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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

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

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

Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up:

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

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

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

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

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

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

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

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

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

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

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

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.

And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying,

So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.

And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you, requesting you with all my heart to come to me? why did you not come? am I not able to give you a place of honour?

And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.

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

Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.

And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there.

Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me,

For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

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

From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

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

So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.

If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

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.