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And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon.'

Verse ConceptsDo Not Fear MenThose God Gave Into Their Hands

he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. Balak said to him: “Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyMessengers Sent Out

Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyInvitationsSorcery And MagicCursing IsraelPeople Blessing

Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],

Behold! A people has come out of Egypt which covers the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me. Perhaps, I shall be able to overcome them and drive them out.

Verse ConceptsCursing Israel

So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your land, because the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”

Verse ConceptsGod Forbidding

And the princes of Moab rose up; and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam has refused to come with us.

Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”

And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyAnimal LifeRebukeActing Three TimesThe Dumb Speaking

And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyKilling Domesticated Animals

And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyRiding DonkeysPeople Possessing Other Things

And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBeating AnimalsActing Three TimesGod As EnemyWhy Do You Do This?

He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

Verse ConceptsInvitationsJacob, The PatriarchCrude LanguageCursing IsraelWise Proverbs

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

Verse ConceptsCursing Israelcurses

Who has counted the dust of Jacob
or numbered the dust clouds of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright;
let the end of my life be like theirs.

Verse ConceptsUncountableNumerous As DustA Fourth PartDeath Of God's PeopleMany In Israelcredibility

And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Blessing And CurseBlessed By Godcurses

And he answered and said, Must I not be careful to speak that which Jehovah has put in my mouth?

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

Verse ConceptsBlessedBlessed By GodBlessing Others

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

Verse ConceptsShoutingTheocracyGod With YouGroups ShoutingNatural Disasters

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicDivinationWhat Does God Do?SorceryEclipseisraelmagicadvertisingOccult Being Powerless Before God

Look! The people are like lions. Like the lion, he rises up! He does not lie down again until he has consumed his prey and drunk the blood of the slain."

Verse ConceptsHuntingDeterminationCreatures Drinking BloodLike CreaturesAnimals Eating

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said;

Verse ConceptsEyes, Figurative UseReceiving SightWise Proverbs

As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardens

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicorns

And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanCommunicating Three TimesClappingBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelNamed People Angry With Others

Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor."

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanGod HinderingNo Reward

And Balaam saith unto Balak, 'Did I not also unto thy messengers whom thou hast sent unto me, speak, saying,

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said;

Verse ConceptsReceiving SightWise Proverbs

he has said, he who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down but having his eyes open;

Verse ConceptsecstasyGod On HighHearing God's WordReceiving SightVisions From God

Then he took up his discourse and said,
“Alas, who can live except God has ordained it?

Verse ConceptsWise Proverbs

"Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Verse ConceptseagernessGod, Zeal OfAction Lest God Be Angry

So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, and has made atonement for the Israelites.'"

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtSin, God's Remedy For

Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.

So this has been a list of those who were registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they numbered the Israelis in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Verse ConceptsCensusThe Region Of Jordan

Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he has no son? Therefore give us a possession among the brothers of our father.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted Out

'Rightly are the daughters of Zelophehad speaking; thou dost certainly give to them a possession of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brethren, and hast caused to pass over the inheritance of their father to them.

Verse ConceptsHeredityFathers And Daughters

And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

Verse ConceptsReal EstateLack Of Sons

And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest relative, of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be to the sons of Israel a statute of judgment, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

Verse ConceptsGathered To One's People

The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.

Verse ConceptsHandsMoses, Life OfLaying On Of HandsThe Spirit Of GodThe Holy Spirit, And SanctificationLaying On Hands To Commission

and hast caused him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the company, and hast charged him before their eyes,

Verse ConceptsGod Appointing Others

and hast put of thine honour upon him, so that all the company of the sons of Israel do hearken.

Verse ConceptsHuman Authority, Nature OfAuthority Of DisciplesPaying Attention To Peopleinvesting

'Command the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, My offering, My bread for My fire-offerings, My sweet fragrance, ye take heed to bring near to Me in its appointed season.

Verse ConceptsAromasSmellsRefreshing God

And thou hast said to them, This is the fire-offering which ye bring near to Jehovah: two lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones, daily, a continual burnt-offering;

Verse ConceptsCripplesMale AnimalsPerfect SacrificesTwo AnimalsAnimals At Specific Ages

‘On the first day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work. It will be for you a day of blowing the trumpets (the shophar, ram’s horn).

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TrumpetsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodMonthNew Year, TheAutumnTrumpetYearsConvocationsMonth 7Trumpets For CelebrationNo Work On Feast DaysMonths

And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded:

Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

and if her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and if her father is silent as to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

But if her father does not allow her in the day that he hears, not any of her vows or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. And Jehovah shall forgive her because her father did not allow her.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgive

"If she is [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

Verse ConceptsLipsimpulsiveness

and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgiveimpulsiveness

But every vow of a widow and of her who is divorced, all which she has bound on her soul shall stand against her.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTUnfaithfulness, To PeopleDivorce

“If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

Verse ConceptsHusband And WifeRelationships With Boyfriend

and her husband hears it but remains silent, not disallowing it, then all her vows are to stand, along with every obligation that she has pledged to fulfill.

But if her husband has certainly broken them on the day he heard, whatever comes out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has broken them. And Jehovah shall forgive her.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Forgive

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

But if he at all breaks them after he has heard, then he has borne her iniquity.

And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.

Verse ConceptsInfantsDeath Of All MalesMan And Womanteenager

And stay outside the camp seven days. Whosoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any dead one, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsQuarantiningHealingQuarantineSeven DaysPeople Being PollutedSeven Days For Legal Purposes

Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:

Verse ConceptsOrdinances

and thou hast halved the prey between those handling the battle who go out to the host and all the company;

Verse ConceptsHalf Of PossessionsDividing PlunderWarSharingBattledivision

and thou hast raised a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war, who go out to the host, one body out of five hundred, of man, and of the herd, and of the asses, and of the flock;

Verse ConceptsTributes

from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest -- the heave-offering of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsTributesAnimal Sacrifices, Heave Offering

'And from the sons of Israel's half thou dost take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the asses, and of the flock, of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.'

And we bring an offering for Jehovah, what every man has found, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBraceletsEarringsGoldOrnamentsRingsSealsNecklace

And why do you break the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them?

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementHindering God's Work

We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsNot going home directly

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of Jordan, eastward.

and all of you will go armed over Jordan before Jehovah until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,

Verse ConceptsRiver CrossingsExemptThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which has come out of your mouth.

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelStock Keeping

Then the descendants of Gad and descendants of Reuben spoke up. "Your servants will do exactly what our master has commanded." They said.

Verse ConceptsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

but every soldier that we've equipped for battle will cross the Jordan River in the presence of the LORD, as our master has spoken."

Verse ConceptsRiver Crossings

And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to your servants, so we will do.

'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan,

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

"Issue these orders to the Israelis: "You're about to enter the land of Canaan. This territory has been apportioned to you as your inheritance: the entire land of Canaan, all the way to its borders.'"

Verse Conceptsborders

Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;

Verse ConceptsAssignment

For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance:

Verse ConceptsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesDeath penaltyRefugeesSanctuaryManslaughterTypes Of ChristAsylumSix ThingsForties

'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan to the land of Canaan,

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.

Verse ConceptsMurderRefugeManslaughterAccidental KillingsUnintentional

They are to serve as cities of refuge from a blood avenger in order to keep the inadvertent killer from dying until he has stood trial in the presence of the community.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeStandingMan AvengingDeath Of A Family Member

If a man has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

Verse ConceptsStonesBeing Struck With StonesJudgement On Murderers

If a man has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

Verse ConceptsJudgement On Murderers

But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait,

Verse ConceptsLack Of Expectation

Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

Verse ConceptsRankManslaughterAnointing PriestsDeath Of Office Holders

for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

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

And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to the city of his refuge, to return to live in the land until the death of the high priest.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersNot Redeemed

You are not to pollute the land where you live, because blood defiles the land, and the land cannot atone for blood that has been spilled on it, except through the blood of the one who spilled it.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahAtonement, in OTSheddingHuman Blood ShedPolluting The LandLifebloodAtoning By SacrificesJudgement On MurderersThe Environmentcleansing

And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of Jehovah saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has said well.

Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

This is what the Lord has commanded concerning Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

Verse ConceptsLimitednessFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters