the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestral houses, presented an offering. They were the tribal leaders who supervised the registration.

But there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day

If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them—they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent—and they prophesied in the camp.

But Moses asked him, “Are you jealous on my account? If only all the Lord’s people were prophets and the Lord would place His Spirit on them!”

The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail—the one who took the least gathered 50 bushels—and they spread them out all around the camp.

I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.

So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the Lord’s command. All the men were leaders in Israel.

These were their names:

Shammua son of Zaccur from the tribe of Reuben;

These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who scouted out the land, tore their clothes

Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more—because you have complained about Me.

those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.

When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.

They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled because they thought, “The earth may swallow us too!”

Fire also came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze firepans that those who were burned had presented, and they were hammered into plating for the altar,

Your offering will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.

A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

The Lord listened to Israel’s request, the Canaanites were defeated, and Israel completely destroyed them and their cities. So they named the place Hormah.

After Moses sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous, and Moab dreaded the Israelites.

Balak sent officials again who were more numerous and higher in rank than the others.

But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the Lord my God to do anything small or great.

But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the Angel of the Lord took His stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Balaam said to the Angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in Your sight, I will go back.”

Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent for Balaam and the officials who were with him.

If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the Lord’s command, to do anything good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the Lord says.

An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

These were the Reubenite clans,
and their registered men numbered 43,730.

The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram.
(It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah’s followers fought against the Lord.

These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

These were the Gadite clans numbered by their registered men: 40,500.

These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

These were Issachar’s clans numbered by their registered men: 64,300.

These were the Zebulunite clans numbered by their registered men: 60,500.

These were Gilead’s descendants:
the Iezerite clan from Iezer;
the Helekite clan from Helek;

Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons—only daughters. The names of Zelophehad’s daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

These were Ephraim’s descendants by their clans:
the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah;
the Becherite clan from Becher;
the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

These were Shuthelah’s descendants:
the Eranite clan from Eran.

These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500.
These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

These were Dan’s descendants by their clans:
the Shuhamite clan from Shuham.
These were the clans of Dan by their clans.

All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one. Each is to be given its inheritance according to those who were registered in it.

These were the Levites registered by their clans:
the Gershonite clan from Gershon;
the Kohathite clan from Kohath;
the Merarite clan from Merari.

These were the Levite family groups:
the Libnite clan,
the Hebronite clan,
the Mahlite clan,
the Mushite clan,
and the Korahite clan.

Kohath was the ancestor of Amram.

Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,

Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

These were the ones registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

The daughters of Zelophehad approached; Zelophehad was the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight at the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.

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.

But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.

The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

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.

Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying every firstborn male the Lord had struck down among them, for the Lord had executed judgment against their gods.

They departed from Marah and came to Elim. There were 12 springs of water and 70 date palms at Elim, so they camped there.

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

The family leaders from the clan of the descendants of Gilead—the son of Machir, son of Manasseh—who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were over the Israelite families.

At that time I commanded you about all the things you were to do.

“But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the Lord your God.

who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

They were also regarded as Rephaim, like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.

They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,

At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to report the word of the Lord to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And He said:

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

“The Lord was devoted to you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

On the day of the assembly the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.

“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’

You also must love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

Eat it within your gates; both the unclean person and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.

Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.

You saw their detestable images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.

If only they were wise, they would figure it out;
they would understand their fate.

Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from.

At nightfall, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!”