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Numbers 20

    ²And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:

    ³And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

    ⁴Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

    ⁵Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?

    ⁶And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared over them.

    ⁷And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ⁸Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.

    ⁹Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him,

    ¹⁰And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock?

    ¹¹And when Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rook twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank,

    ¹²And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them.

    ¹³This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

    ¹⁴In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us:

    ¹⁵In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

    ¹⁶And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,

    ¹⁷And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders.

    ¹⁸And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed against thee.

    ¹⁹And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is just: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass speedily.

    ²⁰But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,

    ²¹Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.

    ²²And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount Her, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:

    ²³Where the Lord spoke to Moses:

    ²⁴Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.

    ²⁵Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount Hor:

    ²⁶And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and die there.

    ²⁷Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount Hor before all the multitude.

    ²⁸And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.

    ²⁹And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with Eleazar.

    ³⁰And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty days throughout all their families.

Numbers 21

    ²But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: It thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

    ³And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.

    ⁴And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour:

    ⁵And speaking against God end Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

    ⁶Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

    ⁷Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

    ⁸And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.

    ⁹Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.

    ¹⁰And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.

    ¹¹And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.

    ¹²And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:

    ¹³Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.

    ¹⁴Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Amen.

    ¹⁵The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.

    ¹⁶When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

    ¹⁷Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:

    ¹⁸The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.

    ¹⁹From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.

    ²⁰From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.

    ²¹And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:

    ²²I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we be past thy borders.

    ²³And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa, and fought against them.

    ²⁴And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison.

    ²⁵So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.

    ²⁶Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominions, as far as the Arnon.

    ²⁷Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:

    ²⁸A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

    ²⁹Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath given his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites.

    ³⁰Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto Medaba.

    ³¹So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.

    ³²And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.

    ³³And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai.

    ³⁴And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people, and his country into thy hand: and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the inhabitant of Hesebon.

    ³⁵So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not letting any one escape, and they possessed his land.

Numbers 22

    ²And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to the Amorrhite,

    ³And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able to sustain his assault,

    ⁴He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.

    ⁵He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beer, a soothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt, that hath covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me.

    ⁶Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed.

    ⁷And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands. And when they were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac:

    ⁸He answered: Tarry here this night, and I will answer whatsoever the Lord shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came and said to him:

    ⁹What mean these men that are with thee?

    ¹⁰He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,

    ¹¹Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.

    ¹²And God said to Balaam : Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.

    ¹³And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you.

    ¹⁴The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with us.

    ¹⁵Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before:

    ¹⁶Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the son of Sephor, Delay not to come to me:

    ¹⁷For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.

    ¹⁸Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more or less.

    ¹⁹I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.

    ²⁰God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: It these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

    ²¹Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them.

    ²²And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way against Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him.

    ²³The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword, turned herself out of the way, and went into the field. And when Balaam beat her, and had a mind to bring her again to the way,

    ²⁴The angel stood in a narrow place between two walls, wherewith the vineyards were enclosed.

    ²⁵And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close to the wall, and bruised the foot of the rider. But he beat her again:

    ²⁶And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where there was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left, stood to meet him.

    ²⁷And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell under the feet of the rider: who being angry beat her sides more vehemently with a staff.

    ²⁸And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time?

    ²⁹Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.

    ³⁰The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the like thing to thee. But he said: Never.

    ³¹Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him falling flat on the ground.

    ³²And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me:

    ³³And unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me who stood against thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived.

    ³⁴Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand against me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return.

    ³⁵The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.

    ³⁶And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of the Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon.

    ³⁷And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?

    ³⁸He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?

    ³⁹So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his kingdom.

    ⁴⁰And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

    ⁴¹And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.

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Mark 7

    ²And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

    ³For the Pharisees, and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients:

    ⁴And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots, and of brazen vessels, and of beds.

    ⁵And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

    ⁶But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

    ⁷And in vain to they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men.

    ⁸For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

    ⁹And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

    ¹⁰For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.

    ¹¹But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban, (which is a gift,) whatsoever is from me, shall profit thee.

    ¹²And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother,

    ¹³Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do.