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Numbers 16

  • 16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and 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 Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
  • 16:3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift you up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
  • 16:4 And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face:
  • 16:5 And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will show who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he has chosen will he cause to come near to him.
  • 16:6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
  • 16:7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD does choose, he shall be holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.
  • 16:8 And Moses said to Korah, Hear, I pray you, you sons of Levi:
  • 16:9 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
  • 16:10 And he has brought you near to him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you: and seek you the priesthood also?
  • 16:11 For which cause both you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that you murmur against him?
  • 16:12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
  • 16:13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except you make yourself altogether a prince over us?
  • 16:14 Moreover you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
  • 16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said to the LORD, Respect not you their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
  • 16:16 And Moses said to Korah, Be you and all your company before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
  • 16:17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring you before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
  • 16:18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
  • 16:19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.
  • 16:20 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
  • 16:21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
  • 16:22 And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be wroth with all the congregation?
  • 16:23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 16:24 Speak to the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
  • 16:25 And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
  • 16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their’s, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
  • 16:27 So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
  • 16:28 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD 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 the LORD has not sent me.
  • 16:30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
  • 16:31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them:
  • 16:32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
  • 16:33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed on them: and they perished from among the congregation.
  • 16:34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
  • 16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
  • 16:36 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 16:37 Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
  • 16:38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
  • 16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, with which they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
  • 16:40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
  • 16:41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.
  • 16:42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
  • 16:43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 16:44 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell on their faces.
  • 16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
  • 16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the middle of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
  • 16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
  • 16:49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
  • 16:50 And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

Numbers 15

  • 15:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 15:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,
  • 15:3 And will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet smell to the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
  • 15:4 Then shall he that offers his offering to the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
  • 15:5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shall you prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
  • 15:6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
  • 15:7 And for a drink offering you shall offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the LORD.
  • 15:8 And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD:
  • 15:9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
  • 15:10 And you shall bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD.
  • 15:11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
  • 15:12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to every one according to their number.
  • 15:13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD.
  • 15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.
  • 15:15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojournes with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
  • 15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojournes with you.
  • 15:17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 15:18 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to 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 an heave offering to the LORD.
  • 15:20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as you do the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.
  • 15:21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
  • 15:22 And if you have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,
  • 15:23 Even all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
  • 15:24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet smell to the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
  • 15:25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
  • 15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojournes among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
  • 15:27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
  • 15:28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
  • 15:29 You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojournes among them.
  • 15:30 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
  • 15:31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.
  • 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath day.
  • 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
  • 15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
  • 15:35 And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
  • 15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • 15:37 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 15:38 Speak to the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of the borders a ribbon 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 the LORD, and do them; and that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to go a whoring:
  • 15:40 That you may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
  • 15:41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 14

  • 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
  • 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
  • 14:3 And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
  • 14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
  • 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
  • 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
  • 14:7 And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
  • 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
  • 14:9 Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
  • 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
  • 14:11 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me?  and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
  • 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.
  • 14:13 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall 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: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
  • 14:15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
  • 14:16 Because the LORD 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 And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
  • 14:18 The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.
  • 14:19 Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
  • 14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:
  • 14:21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
  • 14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now 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 them that provoked 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 where he went; and his seed shall possess it.
  • 14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelled in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
  • 14:26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
  • 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
  • 14:28 Say to them, As truly as I live, said the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
  • 14:29 Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
  • 14:30 Doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
  • 14:31 But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
  • 14:32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
  • 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your prostitutions, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
  • 14:34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.
  • 14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
  • 14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander on the land,
  • 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report on the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
  • 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
  • 14:39 And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
  • 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up into the top of the mountain, saying, See, we be here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.
  • 14:41 And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
  • 14:42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that you be not smitten before your enemies.
  • 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
  • 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
  • 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelled in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah.

Numbers 13

  • 13:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 13:2 Send you men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a ruler among them.
  • 13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
  • 13:4 And 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 Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
  • 13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
  • 13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
  • 13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
  • 13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
  • 13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, 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 which Moses sent to spy out the land.  And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
  • 13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
  • 13:18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
  • 13:19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
  • 13:20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be you 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 searched the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
  • 13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
  • 13:23 And they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two on a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
  • 13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there.
  • 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
  • 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
  • 13:27 And 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 the fruit of it.
  • 13:28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
  • 13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
  • 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
  • 13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
  • 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
  • 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Numbers 12

  • 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
  • 12:2 And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? has he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
  • 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were on the face of the earth.)
  • 12:4 And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
  • 12:5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
  • 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream.
  • 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.
  • 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
  • 12:9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
  • 12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked on Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
  • 12:11 And Aaron said to Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech you, lay not the sin on us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
  • 12:12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.
  • 12:13 And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech you.
  • 12:14 And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
  • 12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
  • 12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 11

  • 11:1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
  • 11:2 And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.
  • 11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
  • 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
  • 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
  • 11:6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
  • 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium.
  • 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
  • 11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
  • 11:10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
  • 11:11 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have you afflicted your servant? and why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
  • 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that you should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?
  • 11:13 From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, 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 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • 11:16 And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with you.
  • 11:17 And I will come down and talk with you there: and 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 bear it not yourself alone.
  • 11:18 And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and you shall eat flesh: for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.
  • 11:19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
  • 11:20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because that you have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
  • 11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
  • 11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?  or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
  • 11:23 And the LORD said to Moses, Is the LORD’s hand waxed short? you shall see now whether my word shall come to pass to you or not.
  • 11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
  • 11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was on him, and gave it to the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
  • 11:26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested on them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out to the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
  • 11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
  • 11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
  • 11:29 And Moses said to him, Envy you for my sake? would God that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!
  • 11:30 And Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
  • 11:31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high on the face of the earth.
  • 11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
  • 11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
  • 11:34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
  • 11:35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah to Hazeroth; and stayed at Hazeroth.

Numbers 10

  • 10:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 10:2 Make you two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shall you make them: that you may use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
  • 10:3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to you at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • 10:4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
  • 10:5 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
  • 10:6 When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
  • 10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
  • 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
  • 10:9 And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
  • 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
  • 10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
  • 10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
  • 10:13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
  • 10:14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
  • 10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
  • 10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
  • 10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
  • 10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
  • 10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
  • 10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
  • 10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
  • 10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
  • 10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
  • 10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
  • 10:25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rear guard of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
  • 10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
  • 10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
  • 10:28 Thus were the journeys of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
  • 10:29 And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good: for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.
  • 10:30 And he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.
  • 10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray you; for as much as you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you may be to us instead of eyes.
  • 10:32 And it shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to you.
  • 10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.
  • 10:34 And the cloud of the LORD was on them by day, when they went out of the camp.
  • 10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.
  • 10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel.

Numbers 9

  • 9:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
  • 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
  • 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, you shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall you keep it.
  • 9:4 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
  • 9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
  • 9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
  • 9:7 And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
  • 9:8 And Moses said to them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
  • 9:9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 9:10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover to the LORD.
  • 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
  • 9:12 They shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
  • 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and declines to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
  • 9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover to the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
  • 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was on the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
  • 9:16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
  • 9:17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud stayed, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
  • 9:18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud stayed on the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
  • 9:19 And when the cloud tarried long on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
  • 9:20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they stayed in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
  • 9:21 And so it was, when the cloud stayed from even to the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
  • 9:22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried on the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel stayed in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
  • 9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 8

  • 8:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 8:2 Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
  • 8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • 8:4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, to the shaft thereof, to the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
  • 8:5 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
  • 8:7 And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying on them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
  • 8:8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shall you take for a sin offering.
  • 8:9 And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and you shall gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
  • 8:10 And you shall bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands on the Levites:
  • 8:11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
  • 8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bullocks: and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, to the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
  • 8:13 And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering to the LORD.
  • 8:14 Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
  • 8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
  • 8:16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them to me.
  • 8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
  • 8:18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
  • 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.
  • 8:20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel to them.
  • 8:21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
  • 8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they to them.
  • 8:23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 8:24 This is it that belongs to the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
  • 8:25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
  • 8:26 But shall minister with their brothers in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites touching their charge.

Numbers 7

  • 7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
  • 7:2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
  • 7:3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
  • 7:4 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 7:5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.
  • 7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
  • 7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
  • 7:8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand 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 belonging to them was that they should bear on their shoulders.
  • 7:10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
  • 7:11 And the LORD said to Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
  • 7:12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
  • 7:13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
  • 7:15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
  • 7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
  • 7:19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
  • 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
  • 7:25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: 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, did offer:
  • 7:31 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: 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, did offer:
  • 7:37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: 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, offered:
  • 7:43 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: 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, offered:
  • 7:49 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
  • 7:54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
  • 7:55 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: 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 Benjamin, offered:
  • 7:61 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: 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, offered:
  • 7:67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
  • 7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
  • 7:73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
  • 7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
  • 7:79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 7:80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
  • 7:81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
  • 7:82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
  • 7:83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
  • 7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
  • 7:85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
  • 7:86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
  • 7:87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
  • 7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
  • 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking to him from off the mercy seat that was on the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.