The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.

Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

Say to the children of Israel that through all their generations they are to put on the edges of their robes an ornament of twisted threads, and in every ornament a blue cord;

They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?

And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him.

So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:

Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he is to take out of the flames the vessels with the perfumes in them, turning the fire out of them, for they are holy;

And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.

Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod.

Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.

You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

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.

In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.

Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:

And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:

Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

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 the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.

But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.

Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.

They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.

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

See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the land.

And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.

And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

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:

He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down, but having his eyes open:

How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel!

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

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:

For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.

Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

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.

To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.

As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.

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.

Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

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.)

Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.

And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year.

And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

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.

In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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.

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.

And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.

And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

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.

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

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 you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.

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,