^12:1Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife. ^12:2And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it. ^12:3Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth. ^12:4And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out. ^12:5And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him. ^12:6And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream. ^12:7My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house: ^12:8With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses? ^12:9And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away. ^12:10And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper. ^12:11Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners. ^12:12Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother. ^12:13And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well. ^12:14And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again. ^12:15So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again. ^12:16After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.

^13:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^13:2Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them. ^13:3And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. ^13:4And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur. ^13:5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori. ^13:6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ^13:7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph. ^13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun. ^13:9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu. ^13:10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi. ^13:11Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi. ^13:12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli. ^13:13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael ^13:14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi. ^13:15Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi. ^13:16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua. ^13:17So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country; ^13:18And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number; ^13:19And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns; ^13:20And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready. ^13:21So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath. ^13:22They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.) ^13:23And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs. ^13:24That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there. ^13:25At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land. ^13:26And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land. ^13:27And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it. ^13:28But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there. ^13:29And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan. ^13:30Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it. ^13:31But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. ^13:32And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size. ^13:33There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.

^14:1Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping. ^14:2And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land! ^14:3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? ^14:4And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt. ^14:5Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people. ^14:6And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief, ^14:7Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land. ^14:8And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. ^14:9Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them. ^14:10But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel. ^14:11And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them? ^14:12I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they. ^14:13And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them; ^14:14And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. ^14:15Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say, ^14:16Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land. ^14:17So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said: ^14:18The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation. ^14:19May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now. ^14:20And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say: ^14:21But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord; ^14:22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice; ^14:23They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it. ^14:24But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage. ^14:25Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea. ^14:26Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^14:27How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears. ^14:28Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you: ^14:29Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me, ^14:30Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun. ^14:31And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have. ^14:32But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land. ^14:33And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land. ^14:34And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you. ^14:35I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate. ^14:36And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses, ^14:37Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord. ^14:38But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease. ^14:39And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief. ^14:40And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong. ^14:41And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it? ^14:42Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you. ^14:43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you. ^14:44But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle. ^14:45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

^15:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^15:2Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place, ^15:3And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock: ^15:4Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil: ^15:5And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb. ^15:6Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of a hin of oil: ^15:7And for the drink offering give a third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the Lord. ^15:8And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord: ^15:9Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil. ^15:10And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord. ^15:11This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat. ^15:12Whatever number you make ready, so you are to do for every one. ^15:13All those who are Israelites by birth are to do these things in this way, when giving an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord. ^15:14And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do. ^15:15There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord. ^15:16The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you. ^15:17And the Lord said to Moses, ^15:18Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you, ^15:19Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord. ^15:20Of 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. ^15:21From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal. ^15:22And if in error you go against any of these laws which the Lord has given to Moses, ^15:23All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after from generation to generation; ^15:24Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the knowledge of the meeting of the people, let all the meeting give a young ox as a burned offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, as is ordered in the law, together with a he-goat for a sin-offering. ^15:25So the priest will make the people free from sin, and they will have forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given their offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering before the Lord, on account of their error: ^15:26And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well as those from other lands living among them, will have forgiveness; for it was an error on the part of the people. ^15:27And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering. ^15:28And the priest will take away the sin of the person who has done wrong, if the wrong was done unconsciously, and he will have forgiveness. ^15:29The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is to be the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from another country who is living among them. ^15:30But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people. ^15:31Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him. ^15:32Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day. ^15:33And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people. ^15:34And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him. ^15:35Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle. ^15:36So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ^15:37And the Lord said to Moses, ^15:38Say 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; ^15:39So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me: ^15:40And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them and be holy to your God. ^15:41I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.

^16:1Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready, ^16:2And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people. ^16:3They 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? ^16:4And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face; ^16:5And 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. ^16:6So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for burning perfumes; ^16:7And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi. ^16:8And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi: ^16:9Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them; ^16:10Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests? ^16:11So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him? ^16:12Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up: ^16:13Is 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? ^16:14And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up. ^16:15Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them. ^16:16And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron: ^16:17And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel. ^16:18So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. ^16:19And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people. ^16:20And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^16:21Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. ^16:22Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people? ^16:23And the Lord said to Moses, ^16:24Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram. ^16:25So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the responsible men of Israel went with him. ^16:26And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins. ^16:27So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones. ^16:28And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and I have not done them of myself. ^16:29If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me. ^16:30But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men. ^16:31And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two; ^16:32And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. ^16:33So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people. ^16:34And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth. ^16:35Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume. ^16:36And the Lord said to Moses, ^16:37Say 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; ^16:38And 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. ^16:39So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar: ^16:40To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses. ^16:41But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people. ^16:42Now when the people had come together against Moses and Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came before their eyes. ^16:43Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of meeting. ^16:44And the Lord said to Moses, ^16:45Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces. ^16:46And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting. ^16:47And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people. ^16:48And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped. ^16:49Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done. ^16:50Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.

^17:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^17:2Say 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. ^17:3And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family. ^17:4And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you. ^17:5And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you. ^17:6So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him rods, one for the head of every family, making twelve rods: and Aaron's rod was among them. ^17:7And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of witness. ^17:8Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit. ^17:9Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them, and every man took his rod. ^17:10And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them. ^17:11This Moses did: as the Lord gave orders, so he did. ^17:12And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all. ^17:13Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

^18:1And 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. ^18:2Let 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. ^18:3They 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. ^18:4They 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. ^18:5You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel. ^18:6Now, 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. ^18:7And 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. ^18:8And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil. ^18:9This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons. ^18:10As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you. ^18:11And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food. ^18:12All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them. ^18:13The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food. ^18:14Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours. ^18:15The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts. ^18:16Payment 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. ^18:17But 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. ^18:18Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours. ^18:19All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever. ^18:20And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel. ^18:21And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting. ^18:22In 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. ^18:23But 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. ^18:24For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. ^18:25And the Lord said to Moses, ^18:26Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord. ^18:27And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines. ^18:28So 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. ^18:29From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord. ^18:30Say 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. ^18:31It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting. ^18:32And 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.

^19:1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^19:2This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put: ^19:3Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him. ^19:4Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting: ^19:5And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned: ^19:6Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning. ^19:7And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening. ^19:8And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^19:9Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering. ^19:10And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them. ^19:11Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days: ^19:12On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. ^19:13Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged. ^19:14This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days. ^19:15And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean. ^19:16And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days. ^19:17And 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: ^19:18And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched. ^19:19Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening. ^19:20But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean. ^19:21This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening. ^19:22Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

^20:1In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth. ^20:2And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron. ^20:3And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord! ^20:4Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there? ^20:5Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking. ^20:6Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord. ^20:7And the Lord said to Moses, ^20:8Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink. ^20:9And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders. ^20:10Then 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? ^20:11And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough. ^20:12Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them. ^20:13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them. ^20:14Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through; ^20:15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers: ^20:16And 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; ^20:17Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land. ^20:18And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword. ^20:19And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our feet, nothing more. ^20:20But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army. ^20:21So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction. ^20:22And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor. ^20:23And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^20:24Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah. ^20:25So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor; ^20:26And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people. ^20:27So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of all the people they went up Mount Hor. ^20:28And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on Eleazar, his son; and there on the top of the mountain death came to Aaron: then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. ^20:29And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.

^21:1And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners. ^21:2Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns. ^21:3And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah. ^21:4Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way. ^21:5And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us. ^21:6Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel. ^21:7Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people. ^21:8And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well. ^21:9So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well. ^21:10Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth. ^21:11And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east. ^21:12And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered. ^21:13From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites: ^21:14As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon; ^21:15The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab. ^21:16From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water. ^21:17Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it: ^21:18The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah: ^21:19And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: ^21:20And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon. ^21:21And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, ^21:22Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land. ^21:23And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel. ^21:24But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed. ^21:25And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites. ^21:26For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon. ^21:27So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong: ^21:28For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon. ^21:29Sorrow 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. ^21:30They 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. ^21:31So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites. ^21:32And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there. ^21:33Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei. ^21:34And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at Heshbon. ^21:35So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.

^22:1Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho. ^22:2Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to the Amorites. ^22:3And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel. ^22:4Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab. ^22:5So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me: ^22:6Come 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. ^22:7So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say. ^22:8And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I will give you an answer after hearing what the Lord says; so the chiefs of Moab kept there with Balaam that night. ^22:9And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you? ^22:10And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying, ^22:11See, 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. ^22:12And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing. ^22:13In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of Balak, Go back to your land, for the Lord will not let me go with you. ^22:14So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam will not come with us. ^22:15So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others. ^22:16And they came to Balaam and said, Balak, son of Zippor, says, Let nothing keep you from coming to me: ^22:17For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people. ^22:18But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the orders of the Lord my God. ^22:19So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge what more the Lord has to say to me. ^22:20And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you. ^22:21So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass ready, went with the chiefs of Moab. ^22:22But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him. ^22:23And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the road with his sword in his hand; and turning from the road, the ass went into the field; and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her back on to the road. ^22:24Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a narrow road through the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side and on that. ^22:25And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her more blows. ^22:26Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right or to the left. ^22:27And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick. ^22:28Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and opening her mouth she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have given me blows these three times? ^22:29And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death. ^22:30And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No. ^22:31Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he went down on his face to the earth. ^22:32And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me. ^22:33And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe. ^22:34And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again. ^22:35And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men; but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with the chiefs of Balak. ^22:36Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him. ^22:37And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you, requesting you with all my heart to come to me? why did you not come? am I not able to give you a place of honour? ^22:38Then Balaam said to Balak, Now I have come to you; but have I power to say anything? Only what God puts into my mouth may I say. ^22:39And Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath-huzoth. ^22:40And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him. ^22:41And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

^23:1And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep. ^23:2And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep. ^23:3Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill. ^23:4And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar. ^23:5And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say. ^23:6So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab. ^23:7And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel. ^23:8How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry? ^23:9From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations. ^23:10Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his! ^23:11Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing. ^23:12And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth? ^23:13And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there. ^23:14So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar. ^23:15Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord. ^23:16And 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. ^23:17So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said? ^23:18And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor: ^23:19God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth? ^23:20See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away. ^23:21He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them. ^23:22It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox. ^23:23No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done! ^23:24See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death. ^23:25Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing. ^23:26But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says? ^23:27Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there. ^23:28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land. ^23:29And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me. ^23:30And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

^24:1Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land, ^24:2And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him. ^24:3And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open: ^24:4He 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: ^24:5How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel! ^24:6They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters. ^24:7Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour. ^24:8It 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. ^24:9He 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. ^24:10Then 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. ^24:11Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour. ^24:12Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me, ^24:13Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say? ^24:14So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come. ^24:15Then 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: ^24:16He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has knowledge of the Most High, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down and having his eyes open: ^24:17I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth. ^24:18Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir. ^24:19And Israel will go on in strength, and Jacob will have rule over his haters. ^24:20Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever. ^24:21And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock. ^24:22But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner. ^24:23Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this? ^24:24But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction. ^24:25Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.

^25:1Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: ^25:2For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods. ^25:3So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel. ^25:4Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel. ^25:5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor. ^25:6Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting. ^25:7And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand, ^25:8And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel. ^25:9But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease. ^25:10And the Lord said to Moses, ^25:11Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath. ^25:12So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace: ^25:13And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel. ^25:14Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites. ^25:15And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian. ^25:16Then the Lord said to Moses, ^25:17Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them; ^25:18For 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.

^26:1Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, ^26:2Let 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. ^26:3So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying, ^26:4Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt. ^26:5Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: ^26:6Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ^26:7These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty. ^26:8And the sons of Pallu, Eliab ^26:9And 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: ^26:10And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign. ^26:11But death did not overtake the sons of Korah. ^26:12The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: ^26:13Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. ^26:14These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred. ^26:15The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: ^26:16Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: ^26:17Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. ^26:18These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred. ^26:19The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan. ^26:20And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. ^26:21And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. ^26:22These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred. ^26:23The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites: ^26:24Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. ^26:25These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred. ^26:26The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. ^26:27These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred. ^26:28The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. ^26:29The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. ^26:30These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: ^26:31And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: ^26:32And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. ^26:33And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ^26:34These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred. ^26:35These 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. ^26:36And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites: ^26:37These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families. ^26:38The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: ^26:39Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. ^26:40And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. ^26:41These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred. ^26:42These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families. ^26:43All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred. ^26:44The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites: of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. ^26:45Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites: ^26:46And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ^26:47These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred. ^26:48The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: ^26:49Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. ^26:50These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred. ^26:51Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty. ^26:52And the Lord said to Moses, ^26:53Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names. ^26:54To 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. ^26:55But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them. ^26:56As 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. ^26:57These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. ^26:58These 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. ^26:59Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam. ^26:60Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ^26:61Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord. ^26:62Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel. ^26:63All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ^26:64But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai. ^26:65For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.

^27:1Then 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. ^27:2They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said, ^27:3Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons. ^27:4Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers. ^27:5So Moses put their cause before the Lord. ^27:6And the Lord said to Moses, ^27:7What 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. ^27:8And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter. ^27:9And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers. ^27:10And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers. ^27:11And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ^27:12And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. ^27:13And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was: ^27:14Because 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.) ^27:15Then Moses said to the Lord, ^27:16Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people, ^27:17To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper. ^27:18And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him; ^27:19And take him before Eleazar the priest and all the meeting of the people, and give him his orders before their eyes. ^27:20And put your honour on him, so that all the children of Israel may be under his authority. ^27:21He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel. ^27:22So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people: ^27:23And he put his hands on him and gave him his orders, as the Lord had said by Moses.

^28:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^28:2Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell. ^28:3Say 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. ^28:4Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening; ^28:5And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil. ^28:6It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^28:7And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord. ^28:8Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord. ^28:9And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering: ^28:10This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering. ^28:11And 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; ^28:12And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep; ^28:13And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^28:14And 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. ^28:15And one he-goat for a sin-offering to the Lord; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering and its drink offering. ^28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover. ^28:17On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes. ^28:18On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work: ^28:19And 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: ^28:20And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep; ^28:21And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ^28:22And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin. ^28:23These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times. ^28:24In this way, every day for seven days, give the food of the offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord: it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering. ^28:25Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. ^28:26And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work: ^28:27And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year; ^28:28And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ^28:29And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ^28:30And one he-goat to take away your sin. ^28:31These 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.

^29:1In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns; ^29:2And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them: ^29:3And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ^29:4And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ^29:5And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin: ^29:6In 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. ^29:7And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work; ^29:8And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used: ^29:9And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ^29:10A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ^29:11One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ^29:12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days; ^29:13And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them; ^29:14And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep, ^29:15And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs; ^29:16And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:17On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them; ^29:18And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ^29:19And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ^29:20And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark; ^29:21And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ^29:22And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:23And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ^29:24And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered. ^29:25And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:26And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ^29:27And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ^29:28And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:29And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ^29:30And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ^29:31And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings. ^29:32And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ^29:33And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ^29:34And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:35On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work; ^29:36And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ^29:37With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox, the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ^29:38And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:39These 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. ^29:40So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

^30:1And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord. ^30:2When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do. ^30:3If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking; ^30:4If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force. ^30:5But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father. ^30:6And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought; ^30:7If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force. ^30:8But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness. ^30:9But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force. ^30:10If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband, ^30:11And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force. ^30:12But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness. ^30:13Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband. ^30:14But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her. ^30:15But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing. ^30:16These 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.

^31:1Then the Lord said to Moses, ^31:2Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people. ^31:3So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them. ^31:4From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war. ^31:5So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war. ^31:6And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war. ^31:7And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male. ^31:8They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword. ^31:9The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves; ^31:10And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles, ^31:11They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast. ^31:12And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ^31:13Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle. ^31:14And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war. ^31:15And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe? ^31:16It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord. ^31:17So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man. ^31:18But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves. ^31:19You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean. ^31:20And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean. ^31:21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses: ^31:22But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead, ^31:23And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water. ^31:24And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle. ^31:25And the Lord said to Moses, ^31:26Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people: ^31:27And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people: ^31:28And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep: ^31:29Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord. ^31:30And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord. ^31:31So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses. ^31:32Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, ^31:33And seventy-two thousand oxen, ^31:34And sixty-one thousand asses; ^31:35And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man. ^31:36And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep, ^31:37Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five. ^31:38The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two; ^31:39The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one. ^31:40And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons. ^31:41And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. ^31:42And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men, ^31:43(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep, ^31:44And thirty-six thousand oxen, ^31:45And thirty thousand, five hundred asses, ^31:46And sixteen thousand persons;) ^31:47Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ^31:48Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses, ^31:49And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present; ^31:50And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord. ^31:51So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments. ^31:52And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels. ^31:53(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.) ^31:54Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.