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Numbers 26

  • 26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
  • 26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
  • 26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
  • 26:4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
  • 26:5 Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom comes the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
  • 26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
  • 26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
  • 26:8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
  • 26:9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
  • 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
  • 26:11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
  • 26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
  • 26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
  • 26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • 26:15 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
  • 26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
  • 26:17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
  • 26:18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • 26:19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
  • 26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
  • 26:21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
  • 26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, three score and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
  • 26:23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
  • 26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
  • 26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, three score and four thousand and three hundred.
  • 26:26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
  • 26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, three score thousand and five hundred.
  • 26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
  • 26:29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
  • 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
  • 26:31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
  • 26:32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
  • 26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
  • 26:34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
  • 26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
  • 26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
  • 26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
  • 26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
  • 26:39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
  • 26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
  • 26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
  • 26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
  • 26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were three score and four thousand and four hundred.
  • 26:44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
  • 26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
  • 26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
  • 26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
  • 26:48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
  • 26:49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
  • 26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
  • 26:51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
  • 26:52 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 26:53 To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
  • 26:54 To many you shall give the more inheritance, and to few you shall give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
  • 26:55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
  • 26:56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
  • 26:57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
  • 26:58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
  • 26:59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bore to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
  • 26:60 And to Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
  • 26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
  • 26:62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
  • 26:63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
  • 26:64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • 26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 25

  • 25:1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit prostitution with the daughters of Moab.
  • 25:2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
  • 25:3 And Israel joined himself to Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
  • 25:4 And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
  • 25:5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay you every one his men that were joined to Baalpeor.
  • 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
  • 25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
  • 25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
  • 25:10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
  • 25:12 Why say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:
  • 25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
  • 25:14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
  • 25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
  • 25:16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 25:17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
  • 25:18 For they vex you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

Numbers 24

  • 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
  • 24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came on him.
  • 24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
  • 24:4 He has said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
  • 24:5 How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!
  • 24:6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
  • 24:7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
  • 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  • 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesses you, and cursed is he that curses you.
  • 24:10 And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
  • 24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, see, the LORD has kept you back from honor.
  • 24:12 And Balaam said to Balak, Spoke I not also to your messengers which you sent to me, saying,
  • 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD said, that will I speak?
  • 24:14 And now, behold, I go to my people: come therefore, and I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
  • 24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
  • 24:16 He has said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
  • 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
  • 24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
  • 24:19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains of the city.
  • 24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
  • 24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling place, and you put your nest in a rock.
  • 24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry you away captive.
  • 24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!
  • 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
  • 24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

Numbers 23

  • 23:1 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
  • 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
  • 23:3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to an high place.
  • 23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
  • 23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
  • 23:6 And he returned to him, and, see, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
  • 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
  • 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?
  • 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: see, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
  • 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
  • 23:11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.
  • 23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?
  • 23:13 And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from from where you may see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.
  • 23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
  • 23:15 And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
  • 23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say thus.
  • 23:17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken?
  • 23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, you son of Zippor:
  • 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
  • 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
  • 23:21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
  • 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn.
  • 23:23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God worked!
  • 23:24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
  • 23:25 And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
  • 23:26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?
  • 23:27 And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
  • 23:28 And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward Jeshimon.
  • 23:29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
  • 23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 22

  • 22:1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
  • 22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
  • 22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
  • 22:4 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.  And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
  • 22:5 He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
  • 22:6 Come now therefore, I pray you, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite 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 And 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 And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
  • 22:9 And God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
  • 22:10 And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,
  • 22:11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covers the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
  • 22:12 And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people: for they are blessed.
  • 22:13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuses to give me leave to go with you.
  • 22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.
  • 22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
  • 22:16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus said Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray you, hinder you from coming to me:
  • 22:17 For I will promote you to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me: come therefore, I pray you, curse me this people.
  • 22:18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
  • 22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say to me more.
  • 22:20 And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say to you, that shall you do.
  • 22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
  • 22:22 And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his ass, and his two servants were with him.
  • 22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
  • 22:24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
  • 22:25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
  • 22:26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
  • 22:27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
  • 22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have smitten me these three times?
  • 22:29 And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill you.
  • 22:30 And the ass said to Balaam, Am not I your ass, on which you have ridden ever since I was your to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? And he said, No.
  • 22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
  • 22:32 And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you smitten your ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:
  • 22:33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain you, and saved her alive.
  • 22:34 And Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
  • 22:35 And the angel of the LORD 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 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him to a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
  • 22:37 And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? why came you not to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?
  • 22:38 And Balaam said to Balak, See, I am come to you: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
  • 22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjathhuzoth.
  • 22:40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
  • 22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that there he might see the utmost part of the people.

Numbers 21

  • 21:1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelled in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
  • 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
  • 21:3 And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
  • 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
  • 21:5 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
  • 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
  • 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
  • 21:8 And the LORD said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks on it, shall live.
  • 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it on a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
  • 21:10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
  • 21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sun rise.
  • 21:12 From there they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
  • 21:13 From there they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
  • 21:14 Why it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
  • 21:15 And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Moab.
  • 21:16 And from there they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
  • 21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing you to it:
  • 21:18 The princes dig the well, the nobles of the people dig it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
  • 21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
  • 21:20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward Jeshimon.
  • 21:21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
  • 21:22 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past your borders.
  • 21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
  • 21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
  • 21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
  • 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 Arnon.
  • 21:27 Why they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
  • 21:28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
  • 21:29 Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
  • 21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.
  • 21:31 Thus Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorites.
  • 21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
  • 21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
  • 21:34 And the LORD said to Moses, Fear him not: 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, which dwelled at Heshbon.
  • 21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

Numbers 20

  • 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
  • 20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
  • 20:3 And the people strived with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
  • 20:4 And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
  • 20:5 And 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 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell on their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
  • 20:7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 20:8 Take the rod, and gather you the assembly together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock: so you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink.
  • 20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
  • 20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
  • 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
  • 20:12 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
  • 20:13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
  • 20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus said your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has befallen us:
  • 20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelled in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
  • 20:16 And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border:
  • 20:17 Let us pass, I pray you, through your country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your borders.
  • 20:18 And Edom said to him, You shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.
  • 20:19 And the children of Israel said to him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.
  • 20:20 And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
  • 20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: why Israel turned away from him.
  • 20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came to mount Hor.
  • 20:23 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast 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 children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the water 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 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
  • 20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
  • 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Numbers 19

  • 19:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
  • 19:2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and on which never came yoke:
  • 19:3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
  • 19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
  • 19:5 And 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 middle 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 And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
  • 19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
  • 19:10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojournes among them, for a statute for ever.
  • 19:11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
  • 19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
  • 19:13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation 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: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
  • 19:15 And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
  • 19:16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
  • 19:17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, 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 that were there, and on him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a 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 himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
  • 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
  • 19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
  • 19:22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.

Numbers 18

  • 18:1 And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father’s 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 And your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
  • 18:3 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.
  • 18:4 And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
  • 18:5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more on the children of Israel.
  • 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 18:7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar, and within the veil; and you shall serve: I have given your priest’s office to you as a service of gift: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
  • 18:8 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of my heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance for ever.
  • 18:9 This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat 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 In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you.
  • 18:11 And this is yours; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in your house shall eat of it.
  • 18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first fruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, them have I given you.
  • 18:13 And whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be yours; every one that is clean in your house shall eat of it.
  • 18:14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be yours.
  • 18:15 Every thing that opens the matrix in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem.
  • 18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
  • 18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the LORD.
  • 18:18 And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.
  • 18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.
  • 18:20 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them: I am your part and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
  • 18:21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
  • 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
  • 18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
  • 18:25 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 18:26 Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
  • 18:27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the corn of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
  • 18:28 Thus you also shall offer an heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and you shall give thereof the LORD’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
  • 18:29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
  • 18:30 Therefore you shall say to them, When you have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
  • 18:31 And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 18:32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.

Numbers 17

  • 17:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 17:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write you every man’s name on his rod.
  • 17:3 And you shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
  • 17:4 And you shall lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
  • 17:5 And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
  • 17:6 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
  • 17:7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
  • 17:8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
  • 17:9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
  • 17:10 And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and you shall quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
  • 17:11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
  • 17:12 And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
  • 17:13 Whoever comes any thing near to the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?