But Moses was angry toward the leaders of the troops, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, who came from the battle of the war.

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, "This [is] the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses.

Exact a tribute for Yahweh from the men of the war, those who went out to the battle, one from five hundred persons, and from the cattle and from the male donkeys and from the flock;

take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest [as] a contribution to Yahweh.

From half of the {Israelites}, take one [share] drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans, from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals, and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh."

and the life of humankind, from the women who did not {have sexual intercourse with a man}, all the persons were thirty-two thousand.

the tribute to Yahweh from the flock was six hundred and seventy-five;

From the half of the {Israelites}, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting,

the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock,

From the half that belonged to the {Israelites}, Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

and they said to Moses, "Your servants have {taken count} of the men of war who [were] {in our charge}, and no man is missing from us.

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all objects of work.

All the gold of the contribution that they raised up to Yahweh, from the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of the thousands and hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of the assembly as a memorial for the {Israelites} before Yahweh.

Why are you discouraging the hearts of the {Israelites} from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them?

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

'The men who went up from Egypt, from {those twenty years old} and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me,

If you turn from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people."

For we will not take possession with them from across the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us from across the Jordan to the east."

and everyone of you armed cross the Jordan {before} Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

and the land is subdued {before} Yahweh, then afterward you will return and be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be your property {before} Yahweh.

Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do."

These [were] the journeys of the {Israelites}, who went out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

They set out from Rameses on the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the {Israelites} went out {boldly} {in the sight} of all the Egyptians

Then the {Israelites} set out from Rameses, and they camped in Succoth.

They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which [is] on the edge of the desert.

Then they set out from Etham and returned to Pi-Hahiroth, which faces Baal Zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

They set out from Pi-Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the desert; and they went a journey of three days into the desert of Etham and camped at Marah.

They set out from Marah and came to Elim, and in Elim [there were] twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

They set out from Elim, and they camped at the {Red Sea}.

They set out from the {Red Sea} and camped at the desert of Sin.

They set out from the desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.

They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; and it was there [that] the people had no water to drink.

They set out from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.

The set out from the desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.

They set out from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.

They set out from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.

They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.

They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shapher.

They set out from Mount Shapher and camped at Haradah.

They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.

They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.

They set out from Terah and camped at Mithcah.

They set out from Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah.

They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moserah.

They set out from Moserah and camped at Bene-Jaakan.

They set out from Bene-Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad.

They set out from Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.

They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.

They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.

They set out from Ezion Geber and camped in the desert of Zin, that [is], Kadesh.

They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.

Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the {command} of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the {Israelites} had gone out from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month on the first [day] of the month.

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

They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.

They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, the boundary of Moab.

They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad.

They set out from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon-Diblatayim.

They set out from Almon-Diblatayim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan [across] Jericho.

They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-Jeshimoth up to Abel Shittim, on the desert-plateau of Moab.

you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live.

Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea to the east;

your boundary will turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and will pass over to Zin, and its limits will be from the south of Kadesh Barnea; it will continue to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

The boundary will turn from Azmon to the valley of Egypt, and its limits will be to the sea.

Your northern border will be from the Great Sea; you will make a boundary from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.

From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad.

" 'You will mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar Enan to Shepham;

the boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah from the east side of Ain, and the boundary will go down and border on the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth.

The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance from beyond the Jordan [across] Jericho, east toward the sunrise."

You will take one leader from every tribe to divide up the land for inheritance.

"Command the {Israelites} that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their property cities to live in; and you will give to the Levites pastureland all around the cities.

"The pasturelands of the cities that you will give to the Levites [will extend] from the wall of the city to [a distance of] a thousand cubits all around.

And the cities that you will give from the property of the {Israelites}, you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits."

The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment.

The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

But if they become wives to one of the sons from [another] tribe of the {Israelites}, their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear.

When the Jubilee of the {Israelites} {comes}, it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father."

This [is] the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, '{Let them marry} {whomever they like}; only {they must marry} from within the clan of the tribe of their father.

Thus an inheritance of the {Israelites} will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the {Israelites}.

Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the {Israelites} will {marry} one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the {Israelites} will possess the inheritance of his ancestors.

Therefore an inheritance will not go around from [one] tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the {Israelites} will each hold to their [own] inheritance.'"

{They married} those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance {remained} among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors.

It is [a journey of] {eleven days} from Herob {by the way of Mount Seir} up to Kadesh Barnea.

"Then we set out from Horeb, and we went [through] the whole [of] that great and terrible desert that you saw [on] the way [to] the hill country of the Amorites as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and [so] we came up to Kadesh Barnea.

The plan was good {in my opinion}, and [so] I took from [among] you twelve men, {one from each tribe}.

And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, 'Because of the hatred of Yahweh [toward] us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

And so we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, past the road of the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion Geber, and we turned and traveled along the route of the desert of Moab.

The Horites previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them {from among themselves}, as Israel did with respect to the land of their possession that Yahweh gave to them.)

Now the {length of time} that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until [the time when] we crossed the wadi of Zered [was] thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; [that is], the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them.

The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely.

"{And then} when all the men of war {had died} from among the people,