You shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to the Lord: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old, which are without defect;

and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,

‘Then on the second day: twelve bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘Then on the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

But you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;

their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

‘You shall present these to the Lord at your appointed times, besides your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for your grain offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings.’”

Moses spoke to the sons of Israel in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the word which the Lord has commanded.

If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

“Also if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

and her father hears her vow and her obligation by which she has bound herself, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall stand.

But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the Lord will forgive her because her father had forbidden her.

and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears it, then her vows shall stand and her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand.

But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he shall annul her vow which she is under and the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself; and the Lord will forgive her.

and her husband heard it, but said nothing to her and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand and every obligation by which she bound herself shall stand.

But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of herself shall not stand; her husband has annulled them, and the Lord will forgive her.

“Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may confirm it or her husband may annul it.

But if her husband indeed says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her obligations which are on her; he has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard them.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

“Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people.”

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”

Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

They brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.

And Moses said to them, “Have you spared all the women?

Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord.

And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:

And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

and divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

Levy a tax for the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the Lord.

From the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.”

The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500,

Moses gave the levy which was the Lord’s offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

As for the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—

and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

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

All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the Lord, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord.

the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not take us across the Jordan.”

But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you yourselves sit here?

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

For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

So the Lord’s anger burned in that day, and He swore, saying,

‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.

Then they came near to him and said, “We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;

but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, while our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

We will not return to our homes until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance.

For we will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan toward the east.”

So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for the war,

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”

The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

while your servants, everyone who is armed for war, will cross over in the presence of the Lord to battle, just as my lord says.”

So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

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

So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.

Moses recorded their starting places according to their journeys by the command of the Lord, and these are their journeys according to their starting places.

They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel started out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

They journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

They journeyed from Marah and came to Elim; and in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

They journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt, on the first day in the fifth month.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

And as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.’”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

“Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders.

Then your border shall turn direction from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and continue to Zin, and its termination shall be to the south of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall reach Hazaraddar and continue to Azmon.

The border shall turn direction from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

‘And this shall be your north border: you shall draw your border line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.

You shall draw a line from Mount Hor to the Lebo-hamath, and the termination of the border shall be at Zedad;

and the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and its termination shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.

‘For your eastern border you shall also draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and reach to the slope on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth.