Old/New Testament
32 Now the sons of Reuben and of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle, and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead [on the east side of the Jordan], and behold, the place was suitable for cattle.
2 So the sons of Gad and of Reuben came and said to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation,
3 [The country around] Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
4 The land the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.
5 And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.
6 And Moses said to the sons of Gad and of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
7 Why do you discourage the hearts of the Israelites from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?
8 Thus your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land!
9 For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land the Lord had given them.
10 And the Lord’s anger was kindled on that day and He swore, saying,
11 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me—
12 Except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.
13 And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed.
14 And behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
15 For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.
16 But they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and walled settlements for our little ones.
17 But we will be armed and ready to go before the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified settlements because of the people of the land.
18 We will not return to our homes until the Israelites have inherited every man his inheritance.
19 For we will not inherit with them on the [west] side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.
20 Moses replied, If you will do as you say, going armed before the Lord to war,
21 And every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies before Him
22 And the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you shall return and be guiltless [in this matter] before the Lord and before Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build settlements for your little ones, and folds for your sheep, and do that of which you have spoken.
25 And the sons of Gad and of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle shall be there in the cities of Gilead.
27 But your servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says.
28 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of Israel.
29 And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man armed to battle before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.
30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
31 The sons of Gad and Reuben answered, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours.
33 Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and of Reuben and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land with its cities and their territories, even the cities round about the country.
34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
37 And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
38 Nebo, and Baal-meon—their names were to be changed—and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities they built.
39 And the sons of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.
41 Jair son of Manasseh took their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
42 And Nobah took Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.
33 These are the stages of the journeys of the Israelites by which they went out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
2 Moses recorded their starting places, as the Lord commanded, stage by stage; and these are their journeying stages from their starting places:
3 They set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out [of Egypt] with a high hand and triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
4 While the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the Lord had struck down among them; upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
5 The Israelites set out from Rameses and encamped in Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is at the edge of the wilderness.
7 They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.
8 And they journeyed from before Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the [Red] Sea into the wilderness; and they went a three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham and encamped at Marah.
9 They journeyed from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
10 They set out from Elim and encamped by the Red Sea.
11 They journeyed from the Red Sea and encamped in the Wilderness of Sin.
12 And they traveled on from the Wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dophkah.
13 And they departed from Dophkah and encamped at Alush.
14 And they set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15 And they departed from Rephidim and encamped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they journeyed from the Wilderness of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 And they traveled on from Kibroth-hattaavah and encamped at Hazeroth.
18 And they journeyed from Hazeroth and encamped at Rithmah.
19 And they departed from Rithmah and encamped at Rimmon-perez.
20 And they departed from Rimmon-perez and encamped at Libnah.
21 And they removed from Libnah and encamped at Rissah.
22 And they journeyed from Rissah and encamped at Kehelathah.
23 And they went from Kehelathah and encamped at Mount Shepher.
24 And they removed from Mount Shepher and encamped at Haradah.
25 And they set out from Haradah and encamped at Makheloth.
26 And they removed from Makheloth and encamped at Tahath.
27 And they departed from Tahath and encamped at Terah.
28 And they removed from Terah and encamped at Mithkah.
29 And they set out from Mithkah and encamped at Hashmonah.
30 And they traveled on from Hashmonah and encamped at Moseroth.
31 And they journeyed from Moseroth and pitched in Bene-jaakan.
32 And they set out from Bene-jaakan and encamped at Hor-haggidgad.
33 And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and encamped at Jotbathah.
34 And they journeyed from Jotbathah and encamped at Abronah.
35 And they traveled on from Abronah and encamped at Ezion-geber.
36 And they removed from Ezion-geber and encamped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
37 And they removed from Kadesh and encamped at Mount Hor, on the edge of Edom.
38 Aaron the priest went up on Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, the first day of the fifth month.(A)
39 Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South (the Negeb) in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.
41 They set out from Mount Hor and encamped at Zalmonah.
42 And they set out from Zalmonah and encamped at Punon.
43 And they set out from Punon and encamped at Oboth.
44 And they traveled on from Oboth and encamped at Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab.
45 And they departed from Iyim and encamped at Dibon-gad.
46 And they set out from Dibon-gad and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
47 And they traveled on from Almon-diblathaim and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
49 And they encamped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
50 And the Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
51 Tell the Israelites, When you have passed over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their figured stones and all their molten images and completely demolish all their [idolatrous] high places,
53 And you shall take possession of the land and dwell in it, for to you I have given the land to possess it.
54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
55 But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.
56 And as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.
34 And the Lord said to Moses,
2 Command the Israelites, When you come into the land of Canaan (which is the land that shall be yours for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries),
3 Your south side shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern boundary from the end of the Salt [Dead] Sea eastward.
4 Your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin, and its end shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar and pass on to Azmon.
5 Then the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall terminate at the [Mediterranean] Sea.
6 For the western boundary you shall have the Great Sea and its coast.
7 And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea mark out your boundary line to Mount Hor;
8 From Mount Hor you shall mark out your boundary to the entrance of Hamath, and its end shall be at Zedad;
9 Then the northern boundary shall go on to Ziphron, and the end of it shall be at Hazar-enan.
10 You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham;
11 The boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and shall descend and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth [the Sea of Galilee] on the east;
12 And the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and the end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.
13 Moses commanded the Israelites, This is the land you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half-tribe [of Manasseh],
14 For the tribes of the sons of Reuben and of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.
15 The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan at Jericho, toward the sunrise.
16 And the Lord said to Moses,
17 These are the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
18 And [with them] you shall take one head or prince of each tribe to divide the land for inheritance.
19 The names of the men are: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
20 Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Ammihud;
21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;
22 Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader, Bukki son of Jogli;
23 Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a leader, Hanniel son of Ephod;
24 And of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim a leader, Kemuel son of Shiphtan;
25 And of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun a leader, Elizaphan son of Parnach;
26 And of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan;
27 And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahihud son of Shelomi;
28 And of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud.
29 These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
30 They went on from there and passed along through Galilee. And He did not wish to have anyone know it,
31 For He was [engaged for the time being in] teaching His disciples. He said to them, The Son of Man is being delivered into the hands of men, and they will put Him to death; and when He has been killed, after three days He will rise [[a]from death].
32 But they did not comprehend what He was saying, and they were afraid to ask Him [what this statement meant].
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 [b]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 [c]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 [[d]that is really worthwhile] maimed than with two hands to go to hell (Gehenna), into the fire that cannot be put out.[e]
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)[f].
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 [[g]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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