Reference: NUMBERS, THE BOOK OF
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So called because the first three chapters contain the numbering of the Hebrews and Levites, which was performed separately, after the erection and consecration of he tabernacle. The rest of the book contains an account of the breaking up of the Israelites from Sinai, and their subsequent wanderings in the desert, until their arrival on the borders of Moab. It was written by Moses, B. C. 1451, and is the fourth book of the Pentateuch. See EXODUS.
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The book takes its name from the numberings (Numbers 1 and Numbers 26). The Hebrew name it from its first word waedaber, or its first distinctive word Bemidbar. It narrates Israel's stay in the desert from the law giving at Sinai (Le 27:34) to their mustering in Moab's plains before entering Canaan. The parts are four:
(1) Preparations for breaking up the camp at Sinai to march to Canaan (Numbers 1 - 10:10).
(2) March from Sinai to Canaan's border; repulse by the Amorites (Nu 10:11-14:45).
(3) Selected incidents and enactments during the 38 years' penal wandering (Nu 15-19).
(4) Last year in the desert, the 40th year after the Exodus (Nu 20;Nu 20:13).
Israel's first encampment near Kadesh was at Rithmah (from retem, the "broom") in midsummer, in the second year after the Exodus; there for 40 days they awaited the spies' report (Nu 13:20,25-26; 33:18-19, from verses 20 to 36 are the stages of penal wandering). On the first month of the 40th year they are at Kadesh once more. The tabernacle and Moses remained at Kadesh on the first occasion, while Israel attempted to occupy Canaan too late (Nu 14:44). For a long period ("many days") they stayed still here, after failure, in hope God would yet remit the sentence (De 1:45-46). Then they "compassed Mount Seir (the wilderness of Paran) many days," until that whole generation died (De 2:1). The 17 stations belong to that dreary period (Nu 33:19-36). The people spread about the ridges of Paran, while the tabernacle and camp moved among them from place to place. At the second encampment at Kadesh they stayed three or four months (Nu 20:1 with Nu 1:22-28; 33:38). Miriam died, and was buried there.
The people mustering all together exhausted the natural water supply; the smiting of the rock, and the sentence on Moses and Aaron followed (Nu 20:2 ff; Nu 20:12-13); from Kadesh Israel sent the message to Edom (Nu 20:14, etc.). On the messengers' return Israel left Kadesh for Mount Hor, where Aaron dies; then proceeded by the marches in Nu 33:41-49 round Edom to Moab. The camp and tabernacle, with the priests and chiefs, during the wanderings, were the nucleus and rallying point; and the encampments named in Nu 33:18-36 are those at which the tabernacle was pitched. Kehelathah ("assembling": Nu 33:22) and Makheloth ("assemblies") were probably stages at which special gatherings took place. During the year's stay at Sinai the people would disperse to seek food: so also during the 38 years' wandering. They bought provisions from neighbouring tribes (De 2:26-29). Fish at Ezion Geber (Nu 33:35) was obtainable.
Caravans passed over the desert of wandering as the regular route between the East and Egypt. The resources of the region sufficed in that day for a comparatively large population whose traces are found. The excessive hardships detailed De 1:19; 8:15, belong to the closing marches of the 40th year through the Arabah, not to the whole period (Nu 21:4). Between the limestone cliffs of the Tih on the W. and the granite range of Seir on the E. the Arabah is a mountain plain of loose sand and granite gravel, with little food or water, and troubled with sand storms from the gulf.
CHRONOLOGY. Numbers begins with the first day of the second month of the second year after they left Egypt (Nu 1:1). Aaron's death occurred in the first day of the fifth month of the 40th year (Nu 33:38), the first encampment in the final march to Canaan (Nu 20:22). Between these two points intervene 38 years and three months of wandering (De 2:14; Nu 14:27-35). Moses recapitulated the law after Sihon's and Og's defeat in the beginning of the eleventh month of the 40th year (De 1:3-4). Thus six months intervene between Aaron's death and Deuteronomy; in them the events of the fourth part of the Book of Numbers (Nu 20:1 to the end) occurred, excepting Arad's defeat. The first month mourning for Aaron occupies, Nu 20:29; part of the host in this month avenged Arad's attack during Israel's journey from Kadesh to Mount Hor.
Arad's attack would be while Israel was near, nor would be wait until Israel withdrew 60 miles S. to Mount Hor (Nu 20:23,25). His attack was evidently when the camp moved from Kadesh, which was immediately S. of Arad. He feared their invasion would be "by way of the spies," namely, from the same quarter as before (Nu 14:40-45; 21:1), so he took the offensive. The war with Arad precedes in time Numbers 20, Aaron's burial at Mount Hor, and is the first of the series of victories under Moses narrated from this point. (See HORMAH.) Next, from Mount Hor Israel compassed Edom by way of the Red Sea (Nu 21:4), a 220-mile journey, about four weeks, to the brook Zered (Nu 21:12), the first westward flowing brook they met, marking therefore an epoch in their march. Then follows Sihon's and Og's overthrow at Jahaz and Edrei, about the middle of the third of the six months.
Their defeat caused Balak to summon Balaam to curse Israel from "Pethor, which was on the river (Euphrates) in his native land" (so, Nu 22:5), at least 350 miles distant. Two months suffice for his ambassadors to go and return twice, and for Balaam's prophesying (Numbers 22-24). Israel probably was meanwhile securing and completing the conquest of Gilead and Bashan. Six weeks thus remain for Midian's seduction of Israel, the plague (Numbers 25), the second numbering on the plains of Moab (Numbers 26), and the attack on Midian (Numbers 31), God retributively scourging the tempters by their own victims: "beside those (kings) that fell in the battle they put to death the kings of Midian (five, namely) Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba" (Nu 31:8), "Balaam also they slew" judicially, not in battle. So Moses' death is foreannounced as to follow the vengeance upon Midian (Nu 31:2). Deuteronomy is his last testimony, just after the war, and before his death in the eleventh month of the 40th year.
AUTHOR AND DATE. The catalog of stages from Egypt to Moab (Nu 33:2) is expressly attributed to Moses. The living connection of special enactments with incidents which occasioned them proves that this characteristic mixture of narrative and legislation comes from a contemporary annalist. Leviticus completed the Sinai legislation, but the stay in tents in the wilderness required supplementary directions not originally provided, as Nu 19:14, also Numbers 5; Nu 9:6-14; Numbers 19 (Nu 19:11 the plague after Korah's rebellion necessitating ordinances concerning defilement by contact with the dead), Numbers 30; Numbers 36, the law of heiresses marrying in their tribe, being at the suit of the Machirite chiefs, as the law of their inheriting was issued on the suit of Zelophehad's daughters (Numbers 27), and that was due to Jehovah's command to divide the land according to the number of names, by lot (Nu 26:52-56). So the ordinances Nu 15:4, etc., Nu 15:22,24,32.
The author's intimate knowledge of Egypt appears in the trial of jealousy (Nu 5:11), the purifications of the priests (Nu 8:7, etc.), the ashes of the red heifer (Numbers 19); all having an affinity to, though certainly not borrowed from, Egyptian rites. So the people refer to their former Egyptian foods (Nu 11:5-6). The building of Hebron seven years before Zoan (Tanis: probably connected here because both had the scale builder, one of the Hyksos, shepherd kings of Egypt, who originally perhaps came from the region of the Anakim), the N.E. frontier town of Egypt (Nu 13:22). References to the Exodus from Egypt (Nu 3:13; 14:19; 15:41). The regulations for encamping and marching (Numbers 2; Nu 9:16; etc., Nu 10:1-28), and Moses' invocation (Nu 10:35-36).
The directions for removing the tabernacle (Numbers 3 and Numbers 4). The very inconsistency seeming between Nu 4:3,23,30, fixing the Levites' limit of age to 30, and Nu 8:24 appointing the age 25 (the reason being, the 30 was temporary, the number of able-bodied Levites between 30 and 50 sufficing for the conveyance of the tabernacle in the wilderness; but, when Israel was in Canaan, the larger number afforded by the earlier limit 25 to 50 was required: David enlarged the number, as the needs of the sanctuary service required, by reducing the age for entrance to 20 (1Ch 23:24-28), younger men b
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For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised. This includes those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner, those who are not your offspring. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be a long lasting covenant.
Give the man's wife back to him now. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not give her back, you and all who belong to you are doomed to die.
Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that Jehovah met him and sought to put him to death.
Jehovah said to Moses: See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.
Many other people also went with them, along with large numbers of sheep, goats, and cattle.
After the fight Jehovah said to Moses: Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever.
Then Moses explained: This is because I depended on Jehovah. But in future generations, Jehovah will have to fight the Amalekites again.
You are to observe the Sabbath. It is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it will absolutely be put to death. Whoever does any work on it will be removed from his people.
These are the commandments Jehovah gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai. It was the first day of the second month in the second year after leaving Egypt. He said:
Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai. It was the first day of the second month in the second year after leaving Egypt. He said:
The roster of families and households for the descendants of Simeon registered and listed every man by name that was at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty. The total for the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred. read more. The roster of families and households for the descendants of Gad listed the men by name that were at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty. The total for the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. The roster of families and households for the descendants of Judah listed the men by name that were at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty. The total for the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand six hundred. The roster of families and households for the descendants of Issachar listed the men by name that were at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty.
was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
because every firstborn is mine. The day I killed every firstborn male in Egypt, I set apart as holy every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They will be mine. I am Jehovah.
The total of all the firstborn males at least one month old was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy three. They were listed by name.
Register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are qualified to work at the tent of meeting.
Register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are qualified to serve at the tent of meeting.
Register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are qualified to serve at the tent of meeting.
This is what you must do to make them clean: Sprinkle them with water to take away their sins. Make them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. Then they will be clean.
From the age of twenty-five each Levite shall perform his duties in the tent of my presence,
Jehovah spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after the Israelites left Egypt. He said:
You must celebrate it on the fourteenth day of this month at dusk. Follow all the rules and regulations for the celebration of the Passover.
There were some men who had become unclean from touching a dead body. They could not celebrate the Passover that day. They went to Moses and Aaron. They said: We are unclean because we touched a dead body. Why are we prevented from making our offerings to Jehovah at the same time the rest of the Israelites bring their offerings? read more. Moses answered: Wait here until I find out what Jehovah commands you to do. Jehovah said to Moses, Tell the Israelites: Should you or any of your descendants be unclean from touching a dead body or away on a long trip. You may still celebrate the Passover. You will celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at dusk. Eat the Passover animal along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
You will celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at dusk. Eat the Passover animal along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Never leave any of the meat until morning or break any of the animal's bones. Follow all the rules for the Passover when you celebrate it.
Never leave any of the meat until morning or break any of the animal's bones. Follow all the rules for the Passover when you celebrate it. If you are clean and not on a trip and yet do not bother to celebrate the Passover, you must be excluded from the people. You did not bring your offering to Jehovah at the right time. You must suffer the consequences for your sin. read more. Foreigners living with you may want to celebrate Jehovah's Passover. They must follow these same rules and regulations. The same rules will apply to foreigners and native-born Israelites.'
The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke that covered the tent glowed like fire.
Jehovah said to Moses: Make two trumpets of hammered silver to use for calling the people together and for breaking camp. read more. When long blasts are sounded on both trumpets, the whole community is to gather around you at the entrance to the tent of my presence. When only one trumpet is sounded, then only the leaders of the clans are to gather around you. When short blasts are sounded, the tribes camped on the east will move out. When short blasts are sounded a second time, the tribes on the south will move out. So short blasts are to be sounded to break camp, Long blasts are to be sounded to call the congregation together. Aaron's sons the priests are to blow the trumpets. The following rule is to be observed for all time to come. When there is war in your land and you defend yourselves against an enemy attack, sound the signal for battle on these trumpets. I, Jehovah your God, will help you and save you from your enemies. Joyful occasions such as your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals, you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I AM JEHOVAH YOUR GOD! The cloud over the tent of Jehovah's presence lifted the twentieth day of the second month in the second year after the people left Egypt.
The cloud over the tent of Jehovah's presence lifted the twentieth day of the second month in the second year after the people left Egypt. At last the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.
At last the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran. Jehovah gave the command through Moses for them to march.
Jehovah gave the command through Moses for them to march. They were in the same order each time they moved. Those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Judah started out first, company by company, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.
They were in the same order each time they moved. Those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Judah started out first, company by company, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command. Nethanel son of Zuar was in command of the tribe of Issachar. read more. Eliab son of Helon was in command of the tribe of Zebulun. Then the tent would be taken down. The clans of Gershon and Merari carried it. Next, the banner of the division led by the tribe of Reuben would start out, company by company. Elizur son of Shedeur was in command. Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was in command of the tribe of Simeon, and Eliasaph son of Deuel was in command of the tribe of Gad. The Levite clan of Kohath started the march. They carried the sacred objects. By the time they arrived at the next camp, the tent had been set up again. Next, the banner of the division led by the tribe of Ephraim would start out, company by company, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command. Gamaliel son of Pedahzur commanded the tribe of Manasseh. Abidan son of Gideoni commanded the tribe of Benjamin. Finally, the banner of the division led by the tribe of Dan, serving as the rear guard of all the divisions, started out, company by company. Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was in command. Pagiel son of Ochran commanded the tribe of Asher. Ahira son of Enan commanded the tribe of Naphtali. This was the order of march, company by company, when the Israelites broke camp and set out.
When the Ark of the Covenant started out, Moses would say: ARISE, JEHOVAH; scatter your enemies and put to flight those who hate you! And when it stopped, he would say: RETURN, O JEHOVAH, to the countless thousands of Israel!
Some foreigners among the Israelites had a strong craving for other kinds of food. Even the Israelites cried again and said: If only we had meat to eat! Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had? read more. Now we have lost our appetite! Everywhere we look there is nothing but manna!
I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the spirit I have given and give it to them. Then they can help you bear the responsibility for these people. You will not have to bear it alone.
Moses asked him: Do you think you need to stand up for me? I wish all Jehovah's people were prophets and that Jehovah would put his Spirit on them!
Moses was a very humble (meek) man. He was more humble than anyone else on earth.
He said: Listen to my words: 'When there are prophets of Jehovah among you, I make myself known to them in visions or speak to them in dreams.
Choose one of the leaders from each of the twelve tribes and send them as spies to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites.
Gaddi, son of Susi, from the tribe of Joseph, that is, the tribe of Manasseh; Ammiel, son of Gemalli, from the tribe of Dan;
Is the soil rich or poor? Does the land have trees or not? Do your best to bring back some fruit from the land. It was the season when grapes were beginning to ripen.
When they went to the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
Forty days later they returned from exploring the land. They returned to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. They gave their report and showed them the fruit from the land.
Caleb told the people to be quiet and listen to Moses. Caleb said: Let us go now and take possession of the land. We should be more than able to conquer it.
Jehovah said to Moses: How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed many miracles among them?
Jehovah said to Moses: How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed many miracles among them? I will send an epidemic and destroy them. I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!
I will send an epidemic and destroy them. I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are! Moses said to Jehovah: You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,
Moses said to Jehovah: You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people, they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. But if you kill all these people at the same time the nations who have heard these reports about you will say,
But if you kill all these people at the same time the nations who have heard these reports about you will say, Jehovah was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.
Jehovah was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert. Jehovah, let your power be as great as when you said, read more. Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation. By your great love, please forgive these people's sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now.
By your great love, please forgive these people's sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now. Jehovah said: I forgive them, as you have asked. read more. But as I live and as the glory of Jehovah fills the whole earth, I solemnly swear that none of the people who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I did in Egypt and in the desert will see the land I promised their ancestors. They have tested me now ten times and refused to obey me. None of those who treat me with contempt will see it! My servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed me, I will bring him to the land he already explored. His descendants will possess it. The Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys. Tomorrow you must turn around, go back into the desert. Follow the road that goes to the Red Sea.
How long must I put up with this wicked congregation that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making about me. Therefore tell them: 'As I live, declares Jehovah, I solemnly swear I will do everything to you that you said I would do. read more. Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die. I raised my hand and swore an oath to give you this land to live in. But none of you will enter it except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. You said your children would be taken as prisoners of war. Instead, I will bring them into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it. But your bodies will drop dead in this desert. Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.' I, Jehovah, have spoken. I swear I will do these things to all the people in this whole wicked congregation. For they have joined forces against me. They will meet their end in this desert. Here they will die!'
Of all the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived. Moses told these things to all the Israelites. The people mourned bitterly, as if someone had died. read more. Early the next morning they headed into the mountains. They said: We have sinned. Now we will go to the place Jehovah promised. Moses asked: Why are you disobeying Jehovah's command? Your plan will not work! Do not go! Your enemies will defeat you because Jehovah is not with you. The Amalekites and Canaanites are there. You will die in battle. Now that you have turned away from Jehovah, he will not be with you. But they headed into the mountains anyway. The Ark of the Jehovah's promise and Moses stayed in the camp.
But they headed into the mountains anyway. The Ark of the Jehovah's promise and Moses stayed in the camp. The Amalekites and Canaanites who lived there came down from those mountains, attacked the Israelites, and defeated them at Hormah.
Whoever presents the offering must also give Jehovah a grain offering of eight cups of flour mixed with one quart of oil.
the following regulations for the people of Israel. They are to observe them in the land he was going to give them.
Suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations Jehovah gave Moses.
If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the congregation, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, an odor that pleases Jehovah. Use the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering.
One time, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.
One time, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.
I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am Jehovah your God!
Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.
Here are your instructions for when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who goes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean for seven days.
In the first month the whole congregation of Israel came into the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.
In the first month the whole congregation of Israel came into the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there. The congregation was without water. So they gathered to confront Moses and Aaron.
Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation in front of the rock and said to them: Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you? Moses raised his hand and hit the rock twice with the staff. Water came pouring out! All the people and their animals drank. read more. Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: You did not trust me! You did not show the Israelites how holy I am! So you will not bring this congregation into the land I am giving them.
Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: You did not trust me! You did not show the Israelites how holy I am! So you will not bring this congregation into the land I am giving them. This was the oasis of Meribah (Complaining), where the Israelites complained about Jehovah and where he showed them he was holy.
This was the oasis of Meribah (Complaining), where the Israelites complained about Jehovah and where he showed them he was holy. Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. He said: This is what your brother Israel says: 'You know all the hardships we have had.
The whole congregation of Israel left Kadesh and arrived at Mount Hor, on the border of Edom. There Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron:
The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.
The Canaanite king of Arad in the southern part of Canaan heard that the Israelites were coming by way of Atharim. So he attacked them and captured some of them.
They moved from Mount Hor following the road that goes to the Red Sea. That way they could go around Edom. The people became impatient on the trip
They moved from Mount Hor following the road that goes to the Red Sea. That way they could go around Edom. The people became impatient on the trip
Then they camped in Zered Valley. They moved again and camped on the north side of the Arnon River, in the desert that extends into Amorite territory. The Arnon was the border between the Moabites and the Amorites. read more. That is why The Book of Jehovah's Battles speaks of the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the valleys; the Arnon River,
That is why The Book of Jehovah's Battles speaks of the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the valleys; the Arnon River,
The people of Israel sang this song: Wells, produce your water; And we will greet it with a song.
That is why the Amorites had written this poem about Heshbon: Come and rebuild Heshbon, King Sihon's capital city! His armies marched out like fiery flames, burning down the town of Ar and destroying the hills along the Arnon River. read more. You Moabites are done for! Your god Chemosh deserted your people. They were captured, taken away by King Sihon the Amorite. We completely defeated Moab. The towns of Heshbon and Dibon, of Nophah and Medeba are ruined and gone.
He sent messengers to summon Balaam, son of Beor, who was at Pethor, on the Euphrates River, in the land where his people lived. Balak's message was: A nation has just come here from Egypt. They have spread out all over the countryside and are setting up their camp here in front of me.
One of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman to his brothers. He did this right in front of Moses and the entire congregation of Israel while they were crying at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
The name of the Israelite man who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri, son of Salu. Salu was the leader of a family from Simeon.
Jehovah said to Moses: Use the list of names from the census to divide the land these people will possess. read more. Give more land to larger tribes and less land to smaller ones. Use the totals from the census in giving land to each tribe. The land must also be divided by drawing lots. The tribes will receive their land based on the names of their ancestors. Whether the tribes are large or small, the land must be divided by drawing lots.
Get even with the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your ancestors in death.
Included in those killed were the five kings of Midian-Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, in battle.
Included in those killed were the five kings of Midian-Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, in battle.
Jehovah command Moses to wrote down the places where they went as they traveled. This is the list:
They moved from Hazeroth and set up camp at Rithmah. They moved from Rithmah and set up camp at Rimmon Perez.
They moved from Rithmah and set up camp at Rimmon Perez. They moved from Rimmon Perez and set up camp at Libnah.
They moved from Rimmon Perez and set up camp at Libnah. They moved from Libnah and set up camp at Rissah.
They moved from Libnah and set up camp at Rissah. They moved from Rissah and set up camp at Kehelathah.
They moved from Rissah and set up camp at Kehelathah. They moved from Kehelathah and set up camp at Mount Shepher.
They moved from Kehelathah and set up camp at Mount Shepher. They moved from Mount Shepher and set up camp at Haradah.
They moved from Mount Shepher and set up camp at Haradah. They moved from Haradah and set up camp at Makheloth.
They moved from Haradah and set up camp at Makheloth. They moved from Makheloth and set up camp at Tahath.
They moved from Makheloth and set up camp at Tahath. They moved from Tahath and set up camp at Terah.
They moved from Tahath and set up camp at Terah. They moved from Terah and set up camp at Mithcah.
They moved from Terah and set up camp at Mithcah. They moved from Mithcah and set up camp at Hashmonah.
They moved from Mithcah and set up camp at Hashmonah. They moved from Hashmonah and set up camp at Moseroth.
They moved from Hashmonah and set up camp at Moseroth. They moved from Moseroth and set up camp at Bene Jaakan.
They moved from Moseroth and set up camp at Bene Jaakan. They moved from Bene Jaakan and set up camp at Hor Haggidgad.
They moved from Bene Jaakan and set up camp at Hor Haggidgad. They moved from Hor Haggidgad and set up camp at Jotbathah.
They moved from Hor Haggidgad and set up camp at Jotbathah. They moved from Jotbathah and set up camp at Abronah.
They moved from Jotbathah and set up camp at Abronah. They moved from Abronah and set up camp at Ezion Geber.
They moved from Abronah and set up camp at Ezion Geber. They moved from Ezion Geber and set up camp at Kadesh in the Desert of Zin.
They moved from Ezion Geber and set up camp at Kadesh in the Desert of Zin.
Jehovah commanded Aaron the priest to go up on Mount Hor. He died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites left Egypt.
Jehovah commanded Aaron the priest to go up on Mount Hor. He died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites left Egypt.
They moved from Mount Hor and set up camp at Zalmonah. They moved from Zalmonah and set up camp at Punon. read more. The Israelites moved from Punon and set up camp at Oboth. Then they moved from Oboth and set up camp at Iye Abarim on the border of Moab. They moved from Iyim and set up camp at Dibongad. Thaey moved fromDibongad and set up camp at Almon Diblathaim. They moved from Almon Diblathaim and set up camp in the Abarim Mountains east of Nebo. They moved from the Abarim Mountains and set up camp on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho. They set up camp on the plains of Moab along the Jordan. Their camp extended from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.
It was the fortieth year, eleventh month, on the first day of the month. Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all the commandments Jehovah (YHWH) gave him for them. After he killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived at Astaroth in Edrei:
When we left Horeb, we went through that entire great and terrible wilderness. You saw it by way of the mountain of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us. We went to Kadesh-barnea.
Jehovah was angry with me because of you. He said to me: 'You will also not go there.
You returned and cried to Jehovah. Jehovah, however, did not listen to you. He turned a deaf ear to you! That is why you stayed in Kadesh as long as you did.
We went back into the desert. We followed the road that leads to the Red Sea as Jehovah told me. For a long time we traveled around the region of Mount Seir.
This was thirty-eight years after we left Kadesh-Barnea. By that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as Jehovah said they would.
I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following offer of peace: If you allow us to travel through your country, we will go straight through and will not leave the road. read more. We will pay you in silver for the food we eat and the water we drink. Please let us go through, as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us. We will keep going until we cross the Jordan River into the land Jehovah our God is giving us.'
He was the one who led you through that vast and dangerous wilderness. It was a parched, arid land, with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He was the one who made water come out of solid rock for you.
Do not detest an Edomite for he is your brother. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien (strangers) (guests) in his land. The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of Jehovah.
From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon All the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon; read more. And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah; The kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants. Moses defeated them and took over their land. Nevertheless the children of Israel did not expel the Geshurites, or the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. He gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The sacrifices of Jehovah God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them. Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
When the boy Samuel was serving Jehovah under the direction of Eli, there were very few messages from Jehovah. Visions from him were rare.
Formerly in Israel, when a person went to ask God a question, he would say: Come; let's go to the seer. This is because a prophet used to be called a seer.
He also said to Zadok: You are a seer, are you? Take your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar's son Jonathan and go back to the city in peace.
Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. He had an Egyptian servant named Jarha. Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore him Attai.
These were the descendants of Levi by their families, the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more who served in the Temple of Jehovah. For David had said: Since Jehovah, the God of Israel, has granted rest to his people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem from generation to generation, read more. the Levites no longer need to carry the Tabernacle or any of the articles used in its service. According to the last instructions of David, the Levites were counted from those twenty years old or more. The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron's descendants in the service of the Temple of Jehovah: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the House of God.
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me. I am meek (mild) and humble in heart. You will have a restful life,