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Blue Ink--Understand & Pray           Numbers 1-36
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 Gideoni -- of Dan, Ahiezer  the son of Ammishaddai; of Asher, Pagiel the son   of Ochran; of Gad, Eliasaph  the sons of Deuel -- of Naphtali, Ahira the sons of Enan.    These are the ones called of the assembly the chieftains of the tribes of their fathers.   They  are the heads of the 1000s of Israel.   So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by names.   And  they congregated  all the assembly  on the 1st day of the 2nd month, that they might have their descent (offspring)  acknowledged as regards their families in the house of their fathers, by number of the names, from 20 years old and  upward,  head by head of them, just  as  God had commanded Moses  -- and proceeded  to register them in the wilderness of Sinai.    And  the  sons of Reuben,  Israel's 1stborn,  their births according to their families in the house of their fathers, came to be by number of their names, head by head of them,  all the males from  20 years old and upward, everyone going out of the army,  those registered of them of the tribe  of Reuben, 46,500.    Of the sons of Simeon,  their births according to their families in the house of their fathers, those registered ones  of his by the number of names,  head by head of them, all the males  from 20 years old upward, everyone going out to  the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.     Of the sons of Gad, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Gad  were 45,650.    Of the sons of  Judah,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Judah  were 74,600.   Of the sons of Issachar, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Issachar were 54,400.    Of sons of  Zebulun,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Zebulun  were 57,400.  Of the sons of Joseph -- of the sons of Ephraim, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Ephraim  were  40,500.   Of the sons of  Manasseh,    their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Manasseh   were  32,200.  Of the sons  of  Benjamin,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward

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  everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Benjamin   were 35,400.   Of the tribe of Dan,  their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Dan were 62,700.   Of the sons of  Asher, their births according to  their families in the house of their fathers by the number of names by from 20 years and upward, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of  Asher were 41,500.   Of the sons of  Naphtali, their births according to their families in the house of their fathers, those registered ones of his by the number of names from 20 years and older, everyone going out to the army, those registered of them of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400 --     These are the ones registered, whom Moses registered,  together with Aaron and the chieftains of Israel, 12 men.  They represented  one each house of his fathers.   And all those registered  of the sons of Israel according to the house of their fathers from 20 years old and upward, everyone going out to the army in Israel, came to be, yes all those registered  came to be 603,550.  However the Levites according to the tribe of their fathers did not get registered  in  among them.   Accordingly  God spoke to Moses, saying -- "Only the tribe of Levi  you must not register, and the sum of them you must not take in among the sons of Israel.   And  you yourself appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony and over  all its utensils and  over  everything  that belongs to it.   They themselves  will  carry the tabernacle and all its utensils, and they themselves will minister at it -- and around the tabernacle they are to camp.   And whenever the tabernacle is setting out, the  Levites should take it down -- and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites should set it up -- and any stranger coming near should be put to death.   "And the  sons of Israel  must   encamp each with reference to his camp, and each man by his 3-tribe division  by  their armies.   And the Levites should  encamp  around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that no  indignation (resentment, offense) may arise  against the assembly of the sons of Israel -- and the Levites  must keep the service due to the tabernacle of the testimony."    And the sons of Israel  proceeded  to do according to all that God had commanded Moses.  They did just so.            2   God  now spoke to Moses  and Aaron,  saying -- "The sons  of Israel  should  encamp,  each  man by his  3-tribe  division, by the signs  for the  house  of their fathers.   Round about  in  front of the tent of meeting they should  encamp.   "And  those  camping  eastward toward the  sunrising  will be the 3-tribe  division  of Judah in their armies,  and the chieftain for the sons  of Judah  is Nashon  the son of  Amminadab.   And his army and  the ones  registered of them are -- 74,600.    And those camping alongside him will be the tribes of  tribe of Issachar,  and  the chieftain for the sons of Issachar is Nethanel the son of  

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       Zuar.   And  his army  and his  registered ones  are  54,400.   And  the tribe of Zebulun -- and the chieftain for the sons of Zebulun is Eliab the son of Helon.  And  his army and his  registered ones   are 57,400.    "All  the registered ones of the camp of Judah are 186,400  in their armies.   They should set  out 1st.   "The 3-tribe division of the camp of Reuben will be toward to the south in their armies,  and  the chieftain  for the sons of Reuben is Elizur the son of Shedeur.    All  his army  and his  registered ones  are  46,500.   And  those camping alongside  him  will be the  tribe of Simeon,  and the chieftain  for  the sons of Simeon  is  Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.    And  his  army  and  the ones registered of them are  59,300.    And  tribe of Gad,  and the chieftain for the sons of Gad  is Eliasaph the son of Reuel.   And his army of and the ones registered are  45,650.   "All  the registered  ones of the camp of Reuben  are  151,450  in their armies. They should set out 2nd.    "When  the tent of meeting must set out, the camp of the Levites will be in the middle of the camps.  "Just as they  should encamp, so  they should set out, each one at his place, according to their 3-tribe divisions.   "The 3-tribe division  of the camp of Ephraim  in their armies toward the west,  and the chieftain  for the sons of Ephraim  is Elishama the son of Ammihud.  And  his  army and the  ones  registered  of them  are  40,500.   And  alongside  him will be the tribe of Manasseh, and  the chieftain  for the sons of Manasseh  is Gamaliel  the son of Pedahzur.   And  his  army  and the ones registered  of them  are  32,200.   And the tribe  of Benjamin,  and the chieftain for the sons of Benjamin is Abidan  the son Gideoni.   And  his army  and the ones  registered  of them  are 35,400.   "All   the registered  ones  of the camp of Ephraim are 108,100 in their armies. They should set out 3rd.    "The 3-tribe division of the camp of Dan  will  be toward the north in their armies, and  chieftain for the sons of Dan  is   Ahiezer  the son of Amminshaddai.  And  his  army  and the ones   registered  of them are  62,700.  And  the  ones  camping alongside  him  will  be the tribe of Asher,  and  the chieftain for the sons of Asher is Pagiel  the son of Ochran.   And  his army  and the ones registered ones  of them  are  41,500.    And  the  tribe of  Naphtali -- and the  chieftain of sons of Naphtali  is Ahira  the son of Enan.    And  his  army  and the ones  registered ones  are 53,400.  "All  the registered  ones of  the camp  of Dan are 157,600.   They should set out last -- according to their 3-tribe divisions."    These were  the registered  ones  of the sons of Israel according  to the house of their fathers -- all the registered ones of the camps in their armies were 603,550.  

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        But the Levites did not get registered  in among the sons of Israel, just as God had commanded Moses.   And  the sons of  Israel  proceeded  to  do according  to  all that God had commanded Moses.   That  is the  way  they  encamped in their 3-tribe divisions, and  that  is the  way they set  out, each one  in  his families with regard to the house  of their fathers.          3    Now these were the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that  God spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.   And these were the names of Aaron's sons --  the 1stborn Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.   These  were the names of Aarons' sons, the anointed priests whose hands had been filled with power to act as priests.    However, Nadab and Abihu died before God when they offered  illegitimate fire before God in the wilderness of Sinai -- and they did not come to  have any sons.   But Eleazar and Ithamar  continued to act as priests along with Aaron their father.    And God proceeded to speak to Moses, saying -- "Bring  the tribe of Levi  near,  and  you must stand them before Aaron the priest, and they must minister to him.   And  they  must keep their obligation to him and their  obligation  to all the assembly before the tent of meeting in  discharging  the service of the tabernacle.   And  they must take care of all the utensils of the tent of meeting, even  the obligation  of the sons of Israel  in discharging the service of tabernacle.     And  you must give the Levites to Aaron and his sons.    They are given ones, given to him from the sons of Israel.     And you  should  appoint  Aaron  and his sons, and they must take care of their priesthood --  and any stranger coming  near should be put to death."   And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying -- "As for me, look!  I  do take  the Levites from among the sons of Israel in place of all the   1stborn  opening  the womb  of  the sons of Israel--   and  the Levites must become mine.    For  every 1stborn is mine.  In  the  day that I struck every 1stborn   in  the land of Egypt  I sanctified  to myself every 1stborn in Israel  from man to beast.    They  should become mine. I am God.     And  God spoke further to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying --"Register  the  sons of Levi  according to the house of their fathers by their families.   Every male from  1 month old and  upward  you should register.     And  Moses  began to register them at the order of God, just as he had been commanded.   And  these came to be the sons of Levi by their names --Gershon  and Kohath and Merari.   Now  these were the names of  the sons  of Gershon by their families-- Libni and Shimei.       And  the sons of Kohath   by their families   were Amram and  Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.   And  the sons of Merari  by their families were Mahli and Mushi.   These  were the families of the Levites   according  to the house of their fathers. 

  Of  Gershon  there  were the family  of the Libnites  and the family  of  the Shimeites.    These  were the families of the Gershonites.   Their  registered ones  were by number of all males  from a month and  upward.   Their  registered  ones  were  7,500.  

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         The families  of Gershonites were behind the tabernacle.  They  were encamped to the west.   And  the chieftain  of paternal  house  for the Gershonites  were Eliasaph the son of Lael.   And the obligation of  the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting  was   the tabernacle  and  the tent, its covering   and  the  screen of the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the hangings  of the  courtyard  and the screen of the entrance of the courtyard  that is round about the tabernacle and the altar, and  its tent cords, for all its service.    And  of  Kohath   there were families of the Amramites  and  the  family  of  the  Izharites  and the familty of  Hebronites and the family  of the Uzzielites.  These were the families of the  Kohathites.    Among  the number of  all the males from 1 month and  upward  there  were 8,600, taking care of the obligation to the holy place.   The families of sons of Kohath were encamped on the side  of  the tabernacle to  the south. And  the chieftain  of the  paternal  house for the families of Kohathites  was  Elizaphan the son  of Uzziel.   And  their obligation was the Ark and the table and the lampstand and   the altars and utensils of the holy place with which they would minister and the screen, all its service.    And  the chieftain of the chieftains of the Levites was Eleazar  the son of Aaron the priest, who  had  the oversight  of those taking care of the obligation to the holy place.   Of  Merari there were the families of Mahlites and  Mushites.   These were the families of Merari.   And  their  registered ones   by the number of all  the males from 1 month upward  were 6,200.    And  the chieftain of the paternal house for the families of Merari  was Zuriel the son of Abihail.    They were encamped  on the  side of the tabernacle toward the north.     And  the oversight  for  which  the sons of Merari were obligated was over the panel frames of the tabernacle  and  its bars  and  its pillars  and  its socket pedestals  and          all  its utensils and all its service,  and  the pillars of the courtyard round about and their socket pedestals  and their  tent pins and  their  tent cords.     And those camping before the tabernacle toward the east, before  the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, those taking care of the obligation  to the sanctuary as the obligation for the sons of Israel.    And  any stranger  coming near would be put to death.     All  the registered ones  of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron registered  at the  order of  God  by their families,  all the  males  from 1 month  old upward,  were  22,000.     Then God said to Moses -- "Register  all the 1stborn  males  of  the sons of Israel from 1 month old upward,   and  take  the number of  their names.    And  you must take the Levites for me -- I  am God -- in place  of all the   1stborn  among the sons of Israel, and  the  domestic animals  of the Levites  in place of all the 1tborn among domestic  animals  of the sons of Israel."    And  Moses proceeded, just  as  God commanded him, to register all the 1stborn among the sons of Israel.     And  all the 1stborn males by the number of the names from 1 month old upward  of   their registered ones came  

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  to be  22,273.     And  God  continued  to speak  to Moses, saying--"Take the Levites in place of  all the 1stborn  among  the sons of Israel, and  the domestic animals of the Levites in place of their domestic animals -- and the Levites must become mine.   I am God.    And  as  the ransom  price  of the 273  from the  1stborn  of the  sons of Israel, who  are  in  excess of the Levites, you  must  take  5  shekels (money, dollars) for  each individual.   In  the shekel  of  the  holy  place  you should take it.   A  shekel  is a 20 gerahs. (a shekel was "A dollar"  20 gerahs 

= 20 nickels = a shekel = a dollar).  And you must give the money to  Aaron  and his sons as the ransom price of those  who are in excess of them."    So  Moses  took the money of the redemption  price  from those who  were in excess of the ransom price of the Levites.     From the  1stborn of the sons of Israel  he  took the money, a  1,365 shekels, in  the shekel of the holy place.   Then  Moses gave the money of the ransom price  to Aaron  and his sons according to the order of God, just as God had commanded Moses.      4  God now spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying  --"There  will  be a taking of the sum of the sons of Kohath  from  among  the sons of Levi, according  to  their families in the house of their fathers, from 30 years old upward  to  50  years old, all  those  going  into the service  group  to  do the work in the tent of meeting.     "This  is  the service of  the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.   It   is something most holy.    And   Aaron  and his sons must come in when the camp is departing, and they must take down the screening curtain and must cover the ark of the testimony with it.     And  they must put a covering of  sealskins over  it and  spread out an entire  cloth of blue on top and put in its poles.     "And they will spread out a cloth of blue over the table of showbread, and they must put upon it the dishes, and the cups and  the bowls  and  the pitchers  of the drink offering  -- and  the constant bread should continue on it.     And  they  must spread out a cloth of coccus scarlet over them, and  they must cover  it with a covering  of sealskins and put  in its poles.    And they must take a cloth of blue  and cover the lampstand of the luminary and its lamps and its snuffers  and its fire holders  and all its vessels for oil with which they regularly minister to it.     And  they  must put it and all its utensils  into  a covering  of sealskins  and put it upon a bar.    And  over  the golden altar they will spread out a cloth of blue, and they must cover it with a covering of sealskins and put in its poles.     And they must take all the utensils of the ministry  with which they regularly minister in the holy place, and  they  must  put them  in a cloth of blue  and  cover  them with a covering of sealskins  and  put them upon a bar.    "And  they must clear  away  the fatty ashes of the altar  and  spread  out a cloth of wool dyed reddish purple over it.     And  they must  put upon it  all its  utensils  with which they regularly minister at it, the fire holders, the forks and the shovels and  the bowls, all the utensils of the altar -- and  they must spread  out  over it  a covering  of sealskins  and put in its poles.   "And  Aaron and his sons  must finish covering the holy place  and  all the utensils of the  holy place when the camp is departing, and  after that the sons  

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   of Kohath  will come in to carry them, but  they must not touch the holy place  so  that hey have to die.   These things are the load the of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.    "And  the oversight  of  Eleazar  the son of  Aaron the priest is over  the oil  of the luminary  and the  perfumed incense and the constant grain offering  and the anointing oil,  the oversight of  all  the tabernacle  and all that  is in it, namely, the holy place and its utensils."   And  God  spoke further to Moses and Aaron, saying --"Do  not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites  be  cut off from among the Levites. But do this for them that they may indeed keep alive and may not die for  their approaching the most holy things.   Aaron and his sons will come in, and they must assign them each one to his service and to his load.    They  must not come in to see the holy things for the least moment of time, and so they have to die."      Then God spoke to Moses, saying--" There will be a taking of the sum of the sons of Gershon, yes, them by the house of their fathers according to their  families. From 30 years old upward  50  years  you will register them, all who come to  enter  into  the service group  to render  service in the tent of meeting.   This  is the service  of the families of the Gershonites  as to serving and as to carrying.    And  they must carry the tent cloths  of  the tabernacle  and the tent of meeting, its covering  and the sealskin  covering that is on top over it, and the screen of the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the hangings of the courtyard and the entrance screen of the gate of the courtyard  that is round about the tabernacle and the altar, and their  tent cords and all their service utensils, and all things with which  work is regularly done.   Thus they must serve.    At  the order  of Aaron  and his sons all the service  of the sons of  the Gershonites  should take place as regards  all their loads  and all their service,  and you  must assign  all their loads  to them  by  obligation.   This is the service  of  the families of the  sons of the Gershonites  in the tent of meeting, and  their obligatory  service is under the hand of  Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.    "As for the sons of Merar'i, you will register  them by their  families in the house their fathers.   From  30 years  old  upward  50  to years you  will register them,  all  who  enter  into the service group to render the service of the tent of meeting.     And  this is their obligation, their load, according  to all  their service in the tent of  meeting -- the  panel frames   of the tabernacle and  its bars  and  its pillars   and its socket pedestals, and the pillars of the courtyard  round about and  their socket pedestals  and their  tent pins  and their tent cords together with all  their  equipment  and all their service.   And  by their names  you  will assign the  equipment  for which they are obligated, as their load.    This  is the service of the families of the sons of Merari   according  to all  their service in the tent of meeting,  under the hand of Ith'amar  the sons of Aaron the priest."   And  Moses and Aaron and the chieftains of the assembly  proceeded  to register  the sons of the Kohathites by their families  and by the  house of their fathers,  from 30 years old  upward  to 50 years,  all  who entered  into the service group for the service in the tent of meeting.   And   the ones registered of them by their families came to be 2,750. These are the registered ones of the families of the Kohathites, all those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moss and Aaron registered at the order of God by means of Moses. As for the registered ones of the sons of Gershon by their families and by the house of their fathers, from 30 years old to 50 years, all who entered into the service group for the service in the tent of meeting.   And  the  ones registered  

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    of them  by  their families came to be 2,750.   These are the registered ones of the families of the Kohathites, all those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron registered at the order of God  by means of Moses.   As  for the registered  ones of  the sons of Gershon  by their families and  by the house of their fathers, from 30 years  upward  to 50 years,  all  who entered  into the service  group for the service in the tent of meeting,  the  ones registered of them by their families, by the house of their fathers, came   to be 2,630. These were  the registered ones of the families of the sons of Gershon, all  those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron registered  at the order of God.    As  for  the   registered  ones  of their  families  of the sons of Merari by their families, by the house of their fathers, from 30 years old upward  to  50 years old,  all  those entering into the service group for the service in the tent of meeting,  the  ones registered of them  by their  families  came to be 3,200.     These  were the registered  ones of  the families  of the  sons of  Merari, whom Moses and Aaron registered at the order of God by means of Moses.   All  the registered ones whom Moses and Aaron  and the chieftains of Israel registered  as Levites by their families and by the house of their fathers, from 30 years old upward  to 50 years old, all those coming to render the laborious service and  the service  of carrying  loads in the tent of meeting, their registered ones came to be 8,580.     At  the  order of God they  were  registered by means of Moses, each one according  to his service and his load, and they were registered just as God had commanded  Moses.            And  God  spoke  further  to Moses, saying -- "Command the sons  of Israel  that   they send  out of  the camp every leprous person  and  everyone  having running discharge, and everyone unclean by a deceased soul.   Whether a male or a female you  should send them out.   You should send them outside the camp, that they may not contaminate the camps of those in the midst of whom I am tabernacling."    And the sons of  Israel proceeded to do so,  even  to send them  outside  the camp.    Just  as God had spoken to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.    And  God  continued  speaking to Moses, saying--"Speak  to  the sons of Israel, 'As for a man or a woman, in case  they  do any  of all  the sins  of mankind in committing  an  act of unfaithfulness against God, that soul has also become guilty.   And  they must confess their sin that they have done, and  he  must return the amount of his guilt  in  its principal, also  adding  a 5th to it, and  he must give it to  the one against whom he did wrong.   But  if the latter  has  no  near  relative  to  whom  to return the amount of the guilt, the amount of guilt that is being returned to God belongs to the priest, except  the ram of atonement  with  which  he will  make atonement for him.   "'And every contribution of all the holy  things of the sons of Israel, which they will present  to the priest, should become his.    And  the holy things  of each  one  will remain his own.    Whatever   each  one may  give  to  the priest, that will become his.'"  

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   And  God  went on  to speak to Moses, saying --"Speak  to  the sons of Israel and  you  must say to them -- 'In  case any man's  wife  turns aside  in that she does  commit an act of unfaithfulness  against  him, and  another  man  actually  lies down  with her and has an emission of semen, and it has been hidden from the eyes of her husband and has remained undiscovered, and she, on her part has defiled herself, but there is no witness against her, and she herself has not been caught -- and the spirit of jealousy  has passed upon him, and he has become suspicious of his wife's faithfulness, and she in fact has defiled herself, or  the spirit of jealousy has passed upon him, and he has become suspicious of his wife's faithfulness, but   she in fact has not defiled herself -- then the man must bring his wife  to the priest and bring her offering along with her, a 10th of an ephah (1 ephah is 22 liters so 1/10 of ephah is 2.2 liters)  of barley flour.    He must not pour oil upon it nor pour  frankincense upon it, because it  is a grain offering of jealousy, a  memorial  grain offering  brining  error to remembrance.  "'And the priest  must bring her forward and make her stand before God.   And the priest must take holy water in  an earthenware vessel,  and  the priest will take some of the dust  that happens  to be  on the floor of the tabernacle, and  he must put it in the water.    And  the priest  must  make the  woman  stand  before God  and loosen  the hair  of the woman's head and  put upon her  palms the memorial grain offering, that is, the grain offering of jealousy, and  in the hand of the priest there  should  be the bitter  water that brings a curse.  "'And  the priest must make her swear, and he must say to the woman -- "If no man has lain down  with you  and if  while under your husband you have not turned  aside  in any uncleanness, be  free  of the effect  of this  bitter  water  that brings  a  curse.    But  you in case you have turned aside while under your husband and in case  you  have  defiled yourself and some man has put in you his seminal emission, besides your husband --"   The priest  must now  make the woman  swear  with an oath involving  cursing, and  the  priest must  say to the woman--"May  God  set  you for  a  cursing  and  an  oath  in the midst of your  people  by  God's  letting  your  thigh to  fall away   and your belly swell.     And  this water that brings a  curse must  enter into  your intestines  to  cause your belly to swell  and  the thigh to fall away."   To this  the woman must say--"Amen! Amen!"    "'And  the  priest  must write these cursings in the book  and  must wipe them out into the bitter water. And  he  must make  the woman  drink  the bitter  water that brings  a curse, and  the water that brings a curse must enter into her as something bitter.   And  the priest must take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's  hand  and wave the grain offering to and fro before God, and  he must  bring it near the altar.  And   the priest must  grasp  some of the grain  offering   as  a remembrancer  of it and  must make it smoke upon the altar, and  afterward  he will make the woman drink the water.    When  he has  made her drink the water, it  must also occur  that  if she has defiled herself in that  she committed  an  act of unfaithfulness  toward  her husband,  the water  that brings  a  curse  must  then  enter into her as  something bitter,  and   her belly must swell, and her  thigh must fall away, and  the woman  must  become a cursing   

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      in among   her people.     However,  if the woman has not defiled herself but she is clean, she  must then be free from such punishment; and  she must be made pregnant with semen.     "'This  is the law about jealousy, where  a  woman may  turn aside  while under  her husband, and she does defile herself. or  in  the case  of  a man  where  the  spirit of jealousy  may  pass  upon him,  and he  does  suspect  his wife of unfaithfulness -- and  he  must make  the wife  stand before God, and  the priest  must carry  out toward  her all this law.    And  the  man must be innocent of error, but  that wife will answer for her error.'"       6   And   God  spoke further  to  Moses, saying -- "Speak  to  the sons  of  Israel and you  must  say to them,  'In case a man or a woman takes  a special  vow  to live  as a Nazirite  (separate from God, consecrated to God, abstinate from wine, grow long hair, and not defiling oneself by a presence of a corpse) to God,  he  should  keep away from wine  and  intoxicating liquor.    He   should  not drink  the vinegar  of wine or the vinegar from intoxicating liquor, nor drink  any  liquid  made from grapes, nor  eat grapes  either  fresh or dried.   All  the days of his Naziriteship   he  should not  eat anything  at  all  that  is made  from  the wine vine,  from  the unripe  grapes to the skins.    "'All  the  days   of  the  vow of   his   Naziriteship no razor should  pass  over his head  --  until the days that he should  be separated  to God come to the full, he should prove holy by  letting  the locks  of hair  of his head to  grow.   All   the days  of his  keeping  separate  to God   he may not come   toward  any dead soul.     Not  even for his father or his  mother  or his brother or his  sister may he defile himself when they die, because  the sign  of  his Naziriteship  to his God upon his head.   "' All  the  days of his Nazirteship he is holy to God.    But  in case anyone  dying  should  die  quite  suddenly  alongside him  so  that  he  has  defiled the head of his  Naziriteship, he must then shave  his head in the day of establishing his purification.    On  the 7th day he should shave it.    And  on the 8th day  he should  bring  2 turtledoves or 2 young pigeons  to the priest  to  the entrance of the tent of meeting.     And  the priest must  handle  one  as  a sin offering  and  the other  as a burnt offering and make atonement for him, since  he has sinned because of the dead soul.     Then  he  must sanctify  his head on that day.   And he must live  as  a Nazirite  to God  for the days of his Naziriteship,  and  he must  bring a young ram in its 1st year as a guilt offering -- and  the former  days will  go uncounted because he defiled  his Naziriteship.    "'Now  this  is the law about  the Nazirite -- On  the  day  that  the days  of his Naziriteship  come  to the full,   he  will  be brought  to the entrance of the tent of meeting.     And  he must  present as his offering to God  one sound  young ram  in its 1st year as a burnt offering  and one  sound  female lamb  in its 1st year as a  sin offering  and  one sound  ram  as  a communion sacrifice,  and  a basket  of unfermented ring shaped cakes of fine flour,  moistened  with oil, and  unfermented wafers smeared  with oil,  and  their grain offering and their drink offerings.     And  the  priest must present them before God and  render  up his  sin offering and his burnt offering.     And  he will render up  the ram as a communion sacrifice to God  along  with  the basket of unfermented cakes -- and the  

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     priest must render up  its grain offering and its drink offering.    "'And  the Nazirite  must  shave  the head  of his Naziriteship  at the  entrance of the tent of meeting, and  he  must take the hair of the head of his Naziriteship and put it upon  the  fire that  is under the communion sacrifice.     And  the priest must take a boiled   shoulder  from  the ram  and  one unfermented ring shaped cake out of  the basket, and one unfermented wafer, and put them upon the palms of the Nazirite after  he has  had the sign  of his Naziriteship shaved off.   And the priest must wave them to and fro  as a wave offering   before God.   It  is something  holy for the priest, along  with  the breast of the wave offering, and the leg of the contribution.    And  afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.    "'This  is the  law about   the  Nazirite  who vows -- his  offering to God over  his Naziriteship, besides  that  which he can afford.     According  to his vow  that  he  may make,  so  he should  do because  of  the law of his Naziriteship.'"     Then  God spoke  to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This  is  the way you should  bless  the sons of Israel, saying to them -- "May  God  bless you and keep you.   May  God make  his face shine toward you, and may he favor you.    May God lift up his  face  toward you and assign peace to you"'   And  they must  place my name  upon  the sons of Israel, that  I  myself may bless them.       7   Now about  on the  day  that Moses finished setting up the tabernacle that he proceeded  to anoint it, and to sanctify it, and all its furnishings and  the altar, and all its utensils.    Thus  he anointed them and sanctified them.    Then the chieftains of the Israel, the  heads of the house of their fathers, made a presentation, they  being the  chieftains  of the tribes  and standing  over the ones registered,  and  they  brought their  offering before God,  6  covered wagons and 12 cattle,   1 wagon for 2 chieftains  and  1 bull for each one -- and  they  presented  them before the tabernacle.   At  this God said to Moses -- "Accept  them from them,  as they must serve for carrying  on the service  of the tent of meeting,  and  you  must give them to Levites,   each one in proportion to his own service."    So  Moses  accepted  the wagons   and  the cattle and gave them to the Levites.   2  wagons and  4 cattle  he  gave to the sons of Gershon  in proportion to their service, and  4 wagons  and 8 cattle he gave to the sons of Merari  in proportion to their service,  under  the hand of Ithamar  the son of Aaron the priest.    But  to the sons of  Kohath he gave none, because the service of the holy place was upon them.   They  did their carrying on the shoulder.    Now  the chieftains made  their presentation at the inauguration of the altar on the day of its being anointed, and the chieftains proceeded  with presenting their  offering before the altar.    So  God said to Moses--"One chieftain on one day  and  another chieftain  on another day is the way  they  will present their offering for the inauguration of the altar."     Now  the one presenting his offering on the 1st day proved to be Nahshon the son of  Amminadab of the tribe of Judah.   And  his  offering was  one silver dish, its weight  being a 130  shekels,  1 silver   

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     bowl  of 70  shekels  by the shekel  of the holy  place,  both of them full of fine  flour moistened with oil for a grain  offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels,  full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering,  1  kid of  the goats  for a sin offering -- and  for a communion sacrifice  2 cattle,  5 rams,  5  he-goats,  5  male lambs  each 1 year old.    This  was offering of Nashon the son of Amminadab.   On the 2nd day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the  chieftain of  Issachar,  made a presentation.  He  presented  as  his  offering  one  silver dish,  its  weight being  a 130  shekels,  one  silver bowl  of 70 shekels  by the shekel of the holy  place,  both  of them  full of  fine flour moistened  with oil  for  a grain  offering -- 1 gold cup of  10 shekels,  full of incense --  1 young bull, 1 ram, 1  male lamb  in its 1st year, for a burnt offering, 1 kid goat of the goats for a sin offering -- and for  a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male  lambs each  1  year old.    This was offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.   On  the 3rd day there was  the chieftain  for the sons  of Zebulun,  Eliab  the son of Helon.  His offering was 1 silver dish, its weight being  a 130 shekels,  1 silver  bowl of  70 shekels  by the shekel of the holy place,  both of  them   full of fine flour moistened  with  oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold  cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb   in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.   This was offering of   Eliab  the son of Helon.   On the 4th day  there was the chieftan  for the sons  of Reuben,  Elizur the son  of Shedeur.    His offering  was 1  silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels  by  the shekel  of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour  moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and  for a communion sacrifice  2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.      This was offering  of  Elizur  the son of   Shedeur.    On  the 5th day  there was  the chieftian  for the sons  of Simeon,  Shelumiel  the son  of  Zurishaddai.   His   offering  was  1  silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them  full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1  gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old. This was offering of Shelumiel   the son of  Zurishaddai.   On  the 6th day  there was  the chieftain for  the sons  of Gad,  Eliasaph  the son  of Deuel.   His  offering  was  1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels,  

 

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   full of incense, 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and  for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.   This was offering of Eliasaph  the  son  of Deuel.   On the 7th day there was  the chieftain  for the son of Ephraim,  Elishama  the son of  Ammihud.    His offering  was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of  70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1  gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.     This was offering of Elishama  the son of  Ammihud.    On  the  8th  day  there was the chieftian for the sons of  Manasseh,  Gemaliel the son of Pedahzur.     His offering  was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old. This was offering of  Gamaliel  the son  of Pedahzur.    On  the  9th  day  there was the chieftain  for the sons  of  Benjamin,  Abidan  the son of Gideoni.    His  offering was  1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70  shekels  by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old. This was offering of  Abidan  the  son  of Gideoni.   On  the 10th  day there was  the chieftain for the sons  of Dan,  Ahiezer the son  of Ammishaddai.   His offering was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.    This  was offering of Ahiezer  the  son of Ammishaddai.    On  the 11th  day  there  was the  chieftain  for the sons  of Asher,  Pagiel  the  son  of Ochran.   His offering was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and 

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      for a communion  sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.    This  was offering  of  Pagiel  the  son  of  Ochran.   On the 12th day  there  was  the chieftain  for the sons  of  Naphtali,  Ahira  the son of Enan.   His offering  was 1 silver dish, its weight being a 130 shekels, 1 silver bowl of 70 shekels by the shekel of the holy place, both of them full of fine flour moistened with oil for a grain offering -- 1 gold cup of 10 shekels, full of incense -- 1 young bull, 1 ram, 1 male lamb in its 1st year, for a burnt offering -- 1 kid of the goats for a sin offering -- and for a communion sacrifice 2 cattle, 5 rams, 5 he-goats, 5 male lambs each 1 year old.    This  was offering of Ahira  the son  of Enan.  This  was the inauguration  offering  of  the altar  on the day of its being anointed, on the part of the chieftains of Israel -- 12 silver dishes, 12 silver bowls, 12 gold cups -- 130 shekels  to each silver dish, and 70 to each bowl, all  the silver of  the vessels being  2,400  shekels  by the shekel of the holy place -- the  12 gold cups of the full of incense  being 10 shekels respectively to a cup by the shekel of the holy place-- all the gold of the cups being 120 shekels-- all the cattle for the burnt offering being 12 bulls, 12 rams, 12 male lambs each 1 year old and their grain offerings, 12  kids of the  goats for a sin offering  --  and  all the cattle of  the  communion sacrifice being  24 bulls, 60 rams, 60   he-goats, 60 male lambs each 1 year old.    This   was the inauguration offering of the altar  after its being anointed.   Now  whenever Moses went  into the tent  of meeting to speak with him.  then  he would hear the voice conversing with him  from above the cover  that was upon the ark of the testimony, from  between  the 2 cherubs -- and he would speak to him.                     8    And God proceeded to talk to Moses, saying --"Speak  to Aaron, and you must say to him, 'Whenever  you light up the lamps, the 7 lamps should shine on the area in front of the lampstand.'"    And  Aaron  began to  do so.    He lit up its lamps for the area in front of the lampstand,   just  as God had commanded Moses.    Now  this was the workmanship  of  the lampstand.     It was hammered work of gold.    Up  to its sides  and up  to its blossoms  it was hammered work.    According  to  the vision that God had shown Moses, so he had made the lampstand.    And  God spoke further to Moses, saying--"Take the Levites from among  the sons of Israel, and you must cleanse them.   And this is what you should do  to  them to cleanse them -- Spatter sin-cleansing  water upon them, and  they must have a razor pass over all their flesh (shave) and must wash  their garments and cleanse themselves.    Then they must take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour moistened  with oil, and  you will take another young bull for a sin offering.   And you  must  present the Levites before  the tent  of meeting  and  congregate  the sons of Israel.   And  you must present the Levites  before  God,  and the sons  of Israel must lay their hands upon the Levites.   And  Aaron must cause Levites to move to and  

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  fro  before God  as  a wave  offering from the sons of Israel, they must serve for carrying on the service of God.  "Then  the Levites  will lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls.    After that, render  up the  one as  a sin offering, and the other as a burnt offering to God to make atonement for the Levites.  And you must have  the Levites  stand before Aaron  and  his sons and  must cause them to move  to and fro  as a wave offering to God.    And you  must separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites must become mine.   And afterward  the Levites will come in to serve at the tent of meeting.   So you must cleanse them  and  cause them to move to and fro as a wave offering.   For they are given ones, given to me from among the sons of Israel.    In  place of those opening all wombs, all the 1stborn of the sons of Israel,   I must take them for myself.    For every firstborn among in the sons of Israel is mine, among man and among  beast.    On the  day of  my striking every   1stborn in the land of Egypt  I sanctified them to myself.    And  I  shall take  the Levites in place of  all the 1stborn  among the sons of Israel.   And  I shall give the Levites as  given ones   to Aaron  and his sons from among the sons of Israel, to carry on  the service of the sons of Israel  in the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, that  no plague (sickness) may occur among the sons of Israel  because the sons of Israel approach the holy place."    And Moses and Aaron and   all the assembly of the sons of Israel proceeded to do so to the Levites.   In   accord  with all that God  had commanded Moses as regards  the Levites, that  is the way the sons of Israel did to them.   So  the Levites purified  themselves  and washed their garments,  after  which Aaron caused  them to  move to and fro  as a wave offering before God.   Then Aaron made an  atonement for them to cleanse them.     1st after that the Levites came in to  carry  on their service  in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons.    Just as God had commanded Moses  respecting the Levites, so they did to them.      God now spoke to Moses, saying --"This  is what applies to the Levites -- From 25 years old upward  he  will come to enter  into the company in the service of the tent of meeting.     But  after the age of 50 years  he  will retire from the service company and  serve  no longer.    And  he must minister to his brothers  in the tent of meeting  in taking care of the obligation, but he must render no service.    In  accord  with this  you will  do to the Levites in their obligation."           9    And  God  proceeded  to speak  to  Moses  in the wilderness of Sinai  in  the 2nd year of  their coming out of  the land of Egypt,   in  the 1st month, saying--"Now  the sons  of Israel should  prepare the  passover sacrifice at  its appointed time.    On  the  14th day  in this  month between  the  2 evenings  you  should prepare  it at its appointed time.    According  to all its statutes, and all its regular procedures you should prepare it."    So  Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare the passover sacrifice.   Then  they prepared the passover sacrifice in the 1st month, on the 14th day  of the month between the 2 evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai.   According  to  all that God had commanded Moses, so  the  sons of Israel did. 

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    Now   there happened  to be  men who  had  become  unclean  by a human soul  so that  they were not able to  prepare  the passover sacrifice on that day. Hence  they presented  themselves  before Moses and Aaron on that day.   Then those men said to him -- "We are unclean by a human soul.   Why should we be restrained  from presenting  the offering to God at its appointed time in the midst of the sons of Israel?"    At this Moses said to them: "Stand there, and let me hear  what God may command regarding you."   Then God spoke to Moses, saying--"Speak  to the sons of Israel, saying -- 'Although any man of you, or of your generations  should  happen to be unclean by a soul, or off on a  distant journey, he too must prepare the passover sacrifice to God. In the 2nd month, on the 14th day  between the 2 evenings, they should prepare it.    Together  with  unfermented  cakes and bitter greens they should eat it. They must not let any of it remain until morning,  and  they should break no bone in it.   According to the whole statute of the passover they should prepare it.    But  when the man was clean, or did not happen to be off on a journey and neglected to prepare  the passover sacrifice, that soul must then be cut off from his people, because the offering of God  he did not present at its appointed time.     For  his sin that man will answer.   "'And in case an alien resident should be residing with you as an alien, he  also must prepare the passover sacrifice to God.    According  to the statute of the passover and according to its regular procedure is the way he should do.    There should  exist  one statute for you people, both for the alien resident and for the native of the land.'"    Now on the day of setting up the tabernacle the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of the Testimony, but  in the  evening what appeared to be fire continued  over the tabernacle until morning.     That  is the way it went on constantly --  The cloud  would  cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.    And  whenever  the cloud would go up from over the tent, the sons of Israel would pull away right afterward, and  in the place where  the cloud would reside, there is where the sons of Israel would encamp.     At  the order of God the sons of Israel would pull away, and at the order of God they would encamp. All the days  that the cloud  would reside over the tabernacle, they would remain encamped.    And when the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle many days, the sons of Israel  also kept their obligation to God that they should not pull away.    And  sometimes the cloud would continue a few days over the tabernacle.    At the order of God they  would  remain encamped, and at the order of God they would pull away.   And  sometimes  the cloud would continue from evening to morning  -- and  the cloud lifted itself in the morning and they pulled away.   Whether  it was by  day or  by night that the cloud  lifted itself,   they also pulled away.   Whether it was 2 days or 1 month or more days  during which  the cloud  prolonged  its stay over the tabernacle by residing over it,  the  sons of Israel  remained  encamped  and would not pull away,  but when  it lifted  itself they would pull away.    At  the order of God they would encamp,  and   at the order of God they would pull away.   They      

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    kept  their  obligation  to God at the order of God by means of Moses.        10   And  God  proceeded to speak  to Moses,  saying -- "Make  yourself  2 trumpets  of silver.    You  will  make them of hammered work, and  they must be  at your service  for  converting  the assembly  and for breaking up the camps.   And  they must blow on them both, and  the whole assembly must keep their appointment with  you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  And   if they should  blow on just one, the chieftains  as heads of the  1000s  of Israel must also  keep their appointment with you.   "And  you  men must blow a fluctuating (varying) blast, and  the camps of those camping  to the east must pull away.    And you must blow a  fluctuating (varying) blast a second time, and the camps of those camping  to the south must pull away.    They  should blow a  fluctuating (varying) blast for  each time one of them pulls away.    "Now when  calling  the congregation together, you should  blow, but  you  must not sound a  flutuating (varying) blast.    And Aaron's sons, the priests, should blow on the trumpets, and the use of them  must serve as a statute for you men   to time indefinite during your generations.    "And  in case you should  enter into war  in your  land against the  oppressor who is harassing you, you must also sound a war call on the trumpets, and  you  will certainly  be remembered before God  your Lord and be  saved from your enemies.   "And  in  the day of your rejoicing  and  in your festal  seasons  and  at the commencements  of  your months,  you  must  blow on the trumpets  over your burnt offerings  and your communion sacrifices -- and  their  use must serve  as a memorial for you before God your Lord.   I am Jehovah your God."     Now  it came about that  in the 2nd year, in the 2nd month,  on  the 20th day in the month,  the  cloud   lifted  itself  from  over the tabernacle of the Testimony.    And  the sons of Israel  began  to pull  away in the manner  of their departures  from the  wilderness of Sinai, and  the cloud  proceeded  to reside  in the wilderness  of  Paran.    And  they  began pulling  away for the 1st time, according  to the order of  God by means of Moses.    So  the 3-tribe  divisions of the camp of  the sons of Judah pulled  away 1st  of all their armies, and  Nahshon  the  son of  Amminadab  was over its army.    And  over  the  army of the  tribe of the sons of  Issachar there was  Nethanel  the  son of Zuar.    And  over the army of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun  there was  Eliab the son of Helon.   And  the  tabernacle  was taken down, and  the sons of Gershon and  the sons of Merari as  carriers of  the tabernacle pulled away.   And  the 3-tribe  division of the camp  of the Reuben pulled  away in  their armies, and  Elizur  the son of  Shedeur  was over its army.    And  over the  army of the  tribe  of the sons of Simeon  there was Shelumiel  the son of Zurishaddai.   And over the  army of  the tribe of the sons of Gad  there was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.   And  the Kohathites   as  carriers of the sanctuary pulled away, as they  will have  set up the tabernacle by the time of their coming.   And  the 3-tribe division  of the camp of the sons of 

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    Ephraim  pulled  away  in their armies, and Elishama  the son of  Ammihud  was over its army.   And  over the army  of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh there  was Gamaliel  the  son of Pedahzur.   And  over  the army of the tribe of  the sons of Benjamin  there  was Abidan  the son of Gideoni.   And the  3-tribe  division  of the camp  of  the sons of  Dan  pulled  away  as forming  the  rear guard  for  all  the camps in their armies,  and Ahiezer   the son of Ammishaddai  was over its army.   And over the army of  the tribe of  the sons of Asher  there was  Pagiel the  son of Ochran.    And  over the army of the tribe of the sons  of Naphtali  there was Ahira the son of Enan.   In   this manner were the departures of  the sons  of  Israel  in  their  armies when they would pull away.    Then  Moses  said to  Hobab  the  son of Reuel the Midianite,  the father-in-law  of Moses --"We are pulling away for the place about which God said, 'I shall  give it to you.'   Do come with us, and  we shall  certainly do good to you, because God  has spoken good concerning Israel."    But  he  said to him--"I shall not go along, but I  shall  go  to my own  country and to my relatives."    At  this he said --"Please, do  not leave us, because, for the  reason that you  well  know where we  may encamp in the wilderness, you  must serve  as eyes for us.    And  it must occur that  in case  you  should  come with us,  yes, it  must occur that with  what  goodness God  will  do good with us, we, in turn, will do good to you."     So they went marching  from  the mountain of God for a journey of 3 days,  and the ark of God's covenant was marching  before them for a journey  of  3 days  to  search  out a resting-place for them.    And  God's cloud  was  over them by day at  their marching  out from the encampment.    And  it  would occur that when the  Ark would set out, Moses would say--"Do arise, O God, and let  your enemies  be scattered,  and  let those who intensely hate you flee from before you."    And when  it would rest, he would say--"Do return, O God, to the myriads of thousands of Israel."              11   Now  the  people became as men having something  evil to complain about in the  ears of God.      When  God  got to hear it, then his anger grew hot, and a fire of God began to blaze  against them  and  to  consume  some in the extremity of the camp.    When  the  people  began to cry out to Moses,  then  he made  supplication to God,  and  the fire sank down.   And the  name of that place got to be called Taberah, because a  fire  of God  had blazed against them.   And the mixed crowd  that  was in  the midst of them expressed  selfish longing, and  the sons of Israel too began to weep again and say -- "Who  will give us meat to eat?   How  we  remember  the fish that we used to  eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the watermelons  and the leeks  and  the onions and garlic.   But  now our soul  is dried away.    Our  eyes  are on nothing  at all except the manna."    Incidentally, the  manna  was like coriander seed, and its  look  was like  the look of  bdellium gum.   The  people spread  out  and picked it up   and  ground  it in hand mills or pounded  it  in a mortar, and  they boiled  it  in cooking   pots or made it into 

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   round  cakes, and  its  taste proved to  be like the taste of an oiled sweet cake. When the dew descended upon the camp  by night, the manna would descend upon it.    And  Moses got to hear the people  weeping  in  their families, each man at  the entrance of his tent.     And  God's anger  began growing very hot, and in the eyes of Moses  it was bad.    Then  Moses said to God--"Why have you caused  evil  to your  servant, and  why  have I not found favor in your eyes, in placing the load of all  this people upon me?    Have I myself conceived all this people?   Is  it me who has given them birth, so  that you should  say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, just as  the male  nurse carries the suckling, to the soil  about  which you  swore to their  forefathers?     From  where do I have meat to give to all this people?   For  they keep  weeping  to me, saying, 'Do give us meat, and let us eat!'   I  am  not able, I  by myself,  to carry  all this people, because  they are too heavy for me.    So  if this is the way you are doing to me, please kill me off altogether, if  I  have  found favor in your eyes, and let me not look upon my calamity."     In  turn God said to Moses -- "Gather for me 70 men of the older men of Israel, whom  you  know that they  are older men of the people and officers of theirs, and you  must take them to the tent of meeting, and they must station themselves there with you.   And I shall have to come down speak with you there -- and I shall have to take away some of the spirit that is upon you and place it upon them, and they will have to help you in carrying the load of the people that  you may not carry it, just you alone.    And  to the people you should say -- 'Sanctify (purify) yourselves for tomorrow, as you will certainly eat meat, because you have wept in the ears of God, saying, 'Who  will give us  meat to eat, for it was  well with us in Egypt?"  And  God  will  certainly  give you meat, and you will indeed eat.   You will eat, not 1 day  nor 2 days, nor 5 days nor 10 days, nor 20 days, but up to a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils, and  it has become a loathing to you, just because you rejected  God, who is in your midst, and you went weeping before him, saying--"Why is it that we have come out of Egypt?"'"  Then Moses said--"The people in the midst of whom I am are 600,00 men  on foot, and yet you -- you have said, 'Meat I shall give them and they will certainly eat for a month of days'!   Will  flocks  and herds will be slaughtered for them, for  it  to be adequate for them?   Or  will all  the fish  of the sea be caught for them, for  it  to be adequate for them?"   At  this God  said to Moses --"The hand of God is cut short, is it? Now you will see whether what  I say falls upon you or not."     After that Moses went out and spoke to the people the words of God. And  he went gathering 70 men from the older men of the people and proceeded  to have them stand round about the tent. Then God came down  in a cloud and  spoke to him and took away  some of the spirit that was upon him  and put it upon each of the 70 older men.     And it  came about  that as soon as the spirit settled  down upon them, then they proceeded  to act as prophets, but they did not do it again.   Now   there  were 2  of the men remaining in the camp.   The

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    name of  the one was Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad.    And  the spirit began to settle down upon them, as  they  were among  those written down, but they had not gone out to the tent.   So  they proceeded  to act as prophets in the camp.     And a young man  went running and  reporting  to Moses and saying--"Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the camp!"  Then Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his young  manhood on, responded and said --"My lord Moses, restrain them!"   However, Moses said to him --"Are you feeling jealous for me?   No, I wish that all of  God's people were prophets, because God would  put his spirit upon them!"  Later Moses withdrew to the camp, he and the older men of Israel.   And  a wind burst forth  from God and  began driving  quails out of the sea and letting  them fall  above the camp about a day's journey this  way, and about a day's journey that way,  all around the camp, and  about 2 cubits (approx. 3 feet) above the surface of the earth. Then  the people got up  all that day and all night, and all the next day and kept gathering the quail.   The one collecting least gathered 10 homers (approx. 2,200 liters.  1 homer is 220 liters), and they kept spreading them extensively all around the camp for themselves.   The meat was yet between their teeth, before it could be chewed, when God's anger  blazed  against the people, and God began striking  at the people with a very great slaughter. The name of that place  came to  be called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people  who showed selfish craving.    From Kibrothhattaavah  the people pulled away for Hazeroth.             12   Now Miriam and Aaron began  to speak  against Moses on account of the Cushite  wife whom  he had  taken,  because  it was  a Cushite wife  he had taken.   And they kept saying--"Is it just by Moses  alone that God has spoken?"   And  God was listening.   And  the man Moses  was by far the  meekest of all  the  men who were upon the surface of the ground.    Then  God suddenly said to Moses  Aaron and Miriam -- "Go out, the   3 of you, to the tent of meeting."    So the  3 of them went out. After  that God  came down  in the pillar  of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent  and called  Aaron and Miriam.      At  this both of them went out.    And he    went on to say -- "Hear my words, please.   If  there came to be  a prophet  of yours for God,  it  would be in a vision  I would make myself known to him.    In  a dream  I would speak to him.    Not so my servant Moses!    He  is being  entrusted with  all my house. Mouth  to  mouth I  speak to him,   thus showing him,    and not by riddles --  and  the appearance of God is what he beholds.    Why, then, did  you not  fear to speak against my servant, against Moses?"    And  God's anger got to be hot against them, and he went his way. And the cloud turned away from over the tent, and look! Miriam  was struck with leprosy  as white as snow.    Then  Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look! she was struck with leprosy.   Immediately  Aaron said to Moses --"Excuse me, my lord!   Do not, please attribute  to  us the  sin in  which we have acted foolishly  and  which we have committed!"    Please,  do  not let her continue  like someone dead,   whose   

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flesh  at the  time of his coming  out of  his mother's womb is  half   eaten off!" And  Moses began to cry out to God, saying -- "O God, please!   Heal her, please!"   Then  God said to Moses -- "Were  her father to spit  directly in her face, would she not be humiliated 7 days?    Let her be quarantined 7 days outside the camp, and  afterward  let her be received in."    Accordingly  Miriam was  quarantined outside the camp 7 days, and the people did not pull away   Hazeroth and took up camping in the wilderness of Paran.      13  God  now spoke to Moses, saying --"Send out for yourself  men  that they  may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. You will send out one man for each tribe of his fathers, each one a chieftain among them."      So Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran  at the order of God.    All the men were  heads of the sons of Israel. And these are their names-- 

Of the tribes of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur -- 

of the tribes of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori-- 

of the tribes of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh-- 

of the tribes of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph-- 

of the tribes of Ephraim, Hoshea the son Nun--   

 of the tribes of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu-- 

of the tribes of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi-- 

of the tribes of Joseph for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi -- 

of the tribes ofDan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli -- 

of the tribes of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael -- 

of the tribes of  Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi -- 

of the tribes of  Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land.    And   Moses continued  to  call Hoshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.    When Moses was sending  them to spy on the land of Canaan, he proceeded to say to them --"Go  up here into the Negeb, and you must go up into the mountainous region.   And  you must  see what the land is  and  the people  who are  dwelling  on it,   whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many -- and what the land  is in  which they are  dwelling, whether it is good or bad,  and  what the cities are in which they are  dwelling,  whether  it is  in encampments or in fortifications (defense walls),  and what the land is,  whether is is fat or lean,  whether  there are trees in it or not.   And you  must show  yourselves  courageous, and take some of the fruitage of the land.   Now  the days were the days of the 1st  ripe fruits of the grapes. So they went  up and spied  out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob  to the entering in of Hamath.   When  they went  up into the Negeb, they then came to Hebron.   Now Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, those born of Anak, were there.    Incidentally, Hebron had been built 7 years  before Zoan of Egypt. When they came to the torrent valley of Eshcol, they then proceeded to cut down  from there a shoot with one cluster of grapes.     And they went carrying  it with a bar on 2  of the men, and also some of the pomegranates  and some of the figs.   They called that place the torrent valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut down from there. Finally at the end of 40 days  they returned from spying out the land.   So they 

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  walked  and came  to Moses  and  Aaron and  all the  assembly of the  sons of Israel  in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh.   And they  came  bringing  back  word  to them  and  all  the assembly and showing  them  the fruitage  of the land.  And they  went on to report to him and say-- "We  entered  into  the land  to which you sent us out, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and  this is its fruitage.   Nevertheless, the  facts  are  that  the  people  who  dwell  in the  land  are strong, and  the fortified  cities  are very great -- and,  too, those born of Anak  we saw there.   The  Amalekites  are  dwelling  in the land of the Negeb, and the Hittites  and the Jebusites, and  the Amorites  are  dwelling  in  the mountainous region, and the Canaanites are  dwelling  by  the sea and by the side of the Jordan." Then Caleb  tried  to still  the people toward Moses and went on to say -- "Let  us  go up  directly,  and  we  are bound  to  take possession of it, because  we can surely prevail over it."   But   the men who went up  with him said--" We  are  not able to go up  against the people, because they are stronger than we are."   And  they kept  on bringing forth  to the  sons of Israel a bad  report  of the  land that they had spied out, saying-- "The land, which we passed through to spy out, is a  land  that eats up its inhabitants -- and  all  the  people  whom we saw in  the midst of  it are men of extraordinary size.    And  there we saw the Nephilim (giants), the sons of Anak, who are from the Nephilim -- so that we became in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and the same way we became in their eyes"      14   Then  all the  assembly  raised  their voice, and  the people  continued  giving went to their voice and  weeping  all  through that night.   And all the sons of Israel  began  to murmur  against Moses and Aaron, and all the assembly began to say against them-- "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness.   And  why is God bringing us to this land to fall by the sword?    Our  wives and our little ones will become plunder.   Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?"    They  even  went to  saying to one another -- "Let us appoint a head and  let us return to Egypt!"    At this Moses and Aaron fell upon  their faces  before  all the  congregation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.      And  Joshua  the son of Nun  and Caleb  the son of Jephunneh, who  were  of  those who spied out the land, ripped their garments apart, and  they proceeded  to say this to all the assembly of the sons of Israel-- "The  land  that we passed through to spy it out  is a very very good land.   If  God  has  found delight in us, then  he  will  certainly  bring  us into  this land  and give  it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey.   Only  against God do not rebel, and you, do  not fear the  people of the land, for they are bread to us.    Their  shelter  has turned  away from over them, and God is with us.   Do not fear them."   However,  all  the assembly  talked of pelting them  with stones.   And  God's  glory  appeared  on  the tent of meeting  to all the sons of Israel.    Finally  God said to Moses--"How long will this people treat me without respect, and how long will they not put faith in me for all the signs that I performed in among them?   Let  me strike  them with  pestilence  and drive them away, and  let me  make you a nation greater and mightier than they are."   

 

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But   Moses said to God --"Then   the Egyptians  will be bound to hear that you by  your power   have led  this people up   out of their midst.   And they   will be bound to  tell  it to the inhabitants of this land.     They have heard  that you are God in among this people, who has appeared face to face.    You  are God, and your cloud is standing over them,  and  you are going  before them  in the pillar of cloud by day   and in the pillar of fire by night.    Were  you  to put  this  people to death  as one man, then the  nations who have heard of your  fame would certainly say this --'Because of God's  not  being able to bring this  people  into the land about which he swore to them he proceeded to slaughter them in the wilderness.'   And now, please, let your power become great, O God,  just  as  you have spoken, saying--'God, slow to anger  and  abundant in loving-kindness, pardoning error  and transgression (Wrong, sin, offense) but  by no means will he give exemption from punishment, bringing punishment  for the error of the fathers upon sons, upon the 3rd generations, and 4th generation.'    Forgive, please, the error of this people according to the greatness of your loving-kindness, and  just as you have pardoned this people from Egypt onward until now."   Then God said--"I  do forgive according  to your word.   And, on the other hand, as I live, all the earth  will be filled with the glory of God.    But  all the men who have seen my glory  and  my signs  that  I have  performed in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet kept testing  me these 10 times, and have not listened to my  voice, will never see  the land about  which  I swore to their fathers, yes, all those treating  me without respect will not see it.   As  for my servant Caleb, because  a different spirit has proved to be with him and  he kept following wholly after me,  I shall certainly  bring  him  into the  land  where he has gone, and  his offspring will take possession of it.    While the  Amalekites and  the Canaanites  are  dwelling  in the low plain,  you  people make  a turn tomorrow and pull away  to march to  the wilderness  by way of the Red Sea."   And  God  went on to speak to Moses and Aaron, saying --"How  long  will this evil assembly have this murmuring that they are carrying on against me?    I  have  heard the murmurings  of  the sons of Israel  that  they are murmuring against me.    Say to them, '"As I live," is the utterance of God, "if I shall not do  to you just  that way as you have spoken in my ears!"    In  this wilderness your  carcasses will fall, yes, all your registered ones of all  your number  from  20 years old  upward, you who have  murmured  against me.    As  for you, you will  not  enter  into  the land  in which  I lifted  my hand  in oath to reside with you, except  Caleb the son of Jephunneh   and Joshua the son of Nun.   "'"And  your  little ones  who you said  would become plunder, these  also  I shall certainly bring in, and  they will indeed know the land that you have rejected.   But  the  carcasses of  you yourselves will  fall  in this wilderness.    And  your sons  will become shepherds  in the  wilderness 40 years, and  they  will  have to answer for your acts of fornication, until  your carcasses come to their end in the wilderness.   By  the number of the days that you spied out the land, 40 days, a day for a year, a day for  

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  a year, you will answer for your errors 40 years, as you must know what my being estranged means.   "'"I  God  have spoken if this is not what I shall do to all this evil assembly, those who have gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will come to their end, and there they will die. And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who, when they returned, began making whole assembly murmur against him, by bringing forth a bad report against the land, yes, the men bringing forth the bad report about the land will die by evil before God. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh will certainly live on, of those men who went to spy out the land."'"    When  Moses proceeded  to speak these words  to  all the sons of Israel, then the people began to mourn a great deal. Moreover, they got up early in the morning, and tried to go up to the top of the mountain, saying--"Here we are, and we have to go up the place that God mentioned.   For we have sinned.   But Moses said--"Why is it  that you are passing beyond the order of God?   But that will not succeed.   Do not go up, because  God  is not in your midst, that you may  not be defeated before your enemies.   For the  Amalekites, and the Canaanites  are there before you -- and you are certain to  fall by the sword, because, for the  reason  that you turned back  from following God, God  will  not continue with you." However, they presumed  to  go up to  the top of the mountain, but the ark of God's covenant  and Moses  did  not move away from the mist of the camp.   Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were  dwelling  in  that  mountain  came  on down and began striking them and went scattering them as far as Hormah.             15     And  God  spoke further to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to the sons of  Israel, and you must say to them, 'When  you  eventually come  into  the land of your  living  places,  which  I  am giving you,  and  you  must render up  an offering  made  by  fire to God, a  burnt  offering  or  a sacrifice to perform a special  vow or voluntarily  or  during  your seasonal festivals, in  order  to make  a restful odor  to God, from the herd or from the flock -- the  one presenting  his offering  must also present to God a grain offering of fine flour, a 10th of an ephah (1 ephah is 22 liter), moistened  with a 4th of a hin (approx. 1 hin is 3.67 liter) of oil.   And you should  render up  wine  as a drink offering, the 4th of a hin, together  with  the burnt offering  or for the sacrifice of each male lamb.    Or  for  a ram  you should  render  up a grain offering of 2/10 of fine flour, moistened  with a 3rd of a hin of oil.   And you should present wine  as a drink offering, a 3rd of a hin, as a restful odor to God.    "'But  in  case  you  should  render  up  a male of the herd as a  burnt offering or  a  sacrifice  to perform  a  special vow or communion  sacrifices to God, one  must  also present  together with the male of the herd  a grain offering of 3/10 of fine flour, moistened  with  1/2 a  hin of oil.   And you  should  present wine as a drink offering, 1/2 a hin as an offering made by fire, of a restful odor to God.   This  is  the way  it should  be done for each bull or for each ram  or for one head among  the male lambs or among the goats.  

 

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 Whatever  may be the number  that you may render up,  that is the way you  should do for  each one  according to the number of them. Every native  should  render up these in  this way in  presenting an offering made by fire, of a restful odor to God.    "'And  in case there should be residing  as an alien with  you  an alien resident  or one who is  in your midst  for generations of you, and  he must  render up an offering made by fire, of  a restful odor to God,  just  as you  should do, so he should do.   You  who are of the congregation  and the alien resident  who is living as an  alien  will have one statute.   It will be a statute to time indefinite  for  your generations.  The alien resident should  prove to be the same as you before God.    There should prove to be one law  and one judicial decision for you and for the alien resident who is residing as an alien with you.'"    And  God went on to speak to Moses --"Speak  to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'On  your coming  into the land where I am bringing you, it  must also occur that when you eat any of the bread of the land, you should make a contribution to God.   You should make a contribution of the 1stfruits  of  your  coarse  meal as ring shaped cakes.   Like the  contribution of  a threshing  floor  is the way you should  contribute  it.    Some of the 1stfruits  of  your coarse meal you should  give  as a contribution  to God  throughout  your generations.   "'Now  in case  you should  make a mistake and not do all  these commandments, which  God  has  spoken  to Moses, all  that God has  commanded you by means  of Moses  from the day that God commanded and onward  for your generations, it  must then occur  that  if it has been done  far from  the eyes of the assembly by mistake, the whole assembly must then render up one young bull a burnt offering  for  a  restful odor  to God, and  its  grain offering and its  drink  offering  according  to the regular procedure, and one  kid of the goats  as a sin offering.   And the priest must make atonement for the whole assembly of the sons of Israel, and it  must  be forgiven them -- because  it was a mistake, and they, for their part, brought as their offering  an  offering  made  by fire to God  and  their sin offering  before God for their mistake.   And it must be forgiven the whole  assembly  of  the sons  of Israel   and the alien  resident who is living as an alien in their midst, because  it was  by mistake on the part of all the people.  "'And  if any  soul should sin by mistake, then he must present a female goat in its first year for a sin offering. The priest must make atonement for the soul who made a mistake by a sin unintentionally before God,  so  as to make atonement for it, and it must be forgiven for him.    As  to the native among  the sons of Israel and the alien resident who is  residing  as an alien resident who is residing as an alien  in their midst, there  should prove to be one law for you as respects  doing something unintentionally.   "'But the soul that does something deliberately, whether  he is a native or an alien resident, he speaking  abusively of God, in  that  case that  soul must be cut off from among his people.   Because  it  is God's word that  he has despised  and  his  commandment  that he has broken, that soul should  be cut off without fail.    His own error is upon him.'"    

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 While the sons of  Israel  were  continuing   in the  wilderness, they once  found  a man  collecting  pieces  of wood  on the sabbath day. Then  those  who  found him  collecting pieces  of wood  brought him up to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly.   So they committed  him into custody, because it  had  not been distinctly  stated what should be done to him.    In time God said to Moses --"Without  fail the man should be put to death, the whole assembly pelting  him with stones outside the camp.    According  the whole assembly  brought  him forth  outside the camp  and pelted  him with stones  so that he died,  just as God had  commanded Moses.    And God went on to say this to Moses--"Speak to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them  that they must make for themselves fringed  edges upon the skirts of  their garments  throughout their generations, and they must put a blue string above the fringed edge of the skirt,   'And  it  must serve as  a fringed edge for you, and you must see it, and remember all the commandments  of God and do them, and you must not go about following  your hearts and your eyes, which you are following in immoral interc*urse (se*).   The purpose is that you may remember and may certainly do all my commandments and  indeed prove  to be holy to your God.   I am God your Lord, who  have brought you out of  the land of Egypt in order to prove myself your God.    I am God your Lord.'"       16  And  Korah the son of Izhar,  the son of Kohath,  the son of Levi,  proceeded to get up, together  with Dathan  and Abiram  the sons of Eliab, and  On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben. And they proceeded to rise up before Moses, they and 250 men of the sons of Israel, chieftains of the assembly, summoned ones of the meeting, men of fame.    So  they congregated  themselves  against Moses and Aaron and said to them--"That  is enough of you, because the whole assembly are  all of them holy and God is in their midst. Why, then, should you lift yourselves up above the congregation of God?"    When Moses got to hear it he at once fell upon his face.  Then he spoke to Korah and to his entire assembly, saying: --"In the morning God will make known who belongs to him and who is holy and who must come near to him, and whoever he may choose will come near to him. Do this --Take fire holders for yourselves, Korah and his entire assembly, and put fire in them, and place incense upon them before God tomorrow, and it must occur that the man whom God will choose, he is the holy one.  That is enough of you, you sons of Levi!"   And Moses  went on to say to Korah --"Listen, please, you sons of Levi.    Is  it such a little thing for you men that the God of Israel has separated you men from the assembly of Israel to present you to  himself to carry on the service of God's  tabernacle and to stand before the assembly to minister to them, and that he should bring you and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you near?   So  must you men also try to secure the priesthood?    For that reason you and all your assembly who are gathering together are against God.   As for Aaron, what is he that you men should murmur against him?"  

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Later Moses  sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, but they said--"We are not going to come up!" Is  it so little a thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing  with milk and honey to put us to death in the wilderness, that  you should also try to  play the prince over us to the limit?    As  it is, you have not brought us into any land flowing with milk and honey, that you may give us an inheritance of field and vineyard.     Is it  the eyes of those  men that you want to bore out? We are not going to come up!"     At  this Moses became very angry and said to God--"Do  not turn to look at their grain offering.  Not one male  ass   have I taken away from them, nor have I harmed one of them."   Then Moses said to Korah--"You and all your assembly, be present before God, you and they and Aaron, tomorrow.     And take each one his fire holder, and you men must put incense upon them and present each one his fire holder before God, 250 fire holders and you and Aaron each his fire holder."    So  they took each one his fire holder and put fire upon them and placed incense upon them  and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting together with Moses and Aaron.    When Korah  got all  the assembly together against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then God's glory appeared to all the assembly.    God  now spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: "Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, that I may exterminate them in an instant."   At this their faces fell and said--"O God, the God of the spirits of every sort of flesh, will just one man sin and you become  indignant (angry) against the entire assembly?" In turn God spoke to Moses, saying--"Speak to the assembly,   saying,  'Get away from around the tabernacles of Korah, Dathan and Abiram!'"   After  that Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and older men of Israel went with him.   Then  he spoke to the assembly, saying  -"Turn aside,  please, from before the tents of these wicked men, and  do not touch anything that belongs to them, that you may not be swept away in all their sin."    Immediately  they got away from before the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out, taking  their stand at the entrance of their tents, together with their wives and  their sons and their little ones.   Then Moses said--"By this you will know that God has sent me to do all these deeds, that it  is not of my own heart.   If  it  is according to the death of all mankind that these people will die, and with the punishment of all mankind that punishment will be brought upon them, then it is not God that has sent me.   But  if it is something created that God will create, and the ground has to open its mouth and swallow up (earthquake)  them  and everything that belongs to them and they have to go down alive into Sheol (hell), you will then know for certain that these men have treated God disrespectfully."   And it came about  that as  soon as  he had finished speaking all these words, the ground  that was under them began to be split apart.     And the earth proceeded to open its mouth and swallow up  them and their households and all humankind  

 

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that belonged to Korah and all the goods.   So down they went, and all who belonged to them, alive into Sheol, and the earth went covering them over, so that  they  perished from the midst of the congregation.    And all the Israelites who were round about them fled at the screaming of them,  for they began to say--"We are afraid that the earth may swallow us up!"    And  a fire came out from God and  proceeded to  consume  the 250 men offering incense.    God now spoke to Moses, saying --"Say to Eleazar   the son of Aaron  the priest that he should take up the fire holders from within the conflagration (firestorm),   'And you scatter the fire over there -- for they are holy,  even the fire holders of these men who sinned against their own souls.   And they must make them into thin metal plates  as  an overlaying  for the altar, because  they presented them before God, so that they became holy -- and they should serve as a sign to the sons of Israel'"   Accordingly Eleazar the priest took the copper fire holders, which  those who had been burned up had presented, and they proceeded to beat them out into an overlaying for the altar, as  a memorial for the sons of Israel, to  the end that no strange man who is not of the offspring of Aaron  should come near  to make  incense  smoke before God, and  no one might become like Korah  and  his assembly, just as God had spoken to him by means of Moses.   And directly the next day the whole assembly of the sons of Israel began to murmur against Moses and Aaron, saying --"You men, you have put God's people to death."   And it was about that when the assembly had congregated themselves together against Moses  and Aaron,  they  then turned toward the tent of meeting -- and, look!   the  cloud covered it,  and God's glory began to appear.   And Moses and Aaron proceeded to come before the tent of meeting.   Then God spoke to Moses, saying -- "You men, rise up from the midst of this assembly, that  I may exterminate them  in an instant.   At this   they fell upon their faces.    After that Moses said to Aaron--"Take the fire holder and put fire from upon the altar in it and put on incense and go to the assembly in a hurry and make atonement for them, because the  indignation  has gone out from the face of God.   The plague (sickness) has started!"    Aaron  at once   took it, just as Moses had spoken, and went running into the midst of the congregation -- and look! the plague  had started among the people.   So he put the incense on and began making atonement for the people.   And he kept standing between the dead and the living.    Eventually the scourge (plague, evil) was stopped.   And  those dead from the scourge amounted to 14,700, aside  from those  dead  on account of Korah.   When at last   Aaron returned to Moses  at the entrance of the tent of meeting, the scourge had been stopped.           17   God  now  spoke to Moses, saying -- "Speak  to the sons  of Israel  and take  from them  one rod (staff) for each paternal house from all their chieftains, by the house of their fathers, 12 rods.  You will write  the name of each one upon his rod.    And Aaron's name you will write upon Levi's  rod,  because there is one  rod for the head of the house of their fathers.    And you must deposit them in the tent of meeting  

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   before  the Testimony, where  I regularly  present myself to you.   And what must occur is that  the man whom I shall choose, his  rod will bud, and I  shall certainly make subside from against  me,  the murmurings of the sons of Israel,  which they are murmuring against you."    So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their chieftains  went giving him a rod  for each chieftain, a rod for each chieftain, by the house of their fathers, 12  rods -- and Aaron's  rod was in among their  rods.   Then  Moses deposited the   rods  before God in the tent of the Testimony.    And it   came  about the next day that when Moses went into the tent of Testimony, look!   Aaron's  rod for the house of  Levi had  budded, and  it was bringing forth  buds and blossoming  flowers and  was bearing ripe almonds.    Moses  then brought out all the  rods  from before God to all the sons of Israel, and  they went looking  and taking each man his own rod.    Subsequently   God said to Moses --"Put Aaron's  rod back before the Testimony  as  something  to  be kept for a sign  to the  sons of rebelliousness,  that  their murmurings may  cease  from against me, that they may not die."   At  once Moses  did  just as God had ordered him.   He did just so.   And  the sons of  Israel  began to say this to Moses --"Now we are bound to expire, we are bound to perish, we are all of us bound to perish.    Anyone  approaching,  coming  near  to God's tabernacle, will die!"   Must  we end  up expiring  that way?"      18   And  God proceeded to say  to Aaron-- "You and your sons and the house of your father  with you  will answer  for error against the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will answer for error against  your priesthood.  And bring near, also,  your  brothers of the tribe of Levi, the clan of your father, with you, that they may be joined to you, and may minister to you, to both of you and  your sons with you, before the tent of the Testimony.   And they  must keep  their obligation  to you  and their obligation to the entire tent.    Only to the utensils of the  holy place  and to  the altar they must not  come  near that they may not die, neither they nor you men.    And they  must be joined to you  and must keep their obligation to the tent of meeting as respects  all the service of the tent, and no stranger may come near to you men.   And you must keep your obligation  to the holy place and your obligation to the altar,  that no further  indignation  may  occur against the sons of Israel.   And I, look!  I have taken your brothers,  the  Levites,  from  the among the sons of Israel, as a gift for you,  as those given  to God  to carry  on the service of the tent of meeting.   And you and your sons  with you  should safeguard your priesthood as  regards every concern of the altar and as regards what is inside the curtain -- and you men  must render service.     As  a service of gift I  shall  give your priesthood, and the stranger drawing near should be put to death."    And  God spoke to further to Aaron--"As for me, look!   I  have given you the custody of the contribution made to me.    Of  all the holy things of the sons of Israel  I have given them to you and  to your sons as a portion, as an allowance to time indefinite. This should become yours out of the most holy things, out  of the offering made by fire, every offering of theirs together  

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 with  every grain  of theirs  and  every sin  offering of theirs  and  every guilt offerings of theirs, which they will return to me.   It   is something most  holy for you and for your sons.   In  a  most holy place  you should eat it.    Every  male should eat it.   It  should become something holy to you.    And  this belongs to you-- the contribution of their gift together with  all the wave offerings  of the sons of Israel.     I  have given them to you  and  your sons and daughters   with you,  as an allowance to time indefinite.    Everyone  clean in your house may eat it.    "All the best of the oil  and all the best of new  wine and grain, and their  1stfruits, which they  will give  to God, I have given them to you.   The 1st  ripe fruits of all that  is on their land, which  they  will  bring to God, yours it should become.   Everyone  clean in your house may eat it.    "Every  devoted thing  in Israel should become yours.   "Everything  opening the womb, of every sort of flesh, which they will present to God, among  man and  beast,  should  become yours.    However,  you should  without fail redeem the 1stborn of mankind -- and the 1stborn of  the unclean  beast   you  should redeem.   And  with  a redemption  price  for  it from a month old  upward you  should  redeem it,  by  the  estimated value,  5 silver  shekels  by the shekel (dollar) of the holy place.   It  is 20 gerahs (1 shekel= 1 dollar = 20 nickels).    Only  the 1stborn  bull or   1stborn  male  lamb  or 1stborn  goat you should  not redeem.   They are something holy.  Their blood you should  sprinkle upon the altar, and  their  fat you should  make  smoke as an offering  made  by fire for a restful odor to God.   And their flesh should become yours.   Like  the breast of the wave offering  and  like the right leg, it should become yours.   All  the holy contributions, which the sons of Israel will contribute to God,  I  have given to you  and  your sons and daughters with you,  as an allowance to time indefinite.    It  is  a covenant  of salt  to  time  indefinite  before  God  for you and your offspring with you."   And God  went on to say to Aaron -- "In their land you will not have an inheritance, and  no share will become yours in their midst.    I am your share and your inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel.    "And to the sons of Levi, look!    I  have given  every  10th part in Israel  as an inheritance in return for their service that they are carrying on, the service of the tent of meeting.    And  the sons of Israel should no more come near to the tent of meeting to incur sin so as to die.   And the  Levites themselves  must carry on their service of the tent of meeting, and they are the ones who should answer for their error.    It  is a statute to time indefinite during your generations  that in the midst of the sons of Israel they should not get possession of an inheritance.    For the 10th part of the sons of Israel, which they will contribute to God as a contribution,  I  have given to the Levites as an inheritance.    That is why I have said to them, 'In  the midst of the sons of Israel they should not get possession of an inheritance.'"      Then God spoke to Moses saying --"And you  should speak  to the Levites, and  you  must say to them, 'You will receive from the sons of  Israel the  10th part  that  I have given to you from them for your inheritance, and you must contribute from it as a contribution to 

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 God a 10th part of the 10th part. It must be reckoned to you as your contribution, like the grain of the threshing floor, and like full produce of the wine or oil press. In this way yourselves also will contribute a contribution to God from all your 10th parts that you will receive from the sons of Israel, and from them you must give the contribution to God to Aaron the priest. From all the gifts to you, you will contribute every sort of contribution to God, of the very best of it, as some holy thing from them. You must say to them--'When you contribute the best of them, then it will certainly be reckoned to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor, and as the produce of the wine or oil press. You must eat it in every place, you and your household, because it is your wages in return for your service in the tent of meeting. You must not incur sin for it when you contribute the best from them, and you must not profane (non religious) the holy things of the sons of Israel, that you may not die.        19   And God proceeded  God proceeded to  speak  to Moses  and  Aaron, saying -- "This  is  a statute of the law  that God has commanded, saying --'Speak  to the sons  of  Israel  that  they should take for you a   sound  red cow  in  which there is  no defect and  upon which  there is no  yoke  has  come.  And  you  must give  it to  Eleazar the priest, and  he must  lead it forth outside the camp,  and  it  must be  slaughtered before him.   Then  Eleazar  the priest must  take  some of its blood  with his finger and spatter some of its blood straight  toward  the front  of  the tent of  meeting 7 times.   And  the  cow must be  burned under his eyes.    Its skin  and its flesh  and  its  blood together  with its  dung  will be burned.   And  the priest  must  take cedarwood and hyssop  and  coccus scarlet material and  throw  it into the midst of the burning of the cow.     And the priest  must  wash  his  garments  and bathe  his flesh in water, and  afterward  he may come into the camp, but the priest must be unclean until the evening.     "'And the  one  who  burned it will wash his garments in water  and  must bathe his flesh in water,  and  he must  be unclean until the evening.     "'And a  clean man  must gather up  the ashes of the cow and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place -- and they  must serve the assembly of the sons of Israel as something to be kept for  the water for cleansing.   It is a sin offering.   And  the one gathering  the  ashes  of the cow must wash his  garments  and be unclean  until the evening.    "'And  it must serve the sons of Israel  and  the alien resident who  is residing  as  an alien  in their midst  as a statute to time indefinite.    Anyone  touching  the corpse of  any human soul must also  be unclean 7 days.     Such  one should purify himself  with it on the 3rd day, and  on the  7th day he will be clean.   But  if he will not purify himself on the 3rd day, then on the 7th day he will not be clean.    Everyone touching a corpse, the  soul of whatever man may die, and who will not purify himself, has defiled  God's tabernacle, and  that soul  must  be cut off from Israel.    Because the water for cleansing   has not been sprinkled upon him,  he continues unclean.    His  uncleanness is still upon him.   "'This  is the law  in case a man should die in a tent -- Everyone  coming into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will  

        

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be unclean 7 days,   And  everyone who on the open field may touch someone  slain  with  the sword  or  a corpse or  a bone of  a man or a burial place  will  be unclean 7 days.    And they must  take for the unclean one some of the dust of the burning of  the sin offering  and put  running water upon it in a vessel.   Then  a clean man  must take  hyssop  and dip it into the water and spatter  it upon the tent and all the vessels  and the souls that  happened  to be there  and  upon the one who touched the bone or the slain one or the corpse or the burial place.   And  the clean  person must spatter it upon  the unclean one on the 3rd day  and  on the 7th day  and must purify  him from sin on the 7th day -- and  he must  wash his garments and bathe in water, and he must be clean in the evening.   "'But the  man  who may be unclean and who will not purify himself, well that soul must be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because  it  is God's sanctuary  that he has defiled.   The water for cleansing  was not sprinkled upon him.     He is unclean.   "'And it must serve as a statute to time indefinite for them, that the one spattering the water for cleansing should wash his garments, also the one touching the water for cleansing.    He will be unclean until the evening.     And  anything the unclean one may touch will be unclean, and the soul who touches  it will be unclean until the evening.           20   And  the sons of Israel, the entire assembly, proceeded  to  come into the wilderness  of  Zin  in the 1st month, and the people took up living in Kadesh.     It  was  there that Miriam died  and  there that she was buried.     Now  there proved to be no water for the assembly,  and they  began  to congregate  themselves against Moses and Aaron.    And the people went  quarreling with  Moses and saying --"If only we had expired when our brothers expired before God!    And  why have you men brought God's congregation into  this wilderness  for us  and our  beasts of burden (animals) to die there?     And why have you  conducted  us  up out  Egypt  to bring us into this evil place?    It    is no place of seed and figs and  vines and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."    Then Moses and Aaron  came from  before  the congregation  to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell upon  their faces,  and  God's  glory began  to appear to them.   Then  God spoke to Moses, said--"Take the  rod  and  call the assembly  together, you and Aaron your brother, and you must speak to the  crag  before  their eyes that it may   indeed give its water -- and you must  bring out water  for them  from the  crag  and  give  the assembly  and  their beasts of burden drink."     So Moses  took the  rod from before God, just  as he had  commanded  him.    After that Moses and Aaron  called the congregation together before the crag, and he proceeded to say to them -- "Hear, now, you rebels!   Is it from this  crag that we shall bring out water for you?"     With  that Moses lifted his hand up and struck the crag  with his  rod  twice --   and much  water began to come out, and the assembly and their animals began to drink.   Later  God said to Moses and Aaron --"Because  you did not show faith  in me to sanctify  

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 me before  the  eyes of the  sons of Israel, therefore  you will not bring this congregation into the land that I shall  certainly give them."    These  are the waters of Meribah, because  the sons of Israel quarreled with God, so that he was sanctified among them.    Subsequently  Moses sent  messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom--  "This  is what your  brother  Israel has said, 'You yourself  well know  all the  hardship  that  has overtaken  us.    And  our fathers proceeded  to go down to Egypt, and  we continued  to  dwell  in Egypt  many days, and  the Egyptians  began doing  harm  to us and our fathers.    Finally we cried out to God and he heard our voice and sent an angel  and brought us out of Egypt --  and here we are in Kadesh, a city at the extremity of your territory. Let us pass, please, through your land.    We shall  not pass through a field or a vineyard, and we shall  not drink  the water of a well.    On the king's road we shall march.    We shall not bend toward the right or the left, until we shall pass through your territory.'"      However, Edom said to him--"You must not pass through me, for  fear  I may  come out with the sword to meet you."    In  turn the sons of Israel said to him--"By the highway we shall go up and if I and my livestock should drink your water, I shall also certainly give the value of it (pay for it). I want nothing more than to pass through on my feet."    Still he said--"You must not pass through."    With  that Edom  came on out to encounter him with a great many people and a strong hand.   So Edom refused to grant Israel to pass through his territory.    Hence   Israel turned away from him.    And  the  sons of Israel, the entire assembly, proceeded to  pull  away from Kadesh  and come to Mount Hor.    Then  God  said  this to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom -- "Aaron will be gathered to his people, for he will not enter into the land that I shall certainly  give to the sons of Israel, on the ground  that  you men rebelled against my  order respecting the waters of Meribath.   Take Aaron and Eleazar his son  and bring them up into the Mount Hor.     And strip Aaron of his garments, and you must clothe with them Eleazar his son -- and Aaron will be gathered  and must die there."   So Moses did just as God had  commanded -- and before the eyes of all the assembly they went climbing Mount Hor.   Then  Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and clothed Eleazar his son with them, after which Aaron died there on the top of the mountain.   And Moses and Eleazar came on down from the mountain.  And all the assembly got to see that Aaron had expired, and all the house of Israel continued weeping for Aaron for 30 days.        21   Now the Canaanite  the  king of Arad, who l dwelt  in the Negeb, got to hear that Israel had come by the way of Atharim, and  he began to fight with Israel and carry away some of them as captives.     Consequently   Israel  made a  vow to God and said--"If you will without fail give this people into my hand, I shall also certainly  devote their cities to destruction."     So God  listened  to Israel's voice and  gave the Canaanites  over  --  and they devoted them  and  their cities to destruction.     Hence  they called  the name of the place  Hormah.      

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    While   they  continued  treking  from Mount Hor  by the way of the Red Sea to  go  around  the land of Edom, the soul  of the people  began tiring out because of the way.   And the people  kept  speaking  against  God and Moses --"Why have  you brought  us up out of Egypt  to  die in the wilderness?    For there  is  no  bread  and no water, and  our soul has come to  abhor  the contemptible bread."    So  God sent  poisonous  serpents  among  the people, and they kept biting the people, so  that  many people of Israel died.    Finally the people came  to Moses and said --"We  have sinned, because  we have spoken  against  God and  against you.    Intercede with God  that  he may remove the serpents from upon us."      And  Moses went pleading in behalf of the people.    Then God said to Moses--"Make  for yourself  a fiery snake and place  it  upon a signal pole.   And  it must occur that when anyone  has been bitten,  he then has to look at it, and to must keep alive.    Moses  at once  made a serpent  of copper  and placed it upon the signal pole, and  it did  occur that if a serpent had bitten a man and he gazed  at the copper serpent, he then kept alive.   After that the sons of Israel  pulled away  and encamped in Oboth. Then they pulled away from Oboth and encamped in Iyeabarim,  in the wilderness that  is  toward the front of Moab, toward  the rising of the sun.     From there they  pulled  away  and  went camping in the torrent valley of Zered. From there they pulled away and went camping in the region of the Arnon, which is in wilderness  that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab,  between Moab  and the Amorites.   That  is why it is said in the book of the Wars of God -- "Vaheb in Suphah  and the torrent valleys  of Arnon, and the mouth of the torrent valleys, which has bent itself toward the seat of Ar  and  has  leaned  against  the border of Moab."    Next from there on to Beer.   This is the well  about  which God said to Moses--"Gather the people, and let me give them water."   At  that  time Israel proceeded  to  sing this song -- "Spring up, O well!   Respond  to it you people! A well, princes dug it!    The nobles  of the people  excavated  it. With a commander's staff, with their own staffs."   Then from the wilderness on to Mattanah.    And from Mattanah on  to Nahaliel, and  from Nahaliel  on to Bamoth.     And from Bamoth on to the valley that is in the field of Moab, at the head of Pisgah, and it projects  over toward  the face of Jeshimon.    Israel now  sent messengers  to Sihon  the king of the Amoirtes, saying--"Let me pass through your land.   We  shall  not turn  off into a field  or vineyard.   We shall    drink water of  no well.    On the King's road  we shall march  until we pass through your territory."    And  Sihon  did not  allow Israel  to pass through his territory, but Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness,  and  came to Jahaz and began fighting with Israel.    At that Israel struck him with the edge of the sword  and took  possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, near the sons of Ammon -- because 

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 Jazer is  the border of the sons of Ammon.    So   Israel  took all these cities, and Israel began  dwelling  in  all the cities  of the Amorites, in  Heshbon and all its dependent towns.    For Heshbon   was the city of Sihon.   He was the king of the Amorites, and it  was he who fought with the king of Moab formerly and went taking all  his land  as far as the  Arnon.    That is  why the sayers of mock verses would say -- "Come to Heshbon.   Let the city of Sihon be built and be proved firmly set up.   For  a fire has come out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon.    It has consumed (burned) Ar of Moab, the owners of the high places of the Arnon.    Woe (sorrow) to you, Moab!    You  will certainly perish, O people of Chemosh!   He will  certainly  give his sons as escaped ones and his daughters in the captivity to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.    So  let us shoot at them.   Heshbon  will certainly perish up to Dibon, and the women up to Nophah, the men up to Medeba.    And  Israel began to  dwell  in the land of Amorites.    Then   Moses sent  some to spy on Jazer.    So they captured its dependent towns   and dispossessed  the Amorites who were there.   After that they turned and went up by the way of Bashan.    At  this Og the king of Bashan came out to meet them,  he  and all his people, to the battle of Edrei.    God now said to Moses --"Do not be afraid of him, for into your hand I shall certainly give him and all his people and his land -- and you must do to him just as you did to Sihon, the  king of the Amorites, who used to  dwell in Heshbon.   So  they went striking  him  and his  sons and all his people, until there was no survivor remaining  to him -- and they went taking possession of the land.         22   Then   the sons of  Israel pulled away  and  encamped on the desert  plains of Moab across the  Jordan from Jericho.   And  Balak the son of  Zippor  got  to  see all  that Israel had  done to the Amorites.    And  Moab became very frightened at the people, because they were many -- and Moab began to feel   sickening  dread  of the sons of Israel.    And  Moab proceeded to say to the older men of Midian--"Now this congregation will   lick up all our surroundings  like the bull licking up the green growth of the field."     And Balak the son of Zippor  was king  of Moab  at that particular time.    He now sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which  is by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call him saying --"Look! A people has come out of Egypt.  Look!   They  have covered the earth as far  as one can see, and they are  dwelling  right in front of me.     And  now do come,  please, do curse this people for me, for  they are mighitier than  I am.     Perhaps  I may be able to strike them  and   I may drive them out of the land -- for I  well know that the one whom you  bless  is a blessed one  and the one whom you curse is cursed."      So  the older men of Moab and  the older men of Midian traveled with the payments for divination (seeking knowledge of the future) in their hands and went to Balaam and spoke to  him Balak's words.    At  that he said to them -- "Lodge  here   

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  tonight and  I shall certainly return you   word just  as God may speak to me."   Accordingly the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.     Then God came to Balaam and said--"Who are these men with you?"   So Balaam  said  to the true   God --  "Balak  the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, has sent to me, saying, 'Look!    The  people who are coming out of Egypt, and they go covering  the earth  as far  as the eye can see, now do come, do execrate (curse, denounce) them for me.    Perhaps  I may  be able to fight against them and I shall  certainly  drive them out.'"    But   God said to Balaam --"You must not go with them.    You must not   curse the people, for they are blessed."     After that Balaam got  up in the morning  and said to the  princes of Balak --"Go to your country, because  God has  refused  to let  me go with you."    So the princes Moab got up and came to Balak and said--"Balaam has refused to come with us."      However, Balak  sent again  other princes in greater number and more honorable  than the former.     In  turn  they came  to  Balaam and said to him--"This is what Balak  the son of Zippor has said, 'Do not be detained, please, from coming to me.     For I shall without fail honor you greatly, and everything  you may say to me  I shall do.    So do come, please.  Do   denounce this people for me.'"     But  Balaam  answered  and said to the servants of Balak--"If Balak were to give  me his house full of silver and gold, I should not be able to pass beyond the order of Lord  my Jehovah, so  as to do something small or great.    And  now you  men also stay here, please, tonight that I may know  what further God  will speak with me."      Then God came to Balaam by night and said to him --"If it is to call you that the men have come,  get up, go with them.   But only the word that  I  shall speak to you is what you may speak."     After that Balaam got up in the morning and saddled  his she-ass  and went with the princes of Moab.    And  the anger  of God began to blaze   because  he was going --  and God's angel  proceeded  to  station himself in the road to resist him.   And  he was riding  upon his  she-ass, and 2 attendants of his were with him.     And the  ass  got to see  God's angel stationed in the road with his drawn sword in his hand --  and the  ass tried  to turn aside  from the road that  she might go into the field, but Balaam  began to  strike  the ass  in order  to turn her  away from the road.    And  God's angel  kept standing  in the narrow way between the vineyards,  with a stone  wall  on this side and a stone wall on that side.    And the  she-ass  kept  seeing God's  angel and began to squeeze herself against the wall and so to squeeze Balaam's foot against the wall -- and   he went beating her some more.     God's  angel  now passed by again and stood in a narrow place, where  there was no  way  to turn aside  to the right or the left.   When  the ass got to see God's angel  she now lay down under Balaam,  so  that Balaam's anger blazed,  and  he kept beating the ass  with this staff.    Finally  God  opened  the mouth of the  ass and  she said to Balaam --"What  have I done to  you  so that you have beaten  me these 3 times?"    At  this Balaam said to the  ass --"It  is  because you have dealt ruthlessly with me.    If  only there  were  a sword in my hand, for  

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  now I should have killed you!"    Then the she-ass said to Balaam --"Am I not your  she-ass  that you  have ridden upon all your  life long until today?  Have   I ever been used   to do  to you this way?"   To which he said, "No!"    And God proceeded to uncover Balaam's eyes, so that he saw God's angel stationed in the road with  his  drawn sword in his hand.      At  once he bowed  low and prostrated     himself on his face. Then God's angel said to him--"Why have you beaten your  she-ass  these 3 times?   Look!  I-I  have  come out to offer resistance, because  your  way has been reckless against my will.   And  the   she-ass got  to  see me  and  tried to turn aside  before  me these 3 times. Supposing  she had  not turned aside  from before me!    For  by now even you I should have killed, but  her  I should have saved alive."    At  this Balaam said to God's angel --"I have sinned, because  I did not know that it was you stationed in the road to meet me.    Now, if  it is bad in your eyes, let me go my way back."     But the God's angel said to Balaam--"Go with the men, and nothing but the word I  shall  speak to  you is  what you may speak."   And Balaam  continued  going  with the princes of Balak.   When  Balak got the hear that Balaam had come, he at once went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the bank of the Arnon, which  is on the extremity of the territory. Then Balak said to Balaam --"Have I not for a fact sent to  you to call you?    Why did you not come to me?     Am  I  not really and truly able to honor you?" At this Balaam said to Balak --"Here  I  have come to you now.   Shall  I be able at  all to  speak something?   The word that God  will place in my mouth is what I shall speak."     So Balaam went with Balak and they came to Kiriathhuzoth. Balak proceeded to sacrifice cattle and sheep and to send some to Balaam and the princes who were with him.   And it came about in the morning that Balak went taking Balaam  and bringing him up to Bamothbaal, that he might see from there the whole of the  people.          23   Then Balaam said to Balak--"Build for me on this spot 7 altars and  make ready for me on this spot 7 bulls and 7 rams."     Balak  immediately  did just as Balaam had spoken.    After that Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.    And  Balaam went on to say to Balak --"Station  yourself  by your burnt offering, and let me go.     Perhaps God will get in touch, and meet with me.   In  that case whatever he will show me, I shall certainly tell you."    So  he went to a bare hill.    When God got in touch with Balaam, he then said to Him--"I set the 7 altars in rows, and I  proceeded to offer up  a bull  and a ram on each altar."    Accordingly  God put word in  the mouth of Balaam  and said --"Return to Balak, and this is what you will speak."     So  he returned to him, and look!   he and all the princes of Moab  were stationed  by his burnt offering.   Then he took up his proverbial (famous) utterance and said --"From Aram Balak the king Moab tried to conduct me, From the mountains of the east -- Do come, do curse Jacob for me.     Yes, do come, do denounce Israel.  

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    How could I  execrate (loathe)  those whom God  has not  execrated?    And how could I  denounce (execrate, curse)  those whom God has not denounced?    For  from the top of the rocks I see them,   And  from the hills I behold them.   There as a people they  keep tabernacling isolated, and among the nations they do not reckon themselves.    Who  has numbered the dust particles of Jacob, And who has counted  the 4th part of Israel?   Let  my soul die the death of the upright  ones.    And  let my end turn out afterward like theirs."    At this Balak said to Balaam--"What have you done to me?   It was in order to  execrate  my enemies  that I took you, and  here you have blessed them to the limit." In turn he answered and said --"It  is not whatever God may put in my mouth that I should take care to speak?"     Then Balak said to him--"Do come, please, with me to another place from which you can see them.    Only the extremity of them you will see, and you will not see all of them.    And  execrate (denounce)  them for me from there."      So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and proceeded to build  7 altars and to offer up a bull  and  a ram on each altar.     After  that he said to Balak--"Station yourself here by your burnt offering, and as for me, let me  get in touch with him there."    Subsequently God  got in touch  with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said--"Return to Balak, and this is what you  will speak."    So  he came to him, and look!    he was stationed  by his burnt offering and the princes of Moab with him.     Then Balak said to him--"What has God spoken?"    At  this he took up his proverbial utterance and said --" Get up, Balak and listen.  Do give ear to me, O son of Zippor.    God  is not a man that he should tell lies,   Neither  a  son of mankind that he should feel regret.    Has  he himself said  it and will he not do it,    And has he spoken and will he not carry it out?   Look!   I have been taken to bless, And He has blessed, and  I shall not reverse it.     He has not looked upon any uncanny (unnatural) power against Jacob,  And no trouble has he seen against Israel.    God his Lord  is with him,   And the loud hailing of a king is in his midst. God is bringing them out of Egypt.  The swift course like that of a wild bull is his.    For there is no unlucky spell against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel.    At this time it may be said respecting Jacob and Israel, 'What has God worked out!'  Behold, a people will get up like a lion,   And  like the lion it will lift itself up.   It  will not  lie down until it may eat prey,  And the blood of slain ones it will drink.   At  this Balak said to Balaam--"If, on the one hand, you cannot execrate  him at all, then,    

 

 

 

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  on the other hand, you should not bless him at all.    In turn Balaam answered and said to Balak --"Did  I not speak to you, saying,  'All  that God will say is what I  shall do'?"    Then  Balak said to Balaam --"O come, please.  Let me take you  to still another place.   Perhaps  it will be right in the eyes of the true God so that you will certainly  execrate  him for me from there."    With that Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which  looks  toward Jeshimon.  Then Balaam said to Balak--"Build for me on this spot 7 altars and make ready for me on this spot 7 bulls and 7 rams."    So  Balak  did just as Balaam had said, and he went offering up a bull and a ram on each  altar.          24   When Balaam got to see that it  was good in the eyes of  God to bless Israel, he did not go away  as at  the other times   to come upon any unlucky omens, but he directed his  face to the wilderness.   When  Balaam raised his eyes and saw Israel tabernacling by his tribes, then the spirit of God came to be upon him.   Hence he took up his proverbial utterance and said --"The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, and the utterance of the able-bodied man with the eye unsealed (opened), The utterance of  the one  hearing the sayings of God, who  got to see a vision of Almighty.    While falling  down with the eyes uncovered (opened) --How good looking are your tents,  O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel!    Like torrent valleys they have extended a long way,  like gardens by the river.   Like  aloe plants that God has planted, like cedars by the waters, Water keeps trickling from his 2 leather buckets,  And his seed is by many waters.   His king also will be higher than Agag,   And his kingdom will be lifted up.    God is bringing him out of Egypt -- The swift  course of a wild bull is his.   He  will consume (burn) the nations, his oppressors,  And their bones he will gnaw (chew), and he will break them to pieces with his arrows.   He bowed down, he lay down like the lion,   And like a lion, who dares rouse him?    Those blessing you are the ones blessed,   And those cursing you are the ones cursed."    At that Balak's anger blazed  against Balaam and he clapped his hands, and Balak went on to say to Balaam--"It was to  execrate (loathe) my enemies that I called you, and look!   you have blessed them to the limit these 3 times.   And  now run your way off to your place.   I  had said to myself  I was without fail going to honor you, but, look!   God has held you back from honor."    In turn Balaam said to Balak --"Was it not also to your messengers whom you sent to  me that I spoke, saying,  'If Balak were to give  me his house full of silver and gold, I should not be able to pass beyond the order of God  so as  to do something good or bad out of my own heart.   Whatever God may speak  is what I shall speak'?    And  now  here I am  

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   going away to my people.   Do come, let me advise you what this people will do to our people afterward  in the end of the days."   So  he took up his proverbial (famous) utterance and said --"The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, and the utterance of the able-bodied man with the eye unsealed (open), The utterance of the one hearing the sayings of God,  And the one knowing the knowledge of the Most High --  A vision of  Almighty  he got to see  While falling  down with the eyes  uncovered (opened)-- I  shall  see him, but not now, --  I  shall   behold him, but not near.     A star  will certainly step forth out of Jacob,   And a scepter  will indeed rise out of Israel.    And he will certainly break apart the temples of Moab's head  And the cranium (skull) of all the sons of  tumult (uproar) of war.   And Edom must  become a possession, Yes, Seir must  become  the possession of his enemies, While Israel is displaying his courage.   And  out of Jacob one will go suppressing,   And  he must destroy any survivor from the city.   When he go to see Amalek, he carried further his proverbial utterance and went on to say --"Amalek was the 1st one of the nations,   But his end afterward  will  be even his perishing."   When he got to see the Kenites, he carried further  his proverbial utterance and went to say--"Durable is your  dwelling, and set on the crag (rock) is your  abode (home).   But there will come to be one to burn Kain down.   How long  will it be till Assyria will carry you away captive?'   And  he carried further his proverbial utterance and went on to say--"Woe!  Who will survive when God causes it?  And there will be ships from the coast of Kittim, and they will certainly afflict (trouble, oppress)  Eber.   But he too will eventually perish.    After that Balaam got up and went and returned to his place.   And  Balak also went his own way.       25   Now Israel was  dwelling  in Shittim.    Then  the people started to have immoral relations with the daughters of Moab.    And the women came calling the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people began to eat and to bow down to their gods.     So Israel attached itself to the Baal of Peor -- and the anger of God  began to blaze (burn) against Israel.   Hence God said to Moses--"Take all the head ones of the people, and expose them to God toward the sun, that the burning anger of God may turn back (away) from Israel."   Then Moses said to the judges of Israel --"Each one of  you kill his men who have an attachment with the Baal of Peor."   But look!  a man of the sons of Israel came, and he was  

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   bringing  near to his brothers a Midianite woman before Moses eyes, and before the eyes of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of tent of meeting.     When Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest caught sight of it-- he at once got up from the midst of the assembly, and took a lance (spear) in his hand.   Then he went after the man of Israel  into the vaulted  tent and pierced both of them through--the man of Israel and the woman through her genital parts.   At that the scourge (plague, evil) was stopped  from upon the sons of Israel.  And those who died from the  scourge amounted to 24,000.   Then God spoke to Moses, saying --"Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has turned back my wrath (fury) from upon the sons of Israel  by  his tolerating no rivalry at all toward  me in the midst of them, so  that I have not exterminated the sons of Israel in my insistence on  exclusive (sole) devotion.  For that reason say, 'Here I am giving him my covenant of peace.  And it must serve as the covenant of a priesthood to time indefinite for him and his offspring after him, due to the fact that he tolerated no rivalry toward his God  and proceeded to make atonement (begging for forgiveness) for the sons of Israel.'"   Incidentally the name of the fatally  struck Israelite man  who was fatally struck with the Midianitess was Zimri the son of Salu, a chieftain of a paternal house of the Simeonites.   And  the name of the Midianite woman fatally struck was Cozbi the daughter of Zur -- he was the head one of the clans of a paternal house in Midian.    Later God spoke to Moses, saying --"Let there be a harassing  of the Midianites, and you men must strike them, because they are harassing you with their deeds of cunning  that they committed   against you  cunningly in the affair of Peor and in the affair of Cozbi the daughter of a chieftain of Midian, their sister who was fatally struck in the day of the scourge over the affair of Peor.      26  And  it came about after the scourge (affliction, bane), that Jehovah went on to say this to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest --"Take the sum of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel from   20 years of age and upward, according to the house of their fathers, all those going out to the army in Israel."     And  Moses and Eleazar the priest proceeded to speak with them in the desert plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying -- "Take the sum  of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel from 20 years of age and upward, just  as God had commanded Moses.   Now the sons of Israel  who went out of the land of Egypt were -- Reuben, Israel's 1stborn, Reuben's sons-- 

of Hanoch the family of the Hanochites-- 

of Pallu the family of the  Pallusites-- 

of Hezron the family of the  Hezronites-- 

of Carmi the family of the Carmites  -- These were the families of Reubenites, and their registered ones amounted to 43,730.    And  the son of Pallu was Eliab. The sons of Eliab -- Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram.  This Dathan and Abiram were summoned ones of assembly, who  engaged in  a struggle against  Moses and Aaron in the assembly of Korah, when they engaged in a struggle against God.   Then the earth opened  its mouth and swallowed them up.  

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 As for Korah, he died  at the death  of the assembly when the fire  consumed (burned)   250 men.   And they came to be a symbol.      However, the sons of Korah did not die.    The sons of Simeon by their families-- 

Of Nemuel the family of the Neumelites-- 

of Jamin the family of the Jaminites-- 

of Jachin the family of the Jachinites-- 

of Jerah  the family of the Jerahites-- 

of Shaul the family of the Shaulites.  These were the families of the Simeonites  --22,200. 

Sons of Gad by their families -- 

of Zephon the family of the Zephonites-- 

of Haggi   the family of the Haggites-- 

of Shunni the family of the Shunites-- 

of Ozni the family of the Oznites-- 

Of Eri the family of the  Erites-- 

of Arod the family of the  Arodites-- 

of Areli the family of the Arelites-- These were the 

families of the sons of Gad, of their registered ones, 40,500. 

The sons of Judah were Er and Onan.   However, Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.   And the sons of Judah came to be, by their families-- 

Of Shelah the family of the Shelanites-- 

of Perez  the family of the Perezites-- 

of Zerah the family of the Zerahites-- 

And the sons of Perez came to be -- 

Of Hezron the family of the Hezronites--  

of Hamul the family of the Hamulites --  

 These were the families of Judah, of their registered ones--76,500. 

The sons of Issachar by their families were-- 

Of Tola the family of the Tolaites-- 

of Puvah the family of the Punites-- 

of Jashub  the family of the Jashubites-- 

of Shimron the family of Shimronites--  

 These were the families of Issachar, of their registered ones--64,300. 

The sons of Zebulun by their families were-- 

Of Sered the family of the Seredites-- 

of Elon  the family of the Elonites-- 

of Jahleel the family of the Jahleelites--  

 These were the families of Zebulunites, of their registered ones--60,500. 

The sons of Joseph by their families were Manasseh and Ephraim. 

The sons of Manasseh were-- 

Of Machir the family of the Machirites.  

 And Machir became father to Gilead. 

Of Gilead the family of the Gileadites.  

 These were the sons of Gilead-- 

Of Iezer the family of the Iezerites-- 

of Helek  the family of the Helekites- 

of Asriel  the family of the Asrielites-- 

of Shechem  the family of the Shechemites-- 

of Hepher the family of the Hepherites-- 

Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher proved to have no sons, but daughters,  and  the names of  daughters of  Zelophehad were Mahlah  and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.   These were the families of Manasseh, and their registered ones were 52,700. 

These  were the sons of Ephraim by their families-- 

Of Shuthelah the family of the Shuthelahites-- 

of Becher the family of the Becherites-- 

of Tahan  the family of the Tahanites-- 

And these were the sons of Shuthelah-- 

Of Eran the family of the Eranites.  

 These were the families of the sons of Ephraim, of their registered ones--32,500.   These were the sons of Joseph by their families. 

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the sons of Benjamin by their families were-- 

Of Bela the family of the Belaites-- 

of Ashbel the family of the  Ashbelites-- 

of Ahiram the family of the Ahiramites- 

of Shephupham  the family of the Shuphamites-- 

of Hupham the family of theHuphamites-- 

The sons of Bela came to be Ard and Naaman-- 

Of Ard the family of the Ardites--  

of Naaman the family of the Naamites.  

These were the sons of Benjamin by their families, and their registered ones were 45,600. 

These were the sons of Dan by their families: 

Of Shuham the family of the Shuhamiters.  

These were the families of Dan by their families.  

All the families of the Shuhamites,  

of their registered ones were 64,400. 

The sons of Asher by their families were -- 

Of Imnah the family of the Imnites-- 

of Ishvi the family of the  Ishvites-- 

of Beriah the family of the  Beriites-- 

of the sons of Beriah-- 

Of Heber the family of the Heberites-- 

of Malchiel the family of the Malchielites. 

 And the name of the Asher's daughter was Serah.  

These were the families of the sons of Asher,  

of their registered ones--53,400. 

The sons of Naphtali by their families were-- 

Of  Jahzeel the family of the Jahzeelites -- 

of Guni  the family of the  Gunites-- 

of Jezer  the family of the Jezerites-- 

of Shillem the family of the Shillemites.  

These were the  families of Naphtali by their families,  

and their registered ones were 45,400. 

These were the registered ones of the sons of Israel--601,730. 

After that God spoke to Moses, said--"To these the land should be  apportioned  for an inheritance  by the number of the names.   According to the great number  you should   increase one's inheritance, and according to the fewness--you should reduce one's inheritance.   Each  one's inheritance  should be given in  proportion to his registered ones.   Only by the lot  should the land be apportioned.    According  to the names of the tribes of their fathers they should get an inheritance.   By  the determination of the lot one's inheritance should be apportioned between  the many and the few."  

Now these were the registered ones of the Levites by their families-- 

Of Gershon the family of the Gershonites-- 

of Kohath  the family of the Kohathites-- 

of Merari the family of the Merarites.  

These were the families of Levites. the family of Libnites,  

the family of Hebronites,  

the family of the Mahlites,  

the family of the Mushites,  

the family of Korahites.  

And Kohath became father to Amran.   

And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, Levi's daughter, whom  his wife bore  to Levi  in Egypt.    In  time  she   bore to Amram  Aaron, Moses and Miriam their sister.    Then  there were born to Aaron -- Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.   But Nadab and Abihu died  for their  presenting  illegimate fire before God.    And  their  registered ones amounted to 23,000,   all males from a  month old and  upward.    For they   did not get registered  in among the sons of Israel, because no inheritance  

 

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  was  to  be given to  them  in among the sons of Israel.   These  were  the ones registered  by Moses  and Eleazar  the priest when  they registered  the sons of Israel  in the desert  plains of Moab  the Jordan at Jericho.   But  among these there did not prove to be a man of those registered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they registered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.    For God had said concerning them --"They  will die without fail in the wilderness." So  there was  not left of  them a man, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.        27    Then the daughters of Zelophehad  the son of Hepher  the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near.    These were the names of his daughters Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.     And  they proceeded to  stand  before  Moses and  before the chieftains  and all the assembly at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying--"Our father  has died in the wilderness, and yet  he  did not prove to be in among the assembly, that is,  those who ranged  themselves  against  God in the assembly of Korah, but for his own  sin he has died, and he did not get to have any sons.   Why should the name of our father be taken  away  from the midst of his  family because he had no son?    O give  us a  possession  in the  midst of our father's brothers."   At that Moses presented their case before God.   God then said this to Moses--"The daughters of Zelophehad   are speaking right.     By all means you should give them the possession of  an inheritance  in the midst of their father's brothers, and you  must cause  their father's  inheritance  to pass to them.    And to the sons of Israel you should speak, saying,  'In  case  any man should die  without having a son, you must then cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.      But if he has no daughter, then you must give the inheritance to his brothers.   A nd if he  has  no brothers then he must give inheritance to his father's brothers (uncles).    But  if his  father has no brothers then give inheritance to his blood relation  who is closest  to him of his family, and he must take possession of it.   And it must serve as a statute (regulation) by judicial  decision  for the sons of Israel, just as God has commanded Moses.'" Subsequently God said to Moses--"Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I shall certainly  give the sons of Israel.    When you have seen it, then you must be gathered  to your people, yes, you, just as Aaron your brother was gathered, inasmuch as you men rebelled   against my order in the wilderness of Zin   at the quarreling of the assembly, in  relation to sanctifying me  by the waters before their eyes.     These  are the waters of Meribah at Kadesh  in the widerness of Zin."    Then  Moses spoke to God, saying--"Let God the Lord of the spirits of all sorts of flesh appoint over the assembly   a man who  will  go out before them  and  who will  come in before them, and who will bring them out, and who will bring them in, that  God's assembly may not become like sheep that have no shepherd."     So  God said to Moses -- "Take for yourself Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom there  

   

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    is  spirit, and you must lay your hand upon him, and you must stand him before Eleazar the priest and before all the assembly, and you must commission him before their eyes.    You must put some  of your dignity upon him, in order  that all the assembly  of the sons of Israel may listen to him.    And it is before Eleazar the priest that he will stand, and he must inquire in his behalf   by the judgment   of the Urim before God.    At  his order  they will go out and at his order they will come in,  he  and  all the sons of Israel with him and all the assembly."    And  Moses proceeded  to do just as God had commanded him.     Accordingly   he took  Joshua  and stood him before Eleazar  the priest and before all the assembly   and  laid his hands upon him and commissioned him, just as God had spoken by means of Moses.        28     And God  spoke  further to Moses, saying -- "Command the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, 'You  should  take care  to present  it  to me my offering, my bread, for my offering made  by  fire as  a restful odor to me, at their appointed times.'    "And  you must say to them,  'This  is the offering made by fire  that you will present to God -- 2  sound  year- old male  lambs  a day as a burnt offering constantly.   The 1 male lamb you will render up in the morning, and the other  male  lamb you  will render up  between the 2 evenings, together with the 10th of an ephah (1/10 of 22 liter is 2.2 liter) of fine flour as a grain offering moistened   with the 4th of a hin (1 hin is 3.67 liter so 1/4 of a hin is 0.92 liter = Approx. 4 cups) of beaten oil -- the constant burnt offering  which  was rendered up at Mount Sinai  as a restful odor, an  offering  made by fire to God, along  with its drink offering, the 4th of a hin to each male lamb.    Pour  out in the  holy place the drink offering of  intoxicating liquor to God.    And you  will render up the other male lamb  between the 2 evenings.    With  the same grain offering as of the morning  and with its same  drink offering  you will render it up as an offering made by fire, of  a restful odor to God.   "'However, on  the sabbath day there will  be 2  sound  year old male lambs  and  two  10th measures  of fine flour as a grain offering  moistened with oil, together with its drink offering, as a  sabbath  burnt offering  on its sabbath, along  with  the constant burnt offering   and its drink offering.    "'And at  the commencements  of your months  you people  will  present  as a burnt offering  to God  2  young bulls and 1 ram, 7  sound  male lambs  each 1 year old,  and  three 10th measures of fine flour as a grain offering  moistened with oil for each bull  and two 10th measures of fine flour  as a  grain offering  moistened  with oil for the one ram, and a  10th measure of fine flour  respectively as  a grain offering moistened with oil for  each male lamb, as a burnt offering, a restful odor, an offering made by fire to God.    As  their drink  offerings there should go 1/2 a hin (11. liter) of wine for a bull, and a 1/3 of hin (approx. 7.33 liter) or the ram and a 4th of hin (approx. 0.92 liter)  for a male lamb.   This  is the monthly burnt offering in its month of the months of the year.    Also, 1  kid  of the  goat  should be rendered  up as  a sin offering  to God  in addition  to the constant burnt offering  together  with its drink offering.     "'And  in  the 1st month, on  the 14th day of the  

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 month,  will be God's passover.    And  on the 15th  day  of this  month will be a festival.     7  days unfermented cakes will be eaten.   On  the 1st  day there will be a holy convention.   No  sort of  laborious  work must you do.   And  you must present  as an offering made  by fire, a  burnt  offering  to God,  2  young bulls  and  1 ram  and  7 male  lambs  each a year old.    They  should prove to be  sound  ones for you.    And  as  their grain offerings  of  fine flour  moistened  with oil  you will  render  up three 10th measures for a bull  and two  10th measures for the ram.   You  will   render up a 10th measure respectively  for  each male  lamb of the 7 male lambs -- and 1 goat  of sin offering  to  make atonement for you.    Aside  from  the morning burnt offering, which  is for the constant burnt offering,  you  will  render these up. The same  as  these you  will render  up daily  for the 7 days as bread, an offering made by fire, of a restful odor to God.    Along  with  the constant burnt offering  it  should be rendered,  and its drink offering.    And  on the 7th day you should hold  a holy convention.    No  sort of  laborious  work must you do.   "'And  on the day  of the 1st ripe fruits, when  you  present  a new grain offering to God, in  your feast of  weeks  you should  hold a holy convention.  No  sort  of laborious work must you do.   And you  must present as a burnt offering for  a restful odor to God   2 young bulls, 1 ram, 7 male  lambs each 1 year old  and  as their  grain offering  of fine  flour moistened with oil three 10th measures  for each bull, two 10th measures for the one ram. a 10th measure respectively  for each male lamb of  the  7 male lambs, 1  kid of the  goat  to make atonement for you.     Aside  from  the constant burnt offering and  its  grain  offering  you will  render them up.    They  should  prove to be  sound  ones for you, together with their drink offerings.            29   "'And  in the 7th month, on the 1st day of the month, you should hold a holy convention.   No  sort of   laborious work must you do.   It  should  prove  to  be a day of the trumpet blast for you.    And you  must render  up  as a burnt  offering  for a restful  odor to God   1  young bull, 1 ram,  7  male lambs  each  1 year old,   sound  ones,  and  their grain  offering  of fine  flour moistened  with oil, three 10th measures  for the bull,   two  10th measures for the ram,  and  one 10th measure  for  each male  lamb  of the  7 male lambs -- and  1 male  kid of the  goats  as  a  sin offering  to  make atonement for you,  aside  from  the monthly burnt offering   and  its grain offering  and the constant  burnt offering   and  its grain offering, together  with  their drink offerings, according  to  the regular procedure for them,  as  a restful odor, an  offering  made  by fire to God.     "'And  on the 10th of this 7th  month  you  should  hold a holy convention, and you must  afflict  your souls.     No   sort of work must you do.   And  you must present   as  a burnt  offering to God, as a restful odor,  1 young bull,  1 ram,   7 male lambs  each 1 year old.    They  should  prove to be  sound  ones  for you. And  as  their grain  offering  of  fine flour moistened with oil   three   10th measures   for the bull,   two  10th measures for the 1 ram,  a  10th measures respectively for each male  

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lamb of the 7 male lambs -- 1  kid of  the goats  as a  sin  offering  aside from the sin offering of atonement    and   the constant  burnt offering  and  its grain offering, together with their drink offerings.     "'And  on  the  15th day of the 7th month  you  should  hold  a  holy convention.    No  sort of  laborious  work must you do, and  you must  celebrate a festival to God  7 days.   And  you must present  as  a  burnt offering, an  offering made by fire, of  a restful  odor to God,  13  young bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs each 1 year old.    They should prove to be  sound  ones.    And as their  grain  offering  of fine flour moistened with oil three 10th measures  for  each  bull of the   13 bulls,  two 10th measures for each ram of the 2 rams,  and a 10th measure for each male lamb of the 14 male lambs,   and  1   kid  of the  goats  as  a sin offering, aside from the constant burnt offering, its  grain offering and  its drink offering.     "'And  on the 2nd day   12 young bulls,  2 rams, 14 male  lambs each 1 year old,  sound   ones --  and their grain offering  and  their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure, and  1 kid of the goats  as a sin offering, aside from  the constant burnt offering  and its grain offering, together with their drink offerings.    "'And on  the 3rd day  11 bulls,   2 rams,   14 male lambs  each 1 year old,  sound  ones--  and their grain offering  and  their drink offerings  for the bulls, the rams  and the male lambs  by their number  according  to the  regular procedure -- and one goat as a sin offering,  aside from  the constant  burnt offering, and  its grain offering and drink offering.     "'And  on the 4th day-- 10 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs each 1 year old,  sound (healthy) ones -- their  grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams and the male lambs by  their number according to the regular procedure, and 1 kid (young) goats as a sin offering, aside from the constant burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.    "And on  the 5th day--9 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs  each 1 year old,  sound  ones, their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams and  the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure, and  1 goat as  a  sin offering, aside from the constant burnt  offering, and  its grain offering  and its drink offering.   "'And  on the 6th day -- 8 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs  each 1 year old, healthy ones, and  their  grain  offering  and  their  drink offerings  for the bulls, the rams and the  male  lambs  by their  number according  to the regular procedure, and 1 goat as a sin offering,  aside  from the constant burnt offering, its  grain offering and  its drink offerings.    "'And  on the 7th day-- 7 bulls, 2 rams,  14  male  lambs, each 1 year old,  sound  ones, and  their grain offering and  their  drink  offerings  for the bulls, the  rams  and the male lambs by their number  according  to  the regular  procedure for them, and  one  goat as a sin offering, aside from the constant burnt offering,  its  grain  offering  and its drink offering,     "'And  on  the 8th  day you  should  hold  a solemn assembly. No  sort  of  laborineous  work  

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must  you  do.   And  you must present as a burnt  offering,  an offering  made by fire,  of a restful  odor  to God, one bull, one ram,  7 male lambs each a year old,  sound ones,  and their grain  offering  and their  drink offerings  for the bull,   the ram  and the male  lambs  by their  number according  to the  regular procedure --  and one  goat  as  a sin offering,  aside from  the constant  burnt offering  and its grain  offering  and its drink  offering.  "'These  you will render up to God at your  seasonal  festivals,  besides your vow  offerings and your voluntary  offerings as your burnt offerings  and your  grain offerings and your drink  offerings  and your  communion  sacrifices.'"   And  Moses  proceeded  to  talk  to the sons of Israel  according  to everything  that God  had  commanded  Moses.         30   Then  Moses  spoke  to  the  heads  of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying -- "This  is  the word  that  God  has commanded -- In  case  a  man makes  a vow  to  God  or swears an  oath  to bind a vow  of  abstinence  upon  his soul,  he  must  not violate his  word.  According  to all  that  has  gone out of his mouth he should do.    In  case a woman  makes  a  vow  to God or she does  bind  herself with a  vow of abstinence  in the house of  her father in her youth,  and her father actually  hears  her vow  or her abstinence vow  that  she has  bound upon  her  soul and her  father does  keep silent toward her,  all  her vows  must also stand,  and  vows must stand,  and every  abstinence vow  that  she  has  bound  upon  her soul  will  stand.    But  if  her  husband  on  the day  of hearing  it forbids  her,  he  has  also  father  has  forbidden  her  on  the day of his  hearing  all her vows  or  her  abstinence vows  that she has  bound  upon  her soul, it will not stand, but  God will  forgive her,  and  because  her  father   forbade  her.    "However, if  she at all happens  to  belong  to  a husband,  and her vow  is upon  her or  the thoughtless promise  of  her  lips that she has  bound  upon  her soul,  and  her  husband  actually  hears it  and keeps silent  toward her on the day of  his hearing it, her vows  must  also stand or  her abstinence  vows  that she  has bound upon her soul will stand.    But  if her husband  on the day  of  hearing  it forbids her,  he has also annulled (legally invalid)  her vow  that  was upon her  or the thoughtless  promise of her lips that  she bound upon her soul, and   God will forgive her.    "In  the  case of the  vow   of a widow or a divorced woman, everything  that  she has bound  upon  her soul  will stand against her.    "However,  if  it is  in the house of her  husband  that she has vowed  or  has bound an abstinence vow upon her soul by an oath, and her husband  has heard it  and  has kept  silent toward her, he  has not forbidden her -- and all her vows must stand  or  any abstinence  vow that  she has bound upon her soul will stand.    But   if  her husband  has  totally  annulled them on the day of  his hearing  any  expression of her lips  as  her vows or as an abstinence  vow of her soul, they will not stand.    Her  husband  has annulled them,  and  God will forgive her.      Any  vow or any  oath of an abstinence vow to  afflict  the soul,  her  husband should establish  it  or  her husband should annul it.   But   if  her husband   absolutely  keeps silent  toward  her from day to day,  he has  also  established  all her  vows  or  all her abstinence vows that are upon her.       He  has  established  them because  he kept  silent toward her on the day  

 

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of his hearing them.   And  if  he totally  annuls  them  after his hearing them-- he actually bears her error.    " These  are the regulations that God commanded Moses   as  between a  husband  and his wife, as  between  a father and  his daughter  in her   youth in the house of her father."           31   God then spoke to Moses, saying --"Take  vengeance  for the sons of Israel  upon the Midianites.   Afterward  you will  be gathered to your people."    So  Moses spoke to the people, saying -- "Equip  men from among  you for the army, that they  may serve against  Midian  to execute God's vengeance upon Midian.   A 1000  of  each tribe of  all the tribes of  Israel you will  send into the army." Accordingly  from the 1000s of Israel  a  1000  were assigned of a tribe,  12,000 equipped for the army.    Then Moses sent them out, a  1000 of each tribe, to the army, them and Phinehas  the son  of  Eleazar the priest to the army, and the  holy utensils  and the the trumpets for blowing  calls were in his hand.    And they went waging war against Midian,  just  as God had commanded Moses,  and  they proceeded to kill every male.    And they killed the kings of Midian along with the others slain, namely, Evi and Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian, and they killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.    But  the sons of Israel carried off the women of Midian  and their little ones captive -- and  all their  domestic animals and  all their livestock   and all their means of maintenance they plundered (rob, raid).     And   all their cities in which they had settled  and all their walled camps they burned with fire. And  they went taking all the spoil and the plunder and all the booty (valuables stolen/seized in war)  in the way of humans and domestic animals.   And they came bringing to Moses and  Eleazar  the priest and to the assembly of the sons of Israel the  captives  and  the  booty  and the spoil, to the camp, to the desert plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.   Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chieftains of the assembly went out to meet them outside the camp.    And  Moses grew  indignant   at the appointed men of the combat forces, the chiefs of the 1000s and the chiefs of the 100s who were coming in from the military expedition.    So Moses said to them--"Have you  preserved alive every female?     Look!   They are the ones who, by Balaam's word,  served   to induce  the sons of Israel to commit  unfaithfulness toward God over the affair of Peor, so  that the scourge came upon the assembly of God.    And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill  every woman who has had  intercourse  with man by lying with a male.   And save alive for yourselves all the little ones among  the women who have not known the act of lying with a male.     As for yourselves, camp outside the camp 7 days.    Everyone who has killed a  soul  and everyone who has touched someone slain, you should purify yourselves on the 3rd day, and the 7th day, you and your captives.    And every garment and every article of skin  and everything made of goat's hair and every article of wood  you should purify for yourselves from sin."     Eleazar the priest then  said to the men of  the army who had gone into the battle --

 

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  "This is  the  statute of the law that God commanded Moses, 'Only the gold and the  silver, copper,  the iron,  the tin and the lead, everything that is processed with fire, you should pass through the fire, and it must be clean. Only it should be purified by the water for cleansing.    And everything that is not processed with fire you should  pass through the water.   And you must wash your  garments  on the 7th day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.'"    And  God proceeded  to say this to Moses--"Take the sum of the  booty, the captives both of humankind  and the domestic animals, you and  Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the assembly.    And you must divide  the booty in 2 between those taking part in the battle who went out on the expedition, and all the rest of the assembly.    And as a tax for God you must take away from the men of war who went out on the expedition   one  soul out of 500, of  humankind  and of the herd  and of the  asses and of the flock.   From  their 1/2  you  should take it and must give to Eleazar the priest as God's contribution.    And from the 1/2 of sons of Israel you should take 1 out 50, of humankind, of the herd, of the  asses and of the flock,  of every sort of domestic animal, and you must give them to the Levites, the keepers of the obligation of God's tabernacle."    And  Moses and Eleazar the priest went doing just as God had commanded to Moses.    And  the  booty, the rest the plunder that  the people of the expedition  had taken as plunder,   amounted to 675,000  of the flock, and  72,00 of the herd, and 61,000   asses.    As for human souls from the women  who had not known the act of lying with a male, all the souls were 32,000.     And  the 1/2 that was the share of  those who went out on the expedition  amounted in  number to 337,500 of the flock.   And the tax for God  from the flock amounted to 675.    And  of the herd there were 36,000 and the tax  on them for God was 72.   And the asses  were 30,500,   and the tax on them for God was 61.     And the human souls  were 16,000 and the tax on them for God was 32 souls.    Then Moses  gave the tax  as God's contribution to Eleazar the priest, just  as God had commanded Moses.   And  from the 1/2 belonging to the sons of Israel, which Moses divided from that belong to the men who waged war -- Now the 1/2 of the assembly from the flock amounted to 337,500,  and of the herd, 36,000, and  the  asses, 30,500,  and  the human souls, 16,000.      Then Moses took from the 1/2  belonging to the sons of Israel the 1 to be taken out of 50, of humankind and of domestic animals, and gave them to the Levites, the keepers of the obligation of God's tabernacle, just as God had commanded Moses.     And the appointed men who were of the 1000s of the army, the chiefs of the 1000s and the chiefs of the 100s, proceeded to approach  

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   Moses, and to say to Moses --"Your servants  have taken the sum of the men of war  who are in our charge and not one  has been reported missing from us. So let us present each one what he has found as God's offering, articles of gold, ankle chainlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and female ornaments, in order to make atonement for our souls before God."      Accordingly Moses and Eleazar  the  priest  accepted  the gold from them, all the jewelry.   And all  the gold of  the contribution  that they contributed to God amounted to 16,750 shekels from the chiefs of the 1000s and the chiefs of the 100s.   The men of the army  had taken plunder each for himself.    So Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the chiefs of the 1000s and of the 100s and brought  it  into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before God.             32  Now the sons of Reuben  and the  sons  of Gad had come to have  numerous  livestock, very many, in fact.    And  they began to see the land of Jazer and the land Gilead, and look!    the place was a place for a livestock. Hence the sons of Gad and Reuben came and  said  this to Moses  and Eleazar the priest and  to the chieftains of the assembly--"Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer  and  Mimrah   and Heshbon  and Elealeh and Sebam,  and  Nebo and Beon, the land the God defeated before the assembly of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."    And  they went on to say--"If we have found a favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession.   Do not make us cross the Jordan."    Then Moses  said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben --"Are your  brothers  to go to war while you yourselves keep living here?      And  why should  you  disheartened  the sons of  Israel from crossing into  the land that God will certainly give them?     That is the way your  fathers  did when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea  to see the land.    When  they went up  to the torrent valley of Eshcol and saw the land, then they disheartened the sons of Israel, so as not to go into the land that God was certain to give them.    Consequently God's anger blazed on that day so  that he swore, saying --'The men who came up out of Egypt from 20 years old  upward will  not see the soil  of which I  have sworn to Abraham, Isaac  and  Jacob, because they have not followed me  wholly, except Caleb the son of  Jephunneh the sons of Nun, because they have followed God wholly. So God 's anger blazed against Israel  and  he made them wander about in the wilderness 40 years, until all the generation that was doing  evil in the eyes God came to their end.    And  here you  have  risen  in the place of  your fathers  as the brood  of sinful men in  order  to add further to the burning anger of God against Israel. In case you should turn back from following him, he also would certainly once again let them stay longer in the wilderness, and you would have acted ruinously toward all this people."    Later they approached him and said--"Let us  build here stone flock pens for our livestock, and cities for our little ones.     But  we ourselves will go equipped  

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in  battle formation  before the sons of Israel until whenever we have brought them to their place, while our little  ones must  dwell  in the cities with fortifications (defenses walls) away from the face of the inhabitants of the land. We will not return to our houses  until the sons of Israel have provided themselves  with landed property, each with his own inheritance.   For  we shall not get an inheritance  with them from the side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us from the side of the Jordan toward the sunrising."     At  this Moses said to them -- "If  you will do this thing, if you will equip yourselves before God for the war, and every equipped one of yours will actually pass over the Jordan before God, until he drives away his enemies from before him,  and the land  is  actually subdued before God, and afterward you return, you  also will indeed prove yourselves free from guilt against God and against Israel-- and this land must become yours as a possession before God.     But  if you will not do this way, you will also certainly sin against God. In  that case  know that your sin will catch up with you.   Build  for yourselves cities for  your little ones and stone pens for your flocks, and what has gone forth from your  mouth you should do."    Then  the sons of Gad  and the sons of  Reuben said this to Moses -- "Your  servants will do just as my lord is commanding.    Our  little ones, our wives, our livestock and all our domestic  animals will  stay there in the cities  of Gilead.   but  your  servants will pass over, everyone  equipped for the army, before God for the war, just as my lord is speaking."       Accordingly  Moses gave a command  respecting them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.    So Moses said to them--"If the sons of Gad and the sons of  Reuben pass with you over the Jordan, everyone equipped for the war, before God, and the land is actually subdued  before you, you  must then give them the land of Gilead as a possession.    But if they do not pass over equipped with you, they must then be settled in your midst in the land of Canaan."     To  this the sons of Gad and the sons of  Reuben answered,  saying --"What God has spoken  to  your servants is the way we shall do.   We  ourselves  will pass over equipped before  God to the land of Canaan, and the possession of  our inheritance  will be with us  on this side of the Jordan."    At   this Moses gave to them, that is, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of  Reuben and to  1/2  the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon the king of Amorites and the kingdom of Og  the king Bashan, the land belonging to its cities in the territories, and the cities of the land round about.   And the sons of Gad proceeded to build Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer, and Atrothshophan and  Jazer and Jogbehah, Bethnimrah  and Bethharan, the cities with fortifications (defenses), and stone flock pens.   And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim, and Nobo and Baalmeon--their names being changed--and Sibmah -- and they began to call by their own names the names of the cities that they built.  

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And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh proceed to march to Gilead, and to capture it and to drive away the Amorites who were in it.    So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and  he took up  living in it.  And Jair  the son of  Manasseh  marched  and went capturing  their tent villages, and he began to  call  them Havvothjair.     And   Nobah marched and went capturing Kenath  and  its dependent towns -- and he began  to call it Nobah by his own name.                33     There were stages of the sons of Israel who went out of the land of  Egypt in their armies   by the hand of Moses and Aaron.   Moses kept  recording the  departure places by their stages at the order of God -- and these  were their stages  of  one departure place to another-- And  they proceeded  to pull  away  from Rameses in the 1st month, on the 15th day of the 1st month.   Directly  the day  after passover  the sons of Israel went out with  uplifted  hand before  the eyes  of all the Egyptians.    All  the while the Egyptians were  burying those whom God  had struck among them, that is, all the 1stborn--and upon their gods God had executed judgements.  So the sons of Israel  pulled  away from Rameses and went camping in Succoth.    Then they pulled away  Succoth and went  camping in Etham,  which  is on the edge of wilderness.   Next  they  pulled away from Etham and turned back toward Pihahiroth, which is in view of Baalzephon -  and they went camping before Migdol.    After  that they  pulled  away from Pihahiroth and went passing through the midst of  sea to the wilderness  and  kept marching  a  3 day journey  in  wilderness of  Etham  and took up camping in Marah. Then they  pulled away from  Marah   and came to Elim.  Now  in Elim there were  12  springs of water and  70 palm trees.  So  they camped there.   Next  they  pulled  away  from  Elim  and  went camping by the Red Sea.  After that they  pulled away  Red Sea  and  went camping  in the wilderness of Sin.   Then  they  pulled away from  the  wilderness of Sin  and camping  at   Dophkah.  Later they pulled away  from  Dophkah and went camping at  Alush.   They  next pulled away  from  Alush and went camping in  Rephidim.  And  there  proved  to  be  no water  for people to drink.   After  that they pulled  away  from  Rephidim  went  camping in the wilderness of Sinai.   Subsequently  they  pulled  away  from the  wilderness of Sinai and went camping  at  Kibrothhattaavah and camping in  Hazeroth.  After that  they pulled     away  from  Hazeroth  and went  camping  in Rithmah.   Next  they pulled away from Rithmah  and camping in  Rimmonperez.   Then they pulled away   from Rimmonperez  and went camping in  Libnah.   Later they pulled away from  Rissah and went camping in  Kehelathah.   Then  they pulled  away  from  Kehelathah and went camping in  Mount Shepher.   After  that they pulled  away  from Mount Shepher  and went camping in   Haradah.  Then  they pulled away  from Haradah and went  camping  

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in  Makheloth.    Next  they pulled  away  from Makheloth  and went camping in  Tahath.   After  that they pulled away from  Tahath  and went camping in  Terah.   Then  they pulled  away from  Terah  and went camping in  Mithkah.   Later  they  pulled away  from  Mithkah  and went camping  in Hashmonah.   Next  they  pulled  away  from  Hashmonah  and went camping in  Moseroth.  Then they pulled  away  from  Moseroth and went camping in  Benejaakan.   After  that they pulled away from  Benejaakan  and went camping in  Horhaggidgad.   Later  they pulled  away from Horhaggidgad  and went camping in  Jotbathah.    Later  they  pulled away from  Jotbathah  and went camping in  Abronah.   Then  they pulled away  from  Abronah  and went camping  in Eziongeber.   After that they pulled away from Eziongeber  and went camping  in the  wilderness of Zin,  that is to say, Kadesh.     Later they pulled away  from   Kadesh  and went camping in  Mount Hor, on  the frontier of  the land of Edom.    And  Aaron  the priest proceeded  to  go up into Mount Hor  at the  order of  God  and to die there  in the  40th year of  the going out of the sons of Israel  from the land of Egypt,  in the 5th month, on the 1st of the month.   And  Aaron was  123 years old at his death on Mount Hor.    Now the Canaanite, the king Arad, as he was  dwelling  in the Negeb,   in  the land of Canaan, got to hear about the coming of the sons of Israel.     In time they pulled away from Mount Hor and  went camping in Zalmonah.   After  that they pulled away  from Zalmonah  and went camping in Punon.   Next  they pulled away  from  Punon  and went camping in  Oboth.    Then  they  pulled  away  from  Oboth and went camping  in  Iyeabarim on  the  border of Moab.    Later they  pulled away  from  Iyim  and went camping  in Dibongad.   After  that they  pulled away  from  Dibongad and went camping  in  Almondiblathaim.    Then they pulled away  from   Almondiblathaim and went camping in the  Mountains of Abarim before  Nebo.    Finally  they pulled away from the mountains of Abarim  and took up camping  on the desert plains of Moab  by Jordan at Jericho.    And  they continued  camping by  the Jordan  from Bethjeshimoth  to  Abelshittim  on the desert plains of Moab.   And  God  proceeded to speak to Moses on the desert plains  of Moab  by the Jordan at Jericho, saying --"Speak to the sons of Israel,  and  you must say to them, 'You  are crossing the Jordan  into the land of Canaan.   And  you  must drive away all the inhabitants of the land  from before you, and destroy all their stone figures, and  all their images  of  molten metal  you  should destroy, and  all their  sacred  high places you should  annihilate.   And  you  must take  possession  of the land  and  dwell  in  it,  because  to you  I shall  certainly  give the land  to take possession of it.     And  you must  apportion  the land  to  yourselves  as  a possession by lot  according  to your  families.  To  the populous  one you should increase his inheritance, and to  the sparse  one  you should  reduce  his inheritance.   To where  the lot  will come  out for him, there  it will become his.   By  the tribes of  your  fathers  you should provide yourselves with landed property.  

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  "'If though, you  will  not drive the inhabitants of the land away from before you, then  those whom  you  leave of them will certainly become as pricks in your eyes  and  as  thorns in you sides, and they will indeed harass you on the land  in which you will be  dwelling.   And   it must occur that just as I had figured doing  to them  I shall  do to you.'"        34   And  God  spoke  further  to Moses, saying -- "Command  the sons of Israel, and  must say to them--'You are going into  the land of Canaan.   This  is the  land  which will fall to you by inheritance, the land of Canaan by its boundaries.    "'And your south side must proved to be from wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and  your south boundary  must prove to be from extremity of the Salt Sea on the east.   And your boundary  must  change direction from the south of  the  ascent of  Akrabbim  and  cross over to Zin, and its termination  must prove to be on the south of Kadeshbarnea --  and  it must  go out to Hazaraddar and pass over to Azmon.    And  the boundary must change direction at Azmon to the torrent valley of Egypt, and its termination must prove to be at the Sea.    "'As for a west boundary, it must prove to be for you the Great Sea and the shoreland.   This will become your  west boundary.  "'Now  this will become your north boundary -- From the Great Sea  you will mark  out to Mount Hor as a boundary for yourselves.   From  Mount Hor  you  will mark out the boundary to the entering in of Hamath, and the termination of the boundary must prove to be at Zedad.    And  the boundary must go out to Ziphron, and its termination must prove to be Hazarenan.    This will become your north boundary.    "'Then  you must mark for yourselves  as your boundary on the east from Hazarenan to Shepham.   And  the boundary must go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east of Ain, and the border  must go down and strike upon the eastern slope of the sea of Chinnereth.   And  the border must go down to the Jordan, and its termination must prove to be the Salt Sea.   This will  become your  land according  to its boundaries all around.'"    So  Moses commaned  the  sons of Israel, saying --"This  is  the land that you will  apportion  to yourselves  as  a possession by lot,  just  as God  has  commanded  to give  to the 9 1/2 tribes.   For the tribe of the sons of the Reubenites by the house of their fathers, and  the tribe of the sons of the Gadites by the house of their fathers have already taken thier inheritance.   The  2  1/2 tribes  have already  taken their inheritance from the region of the Jordan by Jericho eastward toward the sunrising."     And God spoke further to Moses, saying  --"These  are the names of the  men who will divide the land to you people for a possession, Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.   And you will take  one chieftain out of each tribe to divide land for a possession. And   these are the names of the men-Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh  --  and the of the tribe of sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud -- of the  tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon -- and of the   tribe of sons of Dan a chieftain  

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   Bukki the son of Jogli --  of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a chieftain, Hanniel the son of Ephod -- and  of the  tribe of the sons of Ephraim a chieftain, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan -- and of the tribe of the sons of Zubulun a chieftain, Elizaphan the son of Parnach -- and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a chieftain, Paltiel the son of Azzan -- and  of the tribe of the  sons of Asher a chieftain, Ahihud the son of Shelomi --  and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a chieftain Pedahel the son of Ammihud."  These  are the ones whom God  commanded  to make the sons of Israel landholders in the land of  Canaan.        35    And God went on  speak  to Moses  on the desert plains of Moab  by  the Jordan at Jericho, saying --"Give  the sons of Israel command  that  they must give the Levites cities to  inhabit  out of the inheritance  of  their possession, and they should give the Levites  the  pasture ground all around them.     And  the cities must serve for them to  inhabit,  while their pasture ground   will serve  for domestic animals  and all their goods  and  for all  their and wild beasts.    And the pasture grounds  of  the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will be from the wall of the city and out for a 1,000 cubits (approx. 1500 feet) all around.    And  you  must measure  outside the city on the east side 2,000 cubits (approx. 3,000 feet)  and on the south side 2,000 cubits (approx. 3,000 feet)  and on the  west side 2,000 cubits (approx. 3,000 feet) and  on  the north side 2,000 cubits ( approx. 3000 feet),   with the city in the middle.    This  will  serve them as pasture grounds of the cities. "These  are the  cities that  you will give to the Levites -- 6 cities of refuge, which you will give for the manslayer (murderer)  to flee there, and  beside them  you will  give 42 other cities.    All the cities  that you will give to  the Levites will be 48 cities to the Levites,   they together with their pasture grounds.   The  cities  that you will give will  be from the  possession  of  the sons of Israel.    From  the many  you will take many, and from  the few  you will take few.    Each one,  in proportion  to his inheritance that he will take as a possession, will give some of his cities to the Levites."     And  God continued to speak to Moses, saying  --"Speak  to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them,  'You  are crossing Jordan to the land of Canaan.   And  you must choose cities convenient for yourselves.    As  cities of refuge they will serve for you, and the  manslayer  must flee there  who fatally strikes  a  soul    unintentionally.   And  the  cities  must serve you as a refuge from  the blood avenger, that the  manslayer  may not die until he stands before the assembly for judgment.    And the ciities that you will give,  the   6 cities  of refuge  will be at your service.    3  cities you will give on the side of the Jordan, and 3 cities you will give in land of Canaan.   As  cities of refuge they will serve.    For  the sons  of Israel and for the alien resident  and  for the settler in the midst of them   these  6  cities will serve as a refuge, for anyone  to flee there that fatally strikes  a  soul  unintentionally.   "'Now  if  it was  with an iron  that  he has struck  him  so  that he dies, he is a murderer.    Without  fail murderer  should  be put to death.    And   if  it was a small  stone  by which he could die that  has struck  him so that  he  

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 dies,  he is a murderer.    Without   fail the murderer should be put to death. And if it was with  a  small  instrument  of wood by which he could die  that  he has   struck  him so  that he dies, he is a murderer.    Without fail the murderer should  be put to death.     "'The avenger  of blood  is the one  who will  put  the  murderer to death.    When  he chances upon him  he himself  will put him to death.     And   if  in hatred  he was pushing  him  or he has thrown at him while lying in wait  that he might die,  or  in enmity  he has  struck  him with his hand that he might die, without  fail  the striker should  be put to death.   He  is  a   murderer.   The  avenger of blood will put  the  murderer to death when he chances upon him.    "'But if it was unexpectedly  without  enmity  that he has pushed him or has thrown  any  article  toward him without lying in wait, or any stone by which  he could die without seeing him or he should cause  it to fall upon him,  so  that  he died,  while he was not at enmity with him and was not seeking his injury,  the assembly  must then judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these judgements.   And  the assembly must deliver  the   manslayer  out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly  must return him  to his city of refuge  to which he had fled, and he must dwell  in  it until the death of high priest  who was anointed with holy oil.     "'But  if the  manslayer  without fail goes  out of the boundary of  his city of refuge to which he may flee, and  the avenger of  blood does  find  him  outside the boundary of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood does   slay  the  manslayer, he  has no blood guilt.   For he ought  to  dwelt  in his city  of refuge until high priest's  death,  and after high priest's death  the  manslayer  may return  to the land of his possession.   And  these  must serve  as a   statute  of judgment  for you  throughout your  generations  in all of your dwelling places.   "'Every  fatal  striker of a   soul  should  be  slain  as  a murderer at the  mouth  of witnesses, and  one witness  may  not testify against  a  soul  for him to die.   And  you must take   no  ransom  for  the soul  of a murderer   who  is deserving   to die,  for without  fail  he should  be put  to death.  And  you  must  not  take a ransom  for one who has fled to the city of refuge, to resume   dwelling  in the land before the death of  the  high priest.   "'And  you must not pollute the land where you are, because  it  is the  blood that pollutes the land, and   for the land there may be no atonement respecting the blood that has been spilled upon it   except  by the blood of the one who spilling it.  And you must  not defile the land in which you are  dwelling, in the midst of it which I am  residing in  the midst of the sons of Israel.'"        36   And the heads of the fathers  of the  family  of the sons of Gilead  the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of the sons of Joseph proceeded  to come near and speak  before Moses and the chieftains, the heads of the fathers of the sons of of Israel, and say -- "God  commanded  my  lord  to give the land in inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by God to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to  his daughters.    If  any of the sons of Israel happened  to  get them as wives, the women's inheritance must also  be  

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withdrawn  from the inheritance of  our fathers  and  must be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they may come to belong, so that it would be withdrawn  from  the lot of our inheritance.   Now  if the Jublilee takes place for the sons of Israel, the women's inheritance must also be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they may come to belong, so that their inheritance would be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."    Then   Moses  commanded the sons of Israel at the order of God, saying--"The tribe of the sons of Joseph is speaking right.  This  is the word of God has commanded for the daughters of Zelophehad, saying--'To whom it is good in their eyes they may become wives.   Only  it  is  to the family of the tribe of their fathers that they should become wives.     And  no inheritance of the sons of Israel should cleave  from tribe to tribe, because the sons of Israel should  Cleave  each one to the inheritance of the tribe of  his  forefathers.   And every daughter  getting  possession  of an inheritance  out of the tribes of the sons of Israel,  to  one of  the family of the tribe of  her father  she should become a wife, in  order that the sons of  Israel may  get possession each one of the inheritance of his  forefathers.      And  no inheritance should circulate from one tribe to another tribe, because  the tribes of the sons of Israel cleave   each  to its own inheritance.'"    Just  as God had commanded Moses, that is the way of daughters of Zelophehad did.       Accordingly  Mahlah, Tirzah  and  Hoglah  and  Milcah and Noah,   the  daughters of Zelophehad,   became  the  wives of the sons of their father's brothers.    To  some of  the families of the sons  of Manasseh  the son of Joseph  they became wives, that their inheritance might  continue  together with  the tribe of the family of their father.   These are the commandments and the judicial decisions  that  God commanded by means of Moses to the sons of Israel   on   the desert plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 

Deuteronomy 

1      These  are the words  that Moses  spoke  to all Israel  in  the region of the  Jordan in the wilderness,  on  the  desert plains in front of Suph, between Paran and Tophel  and  Laban  and  Hazeroth and Dizahab,  it  being  11 days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir   to Kadeshbarnea.   And  it was about in the 40th year, in the 11th month and on the 1st day of the month,   Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to  all  that God had commanded  him for them, after  his defeating  Sihon   the king  of the Amorites, who was dwelling  in Heshbon, and Og  king of Bashan, who was  dwelling  in Ashtaroth,  in Edrei.     In  the  region of the Jordan in the land of Moab  Moses  undertook to explain this law, saying  --"God our Jehovah spoke to us in Horeb, saying,  'You have  

   

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 dwelt long enough in this mountainous  region.   Turn and  set out on your way  and go into the mountainous  region  of the Amorites and to all their neighbors  in the Arabah, the mountainous region and  the Shephelah  and the Negeb  and the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, up to the great river, the river of Euphraites.   See, I do put the land before you people.   Go  in and take  possession of  the land about which God  swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them  and their  seed after them.'     "And  I  proceeded  to  say this  to you at that particular time,  'I  am not able  by myself  to carry you,  Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and  here you are today  like the stars of the heavens of multitude.    May Jehovah the God of your ancestors increase you a  1000 times  as many  as you are, and  may HE bless you just as he promised you.     How  can I carry by myself the burden of you, and the load of you, and your quarreling?    Get wise  and  discreet  and experienced  men of your tribes, that  I may  set them as heads  over you.'   At that you answered me and said, 'The  thing  you have  spoken for  us to do is good'       So  I took the heads of your tribes, men wise and experienced,  and  put them as heads over you, chiefs of 1000s and chiefs of 100s  and chiefs of  50s  and chiefs  of  10s and officers of your tribes.   "And  I went on  to command your judges at that particular time, saying, 'When  having  a  hearing between your brothers, you must judge with righteousness  between  a man and  his brother or his alien resident.    You must not be partial in judgment.     You should   hear the little one the same as the great one.    You  must not become  frightened   because of a man, for the judgment belongs to God  -- and the case that is too hard for you,  you should present it to me,   and  I must hear it.     And  I proceeded to command  you  at that particular  time  all the things that you should do.   "Then we  pulled away  from  Horeb  and went marching through all that great and fear-inspiring wilderness, which you have seen, by the way of the mountainous region of the Amorites,  just  as our God had commanded us, and we eventually  came to Kadeshbarnea.   Now  said to you, 'You have come to the mountainous region of the Amorites,  just  as   God  our  Lord is giving to us.     See,  Jehovah your God has abandoned the land to you.    Go up, take possession, just as Jehovah the  God of your   forefathers   has spoken to you.    Do  not be afraid, nor be terrified. "However,  all of you came  near me and said,  'Do  let us send men ahead of us that they may search  out the land for us, and bring us back word concerning   the  way by which we should go up  and  the  cities which we will  come'   Well, the thing proved to be good in my eyes, so that  I  took 12 men of yours,  one  for each tribe.    Then  they turned and went up into the mountainous   region  and  got  as far as torrent valley of Eshcol and went spying on it.    And they proceeded to take some  of the fruitage  of the  land  in their  hand and to bring it down to us, and they came bringing   us back word and saying, 'The  land  that God our  Lord   is giving us is good.'    But  you did  not wish to go up, and you began to behave rebelliously    

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 against  the order of God our  Lord.    And you  kept grumbling in your tents and saying--'It  was because God  hated us that HE brought us out of the  land of Egypt  to  give us  into the hands of Amorites, to   annihilate (destroy) us.    Where are we going up?    Our  brothers have caused our hearts to melt, saying--"A people greater and taller than we are, cities great and fortified to the heavens  and  also the sons of the Anakim we saw there."'   "So I said to you, 'You  must  not suffer a shock or  be afraid because of them.   God your Jehovah is the one going before you.   He will fight for you  according to  all that he  did with you in Egypt under your own eyes, and in the wilderness, where  you saw how  God your  Lord  carried  you just as  a man carries his son, in  all the way that you walked until you coming to this place.'     But despite this word you were not putting faith in God your  Lord, who  was going before you in the way to spy out for you a place for you to camp, by fire at night for you to see by what way you should walk and by a cloud in daytime.     "All the while God heard the voice of your words.   So  he became indignant and swore,  saying,   'Not  one among  these men of this  evil generation will see the good land  that I  swore  to give to your fathers, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh.     He  will see it, and  to him  and to his sons  I shall  give the land upon  which he  trods (walks), by reason of the fact that he has followed God fully.    (Even against me God got  incensed (enraged)  on your account, saying, 'You too will not go in there. Joshua the son of Nun, who is standing before you, is  the one who will go in there.'    Him  he has made strong, because he will cause Israel to inherit it.)      As for your little ones of whom you said--"plunder  they will become!" and your sons who today  do  not know good or bad, these  will go in there, and to them I shall give it, and they will take possession of it.     As   for you yourselves, change your direction and  pull  away for the wilderness  by the way of the Red Sea.'      "At  this you answered  and said to  me,  'We  have sinned against God. We --  we shall go up and fight  in accord with all our God has commanded us!     So you girded on, each one, his weapons of war and regarded  it as easy to go up into the mountain.    But God said to me--'Say to them--"You must  not go up and fight, because I am not in your midst, that you may not be defeated before your enemies."'    So I   spoke  to you, and you did not listen   but   began to behave  rebelliously against God's order   and  to get all  heated up (angry),  and you tried to go up into the mountain.     Then  the Amorites who were   dwelling  in that mountain came out to meet you  and went chasing you, just as bees do, and scattering you   in Seir as far as Hormah.    After  that  you returned and began to weep before God, but  God did not listen to your voice, neither did he give ear to you.  So  you kept dwelling  in Kadesh many days, as many days as you did dwell  there.      2   "Then  we turned  and pulled away  for the wilderness by the way  of the Red Sea,  just as God had spoken to me --  and we were many days in going  around  Mount Seir.   Finally  God  said this to me,  'You  have gone around  this  mountain long enough.   Change your 
 

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    direction to the north.    And  you command the people, saying --"You are passing along  by the border of your brothers, the sons of Esau who are   dwelling in Seir, and they will be afraid because of you, and  you must be very careful.      Do not  engage in  strife (conflict)  with them, because I shall not give  you their land so much  as the width of the sole of the foot --  because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a holding.     What food you may buy from them for money,  you must eat  -- and also what water you may purchase from them  for money--you must drink.   For  Jehovah your God has blessed you  in every deed of your hand.   He well knows of your walking through this great wilderness.  These 40 years God your  Lord has been with you.    You have not lacked a thing."      So we passed on away from our brothers, the sons of Esau, who are  dwelling  in Seir, from the way of Arabah, from  Elath and from Eziongeber.   "Next we turned and passed on  by the way of the wilderness of Moab.    God  then  said to me, 'Do not molest  Moab  or  engage in war with them, because I shall not give you any of his land as a holding, for  to the sons of   Lot   I have given Ar as a holding.     (The Emim  dwelt   in  it in former times, a people great and numerous   and tall like the Anakim.    As for the Rephaim, they also were considered like the Anakim, and the Moabites used to call them Emim. And  the Horites   dwelt   in Seir  in former times, and the sons of Esau proceeded to dispossess  them and to  annihilate (destroy) them from before them, and   dwell   in their place,  just the  same as Israel must do to the land that is his holding, which God will certainly give to them.)      At this time rise and make your way  across the torrent valley of  Zered.   Accordingly  we went  crossing  the torrent valley of Zered.  And the days that we walked from  Kadeshbarnea  until we crossed the torrent valley of Zered were 38 years, until  all the generation of the men of war had come to their  end  from the midst of the camp, just as God had sworn to them.   And the hand of God  also proved to be upon them  to disquiet them out of the midst of the camp, until they came to their end.   "And  it  was about that  as soon  as all the men of  war had finished  dying off from the midst of the people. God spoke further to me, saying,   'You  are passing  today by the territory of Moab, that is Ar,  and you must get  close in front of the sons of Ammon.   Do not molest them  or engage in  strife (conflict) with them,   because I   shall not  give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a holding, for it is to  the sons of Lot that I have given it as a holding.     As the land of the Rephaim it also used to be considered.   (The Rephaim dwelt  in it  in former times, and  Ammonites used to call them Zamzummim.    They were a great and  numerous  and tall people like the Anakim --  and God went  annihilating (destroying) them from before them, that  they might dispossess  them and  dwell  in their place -- just  the same  as he  did for the sons of Esau,  who are  dwelling  in Seir, when   he  annihilated (destroyed)  the Horites from before them, that they might dispossess   them and  dwell  in their place until this day.     As for the Avvim, who were  dwelling   in settlements as far as  

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   Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor,  anniliated them,  that  they might dwell in their place.)   "'Get up,  pull away and cross the torrent valley of Arnon.     See, I  have given  into  your hand  Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Amorite.   So start to possession  of  his land, and engage in war with him.    This  day  I shall start  to put the dread of you and the fear of you before the peoples  beneath all the heavens, who will hear  the report about you -- and  they  will indeed be agitated and have pains like those of childbirth because of you.'   "Then  I sent messengers from the wilderness  of  Kedemoth  to Sihon  the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying --'Let  me pass through your land. Only on the road I shall walk.    I   shall  not turn  to the right  or to the left.   What food you will  sell me for money,  I must eat -- and  what water  you will give me for money,  I must drink.   Only  let me pass through on my feet, just the same as the sons of Esau   dwelling  in Seir and  the Moabites  dwelling in Ar did to me, until I  shall pass over  the Jordan into the land that God our Lord  is giving to us.'    And  Sihon king of Heshbon  did not  let us pass  through him,  because  God our  Lord  had let his spirit  become   obstinate  and his  heart become hard, in order  to give him into your hand just as at this day.    "At  this God said to me, 'See, I  have started  to abandon Sihon and his land to you.    Start  to take possession of  his land.'     When  Sihon came on out, he and all his people, to meet us in battle at Jahaz, then  God our  Lord  abandoned  him to us,  so that we defeated him and his sons and all his people.   And  we went capturing  all his cities  at that  particular time and devoting  every city to destruction, men and women and little children.    We left no survivor.   Only the domestic animals did we take as plunder for ourselves, together with the spoil of the cities that we had captured.    From Aroer, which is by the bank of the torrent valley of Arnon,  and the city that is in the torrent valley, as far as Gilead, there proved to be no town  that was too high up for us.   God our Jehovah abandoned them all to us.    Only you  did not go near  the land of the sons of Ammon, the whole  bank of the torrent valley of Jabbok, nor the cities of the mountainous region, nor anything about which God our Lord had given command.         3   "Then  we turned and went up by the way of Bashan.    At  this Og the king of Bashan  came on out, he and all his people, to meet us  in battle at Edrei.   So  God said to me, 'Do  not be afraid of him  for I   shall  certainly  give him and all his people   and his land into your hand --  and you  must do to him just as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was   dwelling  in Heshbon.'    Accordingly Jehovah our God gave  into our hand also Og the king of Bashan and all his people, and  we kept striking (killing) him until he had no survivor remaining.   And we went capturing  all  his cities  at  that particular time. There proved  to  be no town that we did not take from them,  60  cities, all the  region  of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.   All  these were cities fortified with high wall, doors and bar, aside  from very many rural towns. However, we devoted  them to destruction, just  as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, in devoting every city

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    to destruction, men, women and little children.      And   all the domestic animals  and the spoil  of the cities  we took  as plunder for ourselves.   "And  we proceeded  to take  at that particular time  the land from the hand of  the 2  kings of the Amorites  who were  in the region of the Jordan, from  the torrent valley  of Arnon  as far as Mount Hermon --(the Sidonians  used  to call  Hermon Sirion, and  the Amorites used to call it Senir,)   all  the cities of the tableland  and all Gilead and all Bashan as far as  Salecah  and Edrei,  the  cities of kingdom of Og  in Bashan).   For only Og  the king of Bashan  remained of  what was left of the Rephaim. Look! His bier (coffin) was  a bier of the iron.     Is it not  in Rabbah  of the sons of Ammon?      9  cubits (approx. 13 1/2 feet)  is its length,  and 4 cubits (approx. 6 feet)  its width, by  the cubit of a man.   And  we took possession of this land  at that particular time -- from Aroer, which  is is  ​​ the torrent valley of Arnon, and 1/2  of the mountainous region of Gilead, and  its cities I  have given to  the Reubenites and the Gadites.    And  the rest of Gilead  and all  Bashan of the kingdom of Og  I  have given to the half tribe of Manasseh.    All  the region of  Argob of  all Bashan,  is  it  not called the land of the Rephaim?    "Jair  the son  of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the boundary of the Geshurites  and the Maacathites, and he  proceeded  to call  those villages of Bashan by his own name, Havvothjair, to this day.     To Machir   I have given Gilead.    To the Reubenites and the Gadites I have given from Gilead to the torrent valley of Arnon, the middle of the torrent valley being a boundary, and as far as Jabbok, the torrent valley that  is the boundary of the sons of Ammon,  and the Arabah and the Jordan and the border, from Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the base of  slopes of Pisgah toward the sunrising.    "So  I commanded  you men  at that particular time, saying--'Jehovah your God  has given you this land to take possession of it.   You will pass over, equipped, before your brothers, the sons of Israel, all the valiant (fearless) men.     Only your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I well know that you have a great deal of livestock) will continue  dwelling  in  your cities  that  I  have given you, until God give your brothers rest, as well as you, and they also have taken possession of the land that Jehovah your God is giving them across the Jordan -- after which you  must come back, each one  to  his holding  that I have given you.'    "And  I commanded  Joshua at that particular time, saying -- 'Your eyes are seeing  all  that  God your  Lord  has done to these 2 kings.   The same way God will do to all the kingdoms  to which you are passing over there.   You men must not be afraid of them, for God your Jehovah is the One fighting for you.'  "And  I proceeded  to  implore  favor from God at that particular time, saying -- 'O Sovereign Lord God, you yourself have started to make your servant  see your  greatness  and your strong arm, for who is a god in the heavens or   on  the earth  that does deeds like yours and mighty performances like yours?    Let me pass over, please,  and see the good land that is across the Jordan, this good mountainous region  

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and Lebanon.'    God continued  to be  furious against me on your account  and did not listen  to me --  but God said to me--'That is enough of you!   Never  speak to  me further on this matter.   Go up  to the top of Pisgah  and raise  your eyes  to the west  and north  and  south and east and see with your eyes, for you  will not pass over this Jordan.   And commission Joshua  and encourage him and strengthen him, because he is the one to pass over before this people   and he is the one  to cause them to inherit the land that you will see.'    All  this while we were  dwelling in the valley  in  front of Bethpeor.        4   "And now,  O Israel, listen  to the  regulations  and  the judicial decisions   that  I am  teaching you to do, in order  that you  may live  and may indeed go in  and  take possession  of the land that God of your  forefathers  is giving you.    You  must  not add to  the word that I am commanding you,  neither  must  you take away from it, so as to keep the commandments of God your Jehovah that I am commanding you.     "Your own  eyes are the ones  that  saw what God did in the  case of Baal of Peor, that  every  man who walked after the Baal of Peor  was the  one whom God of your Jehovah  annihilate (destroyed)  from your midst.     But  you  who are  cleaving (separating)  to God your  Lord are all of  you alive today.    See, I  have taught you regulations and judicial decisions, just as  God my Lord has commanded me, for you to do that way in the midst of the land   to which you are going to take possession of it.  And you must keep and do them, because this is wisdom on  your part and  understanding  on your part before  the eyes of  the peoples who will hear of all  these regulations, and  they will certainly say, 'This  great nation is undoubtedly a wise and understanding people.'    For  what great nation is there  that has  gods near to it  the way  God our  Lord is in all our calling upon him?      And what  great nation is there that has righteous regulations and judicial decisions   like all  this law  that I am putting before you today? "Only watch out  for yourself and take good care of your soul, that you may not forget the things that your eyes have seen and that they may not depart from your heart all the days of your life  -- and you must make them known  to your sons  and  to your grandsons, the day that you stood before   God your  Lord  in Horeb, when God said to me, 'Congregate the people together to me  that I  may let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they are alive on the soil   and that they may teach their sons.'    "So you people came near and stood at the base of the mountain, and the mountain  was burning  with fire up to midheaven--there was darkness, cloud and thick gloom.    And  God began to speak to you  out of the middle of the fire.   The sound  of words  was what you were hearing, but no form were you seeing --nothing but a voice.    And he proceeded to  state to  you his covenant, which  he commanded you to perform -- the Ten Words. after  which  he wrote them upon 2 tablets of stone.   And it was  I whom God  commanded at that particular time  to  

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teach you regulations and judicial decisions, for you to do them in the land to which you are passing over to take ownership of it.  And you must take good care of your souls, because you did not see any form on the day of God's speaking to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, that you may not act ruinously, and may not really make for yourselves a carved image, the form of any symbol, the representation of male or female, the representation of any beast  that is in the earth, the representation of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, the representation  of anything moving on the ground, the representation of any fish that is in the waters under the earth, and that you may not raise your eyes to the heavens and indeed see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and actually get seduced and bow down to them and serve them, which  your God has apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.  But you are the ones God took that he might bring you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to become a people of private ownership to him as at this day.   And God got very angry at me on your account, so that he swore-- I should not cross the Jordan or go into the good land our God is giving you as inheritance. For I am dying in this land. I am not crossing the Jordan, but you are crossing, and you must take ownership of this good land.   Watch out for yourselves that you may not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God that he concluded with you, and that you do not make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything about which your God has commanded you. For your God is a consuming fire, a God exacting exclusive devotion. In case you become father to sons and grandsons and you resided a long time in the land and do act ruinously and do make a carved image, a form of anything, and do commit evil in the eyes of Jehovah your God so as to offend him.   I do take as witnesses against you today the heavens and the earth, that you will positively perish in a hurry from off the land  to which you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of it.  You will not lengthen your days on it, because you will positively be destroyed.  God will certainly scatter you among the peoples, and you will indeed  remain a few in number among the nations to which God will drive you away.  There you will have to serve gods, the product of the hands of man, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.   If you do look for God your Jehovah from there, you will also certainly find him, because you will ask for him with all your heart and with all your soul.  When you are in sore straits and all these words have found you out at the close of the days, then you will have to return to your God and to listen to his voice.   For your God is a merciful God.   He will not desert you or bring you to ruin or forget the covenant of your forefathers that he swore to them.   Now ask please, concerning the former days that occurred before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the

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heavens to the other end of the heavens, was any great thing brought about like this or was anything heard like it?  Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire the way you yourself have heard it, and kept on living?  Or did God attempt to come to take a nation to himself out the midst of another nation with provings, with signs and with miracles and with war, and with a strong hand, and with an outstrectched arm and with fearsomeness like all that your God has done for you in Egypt before your eyes?  You -- You have been shown, so as to know that Jehovah is the true God--there is no other besides him.  Out of the heavens he made you hear his voice so as to correct you--and upon the earth he made you see his great fire, and his words you heard from the middle of the fire.  And yet you continue to live, because he loved your forefathers so that he chose their seed after them and brought you out of Egypt in his sight with his great power, to drive away nations greater and mightier than you from before you, so as to bring you in, to give you their land as inheritance as at this day.   You well know today, and you must call  back to your heart that God is the true God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.      There is no other.   And you must keep his regulations and his commandments  that I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and your sons after you, and in order that you may lengthen your days on the soil that your God is giving you, always."   At that time Moses proceeded to set apart cities on the side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, for the manslayer to flee there who kills his fellow without knowing it, while he was not hating him formerly--and he must flee to one of these cities and live, namely, Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.  Now this is the law that Moses set before the sons of Israel.   These are the testimonies and the regulations and the judicial decisions that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel on their way out of Egypt, in the region of the Jordan in the valley in front of Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated on their way out of Egypt.  They took possession of the land, and of the land of Og the king of Bushan, the 2 kings of the Amorites who were in the region of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the torrent valley of Arnon, up to Mount Sion, that is Hermon, and all the Arabah in the region of the Jordan toward the east, and as far as the sea of the Arabah at the base of the slopes of Pisgah.                             5   Moses proceeded to call all Israel and to say to them--"Hear, O Israel, the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am speaking in your ears today, and you must learn them and be careful to do them.  Our God concluded (ended) a covenant with us in Horeb.  It was not with our ancestors that God concluded this covenant,                            

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but with us, all those of us alive here today.   Face to face God spoke with you in the mountain out of the middle of the fire.  I was standing between God and you at that particular time to tell you the word of God, (for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up into the mountain) saying  --  "'I am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.  You must never have any other gods against my face.  You must not make for yourself a  carved image, any form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth.   You must not bow down to them or be led to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons and upon the 3rd generation and upon the 4th generation, in the case of those who hate me--but exercising loving kindness toward the 1000th generation in the case of those who love me and keep my commandments.  You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way-- for God will not leave anyone unpunished who takes up his name in worthless way.  Keeping the sabbath day to hold it sacred, just as your God commanded you, you are to render service and you must do all your work 6 days.  But the 7th day is a sabbath to your God.   You must not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, slave man, slave girl, bull nor your donkey, nor any domestic animal of yours, nor your alien resident who is inside your gates, in order  that your slave man and your slave girl may rest the same as you.  You must remember that you became a slave in Egypt and your God proceeded to bring you out from there with a strong hand and outstretched arm.   That is why your God commanded you to carry on the sabbath day.   Honor your father and your mother, just as your God has commanded you, in order that your days may prove long and it may go well with you on the ground that your God is giving you.  You must not murder.  You must not commit adultery   You must not steal.  Must not testify to a falsehood against your fellowman.   You must not desire your fellowman's wife.  Must not selfishly desire fellowman's house, his field, or his slave man or slave girl, his bull, his donkey or anything that belongs to your fellowman.  These words of God spoke to all your congregation in the mountain out of the middle of the fire, the cloud and the thick gloom, with a loud voice and he added nothing, after which he wrote them upon 2 tablets of stone and gave them to me.  It was about that as soon as you had heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you proceeded to come near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your 

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older men.  Then you said, 'Here God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire.  This day we have seen that God may speak with man and he may actually keep living.  Now why should we die, for this great fire may consume us?  If we are again hearing the voice of God any further, we are also certain to die.  For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire as we did and yet goes on living?  You yourself go near and hear all that our God will say and you will be the one to speak to us all that our God will speak to you, and we shall certainly listen and do.'   So God heard the voice of our words when you spoke to me, and God went on to say to me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you.  They have done well in all they have spoken.  If only they would develop this heart of theirs to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, in order that it  might go well with them and their sons forever.  Go say to them--"Return home to your tents."  You must stand here with me, and let me speak to you all the commandment and the regulations and the judicial decisions that you should teach to them and that they must do in the land that I am giving them to own it.  You people must take care to do just as your God has commanded you.  You must not turn to the right or the left.  In all the way that your God has commanded you, you should walk, in order that you may live and it may be well with you and you may indeed lengthen your days in the land of which you will own it.                6        Now these are the  commandment, the regulations and the judicial decisions that your God has commanded to teach you, so as to do them in the land to which you are passing over there to take ownership of it--in order that you may fear your God so as to keep all his statutes (laws) and his commandments that I am ordering you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and in order that your days may prove long.   You must listen, O Israel and take care to do them, that it may go well with you and that you may become very many, just as Jehovah the God of your ancestors has promised you, as respects the land flowing with milk and honey.   Listen, O Israel--Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.  You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all our vital force.  These words that I am commanding you today must prove to be on your heart, and you must instill them in your son, and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.  And you must tie them as a sign upon your hand, and they must serve as a frontlet (cloth ornament hanging in front of Altar) hand between your eyes, and you must write them upon the doorposts of  your house and on your gates.  It must occur that when your God will bring you into the land that he swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give 

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you, great and good looking cities that you did not build. and house full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns (water holding receptacle) carved out that you did not carve out, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you shall have eaten and become full--watch out for yourself that you may not forget God who brought you out of Egypt, out of house of slaves.  Lord your God you should fear, and him you should serve, and by his name you should swear.  You must not walk after other gods, any gods of the peoples who are all around you,  (For Lord your God in your midst is a God exacting exclusive devotion.)  for fear of anger of God your Lord may burn against you and he must destroy you from off the surface of the ground.  You must not put your God to the test, the way you put him to the test at Massah.  You should by all means keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his testimonies and his regulations that he has commanded you.  You must do what is right and good in God's eyes, in order that it may go well with you, and you may indeed enter and take ownership of the good land about which God has sworn to you, just as God has promised you.   In case your son should ask you in the future, saying--'What do the testimonies and the regulations and the judicial decisions mean that God your Jehovah has commanded you?  then you must answer your son, 'We became slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, but God proceeded to bring us out of Egypt with  a strong hand, So Jehovah kept putting signs and miracles great and disastrous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, upon all his household before our eyes.  He brought us out of there in order that he might bring us here to give us the land about which he had sworn to our ancestors.   Hence God  ordered us to carry out all these regulations, to fear God our Jehovah for our good always, that we might keep alive as to this day.  It will mean righteousness for us--that we take care to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as he commanded us.'                7   When your God  at last bring you into the land to which you are going to take ownership of it, he must also clear away populous nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites , the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites--7 nations more populous and mighty than you are.  Your God will certainly abandon them to you, and you must defeat them.  You should without fail devote them to destruction.   You must end (conclude) no covenant with them, nor show them any favor.  You must form no marriage alliance with them--Your daughter you must not give to his son, and his daughter you must not take for your son.  For he will turn your son from following me, and they will certainly serve other gods, and God's anger will  indeed burn against you, and he will certainly destroy you in a hurry.  On the other hand, this is what you should do to them-- 

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Their altars you should pull down, and their sacred pillars you should break down, and their sacred poles you should put down, and their graven images you should burn with fire.  For you are a holy people to your God Jehovah.  It is you your God has chosen to become his people, a special property, out of all the peoples that are on the surface of the ground.  It is not because of your being the most populous of all the peoples that God showed affection for you so that he chose you, for you were the least of all the peoples.  But it was because of God's loving you, and because of his keeping the sworn statement that he had sworn to your forefathers (ancestors), that God brought you out with a strong hand, that he might redeem you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt.   You well know that your God is the true God, the faithful God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness in the case of those who love him and those who keep his commandments to a 1000 generations, but repaying to his face the one who hates him by destroying him.  He will not hesitate toward  the one who hates him-- he will repay him to his face.  And you must keep the commandment and the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am commanding you today by doing them.   It must occur that because you continue listening to these judicial decisions and you do keep them and do carry them out, your God must keep toward you the covenant (relationship) and the loving-kindness about which he swore to your ancestors.   And he will certainly love you and bless you and multiply you and bless the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your soil, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the young of your cows and the offspring of your flock, on the soil that he swore to your forefathers to give to you.  The most blessed  of all the peoples you will become.   There will not prove to be in you a male or a female without offspring, nor among your domestic animals.   Jehovah will certainly remove from you every sickness and as for all the evil diseases of Egypt that you have known, he will not place them upon you, and he will indeed put them upon all those who hate you.  You must consume all the peoples whom your God is giving to you.  Your eye must not feel sorry for them, and you must not serve their gods, because that will be a trap (noose) to you.  In case you say in your heart--'These nations are too populous for me.  How shall I be able to drive them away?' you must not be afraid of them.  You should by all means remember what your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt, the great provings that your eyes saw, and the signs and the miracles and the strong hand and outstretched arm with which your God brought you out.  That is the way your God will do to all the peoples before whom you are afraid.  Your God will also send the feeling of dejection upon them, until those perish who were let remain and who were hiding themselves from before you.  You must not suffer a shock because of them, for God  

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your Jehovah is in your midst, a great fear-inspiring God. And your God will certainly push these nations away from before you little by little. You will not be allowed to finish them off quickly, for fear the wild beasts of the field may multiply against you. Your God will indeed abandon them to you and rout them with a great rout (retreat, defeated troop), until they are destroyed. He will certainly give their kings into your hand, and you must destroy their names from under the heavens. Nobody will take a firm stand against you, until you will have exterminated them. The graven images of their gods you should burn in the fire. You must not desire the silver and the gold upon them, nor indeed take it for yourself, for fear you may be entrapped by it, for it is a thing hated by your God. You must not bring a detestable thing into your house and actually become a thing devoted to destruction like it. You should thoroughly loathe (hate) it and absolutely detest it, because it is something devoted to destruction.         8   Every commandment I am commanding you today, you should be careful to keep, in order that you may continue living and indeed multiply and go in and own the land about which God swore to your ancestors.    You must remember all the way that your God made you walk these 40 years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, to put you to the test so as to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not. So he humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you with the manna, which neither you had known nor your fathers had known, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does man live but by every expression word of God's mouth does man live. Your mantle, clothes did not wear out upon you, nor did your foot become swollen these 40 years. You well know with your own heart that just as a man corrects his son, your God was correcting you. You must keep the commandments of your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of torrent valleys of water, springs and watery deep issuing forth in the valley plain and in the mountainous region, a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil olives and honey, a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land the stones of which are iron and out of the mountains of which you will mine copper.  When you have eaten and satisfied yourself, you must also bless your God for the good land that he has given you.  Watch out for yourself that you may not forget your God so as not to keep his commandments and his judicial decisions and his statutes that I am commanding you today, for fear that you may eat and indeed satisfy yourself, and you may build good houses and indeed live in them, and your herd and your flock may increase, for silver and gold may increase for you, and all that is yours may increase -- and your heart indeed be lifted up and you may indeed forget your God, who brought  

 

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you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves, who caused you to walk through the great and fear-inspiring wilderness, with poisonous serpents and scorpions and with thirsty ground that has no water--who brought forth water for you out of the stony rock--who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which your father had not known, in order to humble you and in order to put you to the test so as to do you good in your afterdays--and you do say in your heart, 'My own power and the full might of my own hand have made this wealth for me.' You must remember your God, because he is the giver of power to you to make wealth, in order to carry out his covenant that he swore to your forefathers, as at this day. It must occur that if you should at all forget your God and you should actually walk after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I do bear witness against you today that you people will absolutely perish. Like the nations that God is destroying from before you, that is the way you will perish, because you will not listen to the voice of your God.             9  "Hear O Israel, you are today crossing the Jordan to go in and dispossess/disown nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified to the heavens,  a people great and tall, the sons of Anakim, about whom you yourself have known and you yourself have heard it said, 'Who can make a firm stand before the sons of Anak?     And you well know today that your God is crossing before you.  A consuming fire he is.  He will destroy them, and he himself will subdue them before you and you must disown them and destroy them speedily, just as God has spoken to you.  Don't say in your heart when your God pushes them away from before you this, 'It was for my own righteousness that God has brought me in to take possession of this land,' whereas it is for the wickedness of these nations that God is driving them away from before you.  It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take ownership of their land, in fact, it is for the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them away from before you, and in order to carry out the word that God swore your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.    You must know that it is not for your righteousness that your God is giving you this good land to own it, for you are a stiff-necked people (stubborn, selfish, uncompromising).  Remember--Do not forget how you have provoked your God in the wilderness.  From the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until your coming to this place you people have proved rebellious in your behavior with God.  Even in Horeb you provoked God to anger so that God got enraged at you to the point of destroying you.  When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that God had concluded with you, and I kept living in the mountain 40 days and 40 nights, (I neither ate bread nor drank water)  then God gave me the 2 tablets of stone written upon with God's finger, and upon them were all the words that God 

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had spoken with you in the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the congregation.  It was about at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights God gave me the 2 tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant, and God proceeded to say to me, 'Get up, go down quickly from here, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted ruinously.  They have turned away quickly from the way about which I commanded them.  They have made themselves a molten image.  God went on to say this to me, 'I have seen this people, and look! it is a stiff necked (not listening) people.  Let me alone that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under the heavens, and let me make you a nation mightier and more populous than they are.'  After that I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was burning with fire, and the 2 tablets of the covenant were in both my hands.  Then I looked, and there you had sinned against your God.  You had made yourselves a molten calf.  You had turned away quickly from the way about which God had commanded you.  At that I took hold of the 2 tablets and flung them down from both my hands and shattered them before your eyes.   I proceeded to prostrate myself before God, as at first, 40 days and 40 nights.  I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin that you had committed in doing evil in the eyes of God so as to offend him.  For I was scared because of the hot anger with which God had got resentful at you to the point of destroying you.  However, God listened to me also that time.   At Aaron too, God got very enraged to the point of destroying him, but I made supplication (begging earnestly) also in behalf of Aaron at that particular time.  Your sin that you had made, the calf, I took, and I proceeded to burn it in the fire and to crush it, grinding it thoroughly until it had become fine like dust--after which I threw its dust into the flood that was descending (coming down) from the mountain.  Further at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibrothhattaavah you proved yourselves provokers of God to anger.  When God sent you out of Kadeshbarnea, saying-- 'Go up and take the land that I certainly shall give you!' then you behaved rebelliously against the order of your God, and you did not exercise faith toward him and did not listen to his voice.  You have proved yourselves rebellious in behavior with God from the day of my knowing you.  So I kept prostrating myself before God 40 days and 40 nights, for I prostrated myself because God talked of destroying you.  I began to make supplication to God and to say--'O Sovereign Lord God, do not bring to ruin your people, even your private properties whom you redeemed with your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.  Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Do not turn your face to the hardness of his people and their wickedness and their sin, for fear the land out of which you brought us may say--"Because God was unable to bring them into the land that he had promised them, and because he hated them he brought them out to put them to death in 

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 the wilderness.   They are too, your people and your private property whom you brought out with your great power and our outstretched arm.              10     At that particular time God said to me-- 'Carve for yourself 2 tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me into the mountain, and you must make an ark of wood for yourself.  I shall write upon the tablets the words that appeared on the 1st tablets, which you shattered, and you must place them in the ark.'  So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved 2 tablets of stone like the 1st ones and went up into the mountain, and two 2 tablets were in my hand.  Then he wrote upon the tablets the same writing as the 1st, the Ten Words, which God had spoken to you in the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the congregation--after which God gave them to me.  Then I turned and went down from the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark that I had made, that they might continue there, just as God commanded me.  The sons of Israel pulled away from Beeroth Benejaakan for Moserah.  There Aaron died, and he got to be buried there, and Eleazar his son began to act as priest instead of him.  From there they pulled away for Gudgodah  and from  Gudgodah for Jotbathah, a land of torrent valleys running with water.  At that particular time God separated the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of God's covenant, to stand before God for ministering to him and to bless in his name until this day.  That is why Levi has come to have no share and inheritance with his brothers.  God is his inheritance, just as your God had said to him.  And I --I stayed in the mountain the same as the first days, 40 days and 40 nights, and God proceeded to listen to me also on that occasion.  God did not want to bring you to ruin.  The God said to me--'Get up, go before the people for a pulling away, that they may go in and take the land that I have sworn to their ancestors to give to them.   Now O Israel, what is your God asking of you but to fear your God, so as to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve your God with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments of God and his statutes that I am commanding you today, for your good?   Behold, to your God belong the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that is in it.  Only to your ancestors did God get attached so as to love them, so that he chose their offspring after them, even you, out of all the peoples, this day.  You must circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and not harden your necks any longer.  For your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the God great, mighty and fear-inspiring, who treats none with partiality nor accepts a bribe, executing judgment for the fatherless boy and the widow and loving the alien resident so as to give him bread and a mantle.  You too must love the alien resident, for you became alien residents in Egypt. 

 

 

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Jehovah your God you should fear.  Him you should serve and to Him you should cling and by His name you should make sworn statements.  He is One for you to praise, and he is your God, who has done with you these great fear-inspiring things that your eyes have seen.  With 70 souls your ancestors went down to Egypt, and how your God has constituted you like the stars of the heavens for multitude.              11  And you must love your God and keep your obligation to him and his statutes and his judicial decisions and his commandments always.  And you well know today (for I don't address your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of your God, his greatness, his strong hand and his outstretched arm, nor his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt and to all his land--nor what he did to the military forces of Egypt, to his horses and his war chariots against the faces of which he made the waters of the Red Sea overflow when they were chasing after them, and God proceeded to destroy them till this day--nor what he has done to you in the wilderness until your coming to this place--nor what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, when  the earth opened its mouth and proceeded to swallow them up and their households and their tents and every existing thing that stepped after them in he midst of all Israel)--for your eyes were the ones seeing all the great deeds of God that he did.   

And you must keep the whole commandment that I am commanding you today, in order that you may grow strong and may indeed enter in and take the land to which you are crossing to take ownership of it, and in order that you may lengthen your days on the soil that God swore for your ancestors to give to them and their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.  For the land to which you are going to take, it is not like the land of Egypt out of which you came, where you used to sow your seed and you had to do irrigating (supply water) with your foot, like garden of vegetables.  But the land to which you are crossing to own, is a land of mountains and valley plains.  Of the rain of the heavens it drinks water, a land that your God is caring for.  The eyes of your God are constantly upon it, from the beginning of the year to close of the year.   It must occur that if you will without fail obey my commandments that I am commanding you today so as to love your God and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul, I also shall certainly give rain for your land at its appointed time, autumn rain and spring rain, and you will indeed gather your grain and your sweet wine and your oil.   And I shall certainly give vegetation in your field for your domestic animals, and you will indeed eat and be satisfied.  Watch out for yourselves for fear your heart may be tempted, and you do turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them, and God's anger does burn against you, and he does shut up the heavens so that no rain will occur and the  

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ground will not give its produce and you have to perish speedily from off the good land that God is giving you.   You must apply these words of mine to your heart and your soul and bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they must serve as a frontlet band between your eyes.    You must also teach them to your sons, so as to speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.  You must write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates, in order that your sons may be many on the soil that God swore to your ancestors to give to them, as the days of the heavens over the earth.  For if you strictly keep all this commandment that I am commanding you so as to do it, to love your God, to walk in all his ways and to cling to him.  God also must drive away all these nations on account of you, and you will certainly dispossess nations greater and more numerous than you are.  Every place on which the sole of your foot will tread will become yours.  From the wilderness up to Lebanon, from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea your boundary will become.  No man will make a firm stand against you.  The dread of you and the fear of you your God will put before the face of all the land on which you will tread, just as he has promised you.   See, I am putting before  you today blessing and malediction (curse), the blessing, provided you will obey the commandments of your God that I am commanding you today--and the malediction, if you will not obey the commandments of your God and you do turn away from the way about which I am commanding you today, so as to walk after other gods whom you have not known.   It must occur that when your God brings you into the land to which you are going to own it, you must also give the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the malediction upon Mount Ebal.    Are they not on the side of the Jordan toward the direction of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, in front of Gilgal, beside the big trees of Moreh?  For you are crossing the Jordan to go in and own the land that your God is giving you, and you must take possession of it and live in it.  You must be careful to carry out all the regulations and the judicial decisions that I am putting before you today.      12   These are the regulations and the judicial decisions that you should be careful to carry out in the land that God of your ancestors will certainly allow you to take possession of, all the days that you are alive on the soil.  You should absolutely destroy all the places where the nations whom you are dispossessing have served their gods, on the tall mountains and the hills and under every luxuriant tree.  And you must pull down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars, and you should burn their scared poles in the fire and cut down the graven images of their gods, and you must destroy their names from that place. 

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 "You must not do that way to God your Jehovah, but to the place that your God will choose out of all your tribes to place his name there, to have it reside, you will seek, and there you must come.  There you must bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your 10th parts and the contribution of your hand and your vow offerings and your voluntary offerings and the 1stborn ones of your herd and of your flock.   There you must eat before your God and rejoice in every undertaking (pledge) promise of yours, you and your households, because your God has blessed you.   You must not do according to all that we are doing here today, each one whatever is right in his own eyes, because you have not yet come into the resting-place and the inheritance that your God is giving you.  You must cross the Jordan and live in the land that your God is giving you as a possession, and he will certainly give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you will indeed live in security.  It must occur that the place that your God will choose to have his name live there is where you will bring all about which I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your 10th parts and the contribution of your hand and every choice of your vow offerings that you will vow to God.  You must rejoice before your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your man slaves and your slave girls and the Levite who is inside your gates, because he has no share or inheritance with you.  Watch out for yourself for fear you may offer up your burnt offerings in any other place you may see.  But in the place that God will choose in one of your tribes is where you should offer up  your burnt offering and there you should do all that I am ordering you.   Only whenever your soul craves it you may slaughter, and you must eat meat according to the blessing of your God that he has given you, inside all your gates.  the unclean one and the clean one may eat it, like the gazelle (antelope-deer like animal) and like the stag (male deer).   Only the blood you must not eat.  On the earth you should pour it out like water.  You will not be allowed to eat inside your gates the 10th part of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil or the 1stborn ones of your herd and of your flock or any of your vow offerings that you will vow or your voluntary offerings or the contribution of your hand.   But before your God you will eat it, in the place that your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your man slave and your slave girl and the Levite who is inside our gates and you must rejoice before your God in every undertaking of yours.   Watch out for yourself that you may not abandon the Levite all your days on your soil.  When your God will widen out your territory just as he has promised you, and you will be certain to say, 'Let me eat meat, because your soul craves to eat meat, whenever your soul craves it you may eat meat.   In case the place that your God will choose to put his name there should be far away from you, you must then slaughter some of your herd of some of your flock that God 

 

 

 has given you, just as I have ordered you, and you must eat inside your gates whenever your soul craves it.   Only  in the way that the gazelle and the stag may be eaten, so you may eat it--the unclean one and the clean one together may eat it.  Simply the firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the soul and you  must not eat the soul with the flesh.  You must not eat it.  You should pour it out upon the ground as water.  You must not eat it, in order that it may go well with you and your sons after you, because you will do what is right in God's eyes.     Merely your holy things that will become yours, and your vow offerings you should carry, and you must come to the place that God will choose.  You must render up your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of your God and the blood of your sacrifices should be poured against the altar of your God, the flesh you may eat.  Watch and you must obey all these words that I am commanding you, in order that it may go well with you and your sons after you to time indefinite because you will do what is good and right in the eyes of your God.   When your God will cut off from before you the nations to whom you are going to dispossess them, you must also dispossess them and live in their land.  Watch out for yourself for fear you may be entrapped after them, after they have been destroyed from before you, and for fear you may inquire respecting their gods, saying, 'How was it these nations used to serve their gods?  And I, yes, I will do the same way.'   You must not do that way to your God, for everything detestable to God that he does hate-- they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they regularly burn in the fire to their gods.  Every word that I am ordering you is what you should be careful to do.  You must not add to it nor take away from it.          13   In case a prophet of a dreamer of a dream arises in your midst and does give you a sign or a warning, and the sign of the omen does come true of which he spoke to you, saying,--'Let us walk after other gods, whom you have not known, and let us serve them, you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to the dreamer of that dream, because your God is testing you to know whether you are loving your God with all your heart and all your soul.  After your God you should walk, and him you should fear, and his commandments you should keep and to his voice you should listen, and him you should serve, and to him you should cling.  And that prophet or that dreamer of the dream should be put to death, because he has spoken of revolt against your God, who has brought you out of Egypt and has redeemed you from the house of slaves, to turn you away from the way in which your God has commanded you to walk, and you must clear out what is evil from your midst.  In case your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or your cherished wife or your companion who is like your own soul, should try to allure you to secrecy, saying--'Let us go and serve 

 

 

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 other gods, whom you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, some of the gods of the peoples who are all around you, the ones near you or those far away from you, from one end of the land to the other end of the land, you must not accede (submit, yield) to his wish or listen to him, nor should your eye feel sorry for him, nor must you feel compassion, nor cover him protectively, but you should kill him without fail. Your hand first of all should come upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward. And you must stone him with stones, and he must die, because he has sought to turn you away from your God Jehovah, who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.   Then all Israel will hear and become afraid, and they will not do anything like this bad thing again in your midst.   In case you hear it said in one of your cities, which your God is giving you to live there.  'Good for-nothing men have gone out from your midst that they may try to turn away the people of their city, saying--"Let us go and serve other gods" whom you have not known,' you must also search and investigate and inquire thoroughly, and if the thing is established as the truth, this detestable thing has been done in your midst, you should without fail strike the people of that city with the edge of the sword.  Devote it and everything that is in it, and its domestic animals, to destruction at the edge of the sword.  All its spoil you should collect into the middle of its public square, and you must burn in the fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to your God, and it must become a heap of ruins to time indefinite.  It should never be rebuilt.  Nothing at all should stick to your hand of the thing made sacred by ban (forbid), in order that God may turn away from his burning anger and may indeed give you mercy and he may certainly show you mercy and multiply you, just as he has sworn to you ancestors.   For you should listen to the voice of your God by keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, so as to do what is right in the eyes of your God.           14    Sons you are of Jehovah your God.  You must not make cuttings upon yourselves or impose baldness on your foreheads for a dead person.  For you are a holy people to your God, and God has chosen you to become his people, a special property, out of all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground.   You must eat no detestable thing of any sort.   This is the sort of animal that you may eat--the bull, the sheep and the goat, the stag and gazelle and roebuck (roe deer) and wild goat and antelope and wild sheep and chamois (agile goat-antelope), and every animal that splits the hoof and that forms a cleft into two hoofs, chewing the cud among animals.  It you may eat.  Only this sort you must not eat out of those that chew the cud or that split the hoof.  The cloven-- the camel and the hare and the rock badger (rock rabbit), because they are chewers of the cud but do not split the hoof.  They are unclean for you.  The pig also, because it is a splitter of  the hoof but there is no cud.  It is unclean for you.  None of their flesh must you eat, and their carcasses you must not touch.  This sort out of everything that is in the waters you may eat--everything that has fins and   

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 scales you may eat.  And everything that has no fins and scales you must not eat.  It is unclean for you.  Any clean bird you may eat.  But these are the ones of which you must not eat--the eagle and the osprey (similar to hawk) and the black vulture, the red kite and the black kite, the glede according to its kind, and every raven according to its kind, the ostrich, the owl and the gull, the falcon according to its kind, the little owl and the long-eared owl and the swan, the pelican, the vulture and the cormorant, the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe and the bat.  And every winged swarming creature is unclean for you.  They should not be eaten.  Any clean flying creature you may eat.   You must not eat any body already dead.  To the alien resident who is inside your gates you may give it, and he must eat it, or there may be a selling of it to a foreigner, because you are a holy people to your God.  You must not boil a kid (young goat) in its mother's milk.  Without fail you should give a 10th of  all the produce of your seed, that which comes forth of the field year by year.  And before your God, in the place that he will choose to have his name live there, you must eat the 10th part of your grain, your new wine and your oil and the 1stborn ones of your herd and of your flock--in order that you may learn to fear your God always.  Now in case the journey should be too long for you, because you will not be able to carry it, since the place that your God will choose to place his name there will be too far away for you, because your God will bless you, you must then turn it into money, and you must wrap the money up in your hand and travel to the place that your God will choose.  You must also give the money for whatever your soul may crave in the way of cattle and sheep and goats and wine and intoxicating liquor and anything that your soul may ask of you--and you must eat there before your God and rejoice, you and your household.  And the Levite who is inside your gates, you must not abandon him, for the he has no share or inheritance with you.  At the end of  3  years you will bring out the entire 10th part of your produce in that year--and you must deposit it inside your gates.  And the Levite, because he has no share or inheritance with you, and the alien resident and the fatherless boy and the widow, who are inside your gates, must come, and they must eat and satisfy themselves--in order that your God may bless you in every deed of your hand that you will do.            15     At the end of every 7 years you should make a release.   This is the manner of the release--there will be a releasing by every creditor of the debt that he may let his fellow incur.  He should not insists his fellow or his brother for payment, because a release to God must be called.  The foreigner you may insist for payment, but whatever of yours may prove to be with your brother let your hand release.  However, no one should come to be poor among  you, because God will without fail bless you in the land that your God is giving you as an inheritance to take to own it, only if you will without fail listen to the 

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 voice of your God so as to be careful to do all this commandment that I am commanding you today.  For your God will indeed bless you just as he has promised you, and you will certainly lend on pledge to many nations, whereas you yourself will not borrow--and you must dominate over many nations, whereas over you they will not dominate.   In case some one of your brothers becomes poor among you in one of your cities, in your land that your God is giving you, you must not harden your heart or be closefisted toward your poor brother.  For you should  generously open your hand to him and by all means lend him on pledge as much as he needs, which he is in need of.  Watch out for yourself for fear a base word should come to be in your heart, saying--'The 7th year, the year of the release, has come close', and your eye should indeed become ungenerous toward your poor brother, and you should give him nothing, and he has to call out to God against you, and it has become a sin on your part.  You should by all means give to him, and your heart should not be stingy in your giving to him, because on this account your God will bless you in every deed of yours and in every undertaking of yours.  For someone poor will never cease to be in the midst of the land,  that is why I am commanding you, saying--'You should generously open up your hand to your afflicted (troubled) and poor brother in your land.'   In case there should be sold to you your brother, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he has served you 6 years, then in the 7th year you should send him out from you as one set free.  In case you should send him out from you as one set free, you must not send him out empty-handed.  You should surely equip him with something from your flock and your threshing floor and your oil and wine-press.  Just as your God has blessed you, you should give to him.   And you must remember that you became a slave in Egypt and your God proceeded to redeem you.  That is why I am commanding you this thing today.  It must occur that in case he says to you--'I will not go out from your company because he does love you and your household, since it was well with him while with you, you must also take an needle and put it through his ear and to the door and he must become your slave to time indefinite.  To your slave girl you should also do this way.  It should not be some thing hard in your eyes when you send him out from your company as one set free--because for double the value of a hired laborer he served you 6 years, and your God has blessed you in everything that you would do.  Every male 1stborn that will be born in your herd and in your flock you should sanctify to your God.  You must do no service with the 1stborn of your bull, nor shear the 1stborn of your flock.  Before your God you should eat it year by year in the place that God will choose, you and your household.    In case there should prove to be in it a defect, being lame or blind, any bad defect, you must not sacrifice it to your God.   Inside your gates you should eat it, the unclean one and the clean one together, like the gazelle and like the stag.  Only its blood you must not eat.  Upon    

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the earth you should pour it out like water.       16   Let there be an observing of the month of Abib and you must celebrate the passover to your God, because in the month of Abib your God brought you out of Egypt by night.  You must sacrifice the passover to your God, of the flock and of the herd, in the place that God will choose to have his name live there.  You must eat nothing leavened along with it for 7 days.  You should eat along with it unfermented cakes, the bread of affliction, because it was in haste that you came out of Egypt, that you may remember the day of your coming out of Egypt all the days of your life.  No sourdough should be seen with you in all your territory 7 days, neither should any of the animal, which you will sacrifice in the evening on the 1st day, stay all night until the morning.  You will not be allowed to sacrifice the passover in any one of your cities that your God is giving you.  But at the place that your God will choose to have his name live there, you should sacrifice the passover in the evening as soon as the sun sets, at the appointed time of your coming out of Egypt.  You must do the cooking and the eating in the place that your God will choose, and in the morning you must turn around and go to your own tents.   6 days you should eat unfermented cakes, and on the 7th day there will be a solemn (formal and dignified) assembly to your God.  You must do no work.  7 weeks you should count for yourself.  From when the sickle is 1st put to cut the standing grain you will start to count 7 weeks.  Then you must celebrate the festival of weeks to your God, according to the voluntary offering of your hand that you will give, just as your God may bless you.  You must rejoice before your God, you and your son and your daughter and your man slave and girl, and the Levite who is inside your gates and the alien resident and the fatherless boy and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place that your God will choose to have his name live there.  You must remember that you became a slave in Egypt, and you must observe and carry out these regulations.   The festival of booths you should celebrate for yourself 7 days when you make an ingathering from your threshing floor (separating at harvest) and your oil and winepress.  You must rejoice during your festival, you and your son and your daughter and your man slave and girl, and the Levite and the alien resident and the fatherless boy and the widow, who are inside your gate.  7 days you will celebrate the festival to your God in the place that God will choose, because your God will bless you in all your produce and in every deed of your hand, and you must become nothing but joyful.  3 times in the year every male of yours should appear before your God in the place that he will choose--in the festival of the unfermented cakes and in the festival of weeks and in the festival of booths, and none should appear before God empty handed.   The gift of each one's hand should be in proportion to the blessing of your God that he has given you.  

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"You should set judges and officers for yourself inside all your gates that God is giving you by your tribes and they must judge the people by righteous judgments.  You must not pervert judgement.  You must not be partial or accept a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise ones and distorts the words of the righteous ones.  Justice--justice you should pursue, in order that you may keep alive and may indeed take ownership of the land that your God is giving you.  You must not for yourself plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole near the altar of your God Jehovah that you will make for yourself.  Neither should you set up for yourself a sacred pillar the thing God hates indeed.        17     You must not sacrifice a bull or a sheep with a defect, anything bad--because it is something hateful to your God.   In case there should be a man or a woman found in your midst in one of your cities who practices what is bad in the eyes of your God as to overstep his covenant, and he should go and worship other gods or bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens, a thing that I have not commanded, and it has been told to you and you heard it, and have searched thoroughly, and look! the thing has been established as the truth, this hateful, detestable thing has been done in Israel!  You must also bring that man or woman who has done this bad thing out to the gates, and yes, that man or that woman you must stone, such one with stones, and such one must die.  At the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, the one dying must be put to death. He will not be put to death at the mouth of 1 witness.  The hand of witnesses    1st of all should come upon him to put him to death, and hand of all people afterward, and you must clear out what is bad from your midst.  In case a matter for judicial decision is too extraordinary for you in which there was a blood shed (murder) in which a legal claim has been raised, or a violent deed has been committed, matters of disputes, inside your gates, you must also rise and go up to the place that your God will choose, and you must go to your priests, the Levites, to the judge who will be acting in those days, and you must take inquiry, and they must hand down to you the word of judicial decision.  You must do in accordance with the word that they hand down to you from that place that your God will choose, and you must be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.  In accordance with the law that they will point out to you and according to the judicial decisions that they will say to you, you should do.  You must not turn away from the word that they will hand down to you, to the right or to the left.  And the man who will behave with presumptuousness (assume, audacity) in not listening to the priest who is standing to minister there to your God or to the judge, that man must die, and you must clear out what is bad from Israel.  And all the people will hear and become afraid, and 

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they will not act presumptuously anymore.  When you eventually come to the land that your God is giving you, and you have taken ownership of it, and have lived in it and have said -- 'let me set a king over myself like all the nations who are around about me'.  You will without fail set over yourself a king whom your God will choose.  From among your brothers you should set a king over yourself.  You will not be allowed to put over yourself a foreigner who is not your brother.  Only he should not increase horses for himself, nor make people go back to Egypt in order to increase horses, whereas God has said--'never go back again by this way.'  He also must not multiply wives for himself, that his heart may not turn away, nor should he increase silver and gold for himself very much.  It must occur that when he takes his seat on the throne of his kingdom, he must write in a book for himself a copy of this law from that which is in the charge of the priests, the Levites.  It must continue with him and he must read in it all the days of his life in order that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God so as to keep all the words of this law and these regulations by doing them, that his heart must not glorify itself above his brothers, and he may not turn away from the commandments to the right or to the left, in order that he may lengthen his days upon his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.            18   No share or inheritance with Israel should come to belong to the priests, the Levites, the entire tribe of Levi.  The offerings made by fire of God, even his inheritance, they should eat.  So no inheritance should come to belong to him in the midst of his brothers.  God is his inheritance just as he has spoken to him.  Now this should continue as due right of the priests from the people, from the one who sacrifice a victim, whether  a bull or a sheep--One must give to the priest the shoulder blade, the jaws and the stomach.  The first of your grain. your new wine and your oil, and first of your shorn wool of your flock you should give him.  He is the one whom your God has chosen out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, he and his sons, always.  In case the Levite goes out of one of your cities of all Israel, where he had resided  for a while, and he does come because of any craving of his soul to the place that God will choose, he will also minister in the name of God his Jehovah the same as all his brothers, the Levites, who are standing there before God.  An equal share he should eat, besides what he gets from things he sells of his ancestral goods.  When you are entered into the land that your God is giving you, you must not learn to do according to the detestable things of those nations.  There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone employs divination, practicer of magic, or anyone who looks for omens or sorcerer (witch), or one who binds others with spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of   the dead.  For everybody 

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