"Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.

The LORD bless you and keep you;

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.

from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;

From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.

from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;

And Moses cried to the LORD, "O God, please heal her--please."

And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer."

from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;

Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.

"Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory."

One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain."

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;

In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again."

Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named,

"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.

and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;

All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.

he shall confess his sin that he has committed.And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;

from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan."

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

'It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'

Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.

those listed of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

These are the clans of the Zebulunites as they were listed, 60,500.

those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

as the LORD commanded Moses. So he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai.

But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."

and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.

And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road.

Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all."

And the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.

And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.

a tenth for each of the seven lambs;

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,

those listed of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.

And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.

But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.

Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.

After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.

Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.

And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent.

If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his."

So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again.

with one male goat, to make atonement for you.

those listed of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

"To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,

These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

Then Balaam rose and went back to his place. And Balak also went his way.

"And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,

You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

"If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.

When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

those listed of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.

those listed of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.

and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,

And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.

The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.

And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses.

"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.

And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.

And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'

72,000 cattle,

Then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land.

And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.

and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,

Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.

Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?"

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.

"And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba."

So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

The sons of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.

and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day

Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!

Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.

They shall guard all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and keep guard over the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle.

Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the regular showbread also shall be on it.

Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.

And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not."

When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.

These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.

Then let them take a bull from the herd and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another bull from the herd for a sin offering.

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel."

And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and pressed Balaam's foot against the wall. So he struck her again.

Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,

And the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death."

But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"

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

and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them."

And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.

those listed of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,

Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,

When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the border.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

and he shall bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering,

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.

And the LORD said to Moses, "They shall offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar."

But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,

And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied.

"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

"Speak to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,

And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.

his company as listed being 74,600.

So Moses listed them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,

And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."

And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites.

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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

And they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.

On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God."

"Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.

When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

"Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.

Then the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar,

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

But he said to him, "I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred."

for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the LORD."

This was the order of march of the people of Israel by their companies, when they set out.

And they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it on the carrying frame.

"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;

And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."

And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."

"If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

"List the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list."

Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.

"All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"

then' (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) 'the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.

And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

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

And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"

And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'

To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.

And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.

The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."

and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the LORD.

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.

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

The people of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

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

one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;

And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers' houses.

And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." And the three of them came out.

And over the company of the tribe of the people of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the LORD's contribution to Aaron the priest.

Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

The sons of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;

And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

and the LORD's tribute of sheep was 675.

May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed.

"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite,to separate himself to the LORD,

"Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.

"And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD.

And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word.

The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 72.

But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm.

For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself.

with Eliasaph, the son of Lael as chief of the fathers' house of the Gershonites.

And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

To Kohath belonged the clan of the Amramites and the clan of the Izharites and the clan of the Hebronites and the clan of the Uzzielites; these are the clans of the Kohathites.

and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering.

But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,

"All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.

And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.

But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,

"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,

And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.

And they shall take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of goatskin and put them on the carrying frame.

And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;

But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle.

with Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers' house of the clans of the Kohathites.

Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7,500.

And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

For all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,

and 16,000 persons--

And they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.

and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary."

And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die."

This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things.

from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep,

And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

The clans of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

And the guard duty of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,

"This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazirite."

And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.

And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.

Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

"Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers' houses,

"But if you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,

from the people of Israel's half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords--all the service connected with these.

But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the LORD says, that I must do'?"

And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.

And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand and shall wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar.

And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration,

Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

"This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.

And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.

Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.

"And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels."

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.

The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the people of Israel did to them.

On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the chief of Issachar, made an offering.

All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.

the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

Then the LORDopened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

"Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand."

those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.

And they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

These are the sons of Benjamin according to their clans, and those listed were 45,600.

And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.

none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,

And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity."

or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall carry out for her all this law.

This is the service of the clans of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their guard duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

"This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.

"As for the sons of Merari, you shall list them by their clans and their fathers' houses.

"Let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,

"Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses and by their clans.

"So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them."

from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,

And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you." So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.

and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

one male goat for a sin offering;

Then the LORD said to Moses,

From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tent of meeting.

And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more.

And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

And Aaron did so: he set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.

He offered for his offering one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were listed, approached

"Take the Levites from among the people of Israel and cleanse them.

And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there."

This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:

they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting

But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.

Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.

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

one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;

From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

All the service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do. And you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry.

Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

and the hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service. And they shall do all that needs to be done with regard to them.

While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

They minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting by keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties."

"Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service."

"Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

"The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side.

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

and brought their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They brought them before the tabernacle.

"Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."

If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

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

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

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

shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.

all those listed were 603,550.

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.

also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offerings.

At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.

one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

his company as listed being 54,400.

those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

one male goat for a sin offering;

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

"Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.

his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

"Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.

When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.

his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel."

On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."

not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the people of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon,

one male goat for a sin offering;

Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

61,000 donkeys,

Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,

And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.

Besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.

And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

The LORD said to Moses,

But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.

And Moses said to them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?"

And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor.

"Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

Then the LORDopened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.

Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,

And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.

So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.

And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.

And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins."

"Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.

And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.

"On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur,

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.

So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live."

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

"How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:

those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you."

Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.

So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel--

So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.

Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

"On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,

'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;

For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, 'What has God wrought!'

And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.

All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. They shall set out first on the march.

Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him."

And strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there."

So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

his company as listed being 57,400.

So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.

Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

These are the sons of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.

So the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."

those listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.

"On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."

The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.

And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you."

And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,

"On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD's Passover,

sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, "Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me.

And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.

That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!

Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction."

And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,

"This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

Then 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 are."

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 32 persons.

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan."

But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.

And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

"Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.

"Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff,

Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

"If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

"On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud,

and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."

And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,

And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

And the LORD said to Moses,

And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people.

"On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,

Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back."

They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every male.

from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

"Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, "This is what the LORD has commanded.

All those listed of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 151,450. They shall set out second.

After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest,

Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.

But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,

"On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.

And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,

"On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.

When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

"Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.

And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

"Command the people of Israel and say to them, 'My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.'

Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.

and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them."

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

"On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall not do any ordinary work,

But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."

These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers' house.

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.

And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

his company as listed being 59,300.

Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the people of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel,

Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?"

On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

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

They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!"

"This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

the men who brought up a bad report of the land--died by plague before the LORD.

and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.

from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

And he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

And if you do go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you."

"On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation and afflict yourselves. You shall do no work,

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.

And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

"On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,

Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!--Sing to it!--

"But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak's message.

When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.

He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."

And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun."

Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

"If a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth,

And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

"Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

and he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

and he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.

The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,

and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned."

The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD's tribute was 61.

to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company--as the LORD said to him through Moses.

Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

his company as listed being 46,500.

Then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the people of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni,

and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.

From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.

his company as listed being 45,650.

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

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land--

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.

The heads of the fathers' houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel.

Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;

And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height,

Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."

and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"