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32 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had an exceedingly great multitude of cattle. And they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that it was an apt place for cattle.
2 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the Priest and to the Princes of the Congregation, saying,
3 “Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
4 “country which the LORD struck before the Congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle. And your servants have cattle.”
5 “Therefore,” they said, “if we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and do not bring us over Jordan.”
6 And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war and you stay here?
7 “Therefore, now, you discourage the heart of the children of Israel to go over into the land which the LORD has given them?
8 “Your fathers did the same when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9 “For when they went up all the way to the river of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
10 “And the LORD’s wrath was kindled the same day, and He swore, saying,
11 ‘None of the men who came out of Egypt from twenty years old and above shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
12 ‘except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun. For they have constantly followed the LORD.’
13 “And the LORD was very angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
14 “And behold, you have risen up in your father’s place, offspring of sinful men, to increase the fierce wrath of the LORD toward Israel.
15 “For if you turn away from following Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness. And you shall destroy all this folk.”
16 And they went near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our sheep, for our cattle, and cities for our children.
17 “But we ourselves will be ready, armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. But our children shall dwell in the defensed cities, because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 “We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have inherited, every man his inheritance.
19 “Nor will we inherit with them beyond Jordan and on that side, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side, Jordan, eastward.”
20 And Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, and go armed before the LORD to war,
21 “and will go — every one of you in harness, over Jordan, before the LORD, until He has cast out His enemies from His sight
22 “and until the land is subdued before the LORD — then you shall return and be innocent toward the LORD, and toward 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 that your sin will find you out.
24 “Build cities for your children, and folds for your sheep, and do that which you have spoken.”
25 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
26 “Our children, our wives, our sheep, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead.
27 “But every one of your servants will go to war, armed before the LORD to fight, as my lord says.”
28 So Moses commanded them concerning Eleazar the Priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.
29 And Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will go with you over Jordan — all armed to fight before the LORD — then, when the land is subdued before you, you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.
30 “But if they will not go over with you armed, then they shall have their possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.
32 “We will go armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance may be to us on this side of Jordan.”
33 So Moses gave to them — to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben and to half the tribe of Manasseh, the 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 coasts, even the cities of the country all around.
34 Then the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
35 and Atroth, Shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran (defensed cities), also sheepfolds.
37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, and turned their names, and Shibmah, and gave other names to the cities which they built.
39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorites who dwelt therein.
40 Then Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh. And he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the small towns thereof and called them Havoth Jair.
42 Also Nobah went and took Kenath, with its villages, and called it Nobah (after his own name).
33 These are the journeys of the children of Israel who went out of the land of Egypt according to their bands, under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2 And Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys, according to the Commandment of the LORD. So, these are the journeys, according to their starting points.
3 Now they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover. The children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had stricken among them. Upon their gods, also, the LORD executed judgment.
5 And the children of Israel left Rameses and camped in Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is at the edge of the wilderness.
7 And they departed from Etham and turned again to Pi Hahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and pitched before Migdol.
8 And they departed from before Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and pitched in Marah.
9 And they departed from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped there.
10 And they moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 And they moved from the Red Sea and lay in the wilderness of Sin.
12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin and set up their tents in Dophkah.
13 And they departed from Dophkah and lay in Alush.
14 And they moved from Alush and lay in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
15 And they departed from Rephidim and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they moved from the desert of Sinai and camped in Kibroth Hattaavah.
17 And they departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and lay at Hazeroth.
18 And they departed from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.
19 And they departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
20 And they departed from Rimmon Perez and camped in Libnah.
21 And they moved from Libnah and camped in Rissah.
22 And they journeyed from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.
23 And they went from Kehelathah and camped in Mount Shepher.
24 And they moved from Mount Shepher and lay in Haradah.
25 And they moved from Haradah and camped in Makheloth.
26 And they moved from Makheloth and lay in Tahath.
27 And they departed from Tahath and camped in Terah.
28 And they moved from Terah and camped in Mithkah.
29 And they went from Mithkah and camped in Hashmonah.
30 And they departed from Hashmonah and lay in Moseroth.
31 And they departed from Moseroth and camped in Bene Jaakan.
32 And they moved from Bene Jaakan and lay in Hor Hagidgad.
33 And they went from Hor Hagidgad and camped in Jotbathah.
34 And they moved from Jotbathah and lay in Abronah.
35 And they departed from Abronah and lay in Ezion Geber.
36 And they moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
37 And they moved from Kadesh and camped on Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
38 And Aaron the Priest went up onto Mount Hor, at the Commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
39 And Aaron was a hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 And King Arad the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south of the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
41 And they departed from Mount Hor and camped in Zalmonah.
42 And they departed from Zalmonah and camped in Punon.
43 And they departed from Punon and camped in Oboth.
44 And they departed from Oboth and camped in Ije Abarim, on the borders of Moab.
45 And they departed from Ijim and camped in Dibon Gad.
46 And they moved from Dibon Gad and lay in Almon Diblathaim.
47 And they moved from Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plain of Moab by Jordan, toward Jericho.
49 And they camped by Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth to Abel Shittim, on the plain of Moab.
50 And the LORD spoke to Moses on the plain of Moab, by Jordan, toward Jericho, saying,
51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you have come over Jordan, to enter into the land of Canaan,
52 ‘you shall then drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their idols, and break apart all their images of metal, and tear down all their high places.
53 ‘And you shall possess the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
54 ‘And you shall inherit the land by lot, according to your families. To the more you shall give more inheritance, and to the fewer the less inheritance. Where the lot shall fall 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 before you, then those which you let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land where you dwell.
56 ‘Moreover, it shall happen that I shall do to you as I thought to do to them.’”
34 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to your inheritance: the land of Canaan with its coasts.
3 ‘And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin to the borders of Edom. So that your south quarter shall be from the Salt Sea coast, eastward.
4 ‘And the border shall surround you from the south to Maaleh Akrabbim, and reach to Zin, and go out from the south to Kadesh Barnea. From there it shall stretch to Hazar Addar and go along to Azmon.
5 ‘And the border shall run from Azmon to the river of Egypt and shall go out to the sea.
6 ‘And your west quarter shall be the Great Sea. That border shall be your west coast.
7 ‘And this shall be your north quarter: you shall mark out your border from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.
8 ‘From Mount Hor you shall mark out till it comes to Hamath. And the end of the coast shall be at Zedad.
9 ‘And the coast shall reach out to Ziphron and go out at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north quarter.
10 ‘And you shall mark out your east quarter from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
11 ‘And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, and from the east side of Ain. And the same border shall descend and go out at the side of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward.
12 ‘Also, that border shall go down to Jordan and leave at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land, with its surrounding coasts.’”
13 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD Commanded to give to nine tribes and the half-tribe.
14 “For the tribe of the children of Reuben (according to the households of their fathers) and the tribe of the children of Gad (according to their fathers’ households) and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
15 “Two tribes and a half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of Jordan, toward Jericho, full east.”
16 Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
17 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land for you: Eleazar the Priest and Joshua, the son of Nun.
18 “And you shall also take a Prince from every tribe, to divide the land.
19 “Also, the names of the men are these: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
20 “and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud;
21 “from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;
22 “from the tribe of the sons of Dan, the Prince Bukki (the son of Jogli);
23 “from the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the Prince Hanniel (the son of Ephod);
24 “from the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the Prince Kemuel (the son of Shiphtan);
25 “from the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the Prince Elizaphan (the son of Parnach);
26 “from the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the Prince Paltiel (the son of Azzan);
27 “from the tribe of the sons of Asher, the Prince Ahihud (the son of Shelomi);
28 “and from the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the Prince Pedahel (the son of Ammihud).”
29 These are those whom the LORD Commanded to divide the inheritance for the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
30 And they left there and went together through Galilee. And He would not allow them to tell anyone.
31 For He taught His disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him. But after He is killed, He shall rise again the third day.”
32 But they did not understand that saying and were afraid to ask Him.
33 After that, He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house, He asked them, “What were you disputing among you on the way?”
34 And they kept silent. For along the way they had debated who should be first among them.
35 And He sat down and called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant to all.”
36 And He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And He took him in His arms and said to them,
37 “Whoever shall receive one of these little children in My Name, receives Me. And whoever receives Me, receives not Me, but He Who sent Me.”
38 Then John answered Him, saying, “Master, we saw one casting out demons by Your Name who does not follow us. And we forbade him because he does not follow us.”
39 But Jesus said, “Do no forbid him. For there is no one who can do a miracle by My Name who can lightly speak evil of Me.
40 “For whoever is not against us, is on our side.
41 “And whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink for My Name’s sake (because you belong to Christ), truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.
42 “And whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believes in Me to stumble, it were better for him if a millstone were hanged around his neck and that he were cast into the sea.
43 “So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed, than to have two hands and go into Hell; into the fire that never shall be quenched,
44 ‘Where their worm dies not, and the fire never goes out.’
45 “Likewise, if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, than to have two feet and be cast into Hell; into the fire that never shall be quenched,
46 ‘Where their worm dies not, and the fire never goes out.’
47 “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to go into the Kingdom of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into Hell fire,
48 ‘Where their worm dies not, and the fire never goes out.’
49 “For everyone shall be salted with fire. And every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
50 “Salt is good, but if the salt is tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another.”
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