had offered; and they were made broad lates for a covering of the altar: 7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness. 40 To be a memorial unto the children of 8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow srael, that no stranger, which is not of the Moses went into the tabernacle of witness ; seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense and, behold, the rod of Aaron, for the house before the LORD, that he be not as Korah, of Levi, was budded, and brought forth buds, and as his company; as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses. and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man 41 But on the morrow all the congre gation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron, saying, his rod. Ye have killed the people of the LORD. 10 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring 42 And it came to pass, when the congre- Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be gation was gathered against Moses, and kept for a token against the rebels; and thou Bainst Aaron, that they looked toward the shalt quite take away their murmurings tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, from nie that they die not. the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 46 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 11 And Moses did so: as the LORD com manded him, so did he. 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near nuto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? CHAP. XVIII. AND the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's house with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with and ran into the midst of the congregation; thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and, behold, the plague was begun among and minister unto thee: but thou and thy the people and he put on incense, and sons with thee shall minister before the tamade an atonement for the people. bernacle of witness. : 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they nor ye also die. 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,besides them that died about the matter of Korah. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses, unto keep the charge of the tabernacle of the conthe door of the tabernacle of the congrega-gregation, for all the service of the tabernacle tion: and the plague was stayed. and a stranger shall not come nigh unte you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the there be he wrath any more upon the chilsanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that 'CHAP. XVII. A Speak unto children of Israel, and dren of Israel. take of every one of them a rod, according to the house of their fathers, of all their 6 And 1, behold, I have taken your breprinces, according to the house of their fa-thren the Levites from among the children thers, twelve rods: write thou every man's of Israel; to you they are given as a gift for name upon his rod. the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's naine upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee head of the house of their fathers. shall keep your priest's office for every thing 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the ta- of the altar, and within the vail; and ye bernacle of the congregation, before the tes-shall serve: I have given your priest's office timony, where I will meet with you. unto you as a service of gift; and the stranger 5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's that cometh nigh shall be put to death. rod whom I shall choose shall blossom; and 8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, BeI will make to cease from me the murmur-hold, I also have given thee the charge of ings of the children of Israel, whereby they mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed murmur against you. things of the children of Israel; unto thee 61 And Moses spake unto the children of have I given them, by reason of the anoint Israel, and every one of their princes gave him ing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance forever. a rod apiece, for each prince one, according 9 This shall be thine of the most holy to their father's houses, even twelve rods things, reserved from the fire: every obla and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.tion of theirs, every meat-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every among the children of Israel they have no unto thee. 11 And this is thine; the heave-offering no inheritance. of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of 25 Anc. the LORD spake unto Moses, the children of Israel: I have given them saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto thee, and to thy sous, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever; unto them, When ye take of the children of every one that is clean in thy house shall Israel the tithes, which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shalt 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best offer up an heave-offering of it for the Lo..), of the wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits even a tenth part of the tithe. of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. eat of it. 13. And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. be thue. 27 And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the thrashing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave-offering unto the LORD of all your tithes which 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall ye receive of the children of Israel; and ya shall give thereof the LORD's heave-offering 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine; heave-offering of the LORD, of all the best nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou thereof, even the hallowed part thereof, out surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean of it. beasts shalt thou redeem. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, 16 And those that are to redeemed, When ye have heaved the best thereof from from a month old shalt thou vedeem, ac-it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites, cording to thine estimation, for the money as the increase of the thrashing-floor, and as of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-the increase of the wine-press. tuary, which is twenty gerahs. 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the first-and your households: for it is your reward ling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou for your service in the tabernacle of the shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt congregation. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 13 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as of the children of Israel, lest ye die. the wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine. CHAP. XIX. 19 All the heave offerings of the holy AND the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 This is the ordinance of the law which things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak Fous and thy daughters with thee, by aunto the children of Israel, that they bring statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no ever before the LORD unto thee, and to thy blemish, and upon which never came yoke. 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazer the weed with thee. 20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou priest, that he may bring het forth without shalt have no inheritance in their land, nei-the camp, and one shall slay her before his ther shalt thou have any part among them:face. I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 4 And Eleazer the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her 21 And, behold, I have given the children blood directly before the tabernacle of the of Levi all the tenth in Israel, for an inhe-congregation seven times. ritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her bloodwith her dung, shall he burn. 22 Neither must the children of Israel 6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood, henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the and hyssop, and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute afterward he shall come into the camp, and for ever throughout your generations, that the priest shall be unclean until the even. & And he that burneth her shall wash his of Zin in the first month; and the peops b clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in wa- abode in Kadesh: and Miriam died there, t ter, and shall be unclean until the even. and was buried there. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up 2 And there was no water for the congre- i the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up with-gation: and they gathered themselves toge. 1 out the camp, in a clean place; and it shall ther against Moses and against Aaron. be kept for the congregation of the children 3 And the people chode with Moses, and m of Israel for a water of separation: it is a spake, saying, Would God that we had died purification for sin. when our brethren died before the LORD! 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the 4 And why have ye brought up the conheifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean gregation of the LORD into this wilderness, until the even: and it shall be unto the chil-that we and our cattle should die there? dren of Israel, and unto the stranger that so- 5 And wherefore have ye made us to e journeth among them, for a statute for ever. come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 11 He that toucheth the dead body of this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of any man shall be unclean seven days. figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither 12 He shall purify himself with it on the is there any water to drink. third day, and on the seventh day he shall be 6 And Moses and Aaron went from the clean: but if he purify not himself the third presence of the assembly unto the door o, day.then the seventh day he shall not be clean. the tabernacle of the congregation, and they 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of fell upon their faces; and the g) ry of th any man that is dead, and purifieth not liim- LORD appeared unto them. seif, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD;} 71 And the LORD spake unto Moses and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: be- saying, cause the water of separation was not sprin- 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the as kled upon him, he shall be unclean; his un-sembly together, thou and Aaron thy bro cleanness is yet upon him. ther, and speak ye unto the rock before their 14 This is the law when a man dieth in eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and a tent: All that come into the tent, and all thou shalt bring forth to them water out of that is in the tent,shall be unclean seven days. the rock: so thou suait give the congrega 15 And every open vessel, which hath no tion and their beasts drink. covering bound upon it, is unclean. 9 And Moses took the rod from before 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is the LORD, as he commanded iiim. slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bene of a man, or a grave, congregation together before the rock, and shall be unclean seven days. 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of pu-| rification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel; he said unto thein, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly, and the congre. 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, gation drank, and their beasts also. and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sancthe persons that were there, and upon him tify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, that touched a bone, or one slain, or one therefore ye shall not bring this congregadead, or a grave: tion into the land which I have given them. 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon 13 This is the water of Meribah; because the unclean on the third day, and on the se-the children of Israel strove with the LORD, venth day; and on the seventh day he shall pu- and he was sanctified in them, rify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe 14 And Moses sent messengers from himself in water, and shall be clean at even. Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the tra shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut vel that hath befallen us; off from among the congregation, because he 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. the and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time, water of separation hath not been sprinkled and the Egyptians vexed us and our fathers upon him; he is unclean. 16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute urto heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath them, that he that sprinkleth the water of brought us forth out of Egypt; and, behold, separation shall wash his clothes, and ite that we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of toucheth the water of separation shall be un- thy border. clean untii even. And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even. CHAP. XX. THEN 17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy 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 thy borders. 1 18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, not pass by me, lest I come out against thee and said, We have sinned; for we have spowith the sword. ken against the LORD, and against thee: pray unto the LORD that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 19 And the children of Israel said unto bim, We will go by the highway; and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only (without doing any thing else) go through on my feet. 20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, that 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel pasif a serpent had bitten any man, when he besage through his border: wherefore Israel held the serpent of brass, he lived. turned away from him. 22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at je-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the suu-rising. 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: 13 From thence they removed, and pitchfor he shall not enter into the land which led on the other side of Arnon, which is in have given unto the children of Israel, be-the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts cause ye rebelled against my word at the of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of water of Meribah. Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up untó mount Hor; 14 Wherefore 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, 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab. 26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there. 27 And Moses did as the Lord command- 16 And from thence they went to Beer; ed: and they went up into mount Hor in the that is, the well whereof the LORD spake unsight of all the congregation. to Moses, Gather the people together, and f 23 And Moses stripped Aaron of his gar-will give them water. ments, and put them upon Eleazar his son ; 17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, and Aaron died there in the top of the O well; sing ye unto it: mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down 18 The princes digged the well, the nobles from the mount. of the people digged it, by the direction of And from 29 And when all the congregation saw the lawgiver, with their staves. that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aa-the wilderness they went to Mattanah; ron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. 19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel; aud from Nahaliel to Bamoth; CHAP. XXI. in ND when Canaanite, 20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is Anking Aadsouth, heard tell the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, that Israel came by the way of the spies, which looketh toward Jeshimon. then he fought against Israel, and took some of them priscners. 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 21 ¶ And Israel sent messengers unto Silon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the viueyards: we will not drink of the waters of the well; but we will go along by the king's 3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of high-way, until we be past thy borders. Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and 23 And Shou would not suffer Israel to they utterly destroyed them and their cities: pass through his border; but Silon gathered and he called the name of the place Horinah. all his people together, and went out against 4 And they journeyed from mount Hor Israel into the wilderness: and he came to by the way of the Red sea, to compass the Jahaz, and fought against Israel. land of Edom: and the soul of the people 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of was much discouraged because of the way. the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon 5 And the people spake against God, andjunto Jabbok, even unto the children of Am against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought mou: for the border of the children of Amus up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?mon was strong. and for there is no bread, neither is there any 25 And Israel took all these cities 26 For Hesbbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought agai NUMBERS, the former king of Moal, and taken all his night, and I will bring you word again, as say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: 9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee? 10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the 28 For there is a fire gore out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the me, saying, high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh! he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into capt vity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. 11 Behold, there is a people come out o Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth come now, curse me them; peradventure shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. 12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt 30 Ve have shot at them: Heshibon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid not go with them; thou shalt not curse the them waste even unto Nophiah, which reach-people: for they are blessed. eth unto Medeba. 13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for the LORD refuseth to give Amorites. me leave to go with you. 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there. 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. 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land. CHAP. XXII. AND the children of Israel set forward, 21 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. 15% And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from com ing unto me: 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. 18 And Balaam answered and said unto 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. 19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ve also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more. 20 And God came unto Balaam at night and said unto him, If the men come to cali 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet Now shall this company lick up all that are the word which I shall say unto thee, that round about us, as the ox licketh up the shalt thou do. grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. 21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the 5 He sent messengers therefore unto Ba-princes of Moab. 22¶ And God's anger was kindled because laam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his he went, and the angel of the LORD stood people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is in the way for an adversary against him. a people come out from Egypt: behold, they Now he was riding upon his ass, and his cover the face of the earth, and they abide two servants were with him. over against me. 23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse standing in the way, and his sword drawn in me this people; for they are too mighty for his band: and the ass turned aside out of the me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we way, and went into the field; and Balaam may smite them, and that I may drive thein smote the ass, to turn her into the way. out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. 7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. 8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this 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. 25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and he smote her again. 26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was Lo H པ་ |