³³ And they arrived at Capernaum; and when [they were] in the house, He asked them, What were you discussing and arguing about on the road?

³⁴ But they kept still, for on the road they had discussed and disputed with one another as to who was the greatest.

³⁵ And He sat down and called the Twelve [apostles], and He said to them, If anyone desires to be first, he must be last of all, and servant of all.

³⁶ And He took a little child and put him in the center of their group; and taking him in [His] arms, He said to them,

³⁷ Whoever in My name and for My sake accepts and receives and welcomes one such child also accepts and receives and welcomes Me; and whoever so receives Me receives not only Me but Him Who sent Me.

³⁸ John said to Him, Teacher, we saw a man who does not follow along with us driving out demons in Your name, and we forbade him to do it, because he ^[a]is not one of our band [of Your disciples].

³⁹ But Jesus said, Do not restrain or hinder or forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in My name will soon afterward be able to speak evil of Me.

⁴⁰ For he who is not against us is for us.^(A)

⁴¹ For I tell you truly, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to and bear the name of Christ will by no means fail to get his reward.

⁴² And whoever causes one of these little ones (these believers) who ^[b]acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin, it would be better (more profitable and wholesome) for him if a [huge] millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

⁴³ And if your hand puts a stumbling block before you and causes you to sin, cut it off! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to go into life [^[c]that is really worthwhile] maimed than with two hands to go to hell (Gehenna), into the fire that cannot be put out.^[d]

⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of stumbling and sin to you, cut it off! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to enter into life [that is really worthwhile] crippled than, having two feet, to be cast into hell (Gehenna)^[e].

⁴⁷ And if your eye causes you to stumble and sin, pluck it out! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell (Gehenna),

⁴⁸ Where their worm [^[f]which preys on the inhabitants and is a symbol of the wounds inflicted on the man himself by his sins] does not die, and the fire is not put out.^(B)

⁴⁹ For everyone shall be salted with fire.

⁵⁰ Salt is good (beneficial), but if salt has lost its saltness, how will you restore [the saltness to] it? Have salt within yourselves, and be at peace and live in harmony with one another.

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9 The Lord said to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,

² Let the Israelites keep the Passover at its appointed time.

³ On the fourteenth day of this month in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and ordinances you shall keep it.

⁴ So Moses told the Israelites they should keep the Passover.

⁵ And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month in the evening in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

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

⁷ Those men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?

⁸ And Moses said to them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

⁹ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁰ Say to the Israelites, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of touching a dead body or is far off on a journey, still he shall keep the Passover to the Lord.

¹¹ On the fourteenth day of the second month in the evening they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹² They shall leave none of it until the morning nor break any bone of it; according to all the statutes for the Passover they shall keep it.^(A)

¹³ But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, yet does not keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from among his people because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear [the penalty of] his sin.

¹⁴ And if a stranger sojourns among you and will keep the Passover to the Lord, according to [its] statutes and its ordinances, so shall he do; you shall have one statute both for the temporary resident and for him who was born in the land.

¹⁵ And on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God’s presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the Tent of the Testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of [a pillar of] fire until the morning.^(B)

¹⁶ So it was constantly; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

¹⁷ Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, after that the Israelites journeyed; and in the place where the cloud rested, there the Israelites encamped.

¹⁸ At the Lord’s command the Israelites journeyed, and at [His] command they encamped. As long as the cloud rested upon the tabernacle they remained encamped.

¹⁹ Even when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, the Israelites kept the Lord’s charge and did not set out.

²⁰ And sometimes the cloud was only a few days upon the tabernacle, but according to the command of the Lord they remained encamped, and at His command they journeyed.

²¹ And sometimes the cloud remained [over the tabernacle] from evening only until morning, but when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed; whether it was taken up by day or by night, they journeyed.

²² Whether it was two days or a month or a longer time that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, dwelling on it, the Israelites remained encamped; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

²³ At the command of the Lord they remained encamped, and at [His] command they journeyed; they kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord through Moses.

10 And the Lord said to Moses,

² Make two trumpets of silver; of hammered or turned work you shall make them, that you may use them to call the congregation and for breaking camp.

³ When they both are blown, all the congregation shall assemble before you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

⁴ And if one blast on a single trumpet is blown, then the princes or leaders, heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

⁵ When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side [of the tabernacle] shall set out.

⁶ When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm shall be blown whenever they are to set out on their journeys.

⁷ When the congregation is to be assembled, you shall blow [the trumpets in short, sharp tones], but not the blast of an alarm.

⁸ And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets, and the trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

⁹ When you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then blow an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

¹⁰ Also in the day of rejoicing, and in your set feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; thus they may be a remembrance before your God. I am the Lord your God.

¹¹ On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year [since leaving Egypt], the cloud [of the Lord’s presence] was taken up from over the tabernacle of the Testimony,

¹² And the Israelites took their journey by stages out of the Wilderness of Sinai, and the [guiding] cloud rested in the Wilderness of Paran.

¹³ When the journey was to begin, at the command of the Lord through Moses,

¹⁴ In the first place went the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah by their companies; and over their host was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

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

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

¹⁷ When the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and Merari, bearing [it] on their shoulders, set out.

¹⁸ The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward by their companies; and over Reuben’s host was Elizur son of Shedeur.

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

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

²¹ Then the Kohathites set forward, bearing the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived.

²² And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set forward according to their companies; and over Ephraim’s host was Elishama son of Ammihud.

²³ Over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh was Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

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

²⁵ Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their companies; and over Dan’s host was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

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

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

²⁸ This was the Israelites’ order of march by their hosts when they set out.

²⁹ And Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which the Lord said, I will give it to you. Come with us, and we will do you good, for the Lord has promised good concerning Israel.

³⁰ And Hobab said to him, I will not go; I will depart to my own land and to my family.

³¹ And Moses said, ^[a]Do not leave us, I pray you; for you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

³² And if you will go with us, it shall be that whatever good the Lord does to us, the same we will do to you.

³³ They departed from the mountain of the Lord [Mount Sinai] three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them during the three days’ journey to seek out a resting-place for them.

³⁴ The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they went forward from the camp.

³⁵ Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, Rise up, Lord; let Your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate You flee before You.^(C)

³⁶ And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, to the ten thousand thousands in Israel.