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

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

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

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

These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.

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

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

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

And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

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

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

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

These were the offerings given for the altar by the chiefs of Israel, when the holy oil was put on it: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold spoons;

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

All those who are Israelites by birth are to do these things in this way, when giving an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord.

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

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

And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

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

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.

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

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

So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him rods, one for the head of every family, making twelve rods: and Aaron's rod was among them.

Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you?

And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.

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

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

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

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

These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred.

These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.

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

These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:

These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.

These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites:

These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

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

These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families.

These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

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

Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.

These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.

Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.

Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times.

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

These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.

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

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

And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.

Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

These are the names of the men who are to make the distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun.

And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

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:

These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.

These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.