29 “‘And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

² And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord: one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish.

³ And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: threetenths part for a bullock, and twotenths part for a ram,

⁴ and onetenth part for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;

⁵ and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you,

⁶ besides the burnt offering of the month and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

⁷ “‘And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation. And ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein.

⁸ But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savor: one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish.

⁹ And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: threetenths part to a bullock, and twotenths part to one ram,

¹⁰ a separate tenth part for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;

¹¹ one kid of the goats for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.

¹² “‘And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days.

¹³ And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord: thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish.

¹⁴ And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: threetenths part unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, twotenths part to each ram of the two rams,

¹⁵ and a separate tenth part to each lamb of the fourteen lambs;

¹⁶ and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

¹⁷ “‘And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot.

¹⁸ And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

¹⁹ and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.

²⁰ “‘And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish,

²¹ and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

²² and one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

²³ “‘And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish.

²⁴ Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

²⁵ and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

²⁶ “‘And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot;

²⁷ and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

²⁸ and one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

²⁹ “‘And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;

³⁰ and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

³¹ and one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

³² “‘And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;

³³ and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

³⁴ and one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

³⁵ “‘On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly. Ye shall do no servile work therein;

³⁶ but ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish;

³⁷ their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner;

³⁸ and one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

³⁹ “‘These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your set feasts, besides your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’”

⁴⁰ And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.

30 And Moses spoke unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded:

² If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

³ “If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth,

⁴ and her father hear her vow and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace with her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

⁵ But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, not any of her vows or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand; and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

⁶ And if she had a husband, when she vowed or uttered aught out of her lips wherewith she bound her soul,

⁷ and her husband heard it and held his peace with her in the day that he heard it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

⁸ But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips wherewith she bound her soul, of no effect; and the Lord shall forgive her.

⁹ But every vow of a widow and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

¹⁰ And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

¹¹ and her husband heard it and held his peace with her and disallowed her not, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

¹² But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband hath made them void, and the Lord shall forgive her.

¹³ Every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

¹⁴ But if her husband altogether hold his peace with her from day to day, then he establisheth all her vows or all her bonds which are upon her; he confirmeth them, because he held his peace with her in the day that he heard them.

¹⁵ But if he shall any way make them void after he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

¹⁶ These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

31 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

² “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.”

³ And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites and avenge the Lord on Midian.

⁴ From every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.”

⁵ So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

⁶ And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe — them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the war, with the holy instruments and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

⁷ And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

⁸ And they slew the kings of Midian besides the rest of those who were slain, namely: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian. Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

⁹ And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captive, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods.

¹⁰ And they burned all their cities wherein they dwelt and all their goodly strongholds with fire.

¹¹ And they took all the spoil and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

¹² And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil unto Moses and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan near Jericho.

¹³ And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp.

¹⁴ And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle.

¹⁵ And Moses said unto them, “Have ye saved all the women alive?

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who hath known a man by lying with him.

¹⁸ But all the women children, who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

¹⁹ And abide ye outside the camp seven days. Whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

²⁰ And purify all your raiment and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”

²¹ And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses:

²² Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

²³ every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation. And all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

²⁴ And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.”

²⁵ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

²⁶ “Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation;

²⁷ and divide the prey into two parts, between those who took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation.

²⁸ And levy a tribute unto the Lord on the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep.

²⁹ Take it from their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest for a heave offering of the Lord.

³⁰ And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.”

³¹ And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

³² And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

³³ and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

³⁴ and threescore and one thousand asses,

³⁵ and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women who had not known a man by lying with him.

³⁶ And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep;

³⁷ and the Lord’S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

³⁸ And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the Lord’S tribute was threescore and twelve.

³⁹ And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the Lord’S tribute was threescore and one.

⁴⁰ And the persons were sixteen thousand, of which the Lord’S tribute was thirty and two persons.

⁴¹ And Moses gave the tribute which was the Lord’S heave offering unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴² And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men who warred

⁴³ (now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

⁴⁴ and thirty and six thousand beeves,

⁴⁵ and thirty thousand asses and five hundred,

⁴⁶ and sixteen thousand persons),

⁴⁷ even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴⁸ And the officers who were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near Moses;

⁴⁹ and they said unto Moses, “Thy servants have taken the count of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

⁵⁰ We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.”

⁵¹ And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all wrought jewels.

⁵² And all the gold from the offering that they offered up to the Lord, of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

⁵³ (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

⁵⁴ And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation for a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord.

9 And He said unto them, “Verily I say unto you, that there are some of them that stand here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the Kingdom of God come with power.”

² And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and led them up onto a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them.

³ And His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, such as no fuller on earth could whiten them.

⁴ And there appeared unto them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

⁵ And Peter spoke and said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tabernacles: one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elijah—”

⁶ for he knew not what to say, for they were sore afraid.

⁷ And there was a cloud that overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This Is My Beloved Son: Hear Him!”

⁸ And suddenly when they had looked round about, they saw no man anymore, save Jesus only with them.

⁹ And as they came down from the mountain, He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of Man were risen from the dead.

¹⁰ And they kept that saying to themselves, questioning one another what “rising from the dead” should mean.

¹¹ And they asked Him, saying, “Why say the scribes that first Elijah must come?”

¹² And He answered and told them, “Elijah verily cometh first and restoreth all things, and how it is written of the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be set at nought.

¹³ But I say unto you that Elijah has indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they pleased, as it is written of him.”

¹⁴ And when He came to His disciples, He saw a great multitude about them and the scribes questioning with them.

¹⁵ And straightway all the people, when they beheld Him, were greatly amazed; and running to Him, they greeted Him.

¹⁶ And He asked the scribes, “What question ye with them?”

¹⁷ And one of the multitude answered and said, “Master, I have brought unto thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit.

¹⁸ And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he foameth and gnasheth his teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples that they should cast him out, and they could not.”

¹⁹ Jesus answered him and said, “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto Me.”

²⁰ And they brought the boy unto Him. And when the spirit saw Him, straightway he tore the boy; and he fell on the ground and wallowed about foaming.

²¹ And He asked his father, “How long is it ago since this came unto him?” And he said, “From childhood.

²² And oftentimes it hath cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him; but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us and help us.”

²³ Jesus said unto him, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

²⁴ And straightway the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief!”

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, “Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him and enter no more into him.”

²⁶ And the spirit cried, and rent the boy sorely and came out of him; and he was as one dead, insomuch that many said, “He is dead.”

²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.

²⁸ And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could not we cast him out?”

²⁹ And He said unto them, “This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”

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