Leviticus 23 - Numbers 2

New American Standard Bible

Laws of Holy Days

23 The Lord spoke again to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^(A)The Lord’s appointed times which you shall ^(B)proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:

³ ‘^(C)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

⁴ ‘These are the ^(D)appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. ^5 (E)In the ^[a]first month, on the fourteenth day of the month ^[b]at twilight is the Lord’s Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the ^(F)Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall ^(G)not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’”

⁹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and you ^(H)gather its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. ¹¹ He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. ¹² Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord. ¹³ Its ^(I)grain offering shall then be ^[c]two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the Lord for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a ^[d]fourth of a hin of wine. ¹⁴ Until this very day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, ^(J)you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new produce. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

¹⁵ ‘^(K)You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths. ¹⁶ You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a ^(L)new grain offering to the Lord. ¹⁷ You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of ^[e]two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked ^(M)with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. ¹⁸ Along with the bread you shall present seven one-year-old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁹ You shall also offer ^(N)one male goat as a ^[f]sin offering, and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. ²⁰ The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering with two lambs before the Lord; they are to be holy to the Lord for the priest. ²¹ On this very day you shall ^(O)make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious ^(P)work. It is to be a permanent statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

²² ‘^(Q)When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.’”

²³ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘^(R)In the ^[g]seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a ^[h]rest, a ^(S)reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ²⁵ You shall ^(T)not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord.’”

The Day of Atonement

²⁶ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ “On exactly ^(U)the tenth day of this seventh month is ^(V)the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble ^[i]yourselves and present an offering by fire to the Lord. ²⁸ You shall not do any work on this very day, for it is a ^(W)Day of Atonement, ^(X)to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God. ²⁹ If there is any ^[j]person who does not humble himself on this very day, ^(Y)he shall be cut off from his people. ³⁰ As for any person who does any work on this very day, that person I will eliminate from among his people. ³¹ You shall not do any work. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. ³² It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble ^[k]yourselves; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

³³ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On ^(Z)the fifteenth of this ^[l]seventh month is the ^(AA)Feast of Booths for seven days to the Lord. ³⁵ On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall ^(AB)not do any laborious work. ^36 (AC)For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On ^(AD)the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord; it is an assembly. You shall not do any laborious work.

³⁷ ‘These are ^(AE)the appointed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, ^(AF)each day’s matter on its own day— ³⁸ besides those of the Sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts and besides all your ^[m]vowed and ^[n]voluntary offerings, which you give to the Lord.

³⁹ ‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^(AG)when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord for seven days, with a ^[o]rest on the first day and a ^[p]rest on the eighth day. ⁴⁰ Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the ^[q]foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and branches of trees with thick branches and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹ So you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. ⁴² You shall live ^(AH)in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths, ⁴³ so that ^(AI)your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’” ⁴⁴ So Moses declared to the sons of Israel ^(AJ)the appointed times of the Lord.

The Lamp and the Bread of the Sanctuary

24 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you ^(AK)clear oil from beaten olives for the ^[r]light, to make a lamp ^[s]burn continually. ³ Outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations. ⁴ He shall keep the lamps in order on the ^(AL)pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually.

⁵ “^(AM)Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^[t]cakes with it; ^[u]two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. ⁶ And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the ^(AN)pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be ^(AO)a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the Lord. ^8 (AP)Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord ^(AQ)continually; it is an everlasting covenant ^[v]for the sons of Israel. ⁹ And ^(AR)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the Lord’s offerings by fire, his portion forever.”

¹⁰ Now the son of an Israelite woman—his father was an Egyptian—went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight within the camp. ¹¹ And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the ^(AS)Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) ¹² Then they put him in custody, waiting for Moses to give them a clear decision in accordance with ^(AT)the command of the Lord.

¹³ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ “Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and have all who heard him ^(AU)lay their hands on his head; then ^(AV)have all the congregation stone him. ¹⁵ You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘^(AW)If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin. ¹⁶ Moreover, the one who ^(AX)blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The stranger as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

¹⁷ ‘Now ^(AY)if someone ^[w]takes any human life, he must be put to death. ¹⁸ But ^(AZ)the one who ^[x]takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life. ¹⁹ If someone injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him: ^20 (BA)fracture for fracture, ^(BB)eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a person, so shall it be ^[y]inflicted on him. ²¹ So the one who ^[z]kills an animal shall make restitution, but ^(BC)the one who ^[aa]kills a person shall be put to death. ²² There shall be only ^(BD)one ^[ab]standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’” ²³ Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp, and stoned him with stones. So the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The Sabbatical Year and Year of Jubilee

25 The Lord then spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I am going to give you, then the land shall have a Sabbath to the Lord. ³ For ^(BE)six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce, ⁴ but during ^(BF)the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. ⁵ You shall not reap your harvest’s ^[ac]aftergrowth, and you shall not gather your grapes of untrimmed vines; the land shall have a sabbatical year. ^6 (BG)All of you shall have the Sabbath produce of the land as food; for yourself, your male and female slaves, and your hired worker and your foreign resident, those who live as strangers among you. ⁷ Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.

⁸ ‘You are also to count off seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven Sabbaths of years, that is, forty-nine years. ⁹ You shall then sound a ram’s horn ^[ad]abroad on ^(BH)the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. ¹⁰ So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and ^(BI)proclaim ^[ae]a release throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, ^[af]and ^(BJ)each of you shall return to his own property, ^[ag]and each of you shall return to his family. ¹¹ You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor harvest its aftergrowth, nor gather grapes from its untrimmed vines. ¹² For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce from the field.

¹³ ‘^(BK)On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property. ¹⁴ Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend’s hand, ^(BL)you shall not ^[ah]wrong one another. ¹⁵ Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your ^[ai]friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. ^16 (BM)In proportion to ^[aj]a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to ^[ak]fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. ¹⁷ So ^(BN)you shall not ^[al]wrong one another, but you shall ^[am]fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸ ‘You shall therefore ^[an]follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that ^(BO)you may live securely on the land. ¹⁹ Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. ²⁰ But if you say, “^(BP)What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?” ²¹ then ^(BQ)I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years. ²² When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat ^(BR)old things from the produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.

The Law of Redemption

²³ ‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because ^(BS)the land is Mine; for ^(BT)you are only strangers and residents with Me. ²⁴ So for every ^[ao]piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

²⁵ ‘^(BU)If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest ^[ap]redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. ²⁶ Or in case someone has no redeemer, but ^[aq]recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption, ^27 (BV)then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property. ²⁸ But if ^[ar]he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall ^[as]revert, so that ^(BW)he may return to his property.

²⁹ ‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year after its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year. ³⁰ But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not ^[at]revert in the jubilee. ³¹ The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall, shall be regarded ^[au]as open fields; they have redemption rights and ^[av]revert in the jubilee. ³² As for the ^(BX)cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession. ³³ What, therefore, ^[aw]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale ^[ax]in the city of this possession ^[ay]reverts in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. ^34 (BY)But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their permanent possession.

Of Poor Countrymen

³⁵ ‘^(BZ)Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his ^[az]means among you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a resident, so that he may live with you. ^36 (CA)Do not take ^[ba]any kind of interest from him, but ^[bb]fear your God, so that your countryman may live with you. ³⁷ You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food ^[bc]for profit. ^38 (CB)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and ^(CC)to be your God.

³⁹ ‘Now ^(CD)if a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. ⁴⁰ He shall be with you as a hired worker, ^(CE)as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you up to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ He shall then leave you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, so that he may return to the property of his forefathers. ⁴² For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. ^43 (CF)You shall not rule over him with ^[bd]severity, but are to revere your God. ⁴⁴ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. ⁴⁵ You may also acquire them from the sons of the foreign residents who reside among you, and from their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession. ⁴⁶ You may also pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. ^(CG)But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with ^[be]severity over one another.

Of Redeeming a Person Who Is Poor

⁴⁷ ‘Now if the ^[bf]means of a stranger or of a foreign resident with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes poor in relation to him and sells himself to a stranger who is residing with you, or to the descendants of a stranger’s family, ⁴⁸ then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him, ⁴⁹ or his uncle, or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or ^[bg](CH)if he prospers, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰ He then, with his purchaser, shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years calculated. It is like the days of a hired worker that he will be with him. ⁵¹ If there are still many years remaining, ^(CI)he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption; ⁵² but if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption. ⁵³ He shall be with him like a worker hired year by year; ^(CJ)he shall not rule over him with ^[bh]severity in your sight. ⁵⁴ Even if he is not redeemed by ^[bi]these means, ^(CK)he shall still leave in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him. ⁵⁵ For the sons of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Blessings of Obedience

26 ‘You shall not make for yourselves ^(CL)idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ^(CM)a carved image or ^(CN)a memorial stone, nor shall you place a ^(CO)figured stone in your land to bow down ^[bj]to it; for I am the Lord your God. ^2 (CP)You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord. ^3 (CQ)If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, ⁴ then ^(CR)I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. ^5 (CS)Indeed, your threshing season will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. So you will eat your ^[bk]food to the full and ^(CT)live securely in your land. ^6 (CU)I shall also grant peace in the land, so that ^(CV)you may lie down, with no one to make you afraid. ^(CW)I shall also eliminate harmful animals from the land, and ^(CX)no sword will pass through your land. ⁷ Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; ^8 (CY)five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. ⁹ So I will turn toward you and ^(CZ)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ^(DA)confirm My covenant with you. ¹⁰ And ^(DB)you will eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new. ^11 (DC)Moreover, I will make My ^[bl]dwelling among you, and My soul will not ^[bm]reject you. ^12 (DD)I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. ^13 (DE)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and ^(DF)I broke your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties of Disobedience

¹⁴ ‘^(DG)But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, ¹⁵ if, instead, you ^(DH)reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to ^(DI)break My covenant, ¹⁶ I, in turn, will do this to you: I will ^[bn]summon a ^(DJ)sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the ^(DK)soul languish; also, ^(DL)you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated before your enemies; and ^(DM)those who hate you will rule over you, and ^(DN)you will flee when no one is pursuing you. ¹⁸ If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(DO)seven times more for your sins. ¹⁹ I will also ^(DP)break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. ^20 (DQ)Your strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

²¹ ‘Yet if you ^[bo](DR)show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^(DS)seven times according to your sins. ^22 (DT)I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that ^(DU)your roads become deserted.

²³ ‘^(DV)And if by these things you do not learn your lesson regarding Me, but you show hostility toward Me, ²⁴ then I in turn will ^(DW)show hostility toward you; and I, even I, will strike you ^(DX)seven times for your sins. ²⁵ I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^(DY)vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send a ^(DZ)plague among you, so that you will be handed over to the enemy. ^26 (EA)When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread ^[bp]in rationed amounts, so that you will ^(EB)eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷ ‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, ²⁸ then ^(EC)I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins. ²⁹ Further, ^(ED)you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰ I then ^(EE)will destroy your high places, and cut down your ^(EF)incense altars, and ^[bq]pile your ^[br]remains on the ^[bs]remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you. ³¹ I will turn your cities into ^(EG)ruins as well and make your ^(EH)sanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^(EI)smell your soothing aromas. ³² And I will make ^(EJ)the land desolate ^(EK)so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it. ³³ You, however, I ^(EL)will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.

³⁴ ‘^(EM)Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it. ³⁶ As for those among you who are left, I will also bring ^(EN)despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a scattered leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ^[bt]as though from the sword, and they will fall. ^37 (EO)They will then stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ Instead, ^(EP)you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. ^39 (EQ)So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their wrongdoing in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the wrongdoing of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

⁴⁰ ‘But ^(ER)if they confess their wrongdoing and the wrongdoing of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me— ⁴¹ I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—^(ES)or if their uncircumcised heart is humbled so that ^(ET)they then make amends for their wrongdoing, ⁴² then I will remember ^(EU)My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^(EV)My covenant with Isaac, and ^(EW)My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. ^43 (EX)For the land will be abandoned by them, and will restore its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their wrongdoing, ^[bu]because they rejected My ordinances and their ^(EY)soul loathed My statutes. ⁴⁴ Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so ^(EZ)loathe them as ^(FA)to destroy them, ^(FB)breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ But I will remember for them the ^(FC)covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that ^(FD)I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

^46 (FE)These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel ^[bv]through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Rules concerning Assessments

27 Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^(FF)When someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the Lord. ³ If your assessment is of a male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your assessment shall be fifty shekels of silver, by ^(FG)the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴ Or if ^[bw]the person is a female, then your assessment shall be thirty shekels. ⁵ And if the person is from five years even to twenty years old, then your assessment for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. ⁶ But if the person is from a month even up to five years old, then your assessment shall be ^(FH)five shekels of silver for a male, and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver. ⁷ If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. ⁸ But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; ^(FI)according to ^[bx]the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall assess him.

⁹ ‘Now if it is an animal of the kind that ^[by]one can present as an offering to the Lord, any such animal that one gives to the Lord shall be holy. ^10 (FJ)He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. ¹¹ If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which ^[bz]one does not present as an offering to the Lord, then he shall place the animal before the priest. ¹² And the priest shall assess it ^[ca]as either good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so shall it be. ¹³ But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.

¹⁴ ‘Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest shall assess it ^[cb]as either good or bad; as the priest assesses it, so shall it stand. ¹⁵ Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.

¹⁶ ‘Again, if someone consecrates to the Lord part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be ^[cc]proportionate to the seed needed for it: a ^[cd]homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷ If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand. ¹⁸ If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for ^[ce]him ^[cf]proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your assessment. ¹⁹ If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him. ²⁰ Yet if he does not redeem the field, ^[cg]but has sold the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed; ²¹ and when it ^[ch]reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord, like a field banned from secular use; ^(FK)it shall be for the priest as his property. ²² Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property, ²³ then the priest shall calculate for ^[ci]him the amount of your assessment up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your assessment as holy to the Lord. ²⁴ In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs. ²⁵ Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by ^(FL)the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

²⁶ ‘^(FM)However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. ²⁷ But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ^[cj]redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.

²⁸ ‘Nevertheless, ^(FN)[ck]anything which someone sets apart to the Lord for ^[cl]destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the Lord. ²⁹ No ^[cm]one who may have been ^[cn]set apart among mankind shall be ransomed; he must be put to death.

³⁰ ‘Now ^(FO)all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. ³¹ If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it. ³² For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever ^(FP)passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. ^33 (FQ)He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; yet if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

^34 (FR)These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.

The Census of Israel’s Warriors

1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on ^(FS)the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, ² “^(FT)Take a ^[co]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head ³ from ^(FU)twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall ^[cp]count them by their armies. ⁴ With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, ^(FV)each one head of his father’s household. ⁵ These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: ^(FW)of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ⁶ of the tribe of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ of the tribe of Judah, ^(FX)Nahshon the son of Amminadab; ⁸ of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar; ⁹ of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon; ¹⁰ of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; ¹¹ of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni; ¹² of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; ¹³ of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran; ¹⁴ of Gad, Eliasaph the son of ^(FY)Deuel; ¹⁵ of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan. ¹⁶ These are the men who were ^(FZ)called from the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they were the ^(GA)heads of ^[cq]divisions of Israel.”

¹⁷ So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, ¹⁸ and they assembled all the congregation on the ^(GB)first day of the second month. Then they registered by ^(GC)ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head, ¹⁹ just as ^(GD)the Lord had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

^20 (GE)Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ²¹ their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

^22 (GF)Of the sons of Simeon, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, ^(GG)whoever was able to go to war, ²³ their numbered men of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.

^24 (GH)Of the sons of Gad, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ²⁵ their numbered men of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

^26 (GI)Of the sons of Judah, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ²⁷ their numbered men of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.

^28 (GJ)Of the sons of Issachar, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ²⁹ their numbered men of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.

^30 (GK)Of the sons of Zebulun, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ³¹ their numbered men of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

^32 (GL)Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ³³ their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

^34 (GM)Of the sons of Manasseh, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ³⁵ their numbered men of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

^36 (GN)Of the sons of Benjamin, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ³⁷ their numbered men of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

^38 (GO)Of the sons of Dan, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ³⁹ their numbered men of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

^40 (GP)Of the sons of Asher, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ⁴¹ their numbered men of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

^42 (GQ)Of the sons of Naphtali, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, ⁴³ their numbered men of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

⁴⁴ These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron counted, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of his father’s household. ⁴⁵ So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war in Israel, ⁴⁶ all the numbered men were ^(GR)603,550.

Levites Exempted

^47 (GS)The Levites, however, were not counted among them by their fathers’ tribe. ⁴⁸ For the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ “Only the tribe of Levi ^(GT)you shall not count, nor shall you take their ^[cr]census among the sons of Israel. ⁵⁰ And you shall ^(GU)appoint the Levites over the ^[cs]tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings and over everything that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it; they shall also camp around the ^[ct]tabernacle. ^51 (GV)So when the tabernacle is to move on, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But ^(GW)the ^[cu]layman who comes near it shall be put to death. ^52 (GX)So the sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own ^[cv]flag, according to their armies. ^53 (GY)But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be ^(GZ)no divine wrath against the congregation of the sons of Israel. ^(HA)So the Levites shall be responsible for service to the tabernacle of the testimony.” ⁵⁴ And the sons of Israel did so; in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so they did.

Arrangement of the Camps

2 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ² “^(HB)The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own ^[cw]flag, with the banners of their fathers’ households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting ^[cx]at a distance. ³ Now those who camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the flag of the camp of Judah, by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Judah: ^(HC)Nahshon the son of Amminadab, ⁴ and his army, their ^[cy]numbered men: 74,600. ⁵ Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the leader of the sons of Issachar: ^(HD)Nethanel the son of Zuar, ⁶ and his army, their numbered men: 54,400. ⁷ Then follows the tribe of Zebulun; and the leader of the sons of Zebulun: ^(HE)Eliab the son of Helon, ⁸ and his army, his numbered men: 57,400. ⁹ The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. ^(HF)They shall set out first.

¹⁰ “On the south side shall be the flag of the camp of Reuben by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Reuben: ^(HG)Elizur the son of Shedeur, ¹¹ and his army, their numbered men: 46,500. ¹² And those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon; and the leader of the sons of Simeon: ^(HH)Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, ¹³ and his army, their numbered men: 59,300. ¹⁴ Then follows the tribe of Gad; and the leader of the sons of Gad: ^(HI)Eliasaph the son of ^[cz]Deuel, ¹⁵ and his army, their numbered men: 45,650. ¹⁶ The total of the numbered men of the camp of Reuben: 151,450 by their armies. And ^(HJ)they shall set out second.

¹⁷ “^(HK)Then the tent of meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their flags.

¹⁸ “On the west side shall be the flag of the camp of ^(HL)Ephraim by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Ephraim: ^(HM)Elishama the son of Ammihud, ¹⁹ and his army, their numbered men: 40,500. ²⁰ Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the leader of the sons of Manasseh: ^(HN)Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, ²¹ and his army, their numbered men, 32,200. ²² Then follows the tribe of ^(HO)Benjamin; and the leader of the sons of Benjamin: ^(HP)Abidan the son of Gideoni, ²³ and his army, their numbered men, 35,400. ²⁴ The total of the numbered men of the camp of Ephraim: 108,100, by their armies. And ^(HQ)they shall set out third.

²⁵ “On the north side shall be the flag of the camp of Dan by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Dan: ^(HR)Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, ²⁶ and his army, their numbered men: 62,700. ²⁷ Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the leader of the sons of Asher: ^(HS)Pagiel the son of Ochran, ²⁸ and his army, their numbered men: 41,500. ²⁹ Then follows the tribe of ^(HT)Naphtali; and the leader of the sons of Naphtali: ^(HU)Ahira the son of Enan, ³⁰ and his army, their numbered men: 53,400. ³¹ The total of the numbered men of the camp of Dan was 157,600. ^(HV)They shall set out last by their flags.”

³² These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, ^(HW)603,550. ^33 (HX)The Levites, however, were not counted among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁴ So the sons of Israel did all this; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they camped by their flags, and so they set out, everyone by his family according to his father’s household.