Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you:

God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth

Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.

Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?

From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel.

From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;

He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.

The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.

See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari for their work, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;

Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.

And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;

Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;

All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.

Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;

From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it;

I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.

Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.

Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai.

And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.

The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.

And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.

But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the road with his sword in his hand; and turning from the road, the ass went into the field; and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her back on to the road.

The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.

And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together:

And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

And the Lord said to Moses,

Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered.

And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.

And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.

After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.

Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.

Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

And the Lord said to Moses,

If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible men of the people, placing them round the Tent.

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.

The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.

So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.

And one he-goat to take away your sin.

Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered.

And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.

Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.

If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place.

So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:

Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days;

But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them:

Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered.

And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.

And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.

First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;

So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.

Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.

Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,

In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month.

And seventy-two thousand oxen,

And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.

So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.

But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;

From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?

And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar.

And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.

They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.

And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon.

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

And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.

And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the day when the holy oil was put on it; they made their offering before the altar.

And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on.

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them;

When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on.

And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.

Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.

And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their tents in the waste land of Zin (which is Kadesh).

And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor.

Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel.

Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering, crushed grain mixed with oil, and take another ox for a sin-offering.

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her more blows.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?

The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;

Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.

And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud.

And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.

And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!

The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work.

Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped.

And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.

And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,

And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward.

Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered.

So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;

But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them named Eldad and the other Medad: and the spirit came to rest on them; they were among those who had been sent for, but they had not gone out to the Tent: and the prophet's power came on them in the tent-circle.

Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:

All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after from generation to generation;

And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him.

And the Lord said to Moses,

But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.

Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the knowledge of the meeting of the people, let all the meeting give a young ox as a burned offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, as is ordered in the law, together with a he-goat for a sin-offering.

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

And the Lord said to Moses,

Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,

Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let every chief on his day give his offering to make the altar holy.

But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it:

Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you,

He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

And the Lord said to Moses,

When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.

And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at Heshbon.

And the priest will take away the sin of the person who has done wrong, if the wrong was done unconsciously, and he will have forgiveness.

And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you.

But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.

When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.

And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.

By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.

Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

And the Levites are to put their hands on the heads of the oxen, and one of the oxen is to be offered for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to the Lord to take away the sin of the Levites.

At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents.

And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.

And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.

And the Lord said to Moses,

But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord.

This was the order in which the children of Israel were journeying by armies; so they went forward.

All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.

So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:

And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,

Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.

And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.

And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.

Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:

All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is to be the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from another country who is living among them.

And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well as those from other lands living among them, will have forgiveness; for it was an error on the part of the people.

And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.

From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.

Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.

Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran.

The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei.

The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning;

And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.

And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan.

And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it dust from the floor of the House;

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.

And the Lord said to Moses,

The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.

Now when the people had come together against Moses and Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came before their eyes.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle.

And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;

And news of the coming of the children of Israel came to the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who was living in the South in the land of Canaan.

The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places.

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;

Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the time of his death in Mount Hor.

And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:

The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;

But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly.

For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.

The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael.

After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

And the Lord said to Moses,

From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make his meal offering and his drink offering.

If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.

And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil;

All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.

It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

And the Lord said to Moses,

And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,

In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.

And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;

But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.

Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel.

Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred.

And from Dibon-gad they went on, and put up their tents in Almon-diblathaim.

For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine.

And sixteen thousand persons;)

And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it;

Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

And the Lord said to Moses,

And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.

And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their tents in Zalmonah.

But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.

And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things.

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.

For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.

In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting,

This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.

And they went on from Jotbathah, and put up their tents in Abronah.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

And if in error you go against any of these laws which the Lord has given to Moses,

Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?

And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;

And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.

And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.

And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.

But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did.

On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, made his offering:

All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in grace:

Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and opening her mouth she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have given me blows these three times?

And the Lord said to Moses,

And the Lord said to Moses,

Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.

Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered.

And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites.

Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places.

Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.

These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them clean.

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a narrow road through the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side and on that.

Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.

Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.

Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace.

This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;

For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites;

Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will give them my blessing.

Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.

The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights.

But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men; but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with the chiefs of Balak.

Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.

And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.

And the Lord said to Moses,

At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went forward, and at the order of the Lord they put up their tents: as long as the cloud was resting on the House, they did not go away from that place.

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

And the Lord said to Moses,

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more;

And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.

And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered.

Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.

And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents in Ezion-geber.

In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.

This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.

They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting;

And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.

Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon for their work;

On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.

Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day.

But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.

Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,

Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethanel, the son of Zuar.

So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab, the son of Helon.

The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)

And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.

But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.

And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.

Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram.

When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the responsible men of Israel went with him.

So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

And the Lord said to Moses,

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben:

They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings.

At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at the word of the Lord they went forward on their journey: they kept the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses.

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred.

Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.

And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

And the Lord said to Moses,

And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Say to the children of Israel that through all their generations they are to put on the edges of their robes an ornament of twisted threads, and in every ornament a blue cord;

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.

Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.

Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey.

And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.

Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.

So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.

After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief.

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right or to the left.

And the Lord said to Moses,

And sixty-one thousand asses;

Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

These are in addition to the regular burned offering and its meal offering; take care that they are without any mark, and let them be offered with their drink offerings.

And the Lord said to Moses,

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.

And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

And the Lord said to Moses,

But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him.

And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.

And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?

And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

Then the Lord said to Moses,

So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor;

Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.

Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he went down on his face to the earth.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.

And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.

As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;

And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.

So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.

And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;

And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

For the Lord said to Moses,

Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei.

Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;

On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief.

At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.

But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass ready, went with the chiefs of Moab.

And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.

And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.

And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth.

Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;

Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered.

And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death.

So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of all the people they went up Mount Hor.

Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.

And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.

So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.

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 forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to the Amorites.

From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.

The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.

And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people.

So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones.

The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.

And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

These are 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 the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him;

And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.

Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered.

But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and I have not done them of myself.

And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you.

Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:

Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

And the Lord said to Moses,

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;

So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;

Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.

This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:

But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?

Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth; and there they put up their tents.

And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,

Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod.

And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.

And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.

On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.

And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel.

And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

And the Lord said to Moses,

And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.

And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.

Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.

And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second.

Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

And the Lord said to Moses,

And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.

And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him.

And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

So the priest will make the people free from sin, and they will have forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given their offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering before the Lord, on account of their error:

And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,

And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.

Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.

And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.

Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell.

And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.

And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe.

And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.

And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on Eleazar, his son; and there on the top of the mountain death came to Aaron: then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred.

Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief.

Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.

On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians,

So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.

It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.

Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron.

Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:

And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;

But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the order of the Lord, and came to his death there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.

And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.

And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.

Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,

There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.

He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them

And the Lord said to Moses,

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.

And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

And the Lord said to Moses,

And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:

And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him.

Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief.

And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:

And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:

And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.

To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

Then Moses said to the Lord,

The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.

Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:

Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.

But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the orders of the Lord my God.

The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

And the Lord said to Moses,

And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people.

Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,

Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:

Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.

Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.

And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.