Present a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old,

and one male goat to make atonement for yourselves.

Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Your animals are to be unblemished.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of joyful shouting for you.

Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.

These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial; you must not do any work.

Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. All your animals are to be unblemished.

Offer one male goat for a sin offering. The regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings are in addition to the sin offering of atonement.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; you must not do any daily work. You are to celebrate a seven-day festival for the Lord.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the second day present 12 young bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the third day present 11 bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the fourth day present 10 bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the fifth day present nine bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the sixth day present eight bulls, two rams, 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“You must offer these to the Lord at your appointed times in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt, grain, drink, or fellowship offerings.”

When a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

“When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the Lord or puts herself under an obligation,

But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding. The Lord will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

and her husband hears about it and says nothing to her when he finds out, her vows are binding, and the obligations she put herself under are binding.

But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it, he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the Lord will forgive her.

“Every vow a widow or divorced woman puts herself under is binding on her.

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

But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears about it, nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or her obligation, is binding. Her husband has canceled them, and the Lord will absolve her.

If her husband says nothing at all to her from day to day, he confirms all her vows and obligations, which are binding. He has confirmed them because he said nothing to her when he heard about them.

These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.

So Moses spoke to the people, “Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the Lord’s vengeance on them.

So 1,000 were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands in Israel—12,000 equipped for war.

Moses sent 1,000 from each tribe to war. They went with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, in whose care were the holy objects and signal trumpets.

They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.

“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.

On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

Set aside a tribute for the Lord from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.

From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every 50 from the people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats, all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who perform the duties of the Lord’s tabernacle.”

Moses took one out of every 50, selected from the people and the livestock of the Israelites’ half. He gave them to the Levites who perform the duties of the Lord’s tabernacle, as the Lord had commanded him.

and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

So we have presented to the Lord an offering of the gold articles each man found—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, they saw that the region was a good one for livestock.

which the Lord struck down before the community of Israel, is good land for livestock, and your servants own livestock.”

They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don’t make us cross the Jordan.”

That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

So the Lord’s anger burned that day, and He swore an oath:

The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness 40 years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight was gone.

And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your fathers’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.

If you turn back from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them.”

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our dependents will remain in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance will be across the Jordan to the east.”

and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies from His presence,

Our little children, wives, livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead,

Moses told them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, every man in battle formation before the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

But if they don’t go across with you in battle formation, they must accept land in Canaan with you.”

We will cross over in battle formation before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but we will keep our hereditary possession across the Jordan.”

So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled in it.

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

These were the stages of the Israelites’ journey when they went out of the land of Egypt by their military divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians.

They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

They departed from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.

They departed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped in Dophkah.

They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.

They departed from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

They departed from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor on the edge of the land of Edom.

At the Lord’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt.

Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard the Israelites were coming.

They departed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.

They departed from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the Abarim range facing Nebo.

They departed from the Abarim range and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth to the Acacia Meadow on the plains of Moab.

The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,

“Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess.

You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these borders:

Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.

The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.

Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

So Moses commanded the Israelites, “This is the land you are to receive by lot as an inheritance, which the Lord commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes.

“These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.