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Book of Numbers: AESV
Chapter 1
1:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tabernacle, on
the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out
of the land of Egypt, saying, 1:2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the
B’nai Yisrael, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the
number of the names, every male, one by one; 1:3 from twenty years old and
upward, all who are able to go out to war in Yisrael. You and Aaron shall
number them by their divisions. 1:4 With you there shall be a man of every
tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house. 1:5 These are the names of the men
who shall stand with you:
Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
1:7 Of Yudah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
1:10 Of the children of Yoseph:
Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
1:11 Of Benyamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
1:16 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 Yisrael. 1:17
Mosha and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. 1:18 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. 1:19
As Mar-Yah commanded Mosha, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20 The children of Reuben, Yisrael’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; 1:21 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were
forty-six thousand five hundred.
1:22 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; 1:23 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
1:24 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; 1:25 those who were numbered of
them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
1:26 Of the children of Yudah, 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; 1:27 those who were numbered of
them, of the tribe of Yudah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
1:28 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; 1:29 those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four
hundred.
1:30 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; 1:31 those who were numbered of
them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 1:32 Of
the children of Yoseph, 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; 1:33 those who
were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five
hundred.
1:34 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; 1:35 those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two
hundred.
1:36 Of the children of Benyamin, 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; 1:37 those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Benyamin, were thirty-five thousand four
hundred.
1:38 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; 1:39 those who were numbered
of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
1:40 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; 1:41 those who were numbered
of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
1:42 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; 1:43 those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four
hundred.
1:44 These are those who were numbered, whom Mosha and Aaron numbered, and the
princes of Yisrael, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’
house. 1:45 So all those who were numbered of the B’nai Yisrael by their
fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war in Yisrael; 1:46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three
thousand five hundred fifty. 1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers
were not numbered among them. 1:48 For Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 1:49
“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census
of them among the B’nai Yisrael; 1:50 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. 1:51 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. 1:52 The B’nai Yisrael shall pitch their tents, every man by
his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that
there may be no wrath on the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael: and the Levites
shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
1:54 Thus the B’nai Yisrael did. According to all that Mar-Yah commanded Mosha,
so they did.
Chapter 2
2:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 2:2 “The B’nai Yisrael shall
encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’
houses: at a distance from the Tabernacle shall they encamp around it.”
2:3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the
standard of the camp of Yudah, according to their divisions: and the prince of
the children of Yudah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 2:4 His division,
and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
2:5 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. 2:6 His
division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four
hundred.
2:7 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be
Eliab the son of Helon. 2:8 His division, and those who were numbered of it,
were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
2:9 All who were numbered of the camp of Yudah were one hundred eighty-six
thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
2:10 “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. 2:11 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were
forty-six thousand five hundred.
2:12 “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. 2:13 His
division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three
hundred.
2:14 “The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph
the son of Reuel. 2:15 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
2:16 “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.
2:17 “Then the Tabernacle 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.
2:18 “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. 2:19 His division, and those who were numbered of them,
were forty thousand five hundred.
2:20 “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the
children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 2:21 His division,
and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
2:22 “The tribe of Benyamin: and the prince of the children of Benyamin shall
be Abidan the son of Gideoni. 2:23 His army, and those who were numbered of
them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
2:24 “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.
2:25 “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. 2:26 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
2:27 “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. 2:28 His division,
and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
2:29 “The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall
be Ahira the son of Enan. 2:30 His division, and those who were numbered of
them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
2:31 “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.”
2:32 These are those who were numbered of the B’nai Yisrael by their fathers’
houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six
hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 2:33 But the Levites were not
numbered with the B’nai Yisrael; as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
2:34 Thus the B’nai Yisrael did. According to all that Mar-Yah commanded Mosha,
so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their
families, according to their fathers’ houses.
Chapter 3
3:1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Mosha in the day
that Mar-Yah spoke with Mosha in Mount Sinai. 3:2 These are the names of the
sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed,
whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. 3:4 Nadab and Abihu
died before Mar-Yah, when they offered strange fire before Mar-Yah, 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.
3:5 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 3:6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set
them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. 3:7 They shall
keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before
the Tabernacle, to do the service of the Tabernacle.
3:8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tabernacle, and the obligations
of the B’nai Yisrael, to do the service of the Tabernacle. 3:9 You shall give
the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the
behalf of the B’nai Yisrael. 3:10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and
they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to
death.”
3:11 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 3:12 “Behold, I have taken the Levites
from among the B’nai Yisrael instead of all the firstborn who open the womb
among the B’nai Yisrael; and the Levites shall be mine: 3:13 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 Yisrael, both man and animal.
They shall be mine. I am Mar-Yah.”
3:14 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 3:15 “Count the
children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count
every male from a month old and upward.”
3:16 Mosha numbered them according to the word of Mar-Yah, as he was commanded.
3:17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and
Merari.
3:18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and
Shimei.
3:19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel.
3:20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the
Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
3:22 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.
3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the Tabernacle
westward.
3:24 The prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the
son of Lael. 3:25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tabernacle shall be
the Tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the
Tabernacle, 3:26 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.
3:27 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. 3:28 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.
3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the
Tabernacle. 3:30 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the
Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. 3:31 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. 3:32 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.
3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites.
These are the families of Merari. 3:34 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.
3:35 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. 3:36 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, 3:37 the
pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
3:38 Those who encamp before the Tabernacle eastward, in front of the
Tabernacle toward the sunrise, shall be Mosha, and Aaron and his sons, keeping
the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the B’nai Yisrael. The
stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 3:39 All who were numbered of
the Levites, whom Mosha and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Mar-Yah, by
their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two
thousand.
3:40 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Number all the firstborn males of the B’nai
Yisrael from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 3:41
You shall take the Levites for me (I am Mar-Yah) instead of all the firstborn
among the B’nai Yisrael; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the livestock of the B’nai Yisrael.”
3:42 Mosha numbered, as Mar-Yah commanded him, all the firstborn among the
B’nai Yisrael. 3:43 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.
3:44 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 3:45 “Take the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the B’nai Yisrael, and the livestock of the Levites instead of
their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Mar-Yah. 3:46 For the
redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the B’nai
Yisrael, who exceed the number of the Levites, 3:47 you shall take five shekels
apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the
shekel is twenty gerahs): 3:48 and you shall give the money, with which the
remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
3:49 Mosha took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of
those who were redeemed by the Levites; 3:50 from the firstborn of the B’nai
Yisrael he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary: 3:51 and Mosha gave the redemption money to Aaron
and to his sons, according to the word of Mar-Yah, as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
Chapter 4
4:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 4:2 “Take a census of the sons
of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, 4:3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all
who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tabernacle.
4:4 “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tabernacle, the most holy
things. 4:5 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, 4:6 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.
4:7 “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. 4:8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth,
and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
4:9 “They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the menorah of the light, and its
lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with
which they minister to it. 4:10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a
covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
4:11 “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a
covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
4:12 “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.
4:13 “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth
on it. 4:14 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.
4:15 “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 Tabernacle.
4:16 “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.”
4:17 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 4:18 “Do not cut off the
tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 4:19 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; 4:20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary
even for a moment, lest they die.”
4:21 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 4:22 “Take a census of the sons of Gershon
also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families; 4:23 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 Tabernacle.
4:24 “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in
bearing burdens: 4:25 they shall carry the curtains of the Tabernacle, and the
Tabernacle, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and
the screen for the door of the Tabernacle, 4:26 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.
4:27 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. 4:28 This is
the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tabernacle:
and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
4:29 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by
their fathers’ houses; 4:30 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 Tabernacle. 4:31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all
their service in the Tabernacle: the Tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its
pillars, its sockets, 4:32 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. 4:33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari,
according to all their service, in the Tabernacle, under the hand of Ithamar
the son of Aaron the priest.”
4:34 Mosha and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of
the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses, 4:35 from
thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into
the service, for work in the Tabernacle. 4:36 Those who were numbered of them
by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty. 4:37 These are those
who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the
Tabernacle, whom Mosha and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of
Mar-Yah by Mosha.
4:38 Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by
their fathers’ houses, 4:39 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty
years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tabernacle,
4:40 even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty. 4:41 These are those who were
numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the
Tabernacle, whom Mosha and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of
Mar-Yah. 4:42 Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by
their families, by their fathers’ houses, 4:43 from thirty years old and upward
even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the
Tabernacle, 4:44 even those who were numbered of them by their families, were
three thousand two hundred. 4:45 These are those who were numbered of the
families of the sons of Merari, whom Mosha and Aaron numbered according to the
commandment of Mar-Yah by Mosha. 4:46 All those who were numbered of the
Levites, whom Mosha and Aaron and the princes of Yisrael numbered, by their
families, and by their fathers’ houses, 4:47 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 Tabernacle, 4:48 even those who were numbered
of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. 4:49 According to the
commandment of Mar-Yah they were numbered by Mosha, everyone according to his
service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as
Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
Chapter 5
5:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 5:2 “Command the B’nai Yisrael that they
put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is
unclean by the dead. 5:3 Both you shall put male and female outside of the
camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
5:4 The B’nai Yisrael did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Mar-Yah
spoke to Mosha, so did the B’nai Yisrael.
5:5 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 5:6 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael: ‘When a man
or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Mar-Yah,
and that soul is guilty; 5:7 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. 5:8 But
if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the
restitution for guilt which is made to Mar-Yah shall be the priest’s; besides
the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. 5:9 Every
heave offering of all the holy things of the B’nai Yisrael, which they present
to the priest, shall be his. 5:10 Every man’s holy things shall be his:
whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”
5:11 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 5:12 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and tell
them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him, 5:13 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 is
not taken in the act; 5:14 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 is not defiled: 5:15 then the man
shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the
tenth part of an efah 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. 5:16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her
before Mar-Yah; 5:17 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. 5:18 The priest shall set the woman before Mar-Yah,
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. 5:19 The priest
shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has raped
you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband,
be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 5:20 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:” 5:21 then the priest shall
cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell
the woman, “Mar-Yah make you a curse and an oath among your people, when
Mar-Yah allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; 5:22 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.”
5:23 “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them
out into the water of bitterness. 5:24 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. 5:25 The priest shall take the meal offering
of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before
Mar-Yah, and bring it to the altar. 5:26 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. 5:27 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. 5:28 If the woman is not defiled, but is
clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
5:29 “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes
astray, and is defiled; 5:30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and
he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Mar-Yah, and the
priest shall execute on her all this law. 5:31 The man shall be free from
iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
Chapter 6
6:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 6:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and tell
them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nasari,
to separate himself to Mar-Yah, 6:3 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. 6:4
All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the
grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
6:5 “‘All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come on his
head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Mar-Yah.
He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
6:6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to Mar-Yah he shall not go near a
dead body. 6:7 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. 6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy
to Mar-Yah.
6:9 “‘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. 6:10 On the eighth day he shall bring two
turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tabernacle.
6:11 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. 6:12 He shall separate to Mar-Yah
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.
6:13 “‘This is the law of the Nasari: when the days of his separation are
fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tabernacle, 6:14 and he shall
offer his offering to Mar-Yah, 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, 6:15 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. 6:16 The
priest shall present them before Mar-Yah, and shall offer his sin offering, and
his burnt offering. 6:17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace
offerings to Mar-Yah, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall
offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering. 6:18 The Nasari shall
shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tabernacle, 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. 6:19 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 Nasari, after he has
shaved the head of his separation; 6:20 and the priest shall wave them for a
wave offering before Mar-Yah. This is holy for the priest, together with the
breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nasari may
drink wine.
6:21 “‘This is the law of the Nasari who vows, and of his offering to Mar-Yah
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.’”
6:22 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 6:23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the B’nai Yisrael.’ You shall tell them,
6:24 ‘Mar-Yah bless you, and keep you.
6:25 Mar-Yah make his face to shine on you,
and be gracious to you.
6:26 Mar-Yah lift up his face toward you,
and give you peace.’
6:27 “So they shall put my name on the B’nai Yisrael; and I will bless them.”
Chapter 7
7:1 It happened on the day that Mosha 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; 7:2 that the
princes of Yisrael, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the
princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered:
7:3 and they brought their offering before Mar-Yah, 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. 7:4 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying,
7:5 “Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the
Tabernacle; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to
his service.”
7:6 Mosha took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. 7:7 He
gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their
service: 7:8 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. 7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the
sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
7:10 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.
7:11 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on
his day, for the dedication of the altar.”
7:12 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of
Amminadab, of the tribe of Yudah, 7:13 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;
7:14 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:15 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:16 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:17 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.
7:18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his
offering. 7:19 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;
7:20 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:21 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:22 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:23 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.
7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
7:25 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;
7:26 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:27 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:28 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:29 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.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of
Reuben 7:31 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;
7:32 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:33 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:34 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:35 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.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children
of Simeon 7:37 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;
7:38 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:39 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:40 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:41 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.
7:42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of
the children of Gad 7:43 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;
7:44 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:45 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:46 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:47 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.
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of
Ephraim 7:49 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;
7:50 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:51 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:52 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:53 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.
7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of
Manasseh 7:55 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;
7:56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:57 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:58 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:59 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.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of
Benyamin 7:61 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;
7:62 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:63 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:64 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:65 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.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of
Dan 7:67 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;
7:68 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:69 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:70 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:71 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.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of
Asher 7:73 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;
7:74 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:75 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:76 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:77 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.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of
Naphtali 7:79 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;
7:80 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:81 one young bull,
one ram,
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:82 one male goat for a sin offering;
7:83 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.
7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by
the princes of Yisrael: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve
golden ladles; 7:85 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; 7:86 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; 7:87 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;
7:88 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.
7:89 When Mosha went into the Tabernacle to speak with Mar-Yah, 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.
Chapter 8
8:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 8:2 “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When
you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the
menorah.’”
8:3 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the menorah,
as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha. 8:4 This was the workmanship of the menorah, beaten
work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to
the pattern which Mar-Yah had shown Mosha, so he made the menorah.
8:5 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 8:6 “Take the Levites from among the B’nai
Yisrael, and cleanse them. 8:7 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. 8:8 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. 8:9 You shall present the
Levites before the Tabernacle. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the
B’nai Yisrael. 8:10 You shall present the Levites before Mar-Yah. The B’nai Yisrael
shall lay their hands on the Levites, 8:11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites
before Mar-Yah for a wave offering, on the behalf of the B’nai Yisrael, that it
may be theirs to do the service of Mar-Yah.
8:12 “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
Mar-Yah, to make atonement for the Levites. 8:13 You shall set the Levites
before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Mar-Yah.
8:14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the B’nai Yisrael, and the
Levites shall be mine.
8:15 “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tabernacle:
and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering. 8:16 For they
are wholly given to me from among the B’nai Yisrael; instead of all who open
the womb, even the firstborn of all the B’nai Yisrael, I have taken them to me.
8:17 For all the firstborn among the B’nai Yisrael 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. 8:18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the B’nai Yisrael. 8:19 I have given the Levites as a gift to
Aaron and to his sons from among the B’nai Yisrael, to do the service of the
B’nai Yisrael in the Tabernacle, and to make atonement for the B’nai Yisrael;
that there be no plague among the B’nai Yisrael, when the B’nai Yisrael come
near to the sanctuary.”
8:20 Mosha, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael did so to
the Levites. According to all that Mar-Yah commanded Mosha concerning the
Levites, so the B’nai Yisrael did to them. 8:21 The Levites purified themselves
from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave
offering before Mar-Yah; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
8:22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tabernacle
before Aaron, and before his sons: as Mar-Yah had commanded Mosha concerning
the Levites, so they did to them.
8:23 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 8:24 “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 Tabernacle; 8:25 and from the age of fifty years they
shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more, 8:26 but shall
minister with their brothers in the Tabernacle, to perform the duty, and shall
do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.”
Chapter 9
9:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of
the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 9:2
“Moreover let the B’nai Yisrael keep the Passover in its appointed season. 9:3
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.”
9:4 Mosha spoke to the B’nai Yisrael, that they should keep the Passover. 9:5
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 Mar-Yah commanded
Mosha, so the B’nai Yisrael did. 9:6 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 Mosha and before Aaron on that day. 9:7 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 Mar-Yah in its appointed season
among the B’nai Yisrael?”
9:8 Mosha answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Mar-Yah will command
concerning you.”
9:9 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 9:10 “Say to the B’nai Yisrael, ‘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 Mar-Yah. 9:11 In the
second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall
eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9:12 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. 9:13 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 did not offer the offering of Mar-Yah in its appointed
season, that man shall bear his sin.
9:14 “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to
Mar-Yah; 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.’”
9:15 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. 9:16 So it was continually.
The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 9:17 Whenever the
cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the B’nai Yisrael
travelled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the B’nai Yisrael
encamped. 9:18 At the commandment of Mar-Yah, the B’nai Yisrael travelled, and
at the commandment of Mar-Yah they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on
the Tabernacle they remained encamped. 9:19 When the cloud stayed on the
Tabernacle many days, then the B’nai Yisrael kept Mar-Yah’s command, and did
not travel. 9:20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the Tabernacle; then
according to the commandment of Mar-Yah they remained encamped, and according
to the commandment of Mar-Yah they travelled. 9:21 Sometimes the cloud was from
evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they
travelled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they travelled.
9:22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on
the Tabernacle, remaining on it, the B’nai Yisrael remained encamped, and did
not travel; but when it was taken up, they travelled. 9:23 At the commandment
of Mar-Yah they encamped, and at the commandment of Mar-Yah they travelled.
They kept Mar-Yah’s command, at the commandment of Mar-Yah by Mosha.
Chapter 10
10:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 10:2 “Make two shofars 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. 10:3 When they blow them,
all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the
Tabernacle. 10:4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the
thousands of Yisrael, shall gather themselves to you. 10:5 When you blow an
alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. 10:6 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. 10:7 But when the
assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an
alarm.
10:8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the shofars. This shall be to
you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 10:9 When you go to war
in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an
alarm with the shofars. Then you will be remembered before Mar-Yah your God,
and you will be saved from your enemies.
10:10 “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the
beginnings of your months, you shall blow the shofars 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 Mar-Yah your God.”
10:11 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. 10:12 The B’nai Yisrael went forward according to their journeys out
of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
10:13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Mar-Yah by Mosha.
10:14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Yudah went forward
according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
10:15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Issachar. 10:16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Zebulun. 10:17 The Tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon
and the sons of Merari, who bore the Tabernacle, went forward. 10:18 The
standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur
the son of Shedeur was over his army. 10:19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai
was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon. 10:20 Eliasaph the
son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
10:21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the
Tabernacle before they arrived.
10:22 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. 10:23 Gamaliel
the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.
10:24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Benyamin.
10:25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward
of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai was over his army. 10:26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army
of the tribe of the children of Asher. 10:27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the
army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali. 10:28 Thus were the travels of
the B’nai Yisrael according to their armies; and they went forward.
10:29 Mosha said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Mosha’s
father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Mar-Yah said, ‘I will
give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Mar-Yah has
spoken good concerning Yisrael.”
10:30 He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to
my relatives.”
10:31 He said, “Do not leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp
in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. 10:32 It shall be, if you go with
us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Mar-Yah does to us, we will do the
same to you.”
10:33 They set forward from the Mount of Mar-Yah three days’ journey. The ark
of the covenant of Mar-Yah went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a
resting place for them. 10:34 The cloud of Mar-Yah was over them by day, when
they set forward from the camp. 10:35 It happened, when the ark went forward,
that Mosha said, “Rise up, Mar-Yah, and let your enemies be scattered! Let
those who hate you flee before you!” 10:36 When it rested, he said, “Return,
Mar-Yah, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Yisrael.”
Chapter 11
11:1 The people were complaining in the ears of Mar-Yah. When Mar-Yah heard it,
his anger was kindled; and Mar-Yah’s fire burnt among them, and consumed some
of the outskirts of the camp. 11:2 The people cried to Mosha; and Mosha prayed
to Mar-Yah, and the fire abated. 11:3 The name of that place was called
Taberah, because Mar-Yah’s fire burnt among them.
11:4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the B’nai
Yisrael also wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat? 11:5 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; 11:6 but now we have
lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.” 11:7
The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of
bdellium. 11:8 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. 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night,
the manna fell on it.
11:10 Mosha heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at
the door of his tent; and the anger of Mar-Yah was kindled greatly; and Mosha
was displeased. 11:11 Mosha said to Mar-Yah, “Why have you treated with your
servant so badly? Why have I not found favour in your sight, that you lay the
burden of all this people on me? 11:12 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?’
11:13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me,
saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 11:14 I am not able to bear all this
people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 11:15 If you treat me this way,
please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and do not let
me see my wretchedness.”
11:16 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of
Yisrael, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them;
and bring them to the Tabernacle, that they may stand there with you. 11:17 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.
11:18 “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will
eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Mar-Yah, saying, “Who will give us
flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Mar-Yah will give
you flesh, and you will eat. 11:19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor
five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20 but a whole month, until it
come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have
rejected Mar-Yah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we
come out of Egypt?”’”
11:21 Mosha 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.’ 11:22 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?”
11:23 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Has Mar-Yah’s hand grown short? Now you will see
whether my word will happen to you or not.”
11:24 Mosha went out, and told the people the words of Mar-Yah; and he gathered
seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. 11:25
Mar-Yah 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. 11:26 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. 11:27 A
young man ran, and told Mosha, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in
the camp!”
11:28 Yoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Mosha, one of his chosen men, answered,
“My lord Mosha, forbid them!”
11:29 Mosha said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all
Mar-Yah’s people were prophets, that Mar-Yah would put his Spirit on them!”
11:30 Mosha went into
the camp, he and the elders of Yisrael. 11:31 A wind from Mar-Yah 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. 11:32 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. 11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth,
before it was chewed, the anger of Mar-Yah was kindled against the people, and
Mar-Yah struck the people with a very great plague. 11:34 The name of that
place was called Kibroth Hatta’avah, because there they buried the people who
lusted.
11:35 From Kibroth Hatta’avah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed
at Hazeroth.
Chapter 12
12:1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Mosha because of the Cushite woman whom he
had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. 12:2 They said, “Has Mar-Yah
indeed spoken only with Mosha? Has he not spoken also with us?” And Mar-Yah
heard it.
12:3 Now the man Mosha was very humble, above all the men who were on the
surface of the earth. 12:4 Mar-Yah spoke suddenly to Mosha, to Aaron, and to
Miriam, “You three come out to the Tabernacle!”
The three of them came out. 12:5 Mar-Yah 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. 12:6 He said, “Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you, I
Mar-Yah will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a
dream. 12:7 My servant Mosha is not so. He is faithful in all my house. 12:8
With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he
shall see Mar-Yah’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my
servant, against Mosha?” 12:9 The anger of Mar-Yah was kindled against them;
and he departed. 12:10 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.
12:11 Aaron said to Mosha, “Oh, my lord, please do not count this sin against
us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. 12:12 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.”
12:13 Mosha cried to Mar-Yah, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
12:14 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “If her father had but spit in her face, should
she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven
days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
12:15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people did not
travel until Miriam was brought in again. 12:16 Afterward the people travelled
from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
Chapter 13
13:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 13:2 “Send men, that they may spy out the
land of Canaan, which I give to the B’nai Yisrael. Of every tribe of their
fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”
13:3 Mosha sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment
of Mar-Yah: all of them men who were heads of the B’nai Yisrael. 13:4 These
were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 13:5 Of
the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 13:6 Of the tribe of Yudah, Caleb
the son of Yephunneh. 13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Yoseph.
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 13:9 Of the tribe of
Benyamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the
son of Sodi. 13:11 Of the tribe of Yoseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh,
Gaddi the son of Susi. 13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali,
Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
13:16 These are the names of the men who Mosha sent to spy out the land. Mosha
called Hoshea the son of Nun Yoshua. 13:17 Mosha 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: 13:18 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; 13:19
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; 13:20
and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein,
or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time
was the time of the first-ripe grapes.” 13:21 So they went up, and spied out
the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 13:22
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.) 13:23 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 brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 13:24 That place was
called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the B’nai Yisrael cut
down from there. 13:25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of
forty days. 13:26 They went and came to Mosha, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the B’nai Yisrael, 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. 13:27 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.
13:28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are
fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
13:29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the
Yebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells
by the sea, and along by the side of the Yordan.” 13:30 Caleb stilled the
people before Mosha, and said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we
are well able to overcome it.” 13:31 But the men who went up with him said, “We
are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” 13:32
They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the
B’nai Yisrael, 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. 13:33 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.”
Chapter 14
14:1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept
that night. 14:2 All the B’nai Yisrael murmured against Mosha 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! 14:3 Why does
Mar-Yah bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little
ones will be a prey: would it not be better for us to return into Egypt?” 14:4
They said one to another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into
Egypt.” 14:5 Then Mosha and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly
of the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael. 14:6 Yoshua the son of Nun and Caleb
the son of Yephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their
clothes: 14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael,
saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good
land. 14:8 If Mar-Yah delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and
give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 14:9 Only do not make a
revolt against Mar-Yah, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread
for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Mar-Yah is with us. Do not
fear them.” 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The
glory of Mar-Yah appeared in the Tabernacle to all the B’nai Yisrael. 14:11
Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “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? 14:12
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of
you a nation greater and mightier than they.” 14:13 Mosha said to Mar-Yah,
“Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might
from among them; 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.
They have heard that you Mar-Yah are in the midst of this people; for you
Mar-Yah 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.
14:15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have
heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 14:16 ‘Because Mar-Yah was not able
to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has
slain them in the wilderness.’ 14:17 Now please let the power of Mar-Yah be
great, according as you have spoken, saying, 14:18 ‘Mar-Yah 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.’ 14:19 Pardon, please, 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.” 14:20
Mar-Yah said, “I have pardoned according to your word: 14:21 but in very deed,
as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Mar-Yah;
14:22 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; 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I
swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
14:24 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. 14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the
valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of
Suf.” 14:26 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 14:27 “How long shall
I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the B’nai Yisrael, which they murmur against me. 14:28 Tell them,
‘As I live, says Mar-Yah, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to
you: 14:29 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, 14:30 surely you shall not come into the
land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb
the son of Yephunneh, and Yoshua the son of Nun. 14:31 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. 14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall
in this wilderness. 14:33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness
forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be
consumed in the wilderness. 14:34 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.’ 14:35 I,
Mar-Yah, 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.” 14:36 The men, whom Mosha 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, 14:37 even those men who did bring up an
evil report of the land, died by the plague before Mar-Yah. 14:38 But Yoshua
the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, remained alive of those men who
went to spy out the land. 14:39 Mosha told these words to all the B’nai
Yisrael: and the people mourned greatly. 14:40 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 Mar-Yah has promised: for we have sinned.”
14:41 Mosha said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Mar-Yah, seeing it
shall not prosper? 14:42 Do not go up, for Mar-Yah is not among you; that you
not be struck down before your enemies. 14:43 For there the Amalekite and the
Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are
turned back from following Mar-Yah, therefore Mar-Yah will not be with you.”
14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the
ark of the covenant of Mar-Yah, and Mosha, did not depart out of the camp.
14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that
mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
Chapter 15
15:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 15:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and tell
them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to
you, 15:3 and will make an offering by fire to Mar-Yah, 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 Mar-Yah, of the herd, or of the flock; 15:4
then he who offers his offering shall offer to Mar-Yah a meal offering of a
tenth part of an efah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
15:5 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.
15:6 “‘Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of
an efah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil: 15:7 and for
the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a
pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah. 15:8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering,
or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Mar-Yah;
15:9 then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts of
an efah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: 15:10 and you shall offer
for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a
pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah. 15:11 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for
each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. 15:12 According
to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to
their number.
15:13 “‘All who are native-born shall do these things after this manner, in
offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah. 15:14 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 Mar-Yah; as you do, so he shall do. 15:15 For the assembly, there shall be
one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you, a
statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner
be before Mar-Yah. 15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for
the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
15:17 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 15:18 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and
tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you, 15:19 then it shall
be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave
offering to Mar-Yah. 15:20 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. 15:21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to Mar-Yah a wave offering
throughout your generations.
15:22 “‘When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which
Mar-Yah has spoken to Mosha, 15:23 even all that Mar-Yah has commanded you by
Mosha, from the day that Mar-Yah gave commandment, and onward throughout your
generations; 15:24 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 Mar-Yah, with the meal
offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and
one male goat for a sin offering. 15:25 The priest shall make atonement for all
the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael, and they shall be forgiven; for it was
an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to
Mar-Yah, and their sin offering before Mar-Yah, for their error: 15:26 and all
the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael shall be forgiven, and the stranger who
lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done
unwittingly.
15:27 “‘If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a
year old for a sin offering. 15:28 The priest shall make atonement for the soul
who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Mar-Yah, to make atonement for him;
and he shall be forgiven. 15:29 You shall have one law for him who does
anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the B’nai Yisrael, and
for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.
15:30 “‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is
native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Mar-Yah; and that soul shall be
cut off from among his people. 15:31 Because he has despised the word of
Mar-Yah, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off;
his iniquity shall be on him.’”
15:32 While the B’nai Yisrael were in the wilderness, they found a man
gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 15:33 Those who found him gathering sticks
brought him to Mosha and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 15:34 They put him
in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
15:35 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “The man shall surely be put to death: all the
congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.” 15:36 All the
congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with
stones; as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
15:37 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 15:38 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, 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: 15:39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on
it, and remember all the commandments of Mar-Yah, and do them; and that you not
follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the
prostitute; 15:40 that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy
to your God. 15:41 I am Mar-Yah your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: I am Mar-Yah your God.”
Chapter 16
16:1 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: 16:2 and they rose up before Mosha, with certain of the B’nai
Yisrael, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly,
men of renown; 16:3 and they assembled themselves together against Mosha and
against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, seeing all the
congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Mar-Yah is among them: why then
lift yourselves up above the assembly of Mar-Yah?”
16:4 When Mosha heard it, he fell on his face: 16:5 and he spoke to Korah and
to all his company, saying, “In the morning Mar-Yah 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. 16:6 Do this: take censers, Korah,
and all his company; 16:7 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before
Mar-Yah tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Mar-Yah chooses, he shall
be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”
16:8 Mosha said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi! 16:9 Is it a small thing
to you, that God of Yisrael has separated you from the congregation of Yisrael,
to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the Tabernacle of Mar-Yah,
and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; 16:10 and that he has
brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And do you
seek the priesthood also? 16:11 Therefore you and all your company are gathered
together against Mar-Yah: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?”
16:12 Mosha sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said,
“We will not come up: 16:13 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? 16:14 Moreover you have not 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 will not come up.”
16:15 Mosha was very angry, and said to Mar-Yah, “Do not respect their
offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of
them.” 16:16 Mosha said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Mar-Yah,
you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: 16:17 and each man take his censer, and put
incense on them, and each man bring before Mar-Yah his censer, two hundred
fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.” 16:18 They each took his
censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door
of the Tabernacle with Mosha and Aaron. 16:19 Korah assembled the entire
congregation against them to the door of the Tabernacle: and the glory of
Mar-Yah appeared to all the congregation. 16:20 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to
Aaron, saying, 16:21 “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I
may consume them in a moment!” 16:22 They fell on their faces, and said, “God,
God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with
all the congregation?”
16:23 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 16:24 “Speak to the congregation, saying,
‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’” 16:25 Mosha rose
up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Yisrael followed him. 16:26
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!”
16:27 So they got
them up 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. 16:28 Mosha said, “Hereby you shall know
that Mar-Yah has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my
own mind. 16:29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men; then Mar-Yah has not sent me. 16:30
But if Mar-Yah 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 Mar-Yah.”
16:31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the
ground split apart that was under them; 16:32 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. 16:33 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. 16:34 All Yisrael that were around them fled at the
cry of them; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” 16:35 Fire came
forth from Mar-Yah, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the
incense.
16:36 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 16:37 “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, 16:38 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 Mar-Yah; therefore they are holy; and they
shall be a sign to the B’nai Yisrael.” 16:39 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, 16:40 to be a memorial to the B’nai Yisrael, to the end
that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before
Mar-Yah; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Mar-Yah spoke to him
by Mosha. 16:41 But on the next day all the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael
murmured against Mosha and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Mar-Yah’s
people!” 16:42 It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Mosha
and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tabernacle: and behold, the
cloud covered it, and the glory of Mar-Yah appeared. 16:43 Mosha and Aaron came
to the front of the Tabernacle. 16:44 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 16:45
“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
They fell on their faces.
16:46 Mosha 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 Mar-Yah! The plague has
begun.”
16:47 Aaron did as Mosha 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. 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living;
and the plague was stayed. 16:49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen
thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
16:50 Aaron returned to Mosha to the door of the Tabernacle: and the plague was
stayed.
Chapter 17
17:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 17:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, 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. 17:3 You
shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for
each head of their fathers’ houses. 17:4 You shall lay them up in the
Tabernacle before the testimony, where I meet with you. 17:5 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 B’nai Yisrael, which they murmur against you.”
17:6 Mosha spoke to the B’nai Yisrael; 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. 17:7 Mosha laid up the rods before Mar-Yah
in the tent of the testimony.
17:8 It happened on
the next day, that Mosha 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. 17:9 Mosha brought out all the rods from
before Mar-Yah to all the B’nai Yisrael: and they looked, and took every man
his rod.
17:10 Mar-Yah said to
Mosha, “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.” 17:11 Mosha did so. As Mar-Yah commanded him,
so he did.
17:12 The B’nai Yisrael spoke to Mosha, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are
undone! We are all undone! 17:13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the
Tabernacle of Mar-Yah, dies! Will we all perish?”
Chapter 18
18:1 Mar-Yah 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. 18:2 Your brothers also, the tribe of
Levi, the tribe of your father, bring 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. 18:3 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all
the 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. 18:4 They shall be joined
to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tabernacle, for all the service of
the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
18:5 “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar;
that there be wrath no more on the B’nai Yisrael. 18:6 I, behold, I have taken
your brothers the Levites from among the B’nai Yisrael: to you they are a gift,
given to Mar-Yah, to do the service of the Tabernacle. 18:7 You and your sons
with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that
within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of
gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
18:8 Mar-Yah spoke to Aaron, “I, behold, I have given you the command of my
wave offerings, even all the holy things of the B’nai Yisrael; to you have I
given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
18:9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every
offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering
of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to
me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 18:10 You shall eat of it
like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
18:11 “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave
offerings of the B’nai Yisrael. 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.
18:12 “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 Mar-Yah, to you have I given
them. 18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they
bring to Mar-Yah, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat
of it.
18:14 “Everything devoted in Yisrael shall be yours. 18:15 Everything that
opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Mar-Yah, 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. 18:16 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 of the sanctuary (the
same is twenty gerahs).
18:17 “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 Mar-Yah. 18:18 Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave
offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. 18:19 All the wave
offerings of the holy things, which the B’nai Yisrael offer to Mar-Yah, have I
given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it
is a covenant of salt forever before Mar-Yah to you and to your seed with you.”
18:20 Mar-Yah 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 B’nai Yisrael.
18:21 “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Yisrael
for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the
service of the Tabernacle. 18:22 Henceforth the B’nai Yisrael shall not come
near the Tabernacle, lest they bear sin, and die. 18:23 But the Levites shall
do the service of the Tabernacle, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall
be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the B’nai Yisrael
they shall have no inheritance. 18:24 For the tithe of the B’nai Yisrael, which
they offer as a wave offering to Mar-Yah, I have given to the Levites for an
inheritance: therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the B’nai Yisrael they shall
have no inheritance.’”
18:25 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 18:26 “Moreover you shall speak to the
Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the B’nai Yisrael the tithe which I
have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave
offering of it for Mar-Yah, a tithe of the tithe. 18:27 Your wave offering
shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor,
and as the fullness of the winepress. 18:28 Thus you also shall offer a wave
offering to Mar-Yah of all your tithes, which you receive of the B’nai Yisrael;
and of it you shall give Mar-Yah’s wave offering to Aaron the priest. 18:29 Out
of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Mar-Yah, of all its
best, even the holy part of it out of it.’
18:30 “Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it
shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as
the increase of the winepress. 18:31 You shall eat it in every place, you and
your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the
Tabernacle. 18:32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved
from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the B’nai
Yisrael, that you not die.’”
Chapter 19
19:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 19:2 “This is the statute of
the law which Mar-Yah has commanded: Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, that they
bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never
came yoke. 19:3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring
her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face: 19:4 and
Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her
blood toward the front of the Tabernacle seven times. 19:5 One shall burn the
heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung,
shall he burn: 19:6 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 19:7 Then the
priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until
the even. 19:8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his
flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
19:9 “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 B’nai Yisrael for a water for impurity: it is a sin
offering. 19:10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the B’nai Yisrael, and to the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
19:11 “He who touches
the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: 19:12 the same shall
purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be
clean: but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he
shall not be clean. 19:13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who
has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the Tabernacle of Mar-Yah; and
that soul shall be cut off from Yisrael: because the water for impurity was not
sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.
19:14 “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. 19:15 Every vessel that is
open, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
19:16 “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.
19:17 “For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin
offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: 19:18 and a clean
person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent,
and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who
touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: 19:19 and the clean
person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day:
and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 19:20 But the man who shall
be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the
midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Mar-Yah: the
water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 19:21 It shall
be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall
wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean
until even.
19:22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that
touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
Chapter 20
20:1 The B’nai Yisrael, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness
of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died
there, and was buried there. 20:2 There was no water for the congregation: and
they assembled themselves together against Mosha and against Aaron. 20:3 The
people strove with Mosha, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our
brothers died before Mar-Yah! 20:4 Why have you brought the assembly of Mar-Yah
into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? 20:5 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.”
20:6 Mosha and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the
Tabernacle, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Mar-Yah appeared to them.
20:7 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 20:8 “Take the rod, and assemble the
congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their
eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out
of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
20:9 Mosha took the rod from before Mar-Yah, as he commanded him. 20:10 Mosha
and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them,
“Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?”
20:11 Mosha lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and
water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
20:12 Mar-Yah said to Mosha and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to
sanctify me in the eyes of the B’nai Yisrael, therefore you shall not bring
this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the B’nai Yisrael strove with
Mar-Yah, and he was sanctified in them. 20:14 Mosha sent messengers from Kadesh
to the king of Edom, saying:
“Thus says your brother Yisrael: You know all the travail that has happened to
us: 20:15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long
time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: 20:16 and when we
cried to Mar-Yah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth
out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your
border.
20:17 “Please let us
pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard,
neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king’s
highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we
have passed your border.”
20:18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with
the sword against you.”
20:19 The B’nai Yisrael said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we
drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me
only, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
20:20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with
many people, and with a strong hand. 20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Yisrael
passage through his border, so Yisrael turned away from him.
20:22 They travelled from Kadesh: and the B’nai Yisrael, even the whole
congregation, came to Mount Hor. 20:23 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and Aaron in
Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, 20:24 “Aaron shall be
gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given
to the B’nai Yisrael, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of
Meribah. 20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
20:26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and
Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.”
20:27 Mosha did as Mar-Yah commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the
sight of all the congregation. 20:28 Mosha stripped Aaron of his garments, and
put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain:
and Mosha and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 20:29 When all the
congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all
the house of Yisrael.
Chapter 21
21:1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that
Yisrael came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Yisrael, and took
some of them captive. 21:2 Yisrael vowed a vow to Mar-Yah, and said, “If you
will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their
cities.” 21:3 Mar-Yah listened to the voice of Yisrael, and delivered up the
Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of
the place was called Hormah.
21:4 They travelled from Mount Hor by the way to the Sea of Suf, to compass the
land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the
way. 21:5 The people spoke against God, and against Mosha, “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.”
21:6 Mar-Yah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and
many people of Yisrael died. 21:7 The people came to Mosha, and said, “We have
sinned, because we have spoken against Mar-Yah, and against you. Pray to
Mar-Yah, that he take away the serpents from us.” Mosha prayed for the people.
21:8 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard:
and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
21:9 Mosha made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it
happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent
of brass, he lived. 21:10 The B’nai Yisrael travelled, and encamped in Oboth.
21:11 They travelled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness
which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. 21:12 From there they travelled, and
encamped in the valley of Zered. 21:13 From there they travelled, 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. 21:14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of
Mar-Yah, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 21:15 the slope of the
valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
21:16 From there they travelled to Beer: that is the well of which Mar-Yah said
to Mosha, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
21:17 Then sang Yisrael this song:
“Spring up, well; sing to it:
21:18 the well, which the princes dug,
which the nobles of the people dug,
with the sceptre, and with their poles.”
From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 21:19 and from Mattanah to
Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that
is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
21:21 Yisrael sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 21:22 “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.”
21:23 Sihon would not allow Yisrael to pass through his border: but Sihon
gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisrael into the
wilderness, and came to Yahaz; and he fought against Yisrael. 21:24 Yisrael
struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to
the Yabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of
Ammon was strong. 21:25 Yisrael took all these cities: and Yisrael lived in all
the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. 21:26 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.
21:27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
“Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
21:28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
lords of the high places of the Arnon.
21:29 Woe to you, Moab!
You are undone, people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
and his daughters into captivity,
to Sihon king of the Amorites.
21:30 We have shot at them.
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba.”
21:31 Thus Yisrael lived in the land of the Amorites. 21:32 Mosha sent to spy
out Yazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
21:33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan
went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
21:34 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Do not fear him: for I have delivered him into
your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did
to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
21:35 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none
left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
Chapter 22
22:1 The B’nai Yisrael travelled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the
Yordan at Yericho. 22:2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Yisrael had done
to the Amorites. 22:3 Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were
many: and Moab was distressed because of the B’nai Yisrael. 22:4 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.”
Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. 22:5 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 from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are
staying opposite me. 22:6 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.”
22:7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination
in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
22:8 He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again,
as Mar-Yah shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 22:9 God
came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?” 22:10 Balaam said to
God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying, 22:11
‘Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it 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.’”
22:12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the
people; for they are blessed.”
22:13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to
your land; for Mar-Yah refuses to permit me to go with you.”
22:14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam
refuses to come with us.”
22:15 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 22:16
They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor,
‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me: 22:17 for I will promote you
to very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come
therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
22:18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can not go beyond the word of Mar-Yah my God, to do
less or more. 22:19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may
know what Mar-Yah will speak to me more.”
22:20 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.”
22:21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the
princes of Moab. 22:22 God’s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel
of Mar-Yah placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was
riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 22:23 The donkey saw
the angel of Mar-Yah 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: and Balaam
struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. 22:24 Then the angel of Mar-Yah
stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a
wall on that side. 22:25 The donkey saw the angel of Mar-Yah, and she thrust
herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he struck
her again.
22:26 The angel of Mar-Yah
went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn
either to the right hand or to the left. 22:27 The donkey saw the angel of
Mar-Yah, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he
struck the donkey with his staff.
22:28 Mar-Yah 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?”
22:29 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.”
22:30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have
ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to
you?”
He said, “No.”
22:31 Then Mar-Yah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Mar-Yah
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head,
and fell on his face. 22:32 The angel of Mar-Yah said to him, “Why have you
struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an
adversary, because your way is perverse before me: 22:33 and 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.”
22:34 Balaam said to the angel of Mar-Yah, “I have sinned; for I did not know
that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I
will go back again.”
22:35 The angel of Mar-Yah said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word
that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.”
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. 22:36 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. 22:37 Balak said to Balaam,
“Did I not sincerely send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I
not able indeed to promote you to honour?”
22:38 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.”
22:39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth. 22:40 Balak
sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were
with him. 22:41 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought
him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of
the people.
Chapter 23
23:1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here
seven bulls and seven rams.”
23:2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every
altar a bull and a ram. 23:3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt
offering, and I will go: perhaps Mar-Yah will come to meet me; and whatever he
shows me I will tell you.”
He went to a bare height. 23:4 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.”
23:5 Mar-Yah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus
you shall speak.”
23:6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standin |
