Numbers 1:47-14:42

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁴⁷ ¶ But the Levites according to the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

⁴⁸ For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,

⁴⁹ Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the sons of Israel;

⁵⁰ But thou shalt place the Levites in the tabernacle of the testimony and over all the vessels thereof and over all things that belong to it; they shall bear the tabernacle and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister in it and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

⁵¹ And when the tabernacle departs, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

⁵² And the sons of Israel shall pitch their tents, each man by his own camp and each man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

⁵³ But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁵⁴ And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

2 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

² Each man of the sons of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, according to the ensigns of the houses of their fathers; round about the tabernacle of the testimony shall they pitch.

³ ¶ These shall pitch toward the sunrise, on the east: the standard of the camp of Judah throughout their hosts and the prince of the sons of Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

⁴ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

⁵ Next to him shall pitch those of the tribe of Issachar and the prince of the sons of Issachar, Nethaneel, the son of Zuar.

⁶ His host, with those that were numbered thereof, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

⁷ And the tribe of Zebulun and the prince of the sons of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon.

⁸ His host, with those that were numbered thereof, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

⁹ All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, by their hosts. These shall set forth first.

¹⁰ The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be towards the Negev, by their hosts and the prince of the sons of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

¹¹ His host, with those that were numbered thereof, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

¹² And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon and the prince of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

¹³ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

¹⁴ And the tribe of Gad and the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.

¹⁵ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

¹⁶ All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their hosts. And they shall set forth second.

¹⁷ Then shall set forward the tabernacle of the testimony, the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps, in the manner that they encamp, so shall they set forward, each one in his place by their standards.

¹⁸ The standard of the camp of Ephraim by his hosts, on the west and the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud.

¹⁹ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

²⁰ By him shall be the tribe of Manasseh and the prince of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.

²¹ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

²² And the tribe of Benjamin and the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

²³ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

²⁴ All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred and eight thousand one hundred, by their hosts. And they shall go forward third.

²⁵ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the Aquilon by their hosts and the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

²⁶ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

²⁷ Next to him shall camp those of the tribe of Asher and the prince of the sons of Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ocran.

²⁸ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

²⁹ And the tribe of Naphtali and the prince of the sons of Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

³⁰ His host, with those that were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

³¹ All those that were numbered in the camp of Dan were one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall go last behind their standards.

³² These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel by the houses of their fathers; all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁴ And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they pitched by their standards, and so they marched, each one after their families, according to the houses of their fathers.

3 ¶ These also are the generations of Aaron and of Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

² And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

³ These are the names of the sons of Aaron, anointed priests, whose hands he filled to administer the priesthood.

⁴ But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the sight of Aaron, their father.

⁵ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

⁶ Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them before Aaron, the priest, that they may minister unto him.

⁷ And they shall keep his commandment and the commandment of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the testimony, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.

⁸ And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony and the charge of the sons of Israel, to minister in the service of the tabernacle.

⁹ And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons; they are completely given unto him out of the sons of Israel.

¹⁰ And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons that they shall guard their priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

¹¹ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

¹² Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open the womb among the sons of Israel; therefore the Levites shall be mine;

¹³ because all the firstborn are mine; from the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of men and of animals; they shall be mine: I am the LORD.

¹⁴ ¶ The LORD also spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

¹⁵ Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers, by their families; thou shalt number every male from a month old and upward.

¹⁶ And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

¹⁷ And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their fathers.

²¹ Of Gershon was the family of Libni and the family of Shimei; these are the families of Gershon.

²² Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

²³ The families of Gershon shall pitch behind the tabernacle to the west;

²⁴ and the prince of the house of the father of the Gershonites, Eliasaph, son of Lael.

²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the testimony shall be the tabernacle and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,

²⁶ and the hangings of the court and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

²⁷ And of Kohath was the family of Amram and the family of Izehar and the family of Hebron and the family of Uzziel; these are the families of the Kohathites.

²⁸ In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle towards the Negev;

³⁰ and the prince of the house of the father of the families of Kohath, Elizaphan, son of Uzziel.

³¹ And their charge shall be the ark and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the veil, with all its service.

³² And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be principal over the princes of the Levites and have the oversight of those that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

³³ Of Merari was the family of Mahli and the family of Mushi; these are the families of Merari.

³⁴ And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred;

³⁵ and the prince of the house of the father of the families of Merari, Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle to the Aquilon.

³⁶ And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and all the instruments thereof, with all its service,

³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their stakes and their cords.

³⁸ And those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the tabernacle of the testimony towards the sunrise, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

³⁹ All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron, according to the word of the LORD, numbered by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

⁴⁰ ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward and take the number of their names.

⁴¹ And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the animals of the sons of Israel.

⁴² And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.

⁴³ And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

⁴⁴ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

⁴⁵ Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of their animals, and the Levites shall be mine; I am the LORD.

⁴⁶ And for the ransoms of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are more than the Levites,

⁴⁷ thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is of twenty gerahs).

⁴⁸ And thou shalt give the money, of the ransoms of the odd number of them, unto Aaron and to his sons.

⁴⁹ And Moses took the ransom money of those that were over and above the ones that were redeemed by the Levites

⁵⁰ and received of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, in money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

⁵¹ And Moses gave the money of the ransoms unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

4 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

² Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the houses of their fathers,

³ from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do work in the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁴ This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the testimony, in the holy of holies:

⁵ When the camp is to be moved, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of testimony with it

⁶ and shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins and shall spread over it a cloth entirely of blue and shall put in the staves thereof.

⁷ And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put thereon the dishes and the spoons and the bowls and covers to cover withal; and the continual bread shall be thereon.

⁸ And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins and shall put in the staves thereof.

⁹ And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand of the light and its lamps and its tongs and its snuffdishes and all the oil vessels thereof with which they minister unto it;

¹⁰ and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins and shall put it upon a bar.

¹¹ And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins and shall put in the staves thereof;

¹² and they shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins and shall put them on a bar.

¹³ And they shall take away the ashes with the burnt fat from the altar and spread a purple cloth thereon

¹⁴ and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof with which they minister about it: the censers, the fleshhooks, the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins and put in the staves of it.

¹⁵ And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary when the camp is to set forward, after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it, but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the testimony.

¹⁶ But unto the care of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be the oil of the light and the aromatic incense and the daily present and the anointing oil and the care of all the tabernacle and of all that is therein, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

¹⁷ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

¹⁸ Ye shall not cut off the tribe of the families of Kohath from among the Levites,

¹⁹ but thus do unto them that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the holy of holies: Aaron and his sons shall come and place each one of them in his ministry and to his burden.

²⁰ They shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

²¹ ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

²² Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

²³ from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them, all that enter in to the host to do work in the tabernacle of the testimony.

²⁴ This shall be the service of the families of Gershon, to minister and to bear burdens:

²⁵ They shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of the testimony, its covering, and the covering of badgers’ skins that is over it above and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the testimony

²⁶ and the hangings of the court and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords and all the instruments of their service and all that is made for them; so shall they serve.

²⁷ According to the word of Aaron and his sons shall be all the ministry of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.

²⁸ This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the testimony, and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

²⁹ As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the houses of their fathers.

³⁰ From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, all that enters into the host, to do work in the tabernacle of the testimony.

³¹ And this shall be the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the testimony: the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and sockets thereof,

³² and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their stakes and their cords with all their instruments and with all their service; and ye shall number by name the vessels of the charge of their burden.

³³ This shall be the service of the families of the sons of Merari for all their ministry, in the tabernacle of the testimony, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

³⁴ ¶ So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of Kohath after their families and after the houses of their fathers,

³⁵ from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.

³⁶ And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

³⁷ These were the numbered of the families of Kohath, all that minister in the tabernacle of the testimony, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

³⁸ And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families and by the houses of their fathers,

³⁹ from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony,

⁴⁰ those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the houses of their fathers, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.

⁴¹ These were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that minister in the tabernacle of the testimony, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

⁴² And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the houses of their fathers,

⁴³ from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony,

⁴⁴ those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand two hundred.

⁴⁵ These were those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁶ All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, after their families and after the houses of their fathers,

⁴⁷ from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to serve in the service and to bear a burden in the tabernacle of the testimony,

⁴⁸ those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

⁴⁹ As the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, they were numbered, each one according to his ministry and according to his burden; thus were they numbered of Moses, as the LORD commanded him.

5 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Command the sons of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one that has an issue and anyone who is defiled by the dead.

³ Both male and female shall ye put out; ye shall put them outside the camp; that they not defile the camp of those among whom I dwell.

⁴ And the sons of Israel did so and put them outside the camp; as the LORD spoke unto Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

⁵ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

⁶ Speak unto the sons of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person is guilty,

⁷ then they shall confess their sin which they have done, and he shall recompense his guilt with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth part thereof and give it unto him against whom he is guilty.

⁸ But if that man has no redeemer to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest, beside the ram of the reconciliations, whereby reconciliation shall be made for him.

⁹ And every offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

¹⁰ And every man’s sanctified things shall be his; likewise whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.

¹¹ ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

¹² Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, If any man’s wife goes astray and betrays him,

¹³ and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hid from the eyes of her husband because she contaminated herself in secret, and there is no witness against her, neither was she taken in the act;

¹⁴ if a spirit of jealousy should come upon him, and he becomes jealous of his wife, and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he becomes jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled,

¹⁵ then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a present of jealousy, a present of remembrance, which brings iniquity to memory.

¹⁶ And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD.

¹⁷ Then the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water.

¹⁸ And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the LORD and shall uncover the woman’s head and put the present of remembrance in her hands, which is the present of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings the curse.

¹⁹ And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman, If no man has lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray from thy husband to uncleanness, thou shalt be clean from this bitter water that brings the curse.

²⁰ But if thou hast gone astray from thy husband and hast defiled thyself and some man has placed seed in thee other than thine husband,

²¹ (the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing) and the priest shall say unto the woman, Let the LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD makes thy thigh to fail and thy belly to swell,

²² and this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels and cause thy belly to swell and thy thigh to fail. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water;

²⁴ and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her as bitter.

²⁵ Then the priest shall take the present of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD and offer it before the altar.

²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the present, in memory of her, and incense it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

²⁷ He shall give her, therefore, the water to drink, and it shall come to pass, that if she is defiled and has betrayed her husband, that the water that works the curse shall enter into her in bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fail; and that woman shall be a curse among her people.

²⁸ But if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free and shall conceive seed.

²⁹ This is the law of jealousies when a woman goes astray, being under the power of her husband, and is defiled;

³⁰ or of the husband upon whom a spirit of jealousy comes, and he is jealous over his wife; he shall then present the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute in her all this law.

³¹ And that man shall be free from iniquity, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.

6 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to dedicate themselves unto the LORD,

³ they shall separate themselves from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall they drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.

⁴ All the days of their Nazariteship they shall eat nothing that is made of the wine vine, from the kernels even to the husk.

⁵ All the days of the vow of their Nazariteship no razor shall come upon their head, until the days are fulfilled of their separation unto the LORD; they shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of their head grow.

⁶ All the days that they separate themselves unto the LORD they shall come in unto no dead body.

⁷ They shall not make themselves unclean for their father or for their mother, for their brother or for their sister, when they die because the consecration of their God is upon their head.

⁸ All the days of their Nazariteship they are holy unto the LORD.

⁹ And if anyone dies very suddenly beside them, and they have defiled the head of their Nazariteship, then they shall shave their head in the day of their cleansing; on the seventh day shall they shave it.

¹⁰ And on the eighth day they shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,

¹¹ and the priest shall offer the one as the sin and the other as a burnt offering and reconcile the one that sinned upon the dead and shall sanctify their head that same day.

¹² And they shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of their Nazariteship and shall bring a lamb of the first year for their guilt; but the days that were before shall be lost because their Nazariteship was defiled.

¹³ This is, therefore, the law of the Nazarite, in the day in which their Nazariteship is fulfilled: they shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony;

¹⁴ and they shall offer their offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish as the sin and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

¹⁵ and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil and their present and their drink offerings.

¹⁶ And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and shall offer his sin and his burnt offering;

¹⁷ and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall likewise offer his present and his drink offering.

¹⁸ Then the Nazarite shall shave the head of their Nazariteship at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and shall take the hair of the head of their Nazariteship and put it upon the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace.

¹⁹ Then the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite after their Nazariteship is shaven;

²⁰ and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD, which shall be a holy thing of the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder; and after that the Nazarite shall drink wine.

²¹ This is the law of the Nazarite who made a vow of their offering unto the LORD for their Nazariteship, beside that which their means allows, according to the vow which they vowed, so they must do according to the law of their Nazariteship.

²² ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

²³ Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, Thus shall ye bless the sons of Israel, saying unto them,

²⁴ The LORD bless thee and keep thee;

²⁵ the LORD make his face shine upon thee and have mercy on thee;

²⁶ the LORD lift up his face upon thee, and place peace in thee.

²⁷ And they shall place my name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.

7 ¶ And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its vessels; likewise having anointed and sanctified the altar, with all its vessels;

² that the princes of Israel, heads of the houses of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over those that were numbered, offered;

³ and they brought their offerings before the LORD, six covered wagons and twelve oxen: a wagon for each two of the princes and for each one an ox, which they offered before the tabernacle.

⁴ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

⁵ Take it from them, and it shall be for the service of the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to each one according to his ministry.

⁶ Then Moses received the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.

⁷ Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their ministry;

⁸ and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according to their ministry, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁹ But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none; because the ministry of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.

¹⁰ ¶ And the princes offered at the dedication of the altar the day that it was anointed; even the princes offered their offering before the altar.

¹¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, at the dedication of the altar.

¹² And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

¹³ And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

¹⁴ one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;

¹⁵ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

¹⁶ one he goat as the sin;

¹⁷ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

¹⁸ On the second day Nethaneel, the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, offered.

¹⁹ He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

²⁰ one spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense;

²¹ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

²² one he goat as the sin;

²³ and for a sacrifice of peace: two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

²⁴ On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, prince of the sons of Zebulun.

²⁵ His offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

²⁶ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

²⁷ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

²⁸ one he goat as the sin;

²⁹ and for a sacrifice of peace: two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Eliab, the son of Helon.

³⁰ On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, prince of the sons of Reuben.

³¹ His offering was one silver charger of the weight of one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

³² one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

³³ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

³⁴ one he goat as the sin;

³⁵ and for a sacrifice of peace: two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

³⁶ On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the sons of Simeon.

³⁷ His offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

³⁸ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

³⁹ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

⁴⁰ one he goat as the sin;

⁴¹ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

⁴² On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the sons of Gad.

⁴³ His offering was one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁴⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁴⁵ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

⁴⁶ one kid of the goats as the sin;

⁴⁷ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Eliasaph, the son of Deuel.

⁴⁸ On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, prince of the sons of Ephraim.

⁴⁹ His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁵⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁵¹ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, as a burnt offering;

⁵² one he goat as the sin;

⁵³ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

⁵⁴ On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, prince of the sons of Manasseh.

⁵⁵ His offering was one silver charger of the weight of one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁵⁶ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁵⁷ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, as a burnt offering;

⁵⁸ one he goat as the sin;

⁵⁹ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.

⁶⁰ On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, prince of the sons of Benjamin.

⁶¹ His offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁶² one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁶³ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, as a burnt offering;

⁶⁴ one he goat as the sin;

⁶⁵ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

⁶⁶ On the tenth day Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the sons of Dan.

⁶⁷ His offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁶⁸ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁶⁹ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering;

⁷⁰ one he goat as the sin;

⁷¹ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

⁷² On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ocran, prince of the sons of Asher.

⁷³ His offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁷⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁷⁵ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, as a burnt offering;

⁷⁶ one he goat as the sin;

⁷⁷ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Pagiel, the son of Ocran.

⁷⁸ On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, prince of the sons of Naphtali.

⁷⁹ His offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a present;

⁸⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

⁸¹ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, as a burnt offering;

⁸² one kid of the goats as the sin;

⁸³ and for a sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahira, the son of Enan.

⁸⁴ This was the dedication of the altar, the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold,

⁸⁵ each charger of silver weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels, two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

⁸⁶ The twelve golden spoons full of incense, ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons was one hundred and twenty shekels.

⁸⁷ All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their present; and the he goats for sin twelve.

⁸⁸ And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace were twenty-four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.

⁸⁹ And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the testimony to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of the one speaking unto him from above the seat of reconciliation that was over the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke with him.

8 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the face of the lampstand.

³ And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the face of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.

⁴ And this work of the lampstand was of beaten gold, from the shaft thereof unto the flowers thereof; it was beaten work; according unto the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the lampstand.

⁵ ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

⁶ Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and cleanse them.

⁷ And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of atonement for sin upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and be clean.

⁸ Then let them take a young bullock with his present, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou offer as sin.

⁹ And thou shalt offer the Levites before the tabernacle of the testimony, and thou shalt gather the whole congregation of the sons of Israel together;

¹⁰ and thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD, and the sons of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites;

¹¹ and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering of the sons of Israel, and they shall serve in the ministry of the LORD.

¹² And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and thou shalt offer the one as the sin, and the other as a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to reconcile the Levites.

¹³ And thou shalt cause the Levites to present themselves before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.

¹⁴ And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.

¹⁵ Thus shall the Levites go in to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt cleanse them and wave them for an offering.

¹⁶ For they are completely given unto me from among the sons of Israel, instead of each one that opens the womb; instead of the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for myself.

¹⁷ For all the firstborn of the sons of Israel are mine, both of man and of animals; from the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the sons of Israel.

¹⁹ And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, that they may serve the ministry of the sons of Israel in the tabernacle of the testimony and reconcile the sons of Israel, that there be no plague in the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near unto the sanctuary.

²⁰ And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the sons of Israel unto them.

²¹ And the sin was removed from the Levites, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the LORD; and Aaron reconciled them to cleanse them.

²² And thus went the Levites in to serve in their ministry in the tabernacle of the testimony before Aaron and before his sons; in the manner that the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

²³ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

²⁴ This regarding the Levites from twenty-five years old and upward, they shall go in to serve in the host of the tabernacle of the testimony.

²⁵ And from the age of fifty years they shall return from their ministry unto the host and shall never serve again,

²⁶ but shall serve with their brethren in the tabernacle of the testimony, to stand guard, even though they do not serve in the ministry. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

9 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

² Let the sons of Israel also keep the passover at its appointed season.

³ In the fourteenth day of this month, between the two evenings, ye shall keep it in its appointed season; according to all its ordinance and according to all the laws thereof, shall ye keep it.

⁴ And Moses spoke unto the sons of Israel that they should keep the passover.

⁵ And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the two evenings in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

⁶ And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day;

⁷ and those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the sons of Israel?

⁸ And Moses said unto them, Wait, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

⁹ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰ Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations should be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

¹¹ The fourteenth day of the second month, between the two evenings they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹² They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it; according to all the ordinance of the passover they shall keep it.

¹³ But the man that is clean and is not on a journey and forbears to keep the passover, that same soul shall be cut off from among his people; because he did not bring the offering of the LORD in his appointed season; that man shall bear his sin.

¹⁴ And if a stranger shall sojourn among you and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover and according to the laws thereof, so shall he do; ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for the natural of the land.

¹⁵ ¶ And on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle over the tent of the testimony; and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning.

¹⁶ So it was always: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

¹⁷ And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the sons of Israel journeyed; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the sons of Israel pitched their tents.

¹⁸ At the commandment of the LORD the sons of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched camp; as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle, they rested.

¹⁹ And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.

²⁰ And so it was, when the cloud was a determined number of days upon the tabernacle, according to the commandment of the LORD they camped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.

²¹ And so it was that when the cloud remained from evening unto the morning, and in the morning the cloud was taken up, then they journeyed; or if it had remained during the day and the cloud was taken up by night, they journeyed.

²² Or if it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the sons of Israel camped and did not journey; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

²³ At the commandment of the LORD they camped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed, keeping the charge of the LORD, as the LORD had said by the hand of Moses.

10 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them that thou may use them for the convocation of the congregation and for the moving of the camp.

³ And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall join themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁴ But when they blow only one, then the princes, who are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

⁵ When ye blow an alarm, then ye shall move the camp of those that are lodged towards the east.

⁶ And when ye blow an alarm the second time, then ye shall move the camp of those that are lodged on the side of the Negev; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

⁷ But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

⁸ And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and you shall have them as a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

⁹ And when ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

¹⁰ Also in the day of your gladness and in your solemn days and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace, that they may be to you for a memorial before your God; I AM your God.

¹¹ ¶ And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

¹² And the sons of Israel moved out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

¹³ And they moved the first time according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

¹⁴ In the first place went the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah according to their armies, and over his host was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

¹⁵ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar was Nethaneel, the son of Zuar.

¹⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon.

¹⁷ And the tabernacle was already taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

¹⁸ Then the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies, and over his host was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

¹⁹ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

²⁰ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Deuel.

²¹ Then the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary, and while they were coming, the others set up the tabernacle.

²² After them the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set forward according to their armies, and over his host was Elishama, the son of Ammihud.

²³ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.

²⁴ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

²⁵ Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan set forward according to their armies, gathering together all the camps, and over his host was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

²⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ocran.

²⁷ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan.

²⁸ Thus were the journeyings of the sons of Israel according to their armies when they set forward.

²⁹ ¶ Then Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you. Come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.

³⁰ And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.

³¹ And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; for thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.

³² And it shall be, if thou go with us, that when we come into the goodness that the LORD shall do unto us, that we will do thee good.

³³ Thus they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, searching out a resting place for them.

³⁴ And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, from when they went out of the camp.

³⁵ And it came to pass, when the ark was moved, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those that hate thee flee before thee.

³⁶ And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of Israel.

11 ¶ And it came to pass that the people complained in an evil manner in the ears of the LORD, and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed in the uttermost parts of the camp.

² Then the people cried unto Moses, and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

³ And he called the name of the place Taberah because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

⁴ ¶ And the vulgar who were mixed in among them returned to their lust; and even the sons of Israel wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

⁵ We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,

⁶ but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all besides this manna before our eyes.

⁷ And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

⁸ And the people scattered about and gathered it and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar and baked it in pans and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

⁹ And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

¹⁰ Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, each man in the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

¹¹ And Moses said unto the LORD, Why hast thou afflicted thy slave and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all these people upon me?

¹² Have I conceived all these people? Have I begotten them, that thou should say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child, unto the land which thou hast sworn unto their fathers?

¹³ Where should I find flesh to give unto all these people? For they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat.

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all these people alone because it is too heavy for me.

¹⁵ And if thou must deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

¹⁶ ¶ Then the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be elders of the people, and their princes; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the testimony that they may stand there with thee.

¹⁷ And I will come down and talk with thee there, and I will take of the spirit which is in thee and will put it upon them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

¹⁸ But thou shalt say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was better with us in Egypt. Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day nor two days nor five days neither ten days nor twenty days,

²⁰ But even a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and it becomes loathsome unto you, because ye have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, Why have we come forth out of Egypt?

²¹ Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou hast said, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month!

²² Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

²³ Then the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’s hand waxed short? Thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

²⁴ ¶ And Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and set them round about the tabernacle.

²⁵ Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke unto him and took of the spirit that was in him and gave it unto the seventy elders, and it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and did not cease.

²⁶ But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad, upon whom the spirit also rested; and they were of those that were written, but they had not gone unto the tabernacle; and they began to prophesy in the camp.

²⁷ And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.

²⁸ Then Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

²⁹ And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? It would be good that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

³⁰ And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

³¹ ¶ And there went forth a wind from the LORD and brought quail from the sea and left them upon the camp, a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp and almost two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

³² Then the people stood up all that day and all that night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps, and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

³⁴ And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah because there they buried the people that lusted.

³⁵ From Kibrothhattaavah he moved the people unto Hazeroth, and they abode at Hazeroth.

12 ¶ And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had taken; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman.

² And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? Has he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.

³ (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

⁴ ¶ And the LORD spoke suddenly unto Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the testimony. And they three came out.

⁵ Then the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.

⁶ And he said, Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in dreams.

⁷ My slave Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.

⁸ With him I will speak mouth to mouth and by sight not by enigmas; he shall see the similitude of the LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my slave Moses?

⁹ Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed.

¹⁰ ¶ And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle, and, behold, Miriam was leprous as the snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

¹¹ And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, in which we have done foolishly, and we have sinned.

¹² Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.

¹³ Then Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

¹⁴ And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

¹⁵ So Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days, and the people did not journey until Miriam was brought in again.

¹⁶ And afterward he moved the people from Hazeroth, and they pitched camp in the wilderness of Paran.

13 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Send thou men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the sons of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers ye shall send a man, each one a prince among them.

³ And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran; all those men were princes of the sons of Israel.

⁴ And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.

⁵ Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.

⁶ Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

⁷ Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.

⁸ Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hosea, the son of Nun.

⁹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.

¹⁰ Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.

¹¹ Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.

¹² Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.

¹³ Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael.

¹⁴ Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.

¹⁵ Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel, the son of Machi.

¹⁶ These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hosea, the son of Nun, Joshua.

¹⁷ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said unto them, Go up this way towards the Negev and go up into the mountain

¹⁸ and see the land, what it is, and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, few or many,

¹⁹ and how the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad, and what cities there are that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds,

²⁰ And what the land is, whether it is fertile or sterile, whether there are trees therein, or not. And be ye of good courage and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

²¹ ¶ So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

²² And they ascended by the Negev and came unto Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

²³ And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and from there they cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs.

²⁴ The place was called the brook Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

²⁵ And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

²⁶ ¶ And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran to Kadesh and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

²⁷ And they told him and said, We came unto the land where thou didst send us, and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

²⁸ Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in that land, and the cities are very great and strong; and moreover we saw the sons of Anak there.

²⁹ Amalek dwells in the land of the Negev, and the Hittite and the Jebusite and the Amorite dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.

³⁰ Then Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

³¹ But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against that people, for they are stronger than we.

³² And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the sons of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone through to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

³³ And there we saw giants, the sons of Anak, of the race of the giants; and we were in our own sight as locusts, and so we were in their sight.

14 ¶ Then all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that night.

² And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh, that we might die in the land of Egypt or that we might die in this wilderness!

³ And why has the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return into Egypt?

⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

⁵ ¶ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

⁶ And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, who were of those that had spied out the land, rent their clothes;

⁷ and they spoke unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceeding good land.

⁸ If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

⁹ Therefore, do not be rebels against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.

¹⁰ Then all the multitude spoke of stoning them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the testimony before all the sons of Israel.

¹¹ ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? How long will it be before they believe me, with all the signs which I have done among them?

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

¹³ And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou didst bring this people out of the midst of them with thy might;

¹⁴ and the inhabitants of this land will say, for they have already heard that thou, oh LORD, wast among this people, that thou, O LORD, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud was over them, and that thou didst go before them by day time in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night;

¹⁵ and that thou hast caused all this people to die as one man; and the Gentiles who have heard of thy fame will speak, saying,

¹⁶ Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them; therefore, he has slain them in the wilderness.

¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

¹⁸ The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.

¹⁹ Pardon now the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.

²⁰ ¶ Then the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

²¹ But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

²² Because all those men who saw my glory and my signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

²³ surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of those that provoked me see it.

²⁴ But my slave Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he proved to follow after me, I will bring him into the land that he entered into, and his seed shall receive it by inheritance,

²⁵ and even the Amalekite and the Canaanite who dwell in the valley. Turn around tomorrow and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

²⁶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

²⁷ How long shall I hear this evil congregation, which murmurs against me, the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me?

²⁸ Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, according as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.

²⁹ Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me;

³⁰ doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

³¹ But your little ones, whom ye said should be a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

³² But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.

³³ And your children shall be shepherded in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications until your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness.

³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, each day for a year, ye shall bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know my reason for annulling my promise.

³⁵ I, the LORD, have spoken, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

³⁶ ¶ And the men, whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land,

³⁷ even those men that brought an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

³⁸ But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of the men that went to spy out the land.

³⁹ And Moses told these things unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning and climbed up into the top of the mountain, saying, Here we are prepared to go up unto the place of which the LORD has spoken; for we have sinned.

⁴¹ And Moses said, Why do ye break the commandment of the LORD? This also shall not prosper.

⁴² Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you; do not be smitten before your enemies.