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel,
being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house. So all those who were numbered 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; even all those who were numbered
were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. But the Levites after the tribe
of their fathers were not numbered among them. For Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Only the tribe
of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them
among the children of Israel; 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.
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. 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. 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.”
Thus the children of
Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
Yahweh spoke to Moses
and to Aaron, saying, “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.”
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. His division, and those who were
numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
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. His division, and those who were
numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
The tribe of Zebulun:
and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
His division, and those
who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
All who were numbered
of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred,
according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
“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.
His division, and those
who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
“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. His division, and those who were
numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
“The tribe of Gad:
and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
His division, and those
who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
“All who were
numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four
hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
“Then the Tent of
Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the
camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by
their standards.
“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. His division,
and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
“Next to him shall
be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall
be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. His division, and those who were
numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
“The tribe of
Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the
son of Gideoni. His army,
and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four
hundred.
“All who were
numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one
hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
“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.
His division, and those
who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
“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. His division, and those who were
numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
“The tribe of
Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the
son of Enan. His
division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand
four hundred.
“All who were
numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six
hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”
These are those who
were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All
who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred
three thousand five hundred fifty. But the Levites were not numbered
among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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.
Now this is the history
of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with
Moses in Mount Sinai. These are the names of the sons of
Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
These are the names of
the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to
minister in the priest’s office. 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.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Bring the tribe
of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister
to him. They shall keep
his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before
the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. 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. 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. You
shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood.
The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Behold, 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: 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.”
Yahweh spoke to Moses
in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, “Count the children of Levi by
their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male
from a month old and upward.”
Moses numbered them
according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
These were the sons of
Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
These are the names of
the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
The sons of Kohath by
their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
The sons of Merari by
their families: Mahli and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’
houses.
Of Gershon was the
family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the
families of the Gershonites.
Those who were
numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month
old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand
five hundred.
The families of the
Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
The prince of the
fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
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, 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.
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. 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.
The families of the
sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. The prince of the fathers’
house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of
Uzziel. 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.
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.
Of Merari was the
family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the
families of Merari. Those
who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from
a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.
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. 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, the pillars of the court around
it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. 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. All who were numbered of the
Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by
their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two
thousand.
Yahweh said to Moses,
“Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month
old and upward, and take the number of their names. 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.”
Moses numbered, as
Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
All the firstborn males
according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those
who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred
seventy-three.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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. For
the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the
children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites, you shall take five shekels
apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them
(the shekel is twenty gerahs): and you shall give the money,
with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
Moses took the
redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were
redeemed by the Levites; from the firstborn of the
children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred
sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: and Moses gave the redemption
money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Yahweh spoke to Moses
and to Aaron, saying, “Take a census of the sons of
Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, 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.
“This is the service
of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.
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, 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.
“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. They
shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering
of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
“They shall take a
blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its
snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they
minister to it. They
shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall
put it on the frame.
“On the golden altar
they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin,
and shall put in its poles.
“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.
“They shall take
away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. They shall put on it all its
vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh
hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they
shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
“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.
“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.”
Yahweh spoke to Moses
and to Aaron, saying, “Don’t cut off the tribe of
the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 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; but they
shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Take a census
of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their
families; 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.
“This is the service
of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
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, 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. Therein shall they serve. 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. 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.
“As for the sons of
Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers’
houses; 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. 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, 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. 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.”
Moses and Aaron and
the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by
their families, and by their fathers’ houses, from thirty years old and upward
even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work
in the Tent of Meeting. Those who were numbered of them
by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty. These are those who were numbered
of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting,
whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by
Moses.
Those who were
numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers’
houses, from thirty years
old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the
service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, even those who were numbered of
them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six
hundred thirty. These are
those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who
served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to
the commandment of Yahweh. Those who were numbered of the
families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, from thirty years
old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the
service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, even those who were numbered of
them by their families, were three thousand two hundred. These are those who were numbered
of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. All those who were numbered of
the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by
their families, and by their fathers’ houses, 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, even those who were numbered of
them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. According to the commandment of
Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and
according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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. Both you shall put male and female
outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of
which I dwell.”
The children of Israel
did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so
did the children of Israel.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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; 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. 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. Every heave offering
of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to
the priest, shall be his. Every man’s holy things shall
be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and
is unfaithful to him, 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; 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: then the
man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for
her: the tenth part of an ephah 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.
The priest shall bring
her near, and set her before Yahweh; 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. 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. 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. 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:” 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; 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.”
“‘The priest shall
write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of
bitterness. 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.
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. 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. 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. If the woman isn’t defiled, but
is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
“‘This is the law
of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is
defiled; 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. The man shall
be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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,
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. All
the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the
grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
“‘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.
“‘All the days that
he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body. He shall not make himself unclean
for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister,
when they die; because his separation to God is on his
head. All the days of his
separation he is holy to Yahweh.
“‘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. On the
eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the
priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. The priest shall offer one for a
sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for
him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy
that same day. 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.
“‘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, and he shall offer his offering
to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering,
and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one
ram without blemish for peace offerings, 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. The priest shall present them
before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.
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. 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. 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; 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.
“‘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.’”
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Speak to Aaron
and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of
Israel.’ You shall tell them,
- ‘Yahweh bless you,
and keep you.
- Yahweh make his face
to shine on you,
- and be gracious to you.
- Yahweh lift up his
face toward you,
- and give you peace.’
“So they shall put
my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
It happened 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; that 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 numbered: 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. Yahweh spoke
to Moses, saying, “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.”
Moses took the wagons
and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. He gave two wagons and four oxen
to the sons of Gershon, according to their service: 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. But to the sons of Kohath he gave
none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried
it on their shoulders.
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.
Yahweh said to Moses,
“They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the
dedication of the altar.”
He who offered his
offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of
Judah, and his offering
was:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the second day
Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering. He offered for his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the third day Eliab
the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the fourth day
Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the fifth day
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the sixth day,
Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the seventh day
Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the eighth day
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the ninth day
Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the tenth day
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the eleventh day
Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
On the twelfth day
Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden spoon of ten
shekels, full of incense;
one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin
offering;
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.
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; 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; 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; all the cattle for the burnt
offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve,
and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;
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.
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.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Speak to Aaron,
and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give
light in front of the lampstand.’”
Aaron did so. He lit
its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. This was the
workmanship of the lampstand, 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 lampstand.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Take the
Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 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. 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. You shall present the Levites
before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of
the children of Israel. You shall present the Levites
before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the
Levites, 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.
“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 a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make
atonement for the Levites. You shall set the Levites before
Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
Thus you shall separate
the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be
mine.
“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. 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.
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. I have taken
the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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.”
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. 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.
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.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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;
and from the age of fifty
years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,
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.”
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, “Moreover let the children of
Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. 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.”
Moses spoke to the
children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. 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. 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. 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?”
Moses answered them,
“Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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. In the second month, on the
fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with
unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 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. 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.
“‘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.’”
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. So it was continually. The cloud
covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 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. 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. When the cloud stayed on the
tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command,
and didn’t travel. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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.
When they blow them, all
the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of
Meeting. If they blow
just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall
gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps
that lie on the east side shall go forward. 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. But when the assembly is to be
gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
“The sons of Aaron,
the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute
forever throughout your generations. 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.
“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 burnt offerings, 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.”
It happened in the
second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that
the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 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. They first went forward
according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
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. Nethanel the son of Zuar was
over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar. Eliab the son of Helon was over
the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun. The tabernacle was taken down;
and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle,
went forward. The
standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies.
Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army. Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai
was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon. Eliasaph the son of Deuel was
over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
The Kohathites set
forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before
they arrived.
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. Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was
over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh. Abidan the son of Gideoni was
over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.
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. Pagiel
the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
Ahira the son of Enan
was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali. Thus were the travels of the
children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.
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.”
He said to him, “I
will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
He said, “Don’t
leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness,
and you can be our eyes. 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.”
They set forward from
the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of the covenant of
Yahweh went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place
for them. The cloud of
Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. It happened, when the ark went
forward, that Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be
scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!” When it rested, he said,
“Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”
The people were
complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger was
kindled; and Yahweh’s fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the
outskirts of the camp. The people cried to Moses; and
Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated. The name of that place was called
Taberah, because Yahweh’s fire burnt among them.
The mixed multitude
that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also
wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat? 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; but now we have lost our
appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.” The manna was like coriander
seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. 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. When the dew fell on the camp in
the night, the manna fell on it.
Moses heard the
people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his
tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was
displeased. 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? Have I
conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, 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?’ Where could I get meat to give
to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we
may eat.’ I am not
able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
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.”
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. 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.
“Say to the people,
‘Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you
have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us flesh to eat?
For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh,
and you will eat. You
will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor
twenty days, but a whole
month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you;
because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept
before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
Moses said, “The
people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you
have said, ‘I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.’
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?”
Yahweh said to Moses,
“Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will
happen to you or not.”
Moses went out, and
told the people the words of Yahweh; and he gathered seventy men of the
elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. 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: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them,
they prophesied, but they did so no more. 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. A young man ran, and told Moses,
and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
Joshua the son of
Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord
Moses, forbid them!”
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!”
Moses went into the
camp, he and the elders of Israel. 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 above the surface of the earth.
The people rose up all
that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the
quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and
they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. While the flesh was yet between
their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against
the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague. The name of that place was
called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the
people who lusted.
From Kibroth
Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.
Miriam and Aaron spoke
against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had
married a Cushite woman. They said, “Has Yahweh indeed
spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh
heard it.
Now the man Moses was
very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
Yahweh spoke suddenly to
Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of
Meeting!”
The three of them came out. 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. He said, “Hear now 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. My servant Moses is not so. He is
faithful in all my house. 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?” The anger of
Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed. 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.
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. 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.”
Moses cried to
Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
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.”
Miriam was shut up
outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until
Miriam was brought in again. Afterward the people traveled
from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “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.”
Moses sent them from
the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of
them men who were heads of the children of Israel. These were their names: Of the
tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat
the son of Hori. Of the
tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal
the son of Joseph. Of the
tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti
the son of Raphu. Of the
tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. Of the tribe of Joseph, of the
tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the
son of Gemalli. Of the
tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi
the son of Vophsi. Of
the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. These are the names of the men
who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun
Joshua. 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: and see the land, what it is;
and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether
they are few or many; 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; and what the land is, whether it
is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and
bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the
first-ripe grapes.” So
they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob,
to the entrance of Hamath. 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.)
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. That place was called the valley
of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down
from there. They
returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. They went and came to Moses, and
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, and showed them the fruit of the land. They told him, and said, “We
came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and
honey; and this is its fruit. 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. Amalek dwells in the land of the
South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the
hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side
of the Jordan.” Caleb
stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and
possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who went up with him
said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are
stronger than we.” 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. There we saw
the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in
our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
All the congregation
lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. All the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said
to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we
had died in this wilderness! Why does Yahweh bring us to this
land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey:
wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?” They said one to another, “Let
us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.” Then Moses and Aaron fell on
their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of
Israel. Joshua the son of
Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the
land, tore their clothes: and 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. 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. 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.” But all the congregation
threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the
Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel. 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? I will strike them with the
pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and
mightier than they.” Moses said to Yahweh, “Then
the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might
from among them; and
they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that
you Yahweh are in the midst 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. Now if you killed this people as
one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak,
saying, ‘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.’ Now please let the power of the
Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
‘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.’ 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.” Yahweh said, “I have pardoned
according to your word: but in very deed, as I live, and
as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh; 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; surely they
shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any
of those who despised me see it: but my servant Caleb, because he
had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring
into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it. Now the Amalekite and the
Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness
by the way to the Red Sea.” Yahweh spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying, “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. Tell them,
‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I
do to you: your dead
bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you,
according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have
murmured against me, 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. But your little ones, that you
said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land
which you have rejected. But as for you, your dead bodies
shall fall in this wilderness. Your children shall be wanderers
in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until
your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 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.’ I,
Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation,
who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be
consumed, and there they shall die.” 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, even those men who brought up an
evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh. But Joshua the son of Nun, and
Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy
out the land. Moses told
these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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.” Moses
said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall
not prosper? Don’t go
up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that you not be struck down before your
enemies. For there the
Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the
sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh
will not be with you.”
But they presumed to
go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, and Moses, didn’t depart out of the camp. Then the Amalekite came down,
and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat
them down, even to Hormah.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of
your habitations, which I give to you, and will make an offering by fire
to Yahweh, a burnt offering, 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; then he who offers his offering
shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine
flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil: and wine for the drink offering,
the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or
for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
“‘Or for a ram,
you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine
flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil: and for the drink offering you
shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh. When you prepare
a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or
for peace offerings to Yahweh; then shall he offer with the bull
a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with
half a hin of oil: 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. Thus shall it be done for each
bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young
goats. According to the
number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to
their number.
“‘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. 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. 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. One law and one ordinance shall
be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, “Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land
where I bring you, then
it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up
a wave offering to Yahweh. 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. Of the first of your dough you
shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
“‘When you shall
err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to
Moses, even all that
Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave
commandment, and onward throughout your generations; then it shall be, if it be done
unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the
congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with the meal offering of it, and the drink
offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin
offering. 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: and all the congregation of the
children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a
foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done
unwittingly.
“‘If one person
sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin
offering. 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.
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.
“‘But the soul
who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a
foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from
among his people. Because he has despised the word
of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off; his iniquity shall be on him.’”
While the children of
Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the
Sabbath day. Those who
found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the
congregation. They put
him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to
him.
Yahweh said to Moses,
“The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone
him with stones outside of the camp.” All the congregation brought him
outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, “Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves
fringes in the borders of their garments throughout
their generations, and that they put on the fringe of
each border a cord of blue: and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the
commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your
own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
that you may remember
and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. I am Yahweh your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your
God.”
Now Korah, the son of
Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the
sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
and they rose up before
Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes
of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; and 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 then lift yourselves up above the
assembly of Yahweh?”
When Moses heard it,
he fell on his face: and
he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, “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.
Do this: take censers,
Korah, and all his company; and put fire in them, and put
incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom
Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of
Levi!”
Moses said to Korah,
“Hear now, you sons of Levi! 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 the tabernacle of Yahweh,
and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; and that he has brought you
near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the
priesthood also? Therefore you and all your
company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he that
you murmur against him?”
Moses sent to call
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come
up: 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? 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.” 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.” Moses said to Korah, “You and
all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
and 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.” They each
took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood
at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron. Korah assembled all the
congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the
glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation. Yahweh spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying, “Separate yourselves from
among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” 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?”
Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, “Speak
to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram!’” Moses rose up and went to Dathan
and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. 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!”
So they went away
from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and
Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives,
and their sons, and their little ones. Moses said, “Hereby you shall
know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from
my own mind. If these
men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the
visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn’t sent me. But if Yahweh make a new thing,
and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that
appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol;
then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
It happened, as he
made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that
was under them; and the
earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and
all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. So they, and all that
appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and
the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
All Israel that were
around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us
up!” Fire came forth
from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the
incense.
Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, “Speak
to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of
the burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy, even the censers of these
sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a
covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they
are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.” Eleazar the priest took the
bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them
out for a covering of the altar, to be a memorial to the children
of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the seed of Aaron,
comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as
his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses. 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!” It happened, when the
congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they
looked toward the Tent of Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and
the glory of Yahweh appeared. Moses and Aaron came to the
front of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Get away from among
this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on
their faces.
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.”
Aaron did as Moses
said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has
begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for
the people. He stood
between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now those who died by the plague
were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the
matter of Korah. Aaron
returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was
stayed.
Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, “Speak to the
children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers’ house,
of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods:
write every man’s name on his rod. You shall write Aaron’s name on
the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their
fathers’ houses. You
shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I
meet with you. It shall
happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will
make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against you.”
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: and the rod
of Aaron was among their rods. Moses laid up the rods before
Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
It happened on the
next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the
rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and
produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. Moses brought out all the rods
from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and
took every man his rod.
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.” Moses did so. As Yahweh
commanded him, so he did.
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